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901.
by sjwright 7y ago
Claiming that we must be reliant on private corporations for free speech is a corruption of the very concept. I don't agree with your argument, but to the extent that there's any truth to it the remedy can only be to fix the under
902.
by sjwright 7y ago
A system without restrictions favours the rich, it favours the dishonest, and it favours those who wield the best weaponized psychology. (And it favours most those with all three.) Your passing reference to platforms being open to a "v
903.
by sjwright 7y ago
Obviously not–but I'm also not brimming with confidence that the road we're presently heading down is definitely better.
904.
by sjwright 7y ago
It is self-evidently a reductio ad absurdum, and a well written one at that. It demonstrates the logical flaw in Zuckerberg's argument with one short paragraph.
905.
by sjwright 7y ago
Regardless of its actual origins as an acronym, it’s a company name so the correct answer can be whatever the company chooses it to be.
906.
by sjwright 7y ago
> They just tell you “use what you need”. Huh? How is that not exactly the right answer? You tell the API how accurate you need it to be, iOS will get you that accuracy with the minimum energy consumption necessary. It makes sense to not
907.
by sjwright 7y ago
Good point.
908.
by sjwright 7y ago
Religion was certainly an effective carrier for stories prior to the age of the printing press. Unfortunately most religions lose the ability to adapt and error correct, which means that they end up stalling progress as surely as they prese
909.
by sjwright 7y ago
Except the article never mentions climate change so that argument doesn’t make any sense. The issue here is largely due to overuse of water for irrigation combined with a spell of hot dry weather.
910.
by sjwright 7y ago
But to be fair, this is the discovery of an earlier draft of a translation of a book. It's not exactly a cultural moment that directly intersects secular life like all of the examples you have cited above.
911.
by sjwright 7y ago
It is almost impossible to imagine that the writings of any long-lived society would not have ample quantities of "timeless wisdom". In fact it would be striking and unusual if it were otherwise. Much wisdom can be difficult to st
912.
by sjwright 7y ago
I don't understand the point of repeatedly misrepresenting what was said, since it's right here in this thread.
913.
by sjwright 7y ago
I think Joe’s style benefits from being physically in the same room as the interviewee. Had it not been a remote interview I think it would have gone very differently.
914.
by sjwright 7y ago
But again, the female leagues were established because of the physical differences between men and women. Yes, some trans people who undergo some medical interventions have some of their physical sporting attributes brought closer into line
915.
by sjwright 7y ago
You are misrepresenting what was said. "Heavily covered in the media" wasn’t cited as a criterion for a whistleblower. Actually to be more precise, it was cited as a criterion—by you—when you claimed that as a hallmark of “fake”
916.
by sjwright 7y ago
I haven’t had a bad experience with Catalina, but the new app sandboxing has broken a few minor tools like BalenaEtcher. Not a big deal as it still runs fine under sudo... and they’ll surely release a new version shortly.
917.
by sjwright 7y ago
This is far and away the most disruptive major update to macOS in recent memory. My experience of the past few major versions have been almost entirely seamless.
918.
by sjwright 7y ago
There's no value to a robber of unlocking an iPhone with a fingerprint. Unless the phone is dissociated with an iCloud account (which requires entering the user's Apple ID and password) it's useless for anything other than fo
919.
by sjwright 7y ago
"Android is Android because of these apps" but "Fuck Apple"? I don't understand.
920.
by sjwright 7y ago
That complexity is a good disincentive for unnecessary traffic.
921.
by sjwright 7y ago
More accurately it’ll just shuffle the deckchairs on the traffic map by creating a dedicated taxi thoroughfare.
922.
by sjwright 7y ago
If you disperse it into an ocean current, you’d have much of the mixing done for you. (How that would affect the ocean current, given that they’re thermally driven, is less clear and unlikely to be good.)
923.
by sjwright 7y ago
And if you use the computer extensively and live in a country where electricity is expensive, you could also be paying for that inefficiency in your utility bill.
924.
by sjwright 7y ago
Technically correct is the best kind of correct. Your example is valid, but there are plenty of other examples pushing in the opposite direction—for example PS4 and XB1 games delivered on physical media. Yes they'll play out of the box
925.
by sjwright 7y ago
Maybe. Maybe? I doubt they're motivated by malice or laziness, but nobody in this thread can say one way or the other. What I can say with high confidence is that unless we're in the meeting room at Apple we can only speculate bas
926.
by sjwright 7y ago
That is the very definition of pre-judice.
927.
by sjwright 7y ago
Regular zoning and heritage are very different though.
928.
by sjwright 7y ago
Microsoft should go down the SyaInternals route and aqui-hire Hiren’s distro. I mean, why not?
929.
by sjwright 7y ago
But it is eminent domain or seizure in its own way. Their autonomy has been stolen. I think the bookstore could make a compelling constitutional case out of it—if they can find a spare million or two behind the sofa.
930.
by sjwright 7y ago
Merely maintaining balance on an e-bike would exercise some amount of muscle. Probably not enough to matter, but still. And you get the option to put the effort in when you feel like it—you don’t ever get that choice behind the wheel.

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