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by thereddaikon 3y ago
That makes managing a user's application specific data difficult though. For one you have different user's data intermingling which potentially causes new problems. But on top of that you make managing and backing up that data mor
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
Microsoft themselves don't understand that. Teams installs itself to appdata in its entirety. One full install of teams for each user profile. Keeping it updated across one machine is impossible. How can we expect anyone else to do it
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
I don't use it. Hasn't hurt my career one bit.
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
Yes but they historically do not put the architecture name in the product name like that. They also never use the naming scheme of their consumer graphics cards on their workstation line. They've always had a different system. This car
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
AMD is still lagging on software though. I wish they would get their act together but their drivers are just not anywhere near as stable or compatible as Nvidia's. And then there's Intel, and it makes you appreciate the state of A
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
Indeed. Not sure where the notion came from that devices mass produced with interchangeable parts would have some kind of mechanical fingerprint that could be forensically identified. Most modern handguns use the browning short recoil actio
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
Its not their job to prevent crime. But it is their job to take reasonable steps to secure their products. What they did is akin to Google not supporting HTTPS for their services and then blaming the users for their data being stolen. Peopl
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
Every serious look into gun forensics I've read indicates that matching a casing or bullet to a specific gun is pseudo-science.
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
High cost creates a barrier to entry. And it can often be an intentional one. See luxury goods as an example. Almost all luxury items are sold at insane profit margins and cost nowhere near that much to make. But the high price is the diffe
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
You're thinking of patents which are similar but concern technical inventions whereas copyright is for creative works. And then you have trademarks which are for business branding. They are all government enforced monopolies on ideas b
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
Your argument is in bad faith and you're speaking from smug ignorance. That's not what I said. My point is that the US and European systems have more differences than just who pays the medical bills. And if you just address the pa
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
The ability to differentiate blue and green bubbles isn't inextricably tied to keeping iMessage closed. Apple could allow iMessage to interoperate and still only allow apple users to have blue bubbles. But they choose not to. Requiring
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
I don't mean inefficiency in the bureaucratic sense. I mean it in the economic sense. Where stuff costs more than it actually should. There's a lot of rent seeking and middle men in the medical world that inflate costs.
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
Medical school is very expensive.
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
>Well, look at all the other countries where universal healthcare has been implemented. Oversimplification. Most countries that have universal healthcare do many other things in addition that you aren't accounting for. The US health
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
In my experience working the tech side of the healthcare industry, every aspect is inefficient and most players are doing their best to extract as much wealth as they can from it. There is a lot of room for improvement in terms of cost and
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
Because that's tyranny? The ability to criticize the government is a core tenant of a free society.
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
They burned a lot of goodwill WOTC had by pushing them harder and harder to carry the rest of the company. A move last year to change the terms of the OGL lead to massive community backlash. They are lucky Baldur's gate has been such a
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
The two big hits for me this year have been Baldur's Gate and Armored Core. Both are by devs with a good track record. But I can definitely see the argument that there is a lot of samey crap. Activision seems to be on an annual release
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
And just because a TOS says something doesn't mean it will necessarily hold up in court. They aren't law.
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
I and I think many others disagree. Apple's case seems more egregious. Who are they to tell me what I can and can't do with my phone? Walled gardens may be a value add for some but it also spits in the face of first sale doctrine.
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
Its a common problem. I remember getting really frustrated over articles announcing time crystals. What is a time crystal? They never actually said.
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
In this case I think multiverse is both. Testability and falsifiability are closely related. But its possible to make a testable statement that can't be falsified in most examples I can think of the test can't be exhaustive.
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
Usually when people say something is untestable they don't mean like the Higgs Boson. It was testable, they just needed the proper tools. This was always known and was being actively worked towards. An untestable theory is one that can
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
I only became aware of it earlier this year because of people mocking it on other platforms. I'm too old to have experienced it organically.
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
None of this is a compelling argument for car OTA software updates.
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
>Claims the US was invading countries in the middle east >Lists things that isn't invading the middle east.
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
>That's not necessarily true. Sure, not necessarily but it is a common result and not a surprising one. >Yet the market did not reward them and the shareholders are not particularly happy. While these pressuresfor public do exist
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
This was in the 1980's. Who had the US invaded in the middle east?
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by thereddaikon 3y ago
>All marketing is inherently a lie or misleading due to inescapable conflicts of interest. They have every reason in the world to want you to believe certain stuff. Therefore you should be skeptical and disbelieve them by default. What?

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