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by zaroth 6y ago
I think they should be a lot more concerned about the people recording the meeting who don't show up on the attendee list, than of the people who show up and wave in front of the camera.
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by zaroth 6y ago
Vaccines have to be proven safe, versus “Long Covid” has to be proven real. It’s just a different standard of proof for an elective treatment.
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by zaroth 6y ago
When the first sentence of a Wikipedia article has a large ”Citation Needed” flag, it’s a good indication you should probably stop reading. Medical science is really hard and often unintuitive. There was a great study that came out last w
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by zaroth 6y ago
> Have there been other mRNA vaccines... There haven’t been other approved mRNA vaccines, period. And COVID just isn’t that big of a concern for most people. There’s every reason for people to decide they don’t want to rush out to get
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by zaroth 6y ago
Sect would probably be the same noun without the derogatory connotation.
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by zaroth 6y ago
Great site, fast and simple. When I type a query and press search, would like it if the URL updated with the search in the query string. It would make it easier to share specific queries.
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by zaroth 6y ago
Per TFA; > Yes, it would be very noisy.
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by zaroth 6y ago
My first thought reading the headline was, “Shit, not another one?!” Could we add a word like “Analysis” to the headline please?
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by zaroth 6y ago
It also affords the US a position as the world’s reserve currency which itself is worth trillions of dollars. I’m not sure the ROI analysis is particularly straightforward, all things considered.
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by zaroth 6y ago
Speaking with absolutely no expertise in the matter, I would guess it’s on the verge of collapse due to lack of maintenance or fatal design flaw. It’s probably no longer a matter of fixing more like a total rebuild would be required?
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by zaroth 6y ago
At the very least , they would need to decouple the payment processor in a way that still provides the user all of the following; 1) No need to re-enter billing information across apps 2) A centralized UI for the user to manage all t
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by zaroth 6y ago
It would actually require a massive investment by Apple to actually support all of those things as tested, enabled, documented, secured, stable, and fully supported (by the help-desk) features of their product.
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by zaroth 6y ago
This was a solid randomized controlled study showing masks don’t protect the wearer. That’s a good start, and it’s important that everyone understands that mask are not protecting you when you go outside. People should not feel safer by p
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by zaroth 6y ago
The phone doesn’t magically just work the way you want it to, and the functionality you personally desire doesn’t come without trade-offs and consequences to Apple, to other developers, or to other users. You’re saying that because you boug
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by zaroth 6y ago
It comes down to what you mean by anti-competitive. If you mean illegally anti-competitive then there’s a debate to be had. If you mean “anti-competitive” in the sense that they don’t offer their entire code base MIT licensed, then 100% t
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by zaroth 6y ago
But don’t you think — it’s their phone, they have spent billions of dollars developing it, shouldn’t they get the choice of how their own product should work? It’s not like the user doesn’t know what they are buying. It’s not like Apple d
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by zaroth 6y ago
Microsoft had 90% market share. And in the end they settled.
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by zaroth 6y ago
That’s not what I’m saying. The case law on this is not as definitive as you are claiming. I don’t think their behavior is illegally anti-competitive. Sure, you can say that not supporting a specific 3rd party application (e.g. an App Store
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by zaroth 6y ago
Maybe we can both at least agree the normative claims I’m making are true absent a monopoly finding. Anti-trust only applies if there’s a finding that Apple is a monopoly. The jury, so to speak, is still out. If Apple was found to be a
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by zaroth 6y ago
There's almost a infinite number of things they could do that would be illegal that you might also call 'anti-competitive'. IMO, as long as there are viable competitors to Apple, and as long as Apple is not colluding with its
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by zaroth 6y ago
Interestingly the top benefactor is Google, as YouTube is #1 for subscription revenue in 2019 according to TechCrunch. Subscription revenue on Apple's store was $3.6B of ~$50B in 2019, so 7.2% of app store revenue overall. It's ab
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by zaroth 6y ago
This is literally not what’s happening. The iPhone is their product. If you don’t want to use their products and their store you do not have to. Buy a different device. There are plenty . Apple doesn’t get to tell Google, Samsung, Huawei
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by zaroth 6y ago
Amazon made a bunch of poorly performing and uncompetitive Android phones, and then bailed before doing the hard work of actually differentiating their product. The results are totally expected and if anything demonstrate the market is comp
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by zaroth 6y ago
Except the competition isn’t suppressed, and there’s no actual monopoly here. What we have is a pretty clear case of a minuscule minority of users bitterly complaining that a company isn’t making its products exactly the way they want them
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by zaroth 6y ago
> If Apple didn't fear either Epic's lawsuit or Congressional action, or both, they'd never reduce their app store cut, for anyone, ever. Except they have done exactly that in the past. In June 2016 Apple introduced a su
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by zaroth 6y ago
Just look at what Apple has accomplished in the meteoric rise of the iPhone. This is strong evidence of a company that is competing like hell to keep and grow its customers base. “Hurting consumers” would be an almost Orwellian characteriza
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by zaroth 6y ago
Which just goes to show how Google’s and Apple’s investment of tens of billions of dollars building out their respective ecosystem presents a tremendous opportunity to developers. Amazon made a half-hearted effort to compete in the space a
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by zaroth 6y ago
How is that anything less than mind blowing ? Twice as fast, using 1/10th the battery life.... and that’s for a part that costs Apple $70 instead of, what, $400?
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by zaroth 6y ago
My suggestion; defer the signup. Just create a shell account and let people start creating outfits. The more work they do, the more likely they are to want to “Save”, i.e. create an account. I wonder if you have stats on how many sessions c
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by zaroth 6y ago
There is a lot of disinformation in that Twitter thread, even aside from the technical errors.

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