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by mthoms 5y ago
Would you agree that "Animals will catch what they eat, and catch no more than necessary" is a generally true statement then? >Anyway, killing more than you can eat right now and storing it "for later" is exactly what
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by mthoms 5y ago
There you have it folks. How to solve the global problem of cultural assimilation rolled up into a single paragraph. Just have more guns and/or money then your competitor (literally impossible in this case). This is a complex problem t
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by mthoms 5y ago
> this means Canadians will be subsidising music they clearly don't like (otherwise it would be popular and this kind of law wouldn't be necessary) Are you suggesting that the popularity of music is based solely on its merits a
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by mthoms 5y ago
They're surrounded by 300 million+ English speakers and desperately trying to keep their language and culture alive. I'm not saying I agree with this particular initiative, but this is about survival of their very culture, not nar
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by mthoms 5y ago
So you'd eat the children of other humans?
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by mthoms 5y ago
The wiki passage lumps "saving for later" (caching) and abandoning the food completely into the same category. Which doesn't support your point as well as you think — the cached food may well be "necessary" over a l
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by mthoms 5y ago
They aren’t somehow entitled to make “the same overall profit”. You seem to think they are. It’s additional revenue. The phone itself is already hugely profitable. In fact, the original business model didn’t include App Store revenue at a
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by mthoms 5y ago
I don’t have the calculations handy but at one point I was able to figure that the average iPhone user in the US spends (very roughly) $30-$40 per year in the App Store. Even at a 30% cut over the 3-4 year lifespan of the phone it’s not any
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by mthoms 5y ago
Well then, don’t?
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by mthoms 5y ago
The parent only said that 50% reduction for BTC was not cause for alarm for them because of how often such big drawdowns occur in crypto. Nothing more. Stop trying to pick a fight.
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by mthoms 5y ago
You misunderstand. The sensitive data here is your browsing history (and all that it infers). Brave never sees that. But yes, when you view an ad, that gets recorded somewhere (so that you can get rewards, and the advertiser can be billed).
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by mthoms 5y ago
You seem to have missed a critical point: The “attention tracking” Brave does stays completely on device. The browser is sent a list of ads, and the browser decides which ads to serve based on its metrics. Brave doesn’t see this data and th
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by mthoms 5y ago
I can’t tell if you’re joking or this is actually possible. Is it?
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by mthoms 5y ago
Society and the environment would benefit enormously by being able to repurpose old iPhones and iPads. Side loading would make these devices significantly less likely to end up in landfill. That benefits everyone except corporations.
915.
by mthoms 5y ago
Its this one: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/right-click/id1364038646?mt=12 Though I am keen to try the extension the other commenter mentioned.
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by mthoms 5y ago
My fault, I wasn't clear. My use case also includes being able to check certain file occasionally on mobile. That requires Files app.
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by mthoms 5y ago
I just uninstalled Dropbox and upgraded my iCloud storage. I’ll admit it’s an experiment to see if it meets my needs, but for my use case(syncing between my desktop and laptop), they are absolutely direct competitors.
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by mthoms 5y ago
I use: Tampermonkey, Dark Reader, 1Password, Adguard, Raindrop, and an extension that prevents right click hijacking (I forget the name). All work fine. Granted more need to be ported I agree. Maybe this is the perfect incentive for that t
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by mthoms 5y ago
Tampermonkey itself works with desktop Safari now. It’s amazing.
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by mthoms 5y ago
Tampermonkey and Dark Reader are a couple.
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by mthoms 5y ago
So, the bar you've established is arguably the single greatest invention of the past 50 years ? Sheesh, there really is no pleasing some people. >For the Internet I could have sent you thousands of examples of such things a few mon
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by mthoms 5y ago
If you were cashing out as the money was coming in, then you wouldn't have lost all of it in a "hack", would you? So, which is it? Would you have lost all of it in a hack or would you be withdrawing straight to a bank balance
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by mthoms 5y ago
It's a good comparison insofar as the tools were/are primitive and only usable by experts. A lot of domain knowledge was required. You can hate crypto and still agree with me on the above point. It's a pretty innocuous observ
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by mthoms 5y ago
> The qualifier I used was “everyone who got access”, and I stand by that. Initially only nerds had access and they couldn’t get enough. When access expanded to the general public, they couldn’t get enough either. My whole family had acc
925.
by mthoms 5y ago
Tell me then, why does usage in Venezuela (and other countries) as a hedge against hyperinflation not count as real-world positive usage? You can also tell me, as a nerd who has lived through both eras, why my experience doesn't count?
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by mthoms 5y ago
I'm going to cease to engage for several reasons: 1) You just flatly contradicted yourself without even realizing it. The top level comment said "The reality is that the internet was immediately extremely interesting (either usefu
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by mthoms 5y ago
You seem like a very smart and highly technical person so I find it incredibly hard to believe you would have left vast sums of crypto on an unregulated exchange. You're either being dishonest here or you consider yourself extremely na
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by mthoms 5y ago
The "early internet" comparison is usually presented when talking about how clumsy and slow the technology is in its current state. The argument is certainly not presented in the context of how "fun" it is. There's
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by mthoms 5y ago
> In all of english Canada, I went to grade school in Ontario during the 80's, and I remember the teachings about Riel being quite nuanced. He wasn't demonized nor glorified. If anything, the material was sympathetic to him and
930.
by mthoms 5y ago
I'm only a casual user of tmux (and its iterm2 integration). Besides plugins, I'm not really sure from the website how this is a better ("friendlier") option. Anyone?

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