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by mrangle 1y ago
It isn't a monopoly. iphones are not a public utility, and anyone can buy a different phone on which they can install apps.
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by mrangle 1y ago
I'm dismissing it on its lack of logic (not smart enough), even though it has a superficial patina of logic (smart). That is, I don't find it fundamental to our psychology nor history. To address your perspective. It's an ath
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by mrangle 1y ago
No one hates government. Such a petulant response over not agreeing with your government is childish. Last, you don't agree with every decision by every government.
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by mrangle 1y ago
It isn't, Dude. No one but children believe that, especially in the case of the EU. I agree that they shouldn't do business in the EU.
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by mrangle 1y ago
The pricetag is proportional. Affording it is another discussion. If Apple weren't popular, then its payment control within its own system wouldn't matter.
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by mrangle 1y ago
For sure. It's easy to joke about public sentiment when the government is in no way accountable to public opinion. A high effort joke for autocrats.
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by mrangle 1y ago
True. Perhaps it should.
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by mrangle 1y ago
A computer and phone company, in a sea of computer and phone companies, is not equivalent to a rail company.
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by mrangle 1y ago
Gibberish. Also, you don't know what "rent seeking" means.
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by mrangle 1y ago
Apple does compete on its own merits. Its merits are that it built and controls the operating system and hardware that people choose to buy. If other companies have an issue, then they can build their own software, their own hardware, and c
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by mrangle 1y ago
Apple has its act together. Those, who are not Apple, do not in comparison. They are Big Mad that Apple does. You don't understand the term "rent seeking". Because in this case, it's Apple's competitors that are ren
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by mrangle 1y ago
Not forcing kids to learn mathematics and not becoming great at mathematics until you discovered the joy in them are not remotely the same thing. Not learning to write and not learning to write well until... are not remotely the same thing.
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by mrangle 1y ago
Ricky is smart, but not smart enough.
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by mrangle 1y ago
The author wants us to believe that their insurance provider reduces their customer service success to the single factor of whether or not someone has an Android phone? Unmitigated bs. Use your web browser and find an in-network hospital vi
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by mrangle 1y ago
These terms aren't hyperbole at all. Mangione is a psychopath. Being wrong about the effects of (and rationale for) a crime is a symptom of criminal insanity. For example, you think that the crime that you facilitate is "justice&q
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by mrangle 1y ago
I'm paraphrasing my experience in using the Canadian government's own points calculator for residency. That doesn't meant that there aren't special programs apart from that. Because I'm not of the demographic, I did
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by mrangle 1y ago
A company who who has a shiny thing that it charges money for, posting on a site specifically created for the expression of the malcontent characteristic of toxic malcontents, and the output is predictable. Undoubtedly Adobe has legions of
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by mrangle 1y ago
It's almost impossible to get residency in Canada, short of marriage and for most US citizens. If you are a French speaking PhD in a preferred industry who is under 29 years old, you may be gtg.
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by mrangle 1y ago
Start by calling billing and telling them what happened, and that you effectively don't have insurance and will be self-paying (said for the purpose of negotiation, not what you may or may not actually do). They should discount it by a
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by mrangle 1y ago
It sounds like Blue Cross may be feeling the pressure of needing to avoid the bad PR of turning down claims, but those claims still not meeting their insurance terms and financial models. So they are tactically not paying the doctors after
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by mrangle 1y ago
That's right. Community wide Universal Basic Income would cause price rises for shelf goods, negating the intended beneficial effect. As the value of money is always relative to its scarcity. More money held by all individuals always l
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by mrangle 1y ago
You tell me what I supposedly implied, and then set that up as a shifted-goalposts straw-man argument. Which in my experience is consistently the sign of someone who can't take the "L". It's common with people who "
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by mrangle 1y ago
My opinion stands. Claiming that I'm not being honest in my opinion is not a valid escape from the conversation. But be my guest. Tariffs were inevitable, in any administration. Unless the plan was to have been much worse. With all due
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by mrangle 1y ago
Spare us the theatrics. Every four years wherein the opposition is in office is a perceived "disaster" for the other side. Here's a question for you and the Nation: did the other side also see the first four years as a disast
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by mrangle 1y ago
That wasn't nostalgia on my end. I was only making an implied point. To remember that era clearly is to know that it is impossible for sentiment to be worse. My point is about the flaws of perception and memory, and regrettably immorta
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by mrangle 1y ago
>That's because in the past showing that you're "educated" by virtue signalling a particular experience with a particular type of education would allow you an inside track to social groups and employment of value. Edu
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by mrangle 1y ago
I remember saying the same thing about my girlfriend's conservative mother, in my mid-twenties, around the time when people were very worked up over GWB's supposed degradation of US World standing. It was a mistaken sentiment. Wha
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by mrangle 2y ago
Yet, many if not most people would like an education that is informed by educated literati. People pay big money for it, for good reason. Disadvantaged kids are absolutely starved for it, in more ways than one. Is the "worst crime&quot
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by mrangle 2y ago
Math Academy (not a book). $50 per month.
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by mrangle 2y ago
Kerouac and Burroughs are objectively awful. I still think that Kerouac's popularity as a writer was an industry practical joke. Speaking of both skill and content. A People's History used to be an AP History book, so appropriate

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