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by tpush 5y ago
> (Smart)phones and tablets are not computing devices any more than a refrigerator. You cannot do any real work on them. Nonsense, of course you can. 'Real work' isn't just programming or whatever. Writers, painters and mu
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by tpush 5y ago
The wealthiest (per capita) nation in that circle is Japan, where iOS' market share is 67%.
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by tpush 5y ago
> [...] but the semantics of this seemingly "declarative" configuration was never properly specified. What's missing from docs like [0] that makes you say that? [0] https://www.freedesktop.org/software&#x2F
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by tpush 5y ago
Nonsense, this message board has nothing to do with open source software per se.
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by tpush 5y ago
Neither political sanctions nor 'cancel culture' are unique to the US.
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by tpush 5y ago
You’re downvoted, but enjoyment of music is obviously subjective. There is no “wrong” way to listen to music (or anything really).
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by tpush 5y ago
Genuine question: is there anyone (corporate or not) that cares that macOS is a certified Unix?
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by tpush 5y ago
> They don't tend to advertise that. IME of podcast advertising they all advertise this very openly.
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by tpush 5y ago
BKNG is American; The Dutch Booking.com was sold to what is now BKNG in 2005 for $133MM.
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by tpush 5y ago
But the chief problem for (tech-)corporate Europe isn't that power is concentrated less than in the US. It's that Europe has less absolute or nearly no power in areas that matter a lot for their society.
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by tpush 5y ago
The market for consumer devices, social networks and search engines isn't particularly competitive in Europe, no.
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by tpush 5y ago
He's joking about being a physicist to deflect any criticism of his crackpot theory he peddled for years before putting up a half baked paper that was quickly found out to be basic quackery and adding insult to (cognitive) injury, put
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by tpush 5y ago
I don't know what point you're arguing here. Presently these grounds very obviously don't exist, and are also very unlikely to exist in the future.
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by tpush 5y ago
YouTube is not a monopoly and you do not have any right to any kind of creators or audience at all. If McDonald's mistreats you, and every other restaurant tastes like garbage to you: tough titty, but that doesn't provide grounds
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by tpush 5y ago
Weinstein ist describing himself like that. Dude's just a (supposedly) entertaining grifter.
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by tpush 5y ago
> To this day, I have no idea what 'powerd' is, for instance. You're in luck, there's an extremely helpful and well written man page on exactly that subject. I will quote in its entirety: "NAME powerd -- D
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by tpush 5y ago
Cambridge Analytica was largely a nothing burger [0]. [0] https://twitter.com/nickconfessore/status/131385399616835174...
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by tpush 5y ago
There is no 'native' GUI in Linux. Skia rendering you UI is not any less native than GTK's or Qt's rendering engine doing so.
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by tpush 5y ago
As a German I think it's really interesting to see how America's comparatively weak labor laws, especially around firing workers, are used in this instance in a purportedly justified way. I wonder if there's any dissonance am
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by tpush 5y ago
Where does it literally say that?
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by tpush 5y ago
So, thinking about it really hard and reading about it online: My comment was definitely wrong: If Monty could have opened a car door, but just didn't, then duh the probabilities for the car to be behind the doors are different than if
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by tpush 5y ago
The intention of the host only matters if the contestant would have to choose the subsequent action (switching or not) before the hosts opens a door. If the host has revealed a goat door, and the contestant then has to decide what to do, th
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by tpush 5y ago
That that didn't generate more of a hubbub back then and seemingly didn't stay in people's memories for long is a real mystery to me (and a great boon to Apple!).
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by tpush 5y ago
In that case even the mere presence of a field called 'race' is the ridiculous thing.
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by tpush 5y ago
Very few people kill themselves with knives, but a ton do with hand guns. And people in countries without such a gun culture do not have worse self defense outcomes than those with one, so that argument doesn’t seem to hold scientific water
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by tpush 6y ago
The comments on this case always seem a bit confused to me. APIs have been copyrightable (in the US) since 2014(or 15, not sure). This ruling only affects the fair use judgement, and makes no further statement on the question of copyright;
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by tpush 6y ago
??? Amazon's POV is explained directly in the article. There's also this link [0] from the article elaborating on the firing. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/02/amazon-...
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by tpush 6y ago
Here's the source: https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/whatsapp-ceo-o... Quote: "Cathcart: It’s true that we do have some information about how people use WhatsApp and that we do know, for exam
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by tpush 6y ago
Whatsapp doesn't share phone book data with Facebook.
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by tpush 6y ago
That'd be fine if they weren't also aggressively lying about their labor conditions.

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