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by marticode 5y ago
For sure, they need to last longer which means more supplies and more reliability. But we also got 50 years of progress since Apollo 11, and we wouldn't don't need to pack a return vehicle and its propellant.
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by marticode 5y ago
> You body has its own idea of your weight set-point, and tries to keep your body mass in that range. There's not much scientific evidence for "set point weight" or "starvation mode" or other similar concepts. Pe
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by marticode 5y ago
We already have the technology to send people to Mars. We sent people on round trips to the moon 50 years ago, so a one way ticket to Mars now isn't really that hard. What we don't have is cost effective technology to send enough
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by marticode 5y ago
This situation is only the logical conclusion of the unholy pact Apple customers have signed with the company. You don't own your iPhone - Apple gets to decide what it runs, how it runs. You don't get to decide what apps you can r
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by marticode 5y ago
You could, but it seems more likely that a mega corporation gave up on a huge market because it failed to succeed there rather than moral principles. It's not like Apple has showed a lot of moral standing when dealing with the CCP, or
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by marticode 5y ago
Apple privacy focus was always opportunistic: they couldn't get a foothold into online advertising so they decided to make that weakness a selling point instead. They'll ditch privacy in a second if they can sell you enough ads, j
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by marticode 5y ago
If this was the case I'd think Apple would have mentioned it by now to appease the situation. But even if that was the case, the tool will now exists for any dictatorial government to spy on "troublemakers". The Chinese gover
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by marticode 5y ago
This is a very kind, and naive take on the issue. Case in point: > But would it be able to say no to China? In order to keep selling on the Chinese market, they already agreed to host their Chinese customer data inside China with a local
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by marticode 5y ago
> Honest question though - but what _should_ Apple do here? How about not moving forward with this system? Corporations have to obey the law, but they don't need to be zealous and build spying infrastructure when they aren't re
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by marticode 5y ago
There's an expectation that what you upload on the cloud will get some scrutiny, being on somebody else machine. But here they'll scan the local files on your own device, that you supposedly "own" (but not really, becaus
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by marticode 5y ago
Apple only claim to care about privacy because they couldn't manage to compete with Google on running ad-serving cloud service. Since they couldn't sell ads in meaningful number, they figured they might as well brag about it. But
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by marticode 5y ago
I remember when I was coding form verification and couldn't rely on the HTML5 form validation because Safari, and only Safari, had no user UI to signal errors. (weirdly enough they had the JavaScript API for it... they just couldn&#x27
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by marticode 5y ago
Wakefield got off easy. This video does a good (and humorous) job of reviewing everything that was wrong with him and his study and it's a dense... 1h40m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIcAZxFfrc
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by marticode 5y ago
It's both. It's like Idaho potatoes, you expect some type of potato but also some geographic origin. When the product type is also a location you can't easily untangle either.
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by marticode 5y ago
> It's about protecting consumers, not competitors. That's true in the US, but not in the EU. And not operating in the EU is not really an option for any of the FAANG.
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by marticode 5y ago
This is gonna be a risk with most cloud services. No matter what, you want to have a backup anyway.
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by marticode 5y ago
> Tesla is achieving vertical integration to a degree no other mainstream auto OEM has achieved. That's because other OEM have worked hard NOT to be vertically integrated. There are benefits to splitting the value chain and letting
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by marticode 5y ago
They had a lead because they were optimizing for a different target than Qualcomm. Apple was more concerned about single core performance while Qualcomm was focusing on lower cost and efficiency.
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by marticode 5y ago
A lot if not all is due to Covid. All the big techs have had stellar quarters. Google, FB or AMD also reported massive results this week. The world is stuck at home and has been starved for hardware and content.
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by marticode 5y ago
I doubt very much the M1 will make people abandon Windows or ChromeOS in droves. Windows+Office or Windows+Steam, or plain price point, is what keeps people from moving to Apple, and having better CPU isn't radically gonna change that.
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by marticode 5y ago
You don't really buy an Apple phone. You give them money and then they decide what software can, will or will not run on the device they hand you down. Apple owns your phone.
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by marticode 5y ago
Your data on iPhone aren't safe from Apple though, a company that relies increasingly on selling subscription and content. As long as you use cloud-hosted service, you trust a company to store your data.
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by marticode 5y ago
Sure, but at least you have that option of installing what you want on the hardware you paid for. In contrast, Apple retain full control of the phone. You buy it, but you don't control it.
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by marticode 5y ago
That nonsense leads to people dying.
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by marticode 6y ago
Tesla also planned to have a fleet of self driving taxis last year...
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by marticode 6y ago
VW has the financial health and scale to muscle in more easily than Nissan (which isn't doing so well right now). I feel the difficulty of making EVs has been vastly exaggerated - any manufacturer that knows how to make an hybrid knows
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by marticode 6y ago
> The "Apple Tax" pays for the maintenance of the Apple ecosystem. No - the ~50% margin Apple makes on the phone pays for the ecosystem. Apple could charge nothing for inclusion in the app store and still be by far the most pro
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by marticode 6y ago
I'm really rooting for JPEG XL. AVIF is good but it's clearly a video codec adapted to fixed images, whereas JPEG XL covers a lot more use cases important when dealing with images (ie palette images, progressive decoding, more bit
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by marticode 6y ago
The Renault Zoe has been out since 2012 and still frequently tops the European EV sales chart, ahead of the Model 3.
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by marticode 6y ago
Tesla has about 26% of the world's EV market share so their products aren't that unique. Making an EV isn't that hard - it's in fact a simpler product than an ICE vehicle.

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