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by pb7 4y ago
It sounds like you have a personal beef with Apple because you don't get special treatment. This has nothing to do with its importance to the US, which is extremely high.
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by pb7 4y ago
One of the most common reasons for divorce is finances so it seems relevant to draw attention to someone promoting a certain financial lifestyle.
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by pb7 4y ago
It's a fine sample though.
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by pb7 4y ago
He claims that he doesn't want to censor anyone, including those criticizing him. Whether it pans out is yet to be seen.
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by pb7 4y ago
I meant innovation in consumer electronics or even just software services as a result of legislation, not legislation itself. Payments and bank APIs count. Thanks for the examples.
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by pb7 4y ago
You must not have been here for years that people whined about the MacBook getting rid of MagSafe and how it only had USB-C ports. How quickly we forget. "No blowback" is the completely opposite of the truth. Consumers aren't
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by pb7 4y ago
It's a common misconception for the less tech savvy but you can just buy a USB-C to Lightning cable for a few bucks. In fact, here's a 3-pack for $7: https://a.co/d/1WFoRGZ
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by pb7 4y ago
>If there is one thing that drives EU legislation ideas, it is the convergence towards open and common, market-wide standards. This reduces the barriers to entry for small players and leads to more innovation as a result. Can you provide
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by pb7 4y ago
iPhone sales are 10x that of iPad and MacBooks combined.
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by pb7 4y ago
Neither of which are overpriced, they just target a different segment of wealth with a different set of features and build quality.
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by pb7 4y ago
Does it matter? There is no such thing as “overpriced” for products that fly off the shelves except only in one’s personal opinion.
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by pb7 4y ago
What's frivolous about a wallet or a sweater? Ultimately, all your hard-earned income is to make your life easier via goods and services, some of which may be frivolous. If you can't trust yourself not to make all frivolous purcha
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by pb7 4y ago
Most people brainwash themselves into thinking their opinions are right and others' are wrong.
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by pb7 4y ago
I've purchased a handful of things that I have scoured the internet for hours and couldn't find because they later came up in an ad randomly. I am extremely satisfied with the products. In fact, the only thing I'm not satisfi
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by pb7 4y ago
How is it a marketing company?
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by pb7 4y ago
Doesn’t unemployment follow a contraction in the economy? We’re seeing a lot of layoffs* right now because business has slowed down, and if other companies also have hiring freezes, those people will stay unemployed. *and it looks like just
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by pb7 4y ago
What is your criteria for whether we are in/not in a recession?
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by pb7 4y ago
I wasn’t referring to dystopia being any of those, I was making the point that requesting certain words not be used is fine and common.
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by pb7 4y ago
I’m not offended in the least, I’m just tired of reading melodramatic takes from people who haven’t experienced any hardship. It’s a common theme here and I want it to be better. Let’s attribute the correct level of concern to things instea
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by pb7 4y ago
It doesn't take any special power or reputation to report someone for having CSAM with evidence, erroneously or not. You or I could do it.
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by pb7 4y ago
Thank you for proving my point: the government did that.
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by pb7 4y ago
The definition is "imagined state or society great suffering or injustice" -- Google cannot cause you great suffering or injustice because it has little to no power over you. Only a government or similar can truly cause great suff
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by pb7 4y ago
And yet Google can't come knock on your door and take you away. Calling it dystopian can only come from an incredibly sheltered individual who has never faced any real danger.
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by pb7 4y ago
GDPR doesn't prevent a company from retaining records of individuals who defrauded them.
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by pb7 4y ago
>professional streamer also walked away with some good money Most streamers make very little, including likely this person.
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by pb7 4y ago
It's out on a public forum, it doesn't have to be our business for us to comment on it. We also don't need to know anything about him in particular to know that's a crazy amount of time to spend. He doesn't magicall
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by pb7 4y ago
>I know people that read that much but we don't go around telling bookworms they're addicts. I don't think you really understand how much that is. That is every single day , rain or shine, healthy or sick. If you miss one
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by pb7 4y ago
It's been around for 7 years now with over 1B users and is directly monetized by storage space. I'm a big Apple ecosystem person and even I use Google Photos instead of iCloud so I would bet on it, yes.
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by pb7 4y ago
I don't dispute that but this particular conversation was about who creates more and who shutters more and I don't think Microsoft is a good counterexample to Google. It has created some things, it has shuttered some things, but m
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by pb7 4y ago
I don't know, that seems subjective. Marketing is part of every successful product so "hyping" is a key part of a product's lifecycle. Sometimes products don't catch on and they have to be killed. It's not any

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