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by pb7 3y ago
That seems kinda unfair? You don't think it's unfair that the US invests in defense for its own strategic reasons but also happens to greatly benefit the rest of the world while the rest of the world can invest in social program
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by pb7 3y ago
It’s not the US’s fault Europe spends so little on defense. You reap what you sow. If you get rolled, that’s on you and your poor planning hoping Daddy USA is going to play world police. We remember the decades of mocking for our choice of
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by pb7 3y ago
> Putting 1/3 into US stocks is not a bet on health and creativity of US conpanies. This type of delusion is why Europe has been falling behind economically for decades.
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by pb7 3y ago
Nah, I'm good. I'm going to happily continue using my current phone. You do you though.
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by pb7 3y ago
The point was that he has no idea where the boundaries around between Apple and Google and what is within the realm of possibility of abuse and what is strictly impossible without him tapping "accept" via a system prompt. It is no
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by pb7 3y ago
Most users are stupid though. Reminder that a US congressman once grilled Google's CEO about whether Google was tracking his iPhone's precise location. And this one was smart enough to con his way into Congress. "I have an iP
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by pb7 3y ago
Pretty simple: I like the way Apple does most things. I'm rarely disappointed by the culmination of all of their decisions. I'm frequently disappointed with how other companies do things therefore I don't want their disease
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by pb7 3y ago
Take the biggest pension fund in Europe, Norway Government Pension Fund Global with $1.5T AUM: https://www.nbim.no/en/the-fund/investments Over 70% is invested in equities, the rest mostly in fixed income (bonds).
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by pb7 3y ago
Which disproves the claim that the general population does not pay above $500 for a computer.
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by pb7 3y ago
That's what happens when you're a wealthy country with a booming economy and flush with companies that serve the world.
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by pb7 3y ago
If we're going to be reducing to absurdity, Europe is a museum. No one is looking to it for the next big thing.
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by pb7 3y ago
Why is a general purpose computer pegged to the price of a video game console most commonly sold at a loss?
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by pb7 3y ago
What's special about $500?
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by pb7 3y ago
That’s it? One noteworthy company for a population of 440M?
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by pb7 3y ago
Do they? Examples?
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by pb7 3y ago
I can tell you live in a land of sprawling strip malls if you think that's even remotely close in a city.
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by pb7 3y ago
Do you have example links?
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by pb7 3y ago
It’s 7x7 and as it turns out, you can fit a lot of stuff if you don’t have highways and parking lots everywhere. A wild concept for Texans for whom the other opposite sidewalk may be a 6 minute drive away.
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by pb7 3y ago
Why buy an Audi when a Volkswagen does the same thing for 50% of the cost?
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by pb7 3y ago
European countries that have high disposable income like the US have higher market share of iPhones. In general, iPhones owners are wealthier across the board than Android phone owners.
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by pb7 3y ago
>Even Japan, with their love with iPhones, uses a homegrown service for their messaging needs. Meanwhile Europe uses another US tech giant's service. The simple answer is that most of Europe is not wealthy enough to afford iPhones a
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by pb7 3y ago
He's probably just a young kid or trolling. Kids have a tendency to overdial on the thing itself instead of the utility the thing can offer you. There's no way a fully functioning adult can be this obtuse.
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by pb7 3y ago
It's a compromise , not a feature in itself. I get more screen for the compromise of having a small portion of it be blacked out. If you hate it so much, cover the entire menu bar with black tape and change the resolution and pretend
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by pb7 3y ago
I can't imagine how pissed you're going to be when they release a laptop that lasts 30 hours instead of 20 hours. Scammed again by evil Apple. :'(
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by pb7 3y ago
>And yes, I could do better. Remove the notch. ta-da ! I can do one better. Don't buy it! Ta-da! Notch gone from your life and you can be happy again. Consider that you are wrong and are not adept to designing products when compromi
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by pb7 3y ago
>Given my time in FAANG, I also speak from inside knowledge of how deeply f’ed these companies are Please tell us more of your expertise and deep insight, FAANG employee #1,908,680. Google has developed their own chips. Apple has develop
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by pb7 3y ago
Not required but it is very likely that if all one does is read papers and watches other smart people give lectures, they are pretty one dimensional and would be an awful dinner guest unless surrounded by other similarly one dimensional peo
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by pb7 3y ago
Why? All are important for a well rounded, interesting person.
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by pb7 3y ago
There are so many. Red Dead Redemption 2 is one great artistic work. If you haven't played it, you haven't experienced the peak of a massive wildly recognized medium. Last of Us (the show) was essentially copied verbatim from the
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by pb7 3y ago
That's great. Their execution has been excellent. Excited to see what they come up with.

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