mikem170

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by mikem170 2y ago
And they build them for maximum profit, with nothing besides cookie cutter houses, each with a new tree out front, and nothing else unless you get in the car to drive to the nearest gas station or plaza with a chain restaurant or big box st
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Also: > Got is compatible with "bare" Git repositories, and thus integrates with any tool built around the same format. Got is not a "Git porcelain". Got is a new system which relies on prior art and takes what makes
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Interesting. I had thought of the garden walls as being in the way of users, based on my personal experience, but you bring up the point that the walls can also be in the way of nefarious companies. I assume both can be true. And perhaps th
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You mentioned users leaving Apple for Facebook. Does that change the garden for you? Can't users such as yourself remain in the Apple ecosystem? Do other users leaving affect you? Or Apple? Maybe they won't have as much cash? Does
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> complaints from a bunch of other businesses who do not have consumer interests at heart Apple (and other big tech companies) locking the competition out of the market, or buying them, hurts consumers. It robs them of other innovative c
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Ideological. All the people arguing both sides of this, then and now, are motivated by ideology. That includes the parent post you replied to, me, you, Elon, etc. People often argue over cultural changes. And then there's politics on t
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A lot of former Trump administration officials are involved in Project 2025, at least 140, which is more than half of the people listed as authors and contributors to their Mandate for Leadership document [0]. There's also over 100 con
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"In fact, at least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration had a hand in Project 2025, a CNN review found, including more than half of the people listed as authors, editors and contributors to “Mandate for Leadership,” the pr
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> Browsing the modern web would be a nightmare from Mars Getting website articles and other media via rss feeds would be easiest. Email and usenet style nntp, also. There's been work done on protocols optimized for inter-planetary n
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> I am sure Canada has the progressivist ratchet like the US does: Left moves Overton Window never less than a click, Right moves it never more than a click That's what happens when there is change in the world. Conservatives resist
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Today's AI is pattern matching. It's good at that. I wonder if that is all that human intelligence is, just pattern matching? With biological quirks and urges thrown into the mix.
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It would be terrifying for any bank to give people 30 thirty year loans at historically low interest rates (because of the interest rate risk - rates have nowhere to go but up, and the bank could easily be upside down for most of the loan),
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by mikem170 3y ago
"The EU Digital Markets Act mandates that messaging services like iMessage are required to offer other companies some level of interoperability if they’re deemed to be big and important enough." [1] The law has already passed and
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I bow to your pedantry. Everything else is dust in your wind.
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I presented all that detail - philosophical justifications, legal precedents, court rulings, new laws, how the social contract and concepts of ownership have changed historically to address conflicts between new technology and old rules, ho
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Funny that back in the day Apple reverse-engineered MS office formats to make Mac software that could open Microsoft documents [1]. Sounds like you and them want to prevent anyone from doing what they did when they were a smaller growing co
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by mikem170 3y ago
Your question: > What justification is there for using governmental authority to force Apple to make iMessage interoperable with any/every other chat service? Justifications, in order of specificity: 1) Political philosophy: "g
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I've got the Netherlands spending 10.02% of their GDP on health care in 2018 [0], and the U.S. spending 16.68 in that same year [1]. If it were just a matter of money wouldn't that mean that the U.S. is already doing more? Or is s
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by mikem170 3y ago
> What justification is there for this, though? In hindsight I assume that you were thinking of the government taking iMessage from Apple? I didn't see anyone mention that specifically, and I never assumed that would be how the gove
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A lot of money is spend on end-of-life care, trying to keep someone alive on their deathbed for an extra month or two, and people don't seem to want to talk about the diminishing returns of some of that care, and the opportunity costs
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> USA has top tier health care. It's simply not economical to give it to everyone who demands it I've always thought that this is something basic that we need to address as part of any health care reform. We can't afford t
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by mikem170 3y ago
Ah, I see where someone mentioned "obliged to make their products/services interoperable". By "nationalize" I assume you were thinking of things like mandates that Apple servers be required to support third-party iM
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But I never said anything about nationalizing iMessage. Maybe someone else said that, or there's some other misunderstanding? I mentioned that mandated support on phones for a new and better messaging standard seems like a reasonable i
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People are not granted limited liability like corporations are. The original intention was not that corporations are given permission to pursue profits without regard to any other factors. What would be so wrong with the people mandating a
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Devil's advocate... Historically the reason corporations were given limited liability was in return for them performing a public good. If in a democracy most people want open messaging, I see no reason why they shouldn't have it.
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But a book like that is something that you sink into, the author draws you into their fictional world, over a period of hours. That's quite different that 45 seconds of outrage the on to the next click-bait, isn't it? The attentio
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From the article: > For stimulation, focused ultrasound waves can flexibly target specific regions throughout the brain from outside the skull.
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Bash seems to be about as archaic as sh. I write my shell scripts in sh, because it comes with every unix-like os by default. I know that bash has more features, but I've never really missed them. I switch from sh to perl for more comp
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Predictions have been made, and we can check if they were correct, but maybe not at the moment. Some past short-term predictions, like predictions for 2020 made in 1990, may or may not be correct. We can look those up. Many other prediction
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> Is it reasonably possible to steer the direction or speed of advancement of technology, or is this scenario just the inevitable result of a society that continually iterates on past technology without end? The Amish limit their technol

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