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by pwinnski 4y ago
In court, Apple could also present the full pattern of behavior of this user, which presumably includes much more than the OP's description of these events, and it's possible that a jury, hearing everything Apple can prove from th
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Like any and all anti-fraud measures, clarity is the enemy. In any system, as soon as the rules are published, scammers will do everything they can to commit malfeasance while technically not breaking any rules. You say the system can&#x2
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It's known by many, but still sells incredibly well. Until 2018, it was the best-selling apple in the US! I believe it is still the most-produced apple, since it's used for items that are sold, and is still a top seller. It needs
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Every concern he had that wasn't based on fabrication, yes. Airplane mode leaves the cellular radio on? Not according to signal tests!
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Because patriotic gestures make some people happy? Its no "freedom fries," but when the UK is facing a record-cold winter without natural gas from Russia, perhaps some people are feeling particularly peeved. It'll pass.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
A gift card is not suspicious. A few gift cards, all originally purchased around the same time, are also not suspicious. People do receive multiple cards for special occasions, after all. 25-40 gift cards, purchased in several different c
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Apple isn't claiming fraud. They are very carefully only claiming that the user violated the user agreement in an unspecified way. Your comment demonstrates why they won't make any stronger claim.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Very true. I've been trying to be very gracious, but it's actually still not 100% clear that the poster isn't a scammer trying to redeem their ill-gotten gains. I'm not sure how one could prove that, to be honest. The be
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Your comment, I understand. I still don't think GP's comment makes any sense. > If Apple treated their bundled calculators, text editors, email software, photo viewers and PDF viewers like they treated their browser, nobody wou
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I think this is under-selling the value of something like Safari. I'm on Hacker News, not just a general population rando, and I still care more about usability than most ideological concepts. I don't like Chrome and would stay aw
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It's been some number of months, so I thought, hey, I'll take this opportunity to see what I'm missing out on with Firefox. And I'll even start with whatever Firefox says for the comparison. Fortunately, there's a h
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by pwinnski 4y ago
To be honest, that doesn't make you sound less likely to be a scammer. But more to the point, it could easily be that it takes 15 or 20 cards within a short amount of time before the automated systems are triggered. Apple has a lot
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by pwinnski 4y ago
So weird to see someone praising Apple and knocking Google, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised when it comes to ads. That said, my ad-blocking experience on MacOS definitely got worse before improving recently, so even the movie Ghos
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by pwinnski 4y ago
When someone is legitimately trying to redeem 25-35 gift cards bought over time for a total of $2k, it is dastardly and horrible of Apple to block him. When scammers trick people into buying gift cards for them, and the scammers later redee
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Yeah, that fits the profile of a scammer pretty close to 100%. I believe that you are not a scammer, but since Apple doesn't know you bought all of these cards yourself, you exactly fit the profile of someone who scams people and has
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So you activated several thousand gift cards, and I'm guessing you didn't buy all of them retail at face value, right?
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Chrome is holding on to a 67% market share on desktops[0] despite not being pre-installed on either of the two most popular desktop operating systems. I see the polls, I understand the concern, but Mozilla probably should focus on why the 4
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by pwinnski 4y ago
In 2022, I'm looking at the plethora of browsers available for MacOS, and sticking with Safari. Chrome would be my second choice, and in fact I have it installed, but only use it once a month or so on average. Nothing from Mozilla or B
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by pwinnski 4y ago
One of us is clearly confused. As far as I can tell, Apple does treat those bundled apps on MacOS exactly as they treat Safari. Any can be replaced, but all are good enough that most people don't bother. The most likely to be replace
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Stock price changing in a direction that makes Amazon seem generous while costing Amazon nothing? No problem! Stock price changing in a direction that costs Amazon money? Nope, nuh-uh, not a chance.
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For the purposes of attracting capital, that consistent history hurts them, no? Investors want higher rates, not lower, in this case.
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Why did you post this question? It will certainly have a short lifetime. If a person knew their comment would definitely never be seen, it's probable most people wouldn't write them. But on most sites, people are notified about
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Are you saying you would prefer all blog posts to be header by the same undifferentiated photo of a blue sky? I'm not quite getting what you're saying here. I mean, if a person is only ever going to write a single blog post, then
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A lot of blog templates, as well as tools that syndicate blog content, require some sort of image. They'll take the first image they encounter, no matter what it is. If you want to avoid it being some sort of sidebar glyph, or the page
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This argument is weak for relying on additional factors, and still doesn't make the case it intends. The hypothetical not only bans renting but also mortgages, which is an artificial constraint introduced to make the case stronger. O
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The original question is in the context of a bar, not a restaurant. Obviously people drink sugared sodas at mealtimes. The question was whether many people are serially downing sugared soda after sugared soda in a bar context, keeping pace
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by pwinnski 4y ago
If you wish to be a flâneur, Mr. Greenberg, nobody is stopping you. Leave the iPhone at home and go wandering as your heart wills. That the iPhone and ilk have demonstrated how few people wish to join you when not forced to do so sounds lik
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Both! The history is covered extensively and well in Matt Stoller's book Goliath , and ongoing on his substack[0]. The TL;DR version is that the MS case affected things, but so do a shifting emphasis in Congress. 0. https:/&#x2F
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Oh, please don't! I use both 1Password and keychain for different purposes, and I want access to both. I definitely don't want keychain silently disabling itself just because I installed 1Password!
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As another commenter has already pointed out, your assertions about his speeches is very much untrue. Also very much untrue is his lack of complicity in the Iran-Contra crimes. He was both much better (as a writer) and worse (as a law-break

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