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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
I also don't understand how there can so much money to throw at startups and not one person to "adpot-a-highway" for a year.
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
> But in the last ten years, something seems to have arrested this direction of travel and reinstated local bubbles of thought, insulated from outside challenge. Personalized and targeted ads.
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
It’s probably just my cynicism :( but I usually just assume most corps will do it if they thought it would make them more money.
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
> what am I missing? Capitalism. See the other post today on Google hiring anti-union consultants.
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
Regardless of the negatives unions bring, they still can be more beneficial to workers than to not have them. Unions can be corrupt, but is the other side of the table not corrupt as well? My father, who did not finish high school, was able
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
Are there public statements from ATT describing their intent to not block private vpns for the foreseeable future?
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
Huh? I communicate with people every day without giving them money. We want ban large institutions from paying elected officials. Genuinely unsure if you are trolling or not.
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
How do you know what AT&T is planning? Are you involved in their internal discussion of how they handle VPN traffic? If so, maybe you shouldn't be saying you/att have no plans to. And if not, maybe you shouldn't be saying
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
Fwiw a friend mine had a stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis that went undetected for months because of COVID. They have a 92% chance of dying in the next five years. My uncle is got final approval for a heart transplant in December. We are cur
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
Lobbing in the US at least I’d typically referring to large institutions , not citizens. The elimination of lobbying in the US is most often reference to the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court.
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
So you lived in a communist system with cronyism. That doesn’t invalidate OP statement. Cronyism is going to negatively affect all governments.
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
> All dependency changes are changes. And changes should be tested before being deployed. OP did not say changes should not be tested. > If you update your dependencies and ship it based on version numbers alone, you can’t blame the m
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
In my HCOL area houses are mostly prices by price per square foot. Lot size obviously has a affect on price, but not to the same extent.
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
Dense in the sense of land to building use, not people per square foot. You have a 3-5,000 square foot home for a family of four on a quarter acre lot.
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
I'm not sure either, but during my time at Apple (one the richest and most advanced companies in the world) an additional $5-$6k was taken out of my paycheck if I wanted health care for me and my family. It's not like health care
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A Lavish Tax Dodge for the Ultrawealthy Is Easily Multiplied(nytimes.com)
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
Apple had full time OSM mappers as well as sponsored weekly mapping meetups where employees could volunteer to help with mapping. I’m not sure if they still do this. The OSM and cartographers I worked with at Apple were all very passionate
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
You didn’t actually answer op’s question. What reason did they give you? What part of the TOS did they say you are violating?
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
I don't care about downloading anything either. Does it allow me to watch Netflix at the resolution I pay them for?
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
In the US in the 80’s and 90’s many kids were taught that the psychosis seen in many Vietnam soldiers after they’re return was due to psychedelic drugs and not a failed war, with little support, and lack of effort by the federal government.
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
Because that's not how these systems work. Did the new keyboard allow for a flatter design to allow for more battery life? Apple has always tried to improve computing. I've had MacBooks from the nineties and the keyboards on those
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
That was the most frustrating part about reading HN while working at Apple. Changing something like the touch-bar or keyboard are things that take enormous amount of redesign and engineering from both the product and manufacturing standpoin
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
I see. So to a end-user it may not make much difference whether they sign up via the web site or app, but if Apple can get in-between, they can cleave 30% of the user’s lifetime revenue. Hiding email, credit card info already entered, subs
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
I agree and it is an unpopular option on HN, but I think it is a feature that I know can use any app in the App Store without having to give out my email. For me, the consumer choice is made when choosing whether I want that walled garden e
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
They are a trillion dollar company which spends ten million dollars a year on lobbying for reasons like this.
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
One thing has ruined my week is running brew upgrade $package instead of brew update $package. One of those commands will update the package and the other with update everything you’ve ever installed with Homebrew.
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
Personalized advertising.
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
It’s not about reducing substances–it is about substances that are healthy.
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
Some apps like to allow usernames to be used as sub domains and so periods are not allowed.
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by thrwn_frthr_awy 5y ago
>> they've also taken steps to marginalize the core team. and some other dirty shit I won't say rn. > This sounds like the real concern I actually think it distracts from their argument. Either say something or don '

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