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by tpmoney 2y ago
A friend of mine gave me an injection of his insulin once and I almost died. I was shocked they give this stuff to kids. Which is of course ridiculous because for other medical conditions we understand that people without the condition migh
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by tpmoney 2y ago
>Apple should be stripped off this power. EU's DMA is a first step, but we need such policies applied everywhere. What do you suppose happens when those same authoritarians make a reverse DMA and require that all phones sold be lock
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by tpmoney 2y ago
>It's a fantasy to think that this will mean state spying powers will be reduced. Never said that it would, I said allowing enforcers to set the extent of their own powers is a bad idea. >Chevron prevented the court from forcing
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by tpmoney 2y ago
>That isn't a fair characterization of the situation. Even forgiving that the police aren't a federal agency, first a question around the legality of what the police were doing would have to reach the court in the first place,
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by tpmoney 2y ago
They could start by changing their rules so that one side can't refuse to legislate. Congress decides how Congress operates, and for some reason despite everyone being awful mad about it, Congress has never decided to make it harder fo
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>But fundamentally, how is this different than what the Supreme Court does? The Supreme Court interprets the constitution and its meaning as it relates to whether or not a law is constitutional. The overturning of Roe v Wade is the direc
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I feel like if instead of deferring to the EPA, the Chevron case was deferring to police departments interpretations of the law when the law was ambiguous, we would be cheering this decision as a return to sanity. I wouldn't want the d
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Yes, the executive is allowed to decide how the laws are executed. And in the event that such laws are ambiguous, the courts are supposed to make a judgement on what the law is. If you default to just deferring to the interpretation of the
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Yes, the election of our legislators, whose job it is to craft laws. Not the election of one single person whose job it is to oversee the enforcement of those laws. Our government is built with its powers divided up, and the ability to chan
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by tpmoney 2y ago
The problem isn't "new laws being enacted as governments change", it was "new interpretations of existing laws being enacted as control of the executive branch switches parties". Net Neutrality either is or isn&#x27
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by tpmoney 2y ago
It only takes a legislator or two because of the policies and procedures the other legislators agree to. They are free at any time to change their rules of procedure. A filibuster without requiring actual filibustering is a process congress
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> these are all OS utilities I think part of the problem is "what is an OS utility" and "what is an app". All your OS configuration could be done via a REST API, text files or some other well defined protocol. So you
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by tpmoney 2y ago
They're asking who's going to cover YouTube's costs for providing their videos via API. Or is the expectation that if you use a 3rd party client you'll see youtube's ads to cover their costs, and then additional ads
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I guess my question is what part of the various laws being passed is addressing some "public need" that's not currently being met for these apps, or by the entire rest of the market place. I've said it before but every s
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by tpmoney 2y ago
>You have something to sell on my market? Sure, here are the fees, the rules and I take a cut of all your sales >My data shows that people like what you're selling on my market, so I studied all details, decided to build it mysel
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> chiefly, the subtext seems to be "it's totally ok to change everything about yourself to win the affection of a boy you literally just met" I really object to this relatively modern interpretation of the Disney movie.
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by tpmoney 2y ago
It feels to me like the problem here is the government and large institutions only providing access via a single manufacturers single platform, rather than the existence of the platform. That is to say, if education, government services, he
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by tpmoney 2y ago
So ultimately, I guess the conclusion is despite the amount of chatter it gets in tech circles and among high profile software developers like facebook and epic, the answer is Apple is in the position its in because it's selling what p
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by tpmoney 2y ago
But how did they get people into the ecosystem to begin with? iOS has ALWAYS been this locked down. Heck it didn't even have an app store to begin with. The apps you got were what Apple decided you could have and that was it. Cell phon
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by tpmoney 2y ago
>But it's not a store. It's software; Apple ... requires you to pay the surcharges in their mandatory App Store. So is it a store or not? >And every single one of those companies competes under fair pretenses with their publ
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Apple didn't develop a "general purpose computer" either, they developed a cell phone. They entered into an established product market, with a product that was even more locked down than the current competition (remember, Pal
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by tpmoney 2y ago
>Obviously there's web, Android, Windows, Linux, gaming consoles, and smart tvs, so there are some work-arounds to avoid the evil empire So obviously, effectively all other forms of computing (including by the way, Apple's own
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by tpmoney 2y ago
No, I don't think "most of us can agree" that a manufacturer setting the conditions for distributing plugins for the hardware and software system that they produce and sell is "monopolistic" in nature. That's w
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So what word should they use for such a plan that distinguishes it from the plans where going over your allocated data amount starts racking up data charges at $1 / MB? And would you really be satisfied if the company advertised the pl
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I'm not quite sure I understand you question. I would tip in this manner for as long as they remained a place that was open 24/7/365. They weren't catering to the broke college student crowd, they're just one of tho
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I would understand that if that were true, but Apple does not "[charge] people $99/yr to use the compiler." I'd also once again point out that even were that the case, that's still the user's problem, not the d
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Same way anyone gives software away for free, put the source code up and give instructions for compiling / installing. That Apple imposes time limits on self installed applications is the user's problem, not the developer's.
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And if you sell your software or services on the App Store, that doesn’t mean you can’t give it away for free to your buddies or sell it somewhere else.
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On the other hand a mechanism of a number of online market place scams is to gain customers trading on the “security” (such as it is) of the market place, and then directing the customer out of the market place. Everyone (should) know that
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by tpmoney 2y ago
It feels like a fundamental forgetting that at the other end of your business transaction is a human being. I've been telling this story to friends lately. I have a "membership" to a local car wash. As long as I go 2x /

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