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by shuckles 1y ago
Which is an interesting comparison because most of the people were indeed unrealistically deathgripping their iPhone just to see the antenna bars drop.
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by shuckles 1y ago
The entry price of the iPhone lineup is lower than ever. Their strategy is to reduce it by selling older phones at lower prices. The entry point of the newest iPhone is, inflation adjust, basically the same since iPhone was first introduced
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by shuckles 1y ago
This logic doesn't make sense. The opportunity cost (i.e. the basket of goods you forego buying) of buying an iPhone is exactly the same as it was when the device first launched. No single good in the basket is such a large component o
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by shuckles 1y ago
Why don't you pick up the phone and type on it? That seems a lot more ergonomic.
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by shuckles 1y ago
Genuinely curious: why do you often find yourself typing on the phone resting on a flat surface? I can’t think of a single time where that’s been the best way to handle my device.
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by shuckles 1y ago
What’s the evidence for which way causality works? Apple solving design problems they care about would inevitably involve solutions only viable at their scale. It’s hard to say whether that’s how they choose their design problems. Their pro
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by shuckles 1y ago
The entry price for iPhone 17 matches the entry price for Pixel 10 and other flagships in the United States. Does it not in Denmark?
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by shuckles 1y ago
It’s a dynamic system. The number staying the same doesn’t tell you anything about causality or the counterfactual.
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by shuckles 1y ago
Pinned tabs in Safari propagate between windows.
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by shuckles 1y ago
The same people who pay to keep mentally unwell people housed in residential hotels with inconsistent (but expensive) social worker based health treatments, their ER visits, Medicaid, etc. in the United States. Big cities spend huge amounts
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by shuckles 1y ago
Neither of those claims is true in my experience. MDM is par for the course for SOC2, which is increasingly popular these days, and managing MDM seems like one of many responsibilities of ops teams.
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by shuckles 1y ago
I live in San Francisco but am familiar with Denmark where it's relatively straightforward for a physician to involuntarily commit someone for ~a month at a time and the state to extend it in six month increments. To contrast, LPS in C
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by shuckles 1y ago
Those resources were explicitly redirected to community based nonprofits that spend most of their budgets facilitating the lives of the aforementioned people who would previously be in locked institutions. You've got cause and effect b
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by shuckles 1y ago
> I personally believe that in the US, our society is quick to demand people seek treatment, even forcibly. As far as I can tell, the US is unusually permissive of people with mental health issues. Entire cities have thousands of people
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by shuckles 1y ago
Hard to square this with every startup after ~2006 running a substantial, if not majority, Mac fleet. In addition to the major tech companies.
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by shuckles 1y ago
My understanding is that Eliezer more or less thinks it's over for humans.
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by shuckles 1y ago
> In San Francisco specifically, crime also increased due to police officers quietly going on strike against policies they disagreed with. People love repeating this point with absolutely no evidence and then asking the world of those wh
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by shuckles 1y ago
Your point was PWAs are necessary for small businesses to distribute apps. I just spelled out what that meant, since businesses with >100 employees can just use enterprise app distribution on iOS.
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by shuckles 1y ago
No, the threat to most users is losing their device, cloud backups, sensor permissions, and the like. The price of a remote zero click has nothing to do with whether your phone offers end to end encrypted cloud backups (which Android does n
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by shuckles 1y ago
> The consumer doesn't care which method is used to serve an application. PWAs could easily be presented to the end user like a native App. No it can't. The web will never support what's necessary for parity with native ap
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by shuckles 1y ago
The goalposts move every time Apple resolves some bug that PWA advocates promise is the one issue holding them back from taking over the world with crappy web apps.
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by shuckles 1y ago
Custom apps published for internal use by companies with fewer than 100 employees who aren't eligible for enterprise app distribution sounds like a niche of a niche use case, so it's pretty consistent with my view that they'r
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by shuckles 1y ago
Certainly in theory, almost never in practice. The enterprise slop shop that chooses web technologies because the consultants are cheaper is not trying to make anything lasting or delightful.
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by shuckles 1y ago
The average Android user is far worse off security-wise than the average iOS user, and it isn't even close.
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by shuckles 1y ago
This is a fantasy. No customer wants PWAs. They exist to make developers' lives easier, not consumers' lives.
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by shuckles 1y ago
> Not only our their websites painful which discourages use, websites are more sandboxed. This isn't remotely true. It is pretty trivial for a well-resourced engineering organization to generate unique fingerprints of users with com
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by shuckles 1y ago
Actually I’m skeptical because the level of argument you’re producing is comparable to some of the worst Reddit slop. Endless bad faith strawmans.
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by shuckles 1y ago
Hard to tell if you’re a GPT account. Obviously you can care about all people; it’s not a zero-sum emotion. Your time is zero sum though, and you seem to be spending a lot of it just hating on people. And there’s many other loser accounts l
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by shuckles 1y ago
I would love to read some compelling analysis of why online public spaces are increasingly filled by cynical losers with crabs in a bucket mentality.
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by shuckles 2y ago
My key point is the people involved aren’t doing analysis. They are NPCs just like the worst ideologues on the left; it’s just that their brain worms are that goods trade deficits are bad and some sort of theft. You’re coming to wrong theor

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