redcobra762

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by redcobra762 3y ago
It does both, actually!
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The YouTube app is also a perfect YouTube player, so I’m confused…
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by redcobra762 3y ago
So in other words, you want to benefit from your own ownership, but strip good ideas from others because you want them? Hypocritical, shortsighted, and even more selfish than I initially thought. …or you would be if you actually believed a
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by redcobra762 3y ago
No need for a zinger, every single one of your examples presumes falsely that iMessage provides a unique service that isn’t available elsewhere, a fact you yourself have already admitted isn’t true. Further, you seem to believe iMessage it
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by redcobra762 3y ago
So is the argument that Bezos “owes it” to the Amazon consumer to fix this, then? Based on what?
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by redcobra762 3y ago
What does Bezos' worth have to do with this? If you're suggesting he cover the cost for everyone, why would he do that? To prevent subscription loss maybe, but the whole point is that the increased prices make up for the lost su
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by redcobra762 3y ago
None of this is relevant to what you originally said or what I asked, and at this point I think you know that. But why try so hard to steer this wildly far from the original topic? Initially I presumed malice, but at this point I'm gue
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by redcobra762 3y ago
I replied to this comment: > At a certain level of adoption, they should be forced to, IMO. Our monopoly laws never envisioned self contained platforms/marketplaces with this comment: > What justification is there for this, thoug
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by redcobra762 3y ago
I think you’re forgetting who you responded to. My question was how nationalizing iMessage is a justified position, because that’s what the person I replied to said. That’s the topic, that’s what I was discussing.
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by redcobra762 3y ago
We're not discussing "the people mandating a next-generation messaging standard." We're discussing the suggestion that the US government nationalize iMessage. This has nothing whatsoever to do with "corporations as
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by redcobra762 3y ago
So you see iMessage as the only available option for people to use in order to obtain open messaging? Worth violating society's understanding of ownership and property (you may think corporations aren't people, but people do
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Pleasure vs. satisfaction. Pleasure is enjoying the moment, and satisfaction is enjoying remembering the moment. Satisfaction (almost definitionally) lasts longer, and importantly doesn’t even require in-the-moment pleasure!
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The whole point of study is to break down these “obvious” conclusions and make sure we understand the exact causal chain, free of confounding variables. Extremely often something is studied that seems “obvious” and turns out to be anything
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by redcobra762 3y ago
What justification is there for this, though? There is nothing specifically unique to iMessage that makes life, liberty, or property difficult to pursue.