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by xvokcarts 2y ago
> How is "let's make a platform more open and interoperable" a threat to anyone? It's not and I never said it was. I was replying to your "do unto others" quote which I find is not applicable in this case: I
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
Only if I buy their products does what they do affect me. So it can't be a threat.
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
> And what exactly will people not buy because of activists? I think that was my reply to a post about Apple exiting the EU market (completely unlikely IMO, since that would reduce profits), which may cause those unable to buy what they
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
> Do unto others what you would do unto yourself and all that. I think that means to treat others as you’d like to be treated when you interact, not actively do to people what you’d like others to do to you. “I know what’s best for you a
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
> My best guess, tbh, is apathy. That's rather why they're not activists in the first place. Exactly. A few people want interoperability and everyone accepts it because they don't care since it doesn't affect their li
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
>EU buyer here, I am extremely hype for forced interop and think it almost justifies the existence of the EU on its own. That was my point. There is no "we". >That's the case for every regulation - policy is made by act
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
> "Develop stuff the way we want, or lose sales" I think the wants (of the EU buyers) are far less homogeneous than the group of open integration activists make it look like, so there's no "we". We hear the opini
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
I think it speeds up because we settle in a routine, and when every day is mostly the same the brain just compresses the experience. The younger you are, the more new everything is around you, and you may not know yet what is worth trying o
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
Everybody gangsta until an object object starts falling.
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
Yeah, what a fun way to spend some time :)
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
Are you saying that borders shouldn’t exist because they’re man made?
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
It's not magic and it's not invisible. And if it's a government for the people, then it's the people that are being authoritarian. Maybe a high-liberties society can only prosper if it protects itself from the outside.
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
> Most modern applications - composed of barely more than a few images, buttons and lines of text - sit uneasily upon towering tech-stacks comprising millions of lines of code. The industry is plagued by overcomplicated, slow and buggy s
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
Uber broke the law that protects traditional taxi drivers from having competition under the guise of passenger safety (taxi drivers have the same driver's license as any other driver, no additional safety certs). The public was way too
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
Just breaking the law is not disrupting. Disrupting requires broad support from the public, which is aware that laws are being broken and are fine with it - meaning the particular laws in place are ripe for questioning at the very least. Ub
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
> Take the single problem of mobility: many very smart engineers have worked together to develop a set of wheels that can usually move the rovers around their environment without getting stuck or damaged, or at least have a chance of get
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
Almost. Bought shitload of pro tools, found an apartment to remodel completely by myself (and completed it), but stopped at the final step: haven't started a remodeling company :D
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
>then getting lured by one of those tool combo deals that has another drill lurking in the pile So relatable it's funny. Yeah, you described my experience exactly! :)
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
The same wiki article also describes the absurdness of the whole thing: > At 10:38 pm, SWAT entered the house and used a stun grenade to conceal their movements [...] During the next 10.2 hours, a Lenco BearCat was driven through the fro
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by xvokcarts 2y ago
> If the mortgage application evaluation system is deterministic so that the same input always produces the same output then it is easy to answer "Why was my application rejected?". But banks, at least in my country (central EU