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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
So what you're saying is you want EA to be able to have its own store on iPhone where Apple collects 30% on the backend anyway? Because that's what Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft do now. I don't see "I should be able to p
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
It turns out that not everyone appreciates being turned into an economic client state of the US. Nationalism is a direct reaction meant to (whether effective or not) reaffirm sovreignty.
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
type of device (iPhone, iPad, etc)
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
...prevention of mass homelessness?
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
In terms of labor, it doesn't really matter, since the guest worker program can fill any shortages that occur either due to moral objection or the lack of benefits that one would get from an established MIC player.
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
Alternatively, readers can improve their comprehension skills so that they can better recognize satire.
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
A frenetic but enjoyable piece. I think the biggest counterpoint, though, is that the fundamental, supposedly-earth-shattering contradictions, hardly matter in the current tech/finance economy. Tech stocks at the worst are essentially
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
is no one else concerned that microsoft has been acquiring literally everything?
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
IMO the `Either` construct should be avoided in JS because inevitably you'll either need to wrap everything in `try ... catch` anyway or you'll be pulling your hair out trying to figure out how to get them to work in an async&#x2F
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
This is a good example of the contradictions in free market dogma. The reality is that the Facebook as it exists in the "rigged market" of the App Store violates users' privacy less than the "free market" versions
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
Breach a user's trust and/or misuse their data and you'll know about it pretty quickly. I'd wager that the average user cares much more about protecting, say, their browsing history, than they care about petty B2B contra
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
The reason why developers want to make apps for iOS is because there's a large market. That market exists because Apple has done a great job prioritizing the protection of their customers' privacy and payment information. If third
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
An important piece of context here is that making a living by playing chess competitively is close to nil, so many even top players like Kramnik end up taking consulting/PR jobs like this in order to pay the bills. I have a hard time b
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
Doesn't surprise me considering neoliberalism and anarchism have a lot of the same goals in terms of dismantling the state.
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
The argument put forth in the book Racecraft [1] is that America's founding on individual liberty juxtaposed with the economic reality of chattel slavery created a contradiction so stark that it was necessary to invent a framework to
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
Not shocking at all that Vice would frame an algorithm designed to create construction jobs via federal funding as "broken" and "poisonous".
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
Alabama, Georgia, and Texas have laws restricting the sale and possession of sex toys.
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what's going on. In a battle between global megacorps over my personal data, I choose Apple over Facebook and its ad buyers. Ascribe to Apple whatever ulterior motives you want, but it doesn&#x
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
It's really not a big deal.
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
> This is some strange reasoning that I have yet to seen myself. If you can do the hovers states/drop down menus in CSS, why not do them in CSS, even if you're using React? Because when requirements change and your hover animat
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
Think about that next time you volunteer to teach children how to code ;)
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
Not even sure if Boeing and Airbus are good examples considering that both are intimately tied with the state.
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
Pretty easy to figure out what's going on: 1. You submit your app bundle and your credentials to Apple for notarization. 2. Apple records your information and goes through each library, framework, and your code, checking the code signi
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
Now do this thought experiment again with MyTrojanKeylogger.app instead of MyGreatApp.app.
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
Thinking about the team(s?) at Epic that had to work 120hr weeks in endless crunch just so that their CEO could troll another CEO.
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
If you're looking for an actual spicy take, you could say that reproducible builds are impossible once the durability of hardware/state of the universe is accounted for, but that the concept provides yet another black hole of cash
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
At this point, the entire financial sector is decoupled from actual productivity, and to pass moral judgement of one highly exploitative industry over another solely due to one's ability to be regulated seems myopic, at best.
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
you don't have any control of what protocols your apps use and if they're encrypted or not
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
it's good for things like public wifi and other untrusted networks since your data is encrypted from your machine to the vpn server
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by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
The consensus on both ends of the political spectrum over the past 30 years is that public education is a failure and must be abolished through either defunding or diverting funding to charter schools. Providing more funding to public schoo

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