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9y ago
when OS doesnt get in the way, and keyboard shortcuts work.
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9y ago
I work faster on win7. Why switch
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9y ago
Why don't they raise the rates already then? Net neutrality is stopping them?
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9y ago
> But if there were a monopoly on vehicles, and the company built in equipment to all their vehicles that would only allow the vehicle to travel on routes that the rider had specifically paid the vehicle company for a subscription to, I
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9y ago
Nobody disagrees with you.
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9y ago
What kind of thinking is that? TV was equally bad in our times (if not far worse). You realize how horribly authoritarian is what you propose?
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9y ago
who is subsidising what?
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9y ago
how is it not related? It's literally in the title of an article talking about a company offering more options to its users.
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9y ago
some prices go up, some others will have to go down, assuming that the profit margin remains the same. Diversification, how is that not obvious?
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9y ago
obviously the need to fill their profit margin.
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I 'm not disputing that facebook is an addiction (like many things in life). But there is a big chunk of users who learned to use the internet SOLELY for facebook, they remain there solely for that and would stop using it if it wasn&#x
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9y ago
telecom charges worldwide have little to do with bandwidth cost https://broadbandnow.com/report/much-data-really-cost-isps/
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9y ago
like almost everything (including HN, trust me, i ve been there)
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9y ago
cheaper rates, so i could afford larger speeds. come on, you 're better than that. (i' m seriously looking for counterarguments i haven't heard)
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9y ago
jesus that's judgemental.
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9y ago
makes it cheaper for everyone else
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9y ago
I 'll be that guy. What's so bad about consumers having more choice? E.g i dont use facebook or netflix, would enjoy the (cheaper rates|larger speeds).
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9y ago
it just means bald with shiny hair.
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9y ago
moral of the story: quit hyping things that you know are stupid
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i dont know. it didn't have to be. journalists embraced social media so tightly both for getting input for their work as well as for audience. They 'd hate to admit it but they became lazy. Partly, they made facebook (and twitter
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9y ago
The journalists should really blame themselves for using facebook in the first place. They knew what they were buying into.
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9y ago
they forked opensimulator, not the second life server (which was never open sourced i think)
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9y ago
opensimulator (opensimulator.org) is free and you can run it on your PC if you can find a way to extract your creations from SL.
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9y ago
> code that was compiled into bitcode years ago and the source hasn't been touched in any way since Maybe the code was recompiled (i think they 've switched to mono now) , but the script state is saved separately.
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hifi fails to get traction. I 've been watching that for years the number of active regions is 90. And there are lots of complaints about the project at the moment (and about SL's own VR world wannabe, project Sansar). OTOH a lot
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9y ago
I always said they should be called BANG
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imagine a picture of an airplane and BOOM next to it. Tell me what 97% of the people think it is.
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9y ago
In a few years, amazon may also be dominating the defense industry.
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9y ago
People like that cannot live without ranting and validating themselves externally. Please go back to facebook before you explode intto every other online platform.
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The implication being that we should have a Nobel War Prize? (after all alfred nobel himself made bombs)
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