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by myko 4y ago
In the US, at least, a recession happening is possible but not backed up by actual economic trends: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/15/economy/recession-inflation-e...
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by myko 4y ago
Dang, this describes many interactions I've had over my life.
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by myko 4y ago
It would be stupid for politicians not to investigate their opponents, for example the Republicans when they hired Steele to investigate trump. Investigating trump turned up multiple crimes and led to several convictions, there was plenty t
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by myko 4y ago
> And Google clearly has no interest in innovation beyond copying Apple. I disagree, I think both platforms have copied plenty from one another. I used to jailbreak my iOS devices to get similar functionality to Android. Hasn't been
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by myko 4y ago
That's so interesting, I never considered it but think I understand how you feel. I've always wanted more stats like this. I expected/hoped Google Play Music (and now the inferior YouTube Music) would provide amazing overview
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by myko 4y ago
Random people joking on eng-misc doesn't really mean anything, and it's impossible to tell whether or not this is that vs a Chrome developer who knows what's going on in incognito mode. I am not a Chrome developer but I serio
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by myko 4y ago
One time I built a product demo-ing a physician directory, I used pictures of Dr. Strange, Mr. T as Dr. T, Zoidberg–it was comedy gold. Boss made me use boring stock photos instead :(
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by myko 4y ago
> I have to say this is one area that I actually support the defund the police narrative "Defund the Police" makes a lot of sense when one actually looks beyond the tagline. It means taking the money from the police state to em
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by myko 4y ago
> Insane It's insane that they didn't. If you look at the fine, you will see that many families were affected. There is nothing unreasonable about that amount of money awarded from that perspective.
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by myko 4y ago
> That is an unreasonable sum I disagree. Many of these families need security and barriers to prevent Alex Jones' fans from attacking them. A lot of folks were impacted by his outrageous claims. > To put it into perspective, the
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by myko 4y ago
> No reasonable person is going to believe it. Frankly I agree with you, but there are a lot of unreasonable folks–and every InfoWars consumer falls into that category.
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by myko 4y ago
> Edit: Wasn't it Zuckerberg himself that said the FBI reached out to him about limiting the visibility of certain news? No. The FBI reached out to Facebook to let them know how Russia tended to try to influence US citizens with fak
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by myko 4y ago
> especially now with the proxy war between US and Russia This is not a proxy war between the US and Russia. Ukraine nor Russia started this conflict at the behest or instigation of the US. The US (and NATO, the entire western world real
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by myko 4y ago
Interesting that this guy retracted his complaint and very publicly alerted folks to his error, and deleted the disinformation he initially spread. I scanned Finchem's Twitter feed and all I see are more lies about the election having
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by myko 4y ago
> People who need to force iOS 13 support are not representative of the development environment. iOS 14+ (from 2 years) represents 99% of the market. You couldn't target that percentage of Android devices even if you targeted Marshm
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by myko 4y ago
> No. No they don't if you're not being completely disingenuous. Jetpack AppCompat style libraries backport app functionality that older Apple devices will get via OS updates in a strictly saner way than having to rely on a bac
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by myko 4y ago
I explained this pretty well in my post, but you are incorrect. Apple does not ship all new features of the OS for older phones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9mBPyaA4L4 Android ships many new features via libraries, so
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by myko 4y ago
> The $399 original iPhone SE got six years of OS updates and also got another security update at the end of August. Apples and oranges here, as yes they get updates but are missing features supported in newer devices. Whereas Android do
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by myko 4y ago
I think you're right, but the perception that Google kills things off for no reason is strong, and will lead to less folks using GCP. The brand is in a slow death spiral, I'm not sure it can recover.
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by myko 4y ago
Isn't Picasa basically Google Photos, though? Same with messaging, it just rebranded. This isn't the same as shutting down Reader or Stadia, with 0 replacement.
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by myko 4y ago
I've used GeForce Now and Stadia was a lot better than it on my iPad/WiFi What service is better than Stadia at actually running games in the cloud?
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by myko 4y ago
"More wood, fewer arrows" has destroyed the longevity of Google as a company for anything beyond search/ads Alphabet seems to have been a mistake, too. Instead of shielding their bets they flounder and wither. Just terrible s
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by myko 4y ago
I assumed the comment meant EVs were worse than ICE vehicles (not an opinion I hold)
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by myko 4y ago
and rarely shipping, to boot!
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by myko 4y ago
It's interesting to me, an American with a lot of family members who are Canadian, to hear my fellow Americans arguments against the clearly superior Canadian health care system. The biggest complaint I hear about the Canadian system a
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by myko 4y ago
This comment applies to the GOP but based on your other comments here it seems like you think it applies more to the Democratic party, am I understanding that correctly?
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by myko 4y ago
> I’d love to hear this side of it. RudyG finds a laptop of unknown provenance, riddled with likely to be stolen data, claiming to be owned by his boss' chief political rival's failson? The claim Rudy and co make is that the la
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by myko 4y ago
I started reading the Foundation trilogy out loud to my infant. One gets through the books a lot more slowly but it works! I must admit that even if he falls asleep I'll cheat and finish the chapter (still reading vocally). Bonus: it l
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by myko 4y ago
It's a rather short post all things considered. I quoted the relevant portions. If you don't feel up to reading them, fine, but please don't pretend you know the facts when you ignore the evidence that has been presented. &gt
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by myko 4y ago
> No credible news source any longer disputes that it was indeed Hunter Biden's laptop. Does this change your opinion of anything? It's already my opinion that the laptop could have belonged to Hunter at some point (no clear ev

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