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by mcmcmc 3y ago
It’s really not. Substitute Gemini for iPhone. Apple releases an iPhone model in mini, standard, and pro lines. They announce iPhone model+1 but are releasing the pro version first. Still difficult?
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Just embrace the fact you were sold a lemon and think of how great of a yard ornament it will make! Great line of thinking, very cool
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Oh wow. That's very important context. The current SCOTUS would love to get their hands on a case that lets them give their friends more protection.
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
The issue is probably more to do with how injury is defined in the context of defamation law. Actual damages require that they prove the victim lost something tangible as a direct result of the defamation. It's not hard to argue that h
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Just to be clear for anyone who didn’t read TFA, the digital copies were given out as a bonus with purchases of physical media. Sure someone may have made a different purchasing decision if they knew the streaming platform would be going aw
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Georgia is literally on the Atlantic Coast. Sherman marched to the sea, remember?
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Maybe my phrasing implied too much causality, but a mixture of psychoactive drugs, extended sleep deprivation, and combat stress could turn anyone into a murderer. And recent research absolutely has shown that heavy cannabis usage in adoles
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Whatever you think might be going on with the overall discipline of the US military today, it has nothing on how bad things were in the Vietnam era. Enlisted men slipping grenades into their officers’ tents after getting high as a kite in
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Co-ops are fantastic for utilities, over half the landmass of the US is serviced by rural electric co-ops under the NRECA established by FDR during the Great Depression. Internet connectivity should absolutely be treated as a public utility
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
All of the above. To answer the second question - if salespeople aren’t selling, there’s no money to pay salaries. Commission plans are an important factor in cost of revenue. And yes, certain personalities are 100% attracted to sales becau
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
> everyone hates them and just clicks allow anyway. This is an overbroad generalization and false for me at least. I will always take the two seconds to disable non-necessary cookies, or just bail on the site if it doesn't have the
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Thanks for the valuable contribution
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Uhhh how about the users who purchase the hardware and use the apps?
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
And it’s equally a reach to say they were being beaten just for the color of their skin. Unless you’ve perfected both the arts of mind reading and time travel. Why are you assuming that I’m defending something rather than merely offering a
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
I read it as more of “Everyone hits each other here so it’s cool”, implying a culture of violence rather than saying they make great punching bags.
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Apple does what market signals tell them to do, and more people buy big phones than little phones.
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Engineering failures don’t just happen in some contextless organizational vacuum
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
> ethical pursuit of profits. There’s the sticking point. Way too many unethical capitalists, and without strong enforcement mechanisms those bad actors simply concentrate market power and actually break the capitalist system you’re so r
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
There are some really insidious undertones of racism in this comment. Geography is a much bigger determinant of national economic well-being than whether or not they want to read about science. And blaming citizens for being born in autocra
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Okay, and does Tencent publish a P&L for Riot Games? Or are you assuming that if Tencent is profitable that means all of their subsidiaries are profitable? If you read the actual press release you’ll see Riot doubled headcount in the la
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Got a source for that? They’re a private company, unless you have access to non-public financial info it seems like you’re just making an assumption.
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
It’ll save them a good chunk of time when they eventually get split off like Baby Bells
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
To be fair, with the rampant drug abuse in Silicon Valley (particularly hallucinogens) I would not be surprised if a lot of those execs have experienced psychosis.
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
> So then what? The answer probably should be that Google should buy up startups that have figured out product-market fit and just need to scale. They can’t do that though because the FTC is already breathing down their neck with anti-tr
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
People don't know what vSphere is? Sure bud, and no one's heard of Microsoft Office either
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Just because you dislike it doesn’t mean it’s not a useful framework. And yes, it does come up in first year econ classes, as well as in advanced courses that study the history of economic thought. If you bothered to read the linked page or
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
I think the quality of delivery service for the other carriers is highly dependent on your local market, UPS in the town I recently moved to is godawful. Their customer support process is equally shit though and that's the same across
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
The concept of profit itself means you are beating the market by taking advantage of someone else or extracting value through arbitrage. In a perfectly competitive market with zero barriers to entry, profit margins will converge on zero as
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Is this not the most obvious statement ever? At the most basic level, trucking requires loading and unloading freight, whereas rideshare passengers load and unload themselves.
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by mcmcmc 3y ago
Cloud-native just means container-first in this context. Nothing is locally installed and the desktop gui itself runs as a container.

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