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by phatfish 6y ago
If the App Store is more complex than Ticketmaster is by Apple's own doing. Certainly nothing that justifies taking 30% of all transactions that go near it.
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by phatfish 6y ago
I'm pretty sure this correlates heavily to the size of the black population in each country. The UK having the largest and most well integrated black population shows in the lower instances of reported harassment. This rings true for m
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by phatfish 6y ago
This trouble for Facebook and well anyone attempting to combat misinformation is that the falsehood can be created in seconds. The clever ones are designed to be hard to fully disprove, or at least seem that way. Everyone else has to then s
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by phatfish 6y ago
I don't remember the context in Dune. But I read it to be about irrational fear of something that is not life threatening. Obviously "overcoming your fear" by putting your life in danger in a situation where you are almost ce
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by phatfish 6y ago
1. I have no figures on subsidies for child-rearing, but "heavily subsidises" seems very unlikely in most places, maybe Scandinavia can make that claim. I suspect any help provided by the government is more than wiped out by lost
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by phatfish 6y ago
Almost as if government regulation relating to monopolies and "too big to fail" corporations actually means something? Maybe a competent government would actually advocate and enforce laws to stop one company controlling your life
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by phatfish 6y ago
If only it were really that interesting.
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by phatfish 6y ago
Monetary policy and the fact that the big tech companies (and a lot of the smaller more "boring" ones) have almost universally resisted the effects of C19. A large part of the world being asked stay indoors means more spending on
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by phatfish 6y ago
Not sure if the Rosetta Stone was in that location when I visited last. But standing near some of the large Egyptian statues gives you a strange feeling of being vulnerable and safe at the same time. Probably the effect of being near a hum
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by phatfish 6y ago
Exporting US centric laws to the world and ensuring that preferable conditions for the US are "legal" is not cool either. China has only recently become a big enough economy in their own right to say "nice try but no thanks&q
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by phatfish 6y ago
Yes, I don't think it needed to be in the title of the article. That was just click-bait on the part of the NYT. However its fine to mention it. If his work was made popular by angry men trying to get laid then that's how it happe
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by phatfish 6y ago
This is a monthly subscription to a Twitch streamer. Assuming you re-subscribe (which seems to be the whole point of Twitch) you are paying an extra $12 over the year, which is 2 months of subscriptions and change compared to the website. T
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by phatfish 6y ago
At least we can be safe in the knowledge that Teams will be the only bloated Electron app Microsoft make a core part of the Office suite. There is no way most company issue laptops can run two programs that resource heavy at once, without W
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by phatfish 6y ago
Yes, there are more ads. I watch sometimes on mobile and have seen the increase. Seems to have synced up with restrictions placed on people during the virus outbreak. I assume there are a lot more Youtube hours watched recently. I'll b
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by phatfish 6y ago
As soon as a competitor comes along that is better for landlords, renters or has a good marketing campaign people will move. The network effect is not that of Facebook where you would have to convince all your friends and family to sign up
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by phatfish 6y ago
I could use Firefox by just clicking the arrow or "continue" i think. But there was a warning. The audio skips and doesn't loop properly for me on Firefox though. Didn't try any other browser. Seems well done, extra mark
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by phatfish 6y ago
Well the iPhone is their only mass market luxury good, and that's simply because people don't pay the whole cost at once. The get it on credit, under contract, from their mobile provider. I don't know the history of mobile ph
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by phatfish 6y ago
From a comment above about OSMC this looks like it counts: https://osmc.tv/vero/ I don't have one or use OSMC (although it looks interesting, not sure how i missed it). I currently use an Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspb
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by phatfish 6y ago
Don't store your users PII in a git repository then.
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by phatfish 6y ago
The negative opinions on Beats often seem snobbish and dare I say bigoted. But I will admit it was a strange get for Apple as a brand. Although I remember some gossip about them buying it mainly for the music licensing deals that Beats had,
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by phatfish 6y ago
A government can ignore "basic economics" (bit of a vauge term), the government creates the environment that businesses exist in. If "basic economics" produce a result that is clearly unethical or a detriment to society
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by phatfish 6y ago
Yup, it's definitely Uber and their billion dollar investors that need the government assistance here, and not their below minimum wage workforce.
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by phatfish 6y ago
I think that's the problem. We need to be able to trust they wont, in the current climate there is no chance of that. If there were strong privacy laws defining how and when data could be collected and accessed then in theory I'm
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by phatfish 6y ago
Fence sitting does not automatically make you right. Half way between two falsehoods is still wrong. For the BBC they HAVE to keep the government happy to continue to exist, or they will be legislated away. Same as any other state owned bro
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by phatfish 6y ago
And Corbyn was Lenin. I think that tells you all you need to know about the BBC. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jeremy-corby...
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by phatfish 6y ago
Maybe Hacker News is next on Trumps ban list. Would you be happy about that? Also, I would think carefully how productive your time spend here really is. Is surfing and commenting on HN providing any substantial "education"? Perso
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by phatfish 6y ago
Facebook already alters what people see, mainly to make sure people spend as much time on Facebook as possible. Or if you pay them to put "Ad" next to an item in a timeline somewhere.
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by phatfish 6y ago
The only thing that annoys me about this setup is noise of the wire brushing against clothing etc. Or if you eat with them on. With music playing the removal of external noise is enough for me. They do well enough blocking distracting noise
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by phatfish 6y ago
There must be some regulations that need to be met to run an SOS service? I bet if those didn't exist the SOS service would be down now as well and peoples lives would be in danger. The rest of their services clearly had as little spen
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by phatfish 6y ago
Agree completely. Of course this is exactly how Facebook want it. To appear as the light touch impartial platform where "everyone is free" to communicate. Except in the background they play with who sees what to increase engagemen

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