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by qwytw 3y ago
> Windows [...] are subsidized data collection applications which run on subsidized hardware. Simple as. How does Microsoft monetize (or even could)? Are you just saying random things? Also you could just install Linux, of course battery
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by qwytw 3y ago
Yes, none of the Jetbrains IDE's seem to be usable on a 8GB Mac. It invariably starts throwing errors about running out of memory after a while and then everything starts to lag (including typing). Also you can't really run any ot
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Language has relatively little to do with genetics in Europe. Even amongst Basques pre Indo European DNA was mostly replaced on the paternal line. The survival of their language has probably more to due with their subsequent isolation than
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by qwytw 3y ago
> the PC standard built around the x86 forced system integrators to compete in price Not necessarily a good thing if none of the manufacturers can afford to innovate or take any risk due to too low margins. Without Apple we'd probab
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I never denied that various propaganda pamphlets and other material existed. Just like now, people back then tended to make all kinds of over-exaggerated claims related to politics and especially when they have very strong opinions and need
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> The competition would be to offer cloud services that has a better experience just like they do for phones and others. The macbook pro was always more expensive and yet people still purchase them. Which is both less relevant and quite
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> Fear of the Crown re-organizing your governmental structure along the lines to move to an extractive form of colonization were well founded. I'm not sure that's reasonable. The crown was hardly capable (nor particularly eager
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> Not while Apple is the main investor in TSMCs It's not inconceivable that Intel might catch up and surpass TSMC. I mean they were in a somewhat similar situation they are in now back in the early to mid 2000s.
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> X86 to ARM transition for consumers Apple did. > ARM will happen first in the server/cloud space, but consumer will have to wait much longer. It's not obvious to me that this is somehow inevitable. Yeah power efficiency w
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> desperate to rationalize their purchase of mediocre hardware at a 10x markup Are silly claims like this necessary? Yes, Apple massively overcharges on memory and storage upgrades because their users obviously have no other options... B
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I find that extremely doubtful (I mean something like that might have been used in propaganda material of course but nobody could have seriously considered that to be a realistic threat). The position the 13 colonies and the parts of India
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> was the behavior of the EIC towards the inhabitants of India "Really? While the concerns with the EIC having the monopoly on the tea trade and I think some other stuff like saltpetre(?) were real enough, this sounds a bit like a c
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by qwytw 3y ago
Procurator is not quite the same as praetor, it was technically not even a public magistracy. Legally Procurators were more like personal agents of the emperor. The empire was technically split into 'senatorial' and 'imperial
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> weren't able to build cars I'm not sure they really had enough to industrial capacity, it's not like they were able to manufacture that many tanks either. But yeah it doesn't matter because they wouldn't have h
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> Is the market full of people that only use 4 cores Ampere CPUs on Oracle, Hetzner and (I assume?) Azure are still remarkable cheap compared to Intel/AMD if they are sufficient for your workflows. I'm not sure if the margins i
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by qwytw 3y ago
Samsung, Dell and HP are also selling Qualcomm Windows laptops. Why (besides the novelty factor) would anyone get one instead of an Intel/AMD/Apple laptops is beyond me though..
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> which is to load debt ... and screw everyone else into a pulp Individuals are just as capable of doing this, just look at Twitter and there are plenty of adequately run companies owned by PE. We just don't pay attention to them. B
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by qwytw 3y ago
So companies shouldn't be allowed to own shares of other companies?
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by qwytw 3y ago
Did you miss the last time exactly the same company bought SUSE back in 2018 (for double its current market cap)? EQT IPO'ed SUSE by selling a minority stake at the peak back in 2021 for €30, now they're buying it back for a littl
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by qwytw 3y ago
Berkshire Hathaway is a public company and IIRC Buffet only owns about 15% of it. So it really that different from a large corporation with many subsidiaries which also runs an actively managed investment fund at the same time?
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They already bought SUSE years ago though and their previous owners weren't much better (or possibly objectively worse..)
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> Even the Germans didn't have sufficient autos to move so many men that quickly Not that surprising since the French and especially the British armies were motorized to a much higher degree than the German army (generally German in
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> wasn't Apple But was anyone else besides Apple seriously considering releasing a device with no keyboard and non-horrible software/UX (admittedly of course the first iPhone was probably closer to a toy than a real "smart
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> continued its market dominance Wasn't the smartphone/PDA market about evenly split between MS, Blackberry, and Palm by the time the iPhone came out (and Palm was losing its market share at a very fast pace over the last few y
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by qwytw 3y ago
>Most batteries are around 90-95% efficient. Electrical motors are around 85-90% as well. So that isn't that bad. I guess you'd also have take into account loss during transmission (which seesm to vary wildly between 2-10% depe
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by qwytw 3y ago
So investing it both would be the beast approach (using a ratio based cost effectiveness, viability etc. estimate)?
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> Steve Jobs is only famous because he was an asshole Are you saying that he only managed to achieve what he did because he's an asshole? Because I think more people know of him because of what he did with the Mac and "creating
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There were iPaqs with GPRS/EDGE/3G they just weren't very nice to use.
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But it's not like Jobs first stint at Apple (or really Apple itself) was necessarily such a remarkable success (at least compared to what happened when he came back). In the second half of the 80s and in the 90s Apple was merely the be
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by qwytw 3y ago
Would Android still exist (in it's current form) without Apple? It's non inconceivable that modern smartphones would be a further evolution of Windows Mobile and or Symbian. With quite different UX (for better or for worse)

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