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by moskie 11y ago
My problem with this perspective is that you're suggesting we go out of our way to put more people (US soldiers) in danger. If we (the US, or the military, or what have you) determine that a certain military act is justified, I think t
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by moskie 11y ago
What are the tangible downsides your grandmother will experience as a result of not following these steps?
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by moskie 11y ago
There was no reason that it needed to be said, as no one claimed the thing he is refuting.
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by moskie 11y ago
I just think it's important that we don't gloss over the possibility that the level of criticism and outrage could very well have been exaggerated as a result of latent/subconscious sexism.
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by moskie 11y ago
> I have seen literally no evidence that she was harassed simply for being a woman. Well, the litmus test can't be simply whether the harassment solely targeted her gender and nothing else. Sexism (and other forms of bigotry) have a
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by moskie 11y ago
But in this case, Apple is (the equivalent of) the "private individual." They're free to do what they want with their app store.
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by moskie 11y ago
So why single out Chrome in this repository and post? Feels like a hit piece on Chrome this way.
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by moskie 11y ago
I pretty much agree with what you're saying, I just take issue with zxcvvcxz using the mere suggestion that it could be something more, and something that might be helped by medication, as an excuse to deride the entire concept of (res
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by moskie 11y ago
The issue is that this post screams clinical depression to me. Yes, he's also describing a shitty job, one that he will probably benefit from quitting. But it is also common for the feelings he's having to be the result of more th
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by moskie 11y ago
That works both ways. zxcvvcxz just denounced someone for suggesting medication. And it sounds like you're looking down your nose at the idea, too. Both medications, and lifestyle changes could help. It depends on the situation and the
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by moskie 11y ago
I'm sorry you had a bad experience with the prescriptions you tried, and that they didn't work for you. But don't take that to mean you should lash out at others suggesting it might help this person, or someone else. I think
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Beats Pill XL Speaker Recall Program(apple.com)
3 points by moskie 11y ago|0 comments
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by moskie 11y ago
Paul Verhoeven and David Cronenberg would beg to differ.
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by moskie 11y ago
But with Google, you can have the reasonable expectation that if this product does go away, you'll have the chance to export your data.
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by moskie 11y ago
Just like with any product ever, if the product is popular and produces value, it will stick around. Products come and go all the time, the difference being with Google that since they are so big and have countless products, the company doe
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Tesla announces 38,000 pre-orders for Powerwall home battery(theverge.com)
6 points by moskie 11y ago|1 comments
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by moskie 11y ago
A terrible imitation.
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by moskie 11y ago
"to bootstrap visits?" That's a new one.
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by moskie 11y ago
Downvotes are one thing, but I don't think of that as astroturfing. On reddit, I much more frequently question the content of actual comments. Especially when it comes to posts regarding high budget entertainment, like for movie traile
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by moskie 11y ago
I've gotten the impression (and more so recently) that astroturfing is a problem on reddit. Not so much on Hacker News.
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by moskie 11y ago
Sorry buddy, you've gone off the deep end here. Microsoft was found in a court of law to have a monopoly in the OS market, and used their market power illegally. Full stop. This is not a controversial fact. You are at best mincing word
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by moskie 11y ago
Looks you're correct, thanks. Reading up on this a bit, I was wondering if Apple/Google/Intel/Adobe/etc constituted an oligopoly, but I don't see how that could true in this case. Also reading up on the Sherman
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by moskie 11y ago
> Neither of them were or are actually monopolies "Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his findings of fact on November 5, 1999, which stated that Microsoft's dominance of the x86-based personal computer operating systems mark
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by moskie 11y ago
Right, the fact it is not illegally anticompetitive per se shows that it is an answer to your original question. > Doing an anti competitive practice is legal if you don't have a monopoly? A practice being anti-competitive (in a l
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by moskie 11y ago
Can you link to specific examples of companies being found guilty of those things, where the company was not a monopoly, or part of an oligopoly?
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by moskie 11y ago
Can you link to specific examples of companies being found guilty of things like price fixing and wage fixing, where the company was not a monopoly, or part of an oligopoly?
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by moskie 11y ago
I'm sorry, could you be more specific? Please link to specific cases that meet the criteria (antitrust cases where the company is found guilty of anti-competitive practices that do NOT involve the company abusing their (mon|olig)opoly
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by moskie 12y ago
What are examples of companies being penalized for antitrust while not being a monopoly (or part of an oligopoly)?
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by moskie 12y ago
It can be, if the company that does it has a monopoly in the market of operating systems, which would give that company an unfair advantage in the market of browsers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Micr
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by moskie 12y ago
That is my understanding. For example, Microsoft got in trouble for pre-installing IE on Windows because they had monopoly in the OS market. If they didn't have that monopoly, they would not have been penalized.

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