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by owisd 4y ago
Everyone upset about losing lightning. Apple will 'malicious compliance' this and keep the lightning port and just add a USB-C port that does charging and nothing else.
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by owisd 4y ago
I think the problem with articles like that is they seem quite oblivious to people's actual complaints when they say their attention span is getting worse. If you spent 2 hours a day reading books 10 years ago and now you spend 2 hours
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by owisd 4y ago
The difference with all of those things is it was parents "social panicking" about something they had no experience of, whereas parents are also on social media experiencing the negative effects for themselves. If you want to look
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by owisd 4y ago
Seems to work better in this case, as essentially the only buyer of pharmaceuticals in the country the NHS are in a better position to negotiate deals in bulk than if hospitals had to negotiate individually. The UK has higher life expectanc
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by owisd 4y ago
Twitter isn't some closed ecosystem comprising only its own users talking to each other. Journalists are all on it looking for 'public opinion' that then makes it into television and print, despite Twitter not being represent
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by owisd 4y ago
There’s no universal %margin on turnover that applies across all sectors that tells you whether a market is efficient or not. If I supply you widgets for $1000/ea and take a $50 management fee that we assume is fair for the work involv
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by owisd 4y ago
The difference Network Rail (the UK's rail infrastructure body) used to distinguish between a tunnel and a bridge was that if it was over 20m long it was a tunnel, but then someone came up with the bright idea to redefine a tunnel as o
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by owisd 4y ago
It's not a straw man, I believe a better idiom would be 'the tail wagging the dog', i.e. you're using an extreme edge case to argue against the big picture proposal. A real tax would include the small picture details: pa
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by owisd 4y ago
There's a good video on how that $1.90 is arbitrary and too low, and if you try to come up with a poverty line from first principles, you end up more in the $5-$12 range, where it doesn't paint such a great picture. https:/&
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by owisd 4y ago
Playing devil’s advocate, but consumer choice isn’t some silver bullet to magic up better outcomes. Corporations can hire armies of risk analysts to understand the product they are selling better than you ever can as a consumer, so there’s
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by owisd 4y ago
If one side has a financial incentive to push bad faith arguments, whereas the other side has no financial incentive or resources and is just interested in science for the sake of science, then by supporting having the debate via twitter ad
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by owisd 4y ago
That's like saying banning electing of representatives by a show of hands in favour of the secret ballot is just a slippery slope to banning democracy altogether.
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by owisd 4y ago
If, as you say, not advertising on twitter doesn't mean you don't get to put your position forward then nothing of value is being lost by the twitter policy change.
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by owisd 4y ago
How can the consensus change if only the side that can afford the most twitter ads get to put their position forward?
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by owisd 4y ago
It's not banning arguments, just recognising that twitter ads aren't the best medium for certain arguments.
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by owisd 5y ago
The rate at which public opinion has changed in favour of gay marriage, etc. over the past few decades could have only happened with a lot of people changing their mind. The shift happened way too fast for it to have been entirely down to o
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by owisd 5y ago
Do the vehicles benefit from specialist tools because the manufacturer has innovated some new piece of tech unique to their company, or have they simply taken off the shelf components and tweaked them just enough that standard tools don&#x2
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by owisd 5y ago
Saves you the CPU cycles of having to step through the entire list when the word is zebra.
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by owisd 5y ago
Countries with socialised healthcare all have seatbelt laws.
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by owisd 5y ago
> Aren't they perfectly entitled to it? Up to a point, no. Common Carrier laws have been around for a long time and had demonstrable benefits. Net neutrality means phone companies can't use their infrastructure however they lik
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by owisd 5y ago
Good point although it’s more convincing me that maybe more of the seemingly trivial applications should be unbundled. I was imagining since consumers buy multiple games and games developers typically produce multiple games the overall effe
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by owisd 5y ago
> where does the slippery slope end Should have to convince a judge that bundling the particular application is causing a distorting effect on the market. The complainants might have a case for OneDrive, but seems much more unlikely the
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by owisd 5y ago
In this hypothetical world you’d be paying way more in protection money than you are currently paying in taxes to the local mafia gang who would have long murdered all the other private protection agencies.
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by owisd 5y ago
> Step 1: all the tech companies should stop using Windows Their complaint is a lack of open standards and interoperability create unnecessary barriers to stopping using Windows so your solution is that they should stop using Windows..
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by owisd 5y ago
Can’t speak for all of those numbers, but Samaritans won’t tell anyone or even try to talk you out of it if you don’t want them to.
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by owisd 5y ago
Deciding which content to promote and which to bury is censorship however you do it. There's more content than human attention, if you promote one piece of content, whether you choose to do it chronologically or with updoots or Google
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by owisd 5y ago
There can never be a true free market for unions because there’s such a big network effect bonus from everyone in your company/industry being in the same union.
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by owisd 5y ago
The author made a post explaining the plugin was almost certainly legal, but facebook can exploit the legal system make it too expensive to be worth defending. https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unf
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by owisd 5y ago
Not really comparable. Apple could both innovate and comply by having two charging ports, one EU approved and one Lightning. Come to think of it, I would love a phone like that — maybe government intervention can force innovation.
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by owisd 5y ago
It’s not particularly inflationary. If you remove $100bn of government bonds from circulation and replace it with $100bn newly printed cash, private sector net worth stays the same.

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