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by sellyme 6y ago
While it doesn't address the "massive emotional payload" bit, Russell's Teapot is the canonical example of an argument that's easy to make and almost impossible to categorically disprove, despite being factually ina
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by sellyme 6y ago
> I know Shkreli. He's a great kid. He's 37.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Not to mention that commercial ISPs also follow a three-strike system -- unless that's changed. Nearly every commercial ISP I've ever interacted with has a three-strike system to fulfil their legal requirements, but also unfo
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Why punish Israel? The whole "assist[ing] in getting journalists arrested/murdered/dismembered" thing still seems like pretty good justification to me. I'm not sure "but everyone else is doing it!" ma
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by sellyme 6y ago
> All Android phones are Google phones. Convention dictates that "Google phones" specifically means e.g., Nexus/Pixel devices. Fortunately, if you're unwilling to distinguish between hardware and software, there'
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by sellyme 6y ago
Hence the "modern". I thought it was a fairly safe bet that no-one was talking about the Pocket PC.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> But Windows Mobile was a breath of competency in a market of basically all bad Google phones. The first modern Windows Mobile phone launched in November 2015. The market of Google phones at that point in time was the Nexus 4, Nexus 5,
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Maybe there's other equally credible explanations While I have very little doubt that xenophobia was a large factor in the hysteria over MSG in the United States, there's definitely no need for a "Maybe" here. Just
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by sellyme 6y ago
I just tested on two different Aussie Broadband networks, didn't load on either of them, so yeah, it seems like it's inaccessible for the entire ISP. Weird.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Looks like the linked website has gone down. Might just be me since no-one else is commenting on it, but just in case, here's a mirror: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dartmouth/BASIC_Oct64...
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Is the value of a future life worth less than a life closer to our present moment? I can’t help but feel like there’s some sort of logical fallacy there, akin to speciesism I think taking the perspective of "the present" is
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by sellyme 6y ago
Out of all the companies Google might be relying on in their back-end, I think Oracle is probably pretty far down the list.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Interesting they have a “Time To Beat” field but it’s not really populated. Time to beat is a very difficult metric. Does a Visual Novel take 10 hours to beat, or 2 minutes? I'd argue the latter, but I know plenty of people would
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by sellyme 6y ago
Alternatively someone would enact a regulation, and then remove the regulation removal regulation as one of their ten.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Not the $10,000 Louis Vuitton handbag or the $80,000 bottle of wine or the other myriad of consumables and products that are clearly priced by what people can pay, rather than purely for their utility value? You're not going to ha
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by sellyme 6y ago
Google account terminations typically only affect the one service. If your YouTube account gets terminated for ToS violations, your email account will still work perfectly fine.
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by sellyme 6y ago
It's yet another contributing factor to people thinking that they need to own 10 properties as an investment while significant chunks of the population are forced into sleeping on the streets. Of course it's not AirBnB's faul
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Their social media trails... everybody. While it still existed, Google+ was far better than any other popular social media site around. I'm sure I don't need to offer any critique of Facebook, and Twitter's UX was an abs
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by sellyme 6y ago
I very deliberately made no attempts to even hint at a defense of Apple, my comment had nothing to do with them (and very little to do with the US, for that matter). I'm simply remarking that Google is not in the same discussion in ter
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Can I install those third party app stores on any Android phone? Galaxy Store no (by Samsung's choice), F-Droid yes, Amazon Appstore I'm unsure. But for the overwhelming majority of third-party stores, yeah, you can install t
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by sellyme 6y ago
Given that they put it in the same category as Hotmail, I assume that they mean Yahoo Mail, not the search engine.
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by sellyme 6y ago
The single best-selling smartphone brand in the world is an Android phone that comes with a non-Google app store preinstalled, I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that they're holding the market hostage. Certainly the Galaxy St
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Couldn't Apple offer a reasonable compromise that they only allow competing App Stores on their phones if those App Stores don't allow exclusive apps? This would not be a reasonable compromise, as one of the primary reasons f
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Are you working for GitHub? If not, nobody asked you anything. I think you've somewhat misunderstood the purpose of a public forum.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> In GitHub's case, they only recently screwed it up in a major way, so surely it shouldn't be a big deal to add back the functionality? Unless you're under the impression that websites are only requiring JavaScript out of
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by sellyme 6y ago
"real accessibility" predominantly involves making it possible for people with disabilities to use a website, it's not about accommodating people who put a blindfold on and complain that it's difficult to see.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Note the title of that section: > Ensure that pages are accessible even when newer technologies are not supported or are turned off. Makes perfect sense to put JS in there in 1999, but it can hardly be considered a "newer technology
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by sellyme 6y ago
And that tolerance is represented by how loose you make those exemptions.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Completion percentage doesn't have to be measured in time. If you've completed the CPU-bound operations and are just starting disk-bound operations, it's totally fair to say "50% complete", even if you expect one to
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by sellyme 6y ago
Who's talking about stealing?

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