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by tmp231 5y ago
*can
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by tmp231 5y ago
If you de facto deny that supernatural events can’t happen, I’d say you have some pretty strong religious beliefs. If you want to deny that, I’d say that just means you’re not particularly self aware. You can play word games all day, but at
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by tmp231 5y ago
So it sounds like you don’t agree with contract law. that if you make an agreement with someone or something that you are bound to keep your word. You somehow think that because you agreed to something voluntarily that the government should
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by tmp231 5y ago
It would be better for both to enforce contract law all around. Don’t let either lie or steal and you’ll have a better outcome for all.
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by tmp231 5y ago
It’s a set of beliefs about how you should view and act in the world, that’s good enough.
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by tmp231 5y ago
I remember about 10 years ago the promise was that JRuby was going to let ruby be basically as fast as Java for many things. Invokedynamic and all that.
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by tmp231 5y ago
On the contrary, we could finally raise the voting age to 60.
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by tmp231 5y ago
Secularism is its own religion and gets quoted often around here. Guess you’ll just have to learn to be tolerant.
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by tmp231 5y ago
> preventing us from doing things with phones that we purchased. Nobody is preventing you. Who is preventing you? There’s no government action here. You buy the phone or you buy a librephone. Let’s leave the government out altogether. Yo
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by tmp231 5y ago
Could or should? If you want to download a bunch of mp3s without paying the author, knowing that the author has not intended for you to do so, do you think that is right?
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by tmp231 5y ago
Yes I think we do agree on many things. I think in general we both value property rights and that’s a good place to be. We may disagree on which is the cart and which is the horse. I think that in general you need a moral people who will en
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by tmp231 5y ago
Right but that’s tangential to the main point which is that if people come together to create something and you don’t like it, don’t buy it. Don’t attempt to strongarm them into making something you like, or punish them legally because you
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by tmp231 5y ago
> Your analysis didn't touch on the fundamental need of any democratic society to sustain strong economic growth The need of the society is to defend property rights and sustain the rule of law. Economic growth is good, but you can’
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by tmp231 5y ago
> created by the government The entity sure, but beyond the entity you have a group of people who have created something and want to sell it to you. If the Democratic will of the people said that we should jail them for creating shows we
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by tmp231 5y ago
This is such a cowardly view. > If anything, breaking up these monopolies will lead to more innovation Yes, let’s violate a company’s right to exist and conduct business just because we don’t like ads, or have preferences for how the run
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by tmp231 5y ago
Less government regulation doesn’t mean violating contract law.
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by tmp231 5y ago
People seem to like them. And what a wonderful service they have done for society. But I guess Walmart is always available, or boutique stores if you don’t like big box.
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by tmp231 5y ago
“Had to” They did not have to. They could have let market forces dictate how it played out.
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by tmp231 5y ago
Right. Then you boot it up and have to agree to a bunch of stuff to use iOS. You can bail at that point and not use the device. Or you can know that you’ll have to agree to it later, and that the device is quite difficult to put another OS
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by tmp231 5y ago
I certainly support contract law. What I don’t want is coercion. They make a device, offer it to you with a contract, and you can say yes or no. You make a recommendation for how they run their platform, they can say yes or no. You can go o
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by tmp231 5y ago
As long as it doesn’t break the contract you signed when buying the device, go for it.
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by tmp231 5y ago
If they would band together, why not just make a new phone? Going after jail breaking apple devices would be fruitless since apple could release a new firmware to block your OS. I wish they wouldn’t, but the market solution would be for peo
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by tmp231 5y ago
Didn’t realize, I wish they wouldn’t. even more reason to not buy Apple (I’m typing this on an iPhone :) ) I agree with you that I wish they would allow it. I agree that I should be able to put windows 10 on my iPhone. Thanks for the back a
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by tmp231 5y ago
I appreciate the back and forth, I really do. > Instead it is about preventing them from spending so much effort and trying to remove other people's ability to install other app stores. I think we are coming at this from 2 separate
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by tmp231 5y ago
Of course you own it and should be able to put whatever OS you want on it. But you are confusing that with forcing apple to write their software in a way that suits you. Antitrust laws _can_ be good, but like I said elsewhere, we are a coun
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by tmp231 5y ago
I’m also saying that our culture absolute swims in regulation and we as fish just get used to it and are quick to reach for it as a hammer, seeing everything as nails. We are so steeped in it, that in many ways _China_ has a freer economy t
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by tmp231 5y ago
Yea, their OS, their store, their software stack. Sure, you own the device, so put whatever OS you want on it. But you can’t force Apple to write their OS however you want except by market forces. Well, you could try using extreme tactics l
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by tmp231 5y ago
I agree it is your phone, you should be able to put whatever OS you want on it if you are unhappy with the default. But don’t take the extreme position of forcing apple through law to write software the way you want. You have other options,
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by tmp231 5y ago
I’m saying if someone tells you that the software sold with his device is locked to to only work with company X, then you are free to buy it or not. You should also be free to put other software on it yourself, like a new OS. You should not
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by tmp231 5y ago
I’m glad we agree that they willingly entered a contract, no one forced them. Yes, I’m suggesting that people leave if they are unhappy with Apple. Go to Google; or maybe MS or Amazon will see how hated apple is and start a new phone divisi

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