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by xster 7y ago
Why would you think The Verge/Comcast is an independent source when MSNBC/Comcast spent years firing their anchormen for questioning foreign invasions and WMDs. If you boiled Gabbard down to a single issue, it would be anti-war.
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by xster 7y ago
While simultaneously snidely implying that these unwashed peasants will never understand our progressive ways while forcing them to live in environments that needs fossil fuel fueled AC and heating instead of somewhere like the coast which
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by xster 7y ago
The mainland conviction rate doesn't matter. It's about the HK criminal laws and whether the case in question was sentenced a 7 year prison term under HK law before extradition is even in question (if it's simultaneously a cr
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by xster 7y ago
That just centralizes and adds more vulnerability to the person who bought the device (vs something more ephemeral and software based where you have more plausible deniability).
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by xster 7y ago
I think they're all valid points worth debating but wrt this article's framing, the contents of the AirDrop don't seem to have anything to do with the Hong Kong protests. Infant milk powder, train ticket score etc could just
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by xster 7y ago
I only bootcamp back in once in a while to play games but can't help but notice that font rendering still doesn't seem to have improved since the early 2000s. Anti-aliasing is all over the place and UWP, websites, installers, Java
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by xster 7y ago
Which complements nicely with operation paperclip
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by xster 7y ago
It's a bit of a canned response considering the context of what your parent comment is saying. Something comparable in scope would China breaking your shipping business in the UK because you can no longer maintain your fleet of US manu
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by xster 7y ago
This is obviously super destructive for Huawei, but for the current phones specifically, I wouldn't be surprised if they grew in value, as the last few phones that has the highest dxo score and with Google.
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by xster 7y ago
Nobody mentioned so I'll add: the one thing holding me back is the current ability to insert autoplaying gifs into GitHub's markdown. No <video> type formats are supported and being able to add an animated gif showing what y
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by xster 7y ago
Another day another Bloomberg 'story' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18162440
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by xster 7y ago
I'm just here waiting for them to finish writing the supermicro chip story.
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by xster 8y ago
I'd definitely a concern and non-ideal for things that are not spec'ed out in https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/ . Hopefully this is all temporary until we can build our own comparison tooling
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by xster 8y ago
I'm quite surprised Vice/Disney would be publishing this type of content. Someone has probably just forgone their next promotion.
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by xster 8y ago
In the coastal bubble sure. But I think the parent is referring to the US in aggregate.
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by xster 8y ago
Semi-tangential but the US has decreased labor mobility in the past decades https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2016/10/what-c...
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by xster 8y ago
Us: you're clearly partisan because you only publish bad things against muh abuela. Also us: you don't self-censor to benefit your self-interest? That's just not smart.
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by xster 8y ago
Or with the US from Europe with weaving, steel production etc.
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by xster 8y ago
> Leave your company, take your colleagues and start one with better conditions. That company would last a month in China's gladiatorial business environment. It's not individual companies whimsically deciding to abuse the work
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by xster 8y ago
We're in the context of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama right? If I understood correctly, Marsh didn't live in Chickasaw. The ruling was about the the monopoly over the receivers, not over the
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by xster 8y ago
How is it much different from monopolistic digital 'company towns'?
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by xster 8y ago
I agree more with your slides than the OP article. That Siri slide also just gave me PTSD.
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by xster 8y ago
I feel like there's strawmanning going on too. I don't know of any 'AI alarmists' that are saying gardening and hospitality staff are going to be replaced anytime soon. What are being discussed are radiologists, financia
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by xster 8y ago
Which card is this specifically?
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by xster 8y ago
I think deactivating accounts etc works for some areas of productivity but the creativity is so fragile. When you're busy and you're choosing between turning on one more switch vs just not making any music today, a lot of people w
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by xster 8y ago
Wasn't all early NASA space programs the V-2 rocket people? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
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by xster 8y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/03/why-us... Jimmy Carter: "As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we've monitored, I would say that the election process in Venezuela
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by xster 8y ago
How do you address the market of 30-something hobbyist with kids and jobs etc who might have short spurs of creativity followed by very long inactive periods. They might want to pay to use all the features and become good with the tool for
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by xster 8y ago
Would Google ban BDS ads in Germany too since it's now illegal https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Post-Exposé-causes-German-cit... .
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by xster 8y ago
I mean forget the bombs, people actually know about them. More Germans died from starvation than victims of Nagasaki AFTER the 1918 armistice when UK insisted on keeping the blockade for almost another year after the Germans surrendered [1]

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