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by mrkstu 5y ago
In the past I trusted Apple to resist government efforts to spy on me to the best the law allowed. Now they are innovating ways to help a government spy literally live in my pocket. Trust is fragile and Apple has taken what in the past I
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by mrkstu 5y ago
A huge part of Apple’s value proposition is iCloud. If I have to turn that off to keep the spy out of my OS, it’s value to me is dramatically diminished.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
This is new for Apple's customers. And its new in that the device you bought and paid for is nosing through your files. Apple is introducing a reverse 'Little Snitch' where instead of the app warning you what apps are doing o
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by mrkstu 5y ago
I was talking 'competence' not 'freedom.' You arguing for more/better regulation speaks to the lack of competence in CA considering the time scales these issues have been ongoing.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
As someone who lived through the recent Texas blackout, I would say the general competence of governance is fine here- that problem was notable by its relative rarity. Comparatively the continual problems w/resource management (water,
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by mrkstu 5y ago
The outcome should be, tolerance for others to express their intolerance, and you to express your intolerance of their intolerance, but no one gets to shut anyone's expression's down. You can ignore them, don't have to am
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by mrkstu 5y ago
If we agree before parting that one of us is going to Alpha Centari and the other is staying on Earth and going to assassinate either the President of Russia or America depending on the observed state on an entangled pair of particles, once
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by mrkstu 5y ago
"we're in a simulation" is at least something that might be ultimately testable with the right theory and experiment. FSM/God isn't w/o them choosing to 'reveal' themselves to everyone.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
They don’t directly, but it will be interesting to see if apps start migrating preferentially to Android as the preferred platform for ‘free’ apps and they become more and more unable to monetize on iOS.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Like others have mentioned, dream state lets me get past the otherwise ‘black wall’ state, so I can relate to the other, just frustrating that I can’t access it at will.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
And put it in the freezer intermittently...
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Trump’s stance on a particular fact should have zero correlation on the reporting of that fact- that it does, is an indictment of a whole industry.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
I think everyone is quite aware of the driving force behind these ‘gaffes.’
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by mrkstu 5y ago
The one thing I'd be down is some kind of AMT for billionaires. The sticky bit is when to force them to recognize capital gains- if a founder is trying to retain a certain control over their company, forcing him/her to sell to pay
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by mrkstu 5y ago
It isn't, by itself, conclusive at all, but the amount of smoke China generates around this whole thing, vs transparency, screams that there is fire in the middle of the smoke.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Not being a chess piece also is part of their success however. Don't want to be the mouse under a herd of dancing elephants.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Does FreeDOS boot off a flash drive?
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by mrkstu 5y ago
If you live/can meet in the northern part of town I’d be happy to have lunch with you some time so you can at least have one friend in town… email is my username @ gmail.com.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
I don't know how to characterize my votes any other way. Voted Libertarian this election and McMullin last. Both were ways to keep my vote away from Trump, though I had historically voted near straight party Republican most years (neve
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Sigh- voted against Trump twice. The fact of the matter is the Ratcliffe Letter [0] shows that President Obama was given an briefing well before the Steele Dossier was leaked to the media that the Russians' had picked up intelligence t
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by mrkstu 5y ago
My main issue with American news and commentary is the complete lack of skepticism of those on 'their side' of an issue. On the right, when Trump hadn't yet gotten control of the party, there was some persistent reaction agai
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Except none of those things is actually happening. Its like saying playing Monopoly is the same as being a real estate magnate. It just isn't, and emotionally the people using the video game as a crutch know it.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
The cost of a Magic Keyboard cover for an iPad Pro becomes much more tolerable if it can serve as the main input for multiple devices. Makes an iPad/Mac Mini combo pretty compelling.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Is a segment a market? And it is also simply untrue that Apple is the only premium handset maker- plenty of Chinese competition in China and Samsung elsewhere. It is dominant in the segment but it is at best part of a duopoly.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
It is still true that the very best of India is suctioned into the United States- though there is definitely some backflow as they gather enough capital to go back and invest in Indian based companies. The gravity of magnitudes better compe
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Yep. Q: "How many times has it rained this week?" A: "It has rained zero times " Zero is a perfectly natural state.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
The question remains unanswered, whether democratic socialism is, in the long-term, compatible with avoiding totalitarianism.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Judgement is a critical aspect of fashion, at least as defined in practice. But leaving that aside, without judgement 1/2 would probably just wear enough to stay warm and the other 1/2 as ridiculously colorful as they could manage
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Probably because work culture was originally not knowledge/cognitive based, and the expectations were based on human endurance of physical expenditure, which has different load bearing characteristics.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Yep, going from a Mac Plus to an SE-30 is probably the closest experientially to my MacBook Pro 15/Intel Mac Mini-> M1 Mac Mini in my memory. Form factor basically same, screen the same, OS the same, yet somehow the qualitative fee

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