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by tristor 3y ago
> Consumers are far too happy to just jump on the hypiest train and don't care enough to actually educate themselves about which product has maximum value. It's the entire reason Apple still exists as a company, for example. Ca
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by tristor 3y ago
> Or do the women date older men? Yes. This isn't even new, this has been the case for decades. The effects aren't usually heavily pronounced (spouses are usually within 10 years of age of each other), but in almost every mar
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by tristor 3y ago
I've noticed the same thing, and I'm pretty sure it's because COVID no longer features as part of identity politics. It's the identity politics that drove the AIDS discussion, and it's been the identify politics tha
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by tristor 3y ago
I'd usually agree, except when it comes to saying anything critical of China on the Internet, my statement is very true. The wumao is a real thing, and they're pervasive within online tech.
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by tristor 3y ago
Ooh, I like that. Winky face is definitely even better than smiley face. Also beats hospital plugs in the US, which are identical visually to other plug types, except for a green dot.
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by tristor 3y ago
While Type F is clearly (mostly) superior to all alternatives, I wish Type K was the winner in Europe because it looks like a smiley face.
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by tristor 3y ago
No. It turns out that breach was faked, effectively. It was done by manipulating Brian Krebs. He's since issued a mea culpa (although a somewhat weak one): https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/final-thoughts
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by tristor 3y ago
Huawei stuff is proven to be compromised, just not by NSA, instead by China.
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by tristor 3y ago
It’s a trivially easy choice for anyone with good ethics, full stop. Your contrived straw man has no relevance to the person in the OP, and they have none of those qualms. You’re doing a lot of mental contortions to defend committing frau
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by tristor 3y ago
A job is a job. Ethics are about who you are as an individual. It’s a policy for your life and defines your character. I’d scrub toilets before I would defraud a customer.
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by tristor 3y ago
I don’t think this is hard at all, especially in the tech industry when you can easily find a different (likely better) job. I’ve flat out refused things on ethics grounds multiple times in my career (startup life is like that), and while
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by tristor 3y ago
Those are all a part of (but not the complete reasons) /why/ there is this segmentation in the market, but the segmentation is clear. Apple offers a superior product, treats their customers better, and is so expensive it is out o
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by tristor 3y ago
> This is a tenuous point at best. Apple isn't exactly rushing to make repair of their devices easy / accessible which is essential for a product to have a long life. Google doesn't have a lot of say over what other OEMs d
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by tristor 3y ago
What wonder, we've nearly conquered hunger if obesity has finally become more prevalent than starvation. I stand corrected. Nonetheless, starvation is more directly harmful/deadly. Obesity may kill you eventually, starvation wi
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by tristor 3y ago
Android vs Apple is Samuel Vines' Boots Theory of Economics played out with handheld electronics: > "The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example.
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by tristor 3y ago
> there's not a _lot_ that google can do about it unless there's a contractual agreement in place. 1. They should have a contractual agreement in place. 2. Google is one of the world's largest companies and one of the lar
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by tristor 3y ago
Sure. Starvation is more deadly than obesity however, and globally more prevalent.
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by tristor 3y ago
Yes, GP is absolutely correct, all the people in the developing world who can't afford food are much healthier than those of us in the West, that live long enough and eat enough to deal with diseases of obesity that primarily affect on
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by tristor 3y ago
> Google has extended security updates to 5 years for the newer Pixels. That's fairly decent, given that each one is only on the market for ~1 year. Apple has been supporting iPhone models for 6 years without any fanfare about it.
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by tristor 3y ago
And since most people's jobs are not creating fonts, most people wouldn't notice the difference. There-in lies the challenge. Typography /is/ important, but it may not be as important as typographists think that it is.
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by tristor 3y ago
The controller is built into the SoC. As is their standard practice for many years, non-Pro models receive the SoC from the previous generation of Pro models. Because this is the case, in fact they don’t have a choice other than spending
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by tristor 3y ago
I flag anything that doesn't meet HN guidelines. It's as simple as that. HN does not need more flamewar content, especially flamewar content that doesn't add any new information to the conversation. There's a ~1000 com
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by tristor 3y ago
Doesn't sound like force to me. Teenagers are assholes, news at 11. Note, that post was flagged for being pointless flamewar content, and I also flagged this submission we're in now for being pointless flamewar content and FUD.
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by tristor 3y ago
I assure you, I am not a corporate sycophant. However, the article linked here is a classic definition of FUD. The histrionics in the comments here seem to mostly be driven by anti-Apple zealotry rather than any reasonable analysis of the
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by tristor 3y ago
This is only true for the non-Pro models. The flagship models get USB 3.0 speeds, which seems like a fair trade-off, and it seems like it's tied to the USB controller inside the SoC, since the non-Pro models get the same SoC as the iP
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by tristor 3y ago
Anyone who has worked with me knows that I have no issue coming in like a wrecking ball in order to make things happen, when necessary. I've also been involved in some of these migration projects. I think your take on the complexity
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by tristor 3y ago
That's... not how that works. I take it you're probably more of a frontend person than a backend person by this comment. In the backend world, you usually can't fully and completely replace old systems, you can only replace
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by tristor 3y ago
I'd love to know more about the fun conversations. Did you blog on this?
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by tristor 3y ago
The problem is systems written in the 1970s in FORTRAN to run on Mainframes don't speak JSON.
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by tristor 3y ago
Sure, there's a lot of nuance in any sort of multi-variable economic question. That's not the point, the person I was replying to said renting is cheaper than buying, that hasn't been true for over a decade pre-pandemic. Th

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