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   by megablast 8y ago

   Trap streets are one odd street, not a whole town. This is clearly not what is happening at all.
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   by megablast 8y ago

   > Other cities that adapted better to tourists: Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur. You must be joking. Each of those cities is either one of the most boring major cities on earth, devoid of culture or tourist attractions beyond s
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   by megablast 8y ago

   Why would you want to protect the identity from the recipient? Unless you wanted to enable spam.
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   by megablast 8y ago

   I think you are very wrong. Uber and Lyft are better positioned than the taxi companies. They are bigger, have more money, and could even let other people buy the cars, and let them run them. Taxi's have nothing but people, which is so
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   by megablast 8y ago

   I think Apple intention was for people to grow with iOS. iOS has added more and more features, but if you started with an earlier version, and kept updating there are only minor changed to learn each time. Jumping into an iphone these days
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   by megablast 8y ago

   It detected you bump your phone, sent your GPS location to a server, then looked for someone else who bumped their phone in the same location at the same time.
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   by megablast 8y ago

   Not for car plates, cars are killers and should be tracked everywhere. 40,000 people are killed due to cars every single year in the US, a million around the world. They are worse than guns.
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   by megablast 8y ago

   The other crazy thing is Apple keeps delivering these big increases. If this was Intel, you would get a 10% increase every year.
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   by megablast 8y ago

   > Can legislators really allow that cars drive around with a system that is inferior to a competitor‘s? This will put eg every pedestrian‘s live at risk. As if anyone actually cares about people outside the car.
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    by megablast 8y ago

    > automatic transmissions are on their way out Did you mean to say manual?
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    by megablast 8y ago

    A great video explaining the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PI6GwKVAeY
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    by megablast 8y ago

    > Any metric like that would be absolutely unacceptable today. Except for car deaths. Over one million a year seems to be acceptable.
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    by megablast 8y ago

    > Our plan is to rent as cheaply as we reasonable can, even if we can afford more (that is what we are doing right now). Everybodies plan is to do that.
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    by megablast 8y ago

    Eh, it is just the way Apple does things, and people are explaining. You can say they are wrong if you want to.
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    by megablast 8y ago

    I have noticed Apple has gotten meaner in the last 2 months in particular, and this is from someone there since the beginning.
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    by megablast 8y ago

    And that is perfect for almost every single one of the cases they will ever see.
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    by megablast 8y ago

    >I have NEVER mocked or acted vengeful. Do you get it constantly every day? Do you get people telling you that you should rewrite your app in Android because they heard about it once? Do you get someone telling you that you should move f
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    by megablast 8y ago

    Ok, but the new iPhone has a huge screen, great browser, email, 64gb ram, > a million apps, 40x the radio bands, 30x the resolution, 3x the battery, 100x the speed, video, and more.
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    by megablast 8y ago

    That is not stopping you at all.
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    by megablast 8y ago

    > Hire a new COO who is the head salesman, and compensated purely by how much furniture they sell. Give them freedom to hire whoever they want so long as they are also being paid based on commission (and don't let them hire anybody
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    by megablast 8y ago

    What is home?
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    by megablast 8y ago

    Yes. And same to those engineers who work in mining (huge pollution), search engines (censorship and tracking to governemnts), ISP (tracking to governments), Telecommuncations (tracking for the government), ads (lying and tracking), motorin
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    by megablast 8y ago

    > It had the potential to ruin the company by cannibalizing iPod sales It would only cannibalize iPod sales if it was a success, and then it isn't a problem at all.
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    by megablast 8y ago

    You are acting like most bugs aren't already caught in the dev process. No on writes code and just deploys. Writing extra tests that cover everything for a small project that you are working on yourself is a waste of time.
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    by megablast 8y ago

    To make things better for everyone? Not everyone is selfish.
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    by megablast 8y ago

    You are confused by this? It is because Apple have taken something away. If they took replaced the track pad with the sorry excuse that Dell or HP use, they will also be castigated for it.
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    by megablast 8y ago

    > But also because it makes you look cool, attractive to members of the opposite sex, and earns the jealousy of yours. You really think a laptop has that effect on people? I do not.
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    by megablast 8y ago

    Yes, exactly. Which is why they get other countries to spy on US people. And other countries to get the US to spy on their people. Five eyes.
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    by megablast 8y ago

    Oh no, lets not reward people who do not value their time, and choose to live further from work than others.
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    by megablast 8y ago

    Couldn’t blocking just stop those people from communicating with you? You could still read all you want.