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by whiddershins 3y ago
I didn’t read the whole article because I stumbled on the Stanford Prison Experiment part. As far as I can tell this experiment was largely debunked, or at best widely questioned and not reproducible. It’s one of those stories that lives on
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by whiddershins 3y ago
As I wrote in another comment, anti-trust is about protecting the consumer, the public. This isn’t about the government trying to help Microsoft or represent their interest. The whole point of anti-trust is that without competition prices g
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by whiddershins 3y ago
The government doesn’t (or shouldn’t) care if a business beats another business in business. They care if doing so harms the consumer by the route of lack of competition leading to higher prices and/or inferior product.
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by whiddershins 3y ago
I think you are correct, the harm is assumed.
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by whiddershins 3y ago
The victims are the public. Edit: to clarify, I believe this is the actual legal basis of anti monopoly legislation. Protection of the interests of the public, not competitor companies.
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by whiddershins 3y ago
It’s good to step on them.
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by whiddershins 3y ago
There are traps that you can buy or make for lanternflies. They work absurdly well. It’s basically an upside down plastic bottle with a net funnel attached to the side of a tree. For some reason lanternflies will only climb upwards. So they
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by whiddershins 3y ago
I listened to a whole Joe Rogan podcast where a guest kept advocating for using nuclear to balance out the intermittent nature of solar and wind. I could never wrap my mind around how this makes sense. Nuclear has a fixed output, it doesn’t
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by whiddershins 3y ago
What?
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by whiddershins 3y ago
Ok, so we kiss a good Genius Bar experience goodbye.
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by whiddershins 3y ago
Huh, i never knew it’s webkit all the way down
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by whiddershins 3y ago
Chrome runs on iOS
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by whiddershins 3y ago
Harmed his health by what metric?
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by whiddershins 3y ago
From a cooking point of view mutton/lamb is a confusing term. The reason for having two words for this is closely tied to the fact that cooking them is completely different. Lamb doesn’t take a bunch of specialized skill.
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by whiddershins 3y ago
I don’t understand this point: >>> For example, if Amazon discovers that a seller is offering lower-priced goods elsewhere, Amazon can bury discounting sellers so far down in Amazon’s search results that they become effectively inv
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by whiddershins 3y ago
To be precise it is 30% revenue. They have costs. And they allow free apps! Every free app that gets downloads and doesn’t monetize at all is pure cost for them.
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by whiddershins 3y ago
What makes Spotify entitled to be on Apple’s App Store? I think the third way is to allow side loading apps.
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by whiddershins 3y ago
I don’t see Spotify making any suggestion of a solution that addresses their concerns without boxing Apple out of the payment process entirely. I get why what Apple has in place is onerous. I also see that Apple needs to get paid somehow. S
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by whiddershins 3y ago
That’s a big bet. My instinct is it doesn’t go that way. We will see.
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by whiddershins 3y ago
Yeah but that isn’t t pay - per - operation I mean I guess my electricity provider gets paid per compute.
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by whiddershins 3y ago
I have only been generally following this but I don’t think this is quite accurate. It seems more like, starting in 2024 when you get more downloads the fee would be applied. I see people talking here about apps that have a huge user base a
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by whiddershins 3y ago
Compared to the cost and power of any of the hardware and software we are talking about it is insignificant. If you want to do toy programming on a budget there are a million arduino-like things out there. I recently saw calculations on the
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by whiddershins 3y ago
Yes. And a dev account is like $100/year. It’s bad that they can gatekeep like this, I agree. I should just be able to put whatever on the hardware I buy. But the expense in practical terms, immediate pragmatic terms, is negligible com
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by whiddershins 3y ago
Can you explain the JavaScript api more? Are you talking about a webView or something else. Edit: oh I see what you are talking about. The osascript aspect was what I wasn’t getting.
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by whiddershins 3y ago
wooden lath and plaster the same. I assume it is the plaster, not the lath.
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by whiddershins 3y ago
Dowry is paid by the wife’s family. It’s the precise opposite of (as another commenter wrote) buying a wife.
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by whiddershins 3y ago
So what stops them from doing it in their host country? And if their host country is non functional what should be done about that? Are you arguing we should bring back colonialism? Or are you arguing that all the most capable people should
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by whiddershins 3y ago
The difference is, he presumably is in America.
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by whiddershins 3y ago
So the only interesting type of extremism is US right wing Caucasian extremism?
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by whiddershins 3y ago
Commercial airline pilots - ones for the planes you typically fly on - make great money, have a strong union that negotiates well on their behalf, have tons of job protections, hours protections, and lots of control over their schedule once

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