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by xp84 2mo ago
> usually had the ability to run Java Midlets without manufacturer I had to respond first to this - I happened to grow up with Verizon phones. They had the manufacturers ship variants that replaced Java with BREW - some locked-down basta
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by xp84 2mo ago
I would, but I'm a cheapskate so I "have" to have them :(
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by xp84 2mo ago
This isn't an argument at all. There are, factually, tons of clueless users on PCs and Macs. Go look at discussions.apple.com or whatever they call it and look at the questions people are posting. (And also, the funniest hobbyists I&#x
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by xp84 2mo ago
"Distributed" ... LOL. That's certainly how they want the media and casual observers to see it. Meanwhile, what's mainly being sold as IAP is "Gems" or "Gold" or "Robux" -- incrementing numb
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by xp84 2mo ago
You're right about this, for some conditions, and of course depending on laws may have options. But I want people to be fully aware: There isn't a test for a lot of disabilities, including what my friend's kid has, so, the ga
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by xp84 2mo ago
> Why would you assume you can't be fired for phoning it in. If you want to daydream about utopia you have to assume we can solve trivial problems. I mean, you could just pay per tree for example? If you fire them, they're stil
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by xp84 2mo ago
One of my favorite cheap tech finds is a no-name, small OLED smartwatch that cost under $20. It has all the basic fitness features, an app that is surprisingly nicely done, and it exposes all its data to Apple Health. It supports the limi
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by xp84 2mo ago
I think they realized that deapite their paid-for-by-TV-license status, they can do whatever they want to non-UK traffic.
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by xp84 2mo ago
Or even when not AI, it definitely triggers the “we’re screwing you” sense!
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by xp84 2mo ago
People had kids even in the 30s, too. During tough times, we have to work harder and endure more adversity. Our great grandparents understood this just fine. In western countries, current generations (including my own) are incredibly soft,
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by xp84 2mo ago
This is a beautiful fantasy and it sounds like what most college freshmen think the world should be like. When that was practiced IRL in the Soviet Union, the issue is that if you are owed a job, people figure out really quickly that they c
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by xp84 2mo ago
shrug I’m rooting for a public option. It’s a democratic republic though. Only way to get a change like that done is to convince more voters that your party actually represents their interests in order to get the power to push something l
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by xp84 2mo ago
Ok, good luck with that. When dems had both houses and Obama in the WH, the best they could do was the ACA which was a HUGE compromise (no public option, and in many ways a huge handout to the entrenched insurer lobby). But by all means, go
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by xp84 2mo ago
Exactly like this. Since a public option will never happen, maybe the most feasible fix we could do is to do a REAL version of the P in HIIPA - portability. Let employees stay in the group plan of any company, paying the full premium a la
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by xp84 2mo ago
I'm not a privatization crusader either. But I do detest the hideous amount of waste in our municipal, state, and federal governments, and argue that it's a very hard problem to solve, and that we should never feed that beast by e
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by xp84 2mo ago
Agree. I see it also as, and maybe it's just the kinda wealthy area that I live in (though I'm myself a lifelong cheapskate)... I assume that the upper 50%, by income, of the people who walk into these places value their time too
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by xp84 2mo ago
It's not like people had an established career when they had kids at 19 in the 1940s. They just didn't view "being halfway to a comfortable retirement" as the prerequisite to having kids, the way my generation thinks it
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by xp84 2mo ago
It's such a bad argument, the 'but grandma will install malware' excuse. By that logic we also need to fully lock down the Mac, Windows, and Linux the same way because Granny might get scammed there, too. Apple must approve a
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by xp84 2mo ago
What really stands out reading this piece is how different this attitude is than what we as a society thought 50 years ago. The great men name-dropped in the article surely had more on their plates than the average 1960s middle manager at G
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by xp84 2mo ago
I have a good friend who has a special needs kid and we've discussed his struggles at length - suffice it to say that it takes an order of magnitude more time and attention than what's described here. The thing is, you of course d
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by xp84 2mo ago
> having a risk accidentally installing some shit scam app from literally anywhere on the internet Don't install random shit scam apps then. It's easy. Just don't do it. Use the App Store. Just because you trust them doesn
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by xp84 2mo ago
> For users under 13 years old, apps from the App Store cannot link out to websites for transactions to protect against the risk of scams that target younger kids. Lol - I've been using the phrase "casino games for children&quo
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by xp84 2mo ago
* They have for years turned a blind eye to apps that sell things that aren't "digital goods" - so the Barnes & Noble app can sell you a physical book and pay $0 to Apple, but if they sell you an ebook in any way in the a
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by xp84 2mo ago
Agreed. The muggings Apple's now doing in Europe under their new "gentler muggings" policies are noticeably less brutal than the "traditional muggings" they still do over here.
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by xp84 2mo ago
How is it Apple's business to raise that question? They don't own the device, they don't own my app, and they don't employ me or the customer.
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by xp84 2mo ago
> They don't care, frankly. In fact it makes it simpler for them. No it absolutely doesn't. Search is so broken that you can't even tell people "Search for Hacker News on the App Store" and have them find your ap
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by xp84 2mo ago
Okay Tim Cook. If the App Store is such a customer-friendly shield, then why are there millions of scam apps in the App Store? To combat software threats, sandboxing and fine-grained permissions (which Apple basically pioneered in the consu
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by xp84 2mo ago
Couldn't agree more tbh. I have an app each for like 8 restaurants I want to be able to order ahead from. All those apps are 200-600MB each, their performance is dogshit and they're obviously all built with web technologies anyway
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by xp84 2mo ago
And they act like there's no motivation for R&D unless they're making this rent. I'd say if the R&D makes their devices better then they'll sell more of them and gain marketshare. They don't need the rents t
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by xp84 2mo ago
> It's to keep spammers out. Doesn't seem to be working. Have you seen the App Store? You can buy 'antivirus' apps with $79.99 weekly subscriptions. On a sandboxed platform where you can't "scan" anyt

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