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by metiscus 6y ago
This is why redistributionist ideologies are typically internationalist in nature. E.g. the third international and its siblings.
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by metiscus 6y ago
I don't think that is quite right. Fdroid and the Amazon app store are two prominent examples. While they don't have the same impact as the first party store, they also aren't Fortnite.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Perhaps that works for epic as well, giving apple customers an incentive to move to a platform that allows side loading?
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by metiscus 6y ago
But heroin doesn't solve your homelessness problem at all unless you mean by killing the takers but that is very different from providing medicine affordably to people. What did I miss?
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by metiscus 6y ago
I think you are missing the point. Yes a smartphone is a phone but it has become integrated into people's lives as much more than that.
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by metiscus 6y ago
It is in the pantheon of possible solutions to the crisis. We know for fairly certain epic wants their own store on iOS. That does move the needle significantly.
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by metiscus 6y ago
In opening a path for them they allow others to have freedom too. You won't often find people or companies fighting major fights based purely on altruism alone. We shouldn't discount the broader value of this fight.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Having the potential to restore general purpose computing to a device I own is a noble cause even if the standard bearers are an unpleasant bunch.
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by metiscus 6y ago
This comment seems like Poe's law at work.
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by metiscus 6y ago
If everybody gets on the list then it doesn't do them as much good. Maybe it is time to become Sparticus.
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by metiscus 6y ago
My point was that they engineered the dinosaurs to depend on lysine or whatever as well as making them all one gender. The idea was to prevent unplanned reproduction and ensure that they maintained control. As the saying goes, life finds a
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by metiscus 6y ago
The replacement is demonstrably worse than play music. Play music had good recommendations and a reasonable interface. I don't understand why google keeps doing this to good products that under any other organization would be front lin
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by metiscus 6y ago
Except for a possible convergence in agendas. Public health officials need contact tracing and that can be accomplished perhaps most effectively by mass tech surveillance.
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by metiscus 6y ago
But the children might learn to make naughty chemicals, can't let that happen. In all seriousness, nearly every major chemistry youtuber that I have seen has had several videos struck for seemingly pointless issues. There are many many
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by metiscus 6y ago
ChemPlayer basically had so many videos taken down that he moved off platform.
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by metiscus 6y ago
How do you propose to sort out the two classes that you have indicated exist? The inability to do so perfectly is largely behind my opposition to the death penalty in general. You can't be meaningfully exonerated if you are not alive.
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by metiscus 6y ago
To a certain extent this is what Jurassic Park was warning about.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Hey, thanks for that. I know I've seen it said before but as I don't yet have the karma to downvote anything it is easy to forget.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Let's not do this here. We're better than this.
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by metiscus 6y ago
I feel like you are probably being a little too harsh in your response. If you dislike the content then move along, comment, or downvote. There is no reason to be uncivil and attack the person when attacking the content would do a sufficien
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by metiscus 6y ago
That's probably not the right way to go about countering the argument. Nuclear is the real baseline power option right now. Most renewables don't have the continuous output capability needed. Enhanced hydro power and nuclear build
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by metiscus 6y ago
The position is configurable. There is a setting that will allow you to move it back where it "belongs".
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by metiscus 6y ago
It may go down that way or not. It is unwise to predict the outcomes of lawsuits of this magnitude. Epic is no small insignificant company with a public defender. Also this suit is probably more of a signal that they mean to have a fight. E
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by metiscus 6y ago
Unless they somehow are suing Epic directly, it would be ill advised to submit paperwork in response to a claim that does not address the specific claims made.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Android does not prevent you from side-loading applications from other stores either.
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by metiscus 6y ago
In several areas it is permissible for residents to be registered to vote in municipal elections etc. In some places, the local government has made efforts to get those who are neither legal residents not citizens registered for local elect
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by metiscus 6y ago
Yes. In order to avail onesself of the benefits of citizenship one must establish that they are in fact a citizen.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Merely that they establish that they are a particular citizen. It isn't that hard to do. You need ID to go to most doctors, buy tobacco and alcohol, yada yada yada.
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by metiscus 6y ago
F-droid did wade into the free speech debate in relatively recent history by banning an app. I neither condone nor condemn this action but some people (probably very few given that f-droid itself is rather fringe) were probably put off by i
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by metiscus 6y ago
So in trying to answer your question I found this rather long-winded but nonetheless interesting and appropos link. https://everydayastronaut.com/sls-vs-starship/

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