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811.
by zepto 5y ago
Apple loudly advertises this fact. Users don’t get to plead victimhood when the product works as advertised. It’s not a cage. It’s a hotel that people willingly stay in because the operators keep it clean.
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by zepto 5y ago
You can keep saying it’s a false dilemma, but that doesn’t make it so. We are considering nuclear vs not doing nuclear. That isn’t a false dilemma. > discarded entailing both high costs (direct and externalities) and high risk. If you
813.
by zepto 5y ago
That page simply describes how the environmental case against nuclear power was made before climate change began to be taken seriously. If we didn’t have to worry about the impacts of climate change, I’d agree with phasing out nuclear. Bu
814.
by zepto 5y ago
Chinese government orders Apple to take down Quran app in China.
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by zepto 5y ago
> Isn't the alternative actually looking into renewable energy sources? That is trusting governments and corporations to deal with climate change in other ways.
816.
by zepto 5y ago
> The point is that the drawbacks of Nuclear far out weight it's benefits The evidence so far points to the opposite.
817.
by zepto 5y ago
> I just don't trust governments or corporations to maintain, inspect, manage and operate nuclear power plants at scale. This is my biggest concern as well. However it needs to be balanced against the alternative, which is trusting
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by zepto 5y ago
>> If it wouldn’t disappear then it’s not a cost that can be attributed to the current financial system. > That's a pretty clear absolution. Not even close. You seem to be interested in attributing blame. My comment is about
819.
by zepto 5y ago
Why would they need to shut down the internet to prevent business from accepting bitcoin? That makes no sense. A simple regulation or tax would do it.
820.
by zepto 5y ago
Nobody is trying to absolve anything. The point is that Bitcoin won’t either.
821.
by zepto 5y ago
It’s pretty easy to stop businesses from accepting Bitcoin if you are the military industrial complex. Black markets are hard to eliminate altogether but no real threat.
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by zepto 5y ago
Filters make cigarettes mildly worse. https://www.quora.com/Is-smoking-unfiltered-cigarettes-signi...
823.
by zepto 5y ago
Fair comment!
824.
by zepto 5y ago
What new platform? Why won’t the new platform be just as bad? Switching brand of cigarettes doesn’t protect your lungs.
825.
by zepto 5y ago
If it wouldn’t disappear then it’s not a cost that can be attributed to the current financial system. You may as well say that since the current financial system enabled the development of computers and the internet which were pre-requisite
826.
by zepto 5y ago
You haven’t offered any kind of explanation at all here. If there is a ‘fight’ involved, how will bitcoin owners fight against the military industrial complex?
827.
by zepto 5y ago
Assuming that the military/industrial complex would disappear if bitcoin prevailed over the dollar seems very questionable.
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by zepto 5y ago
Still unclear where your information is coming from. Neither FoundationDB nor Obj-C were started by Apple.
829.
by zepto 5y ago
Where are you getting your information from? None of the projects listed there were started by Apple, all of them are used in successful Apple products, and all of them have been used by both competitors, and the community.
830.
by zepto 5y ago
Sure - just like anyone else who contributes to LGPL projects, Apple willingly chose to do so.
831.
by zepto 5y ago
Sure, but that’s deeply misleading since Apple contributes most of their code to trunk. The fact they ship private builds for their own machines is a complete red herring.
832.
by zepto 5y ago
Ok so there are a narrow range of students who require a high end machine, and for them a framework laptop might be a good choice, assuming they can’t get a similar benefit by simply selling their existing laptop and buying a new one.
833.
by zepto 5y ago
I’m using a 7 year old Mac for software development and it’s not ‘too slow’. Cheap computers are readily available on the used market.
834.
by zepto 5y ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866458
835.
by zepto 5y ago
I like reading comments on HN. Is there something wrong with that?
836.
by zepto 5y ago
WebKit, Clang, LLVM
837.
by zepto 5y ago
> Are police and the city really not pursuing charges against most of these thieves? They really aren’t.
838.
by zepto 5y ago
You don’t have to read everything posted on HN. If you really do feel compelled, it might be a good idea to take a break.
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by zepto 5y ago
How many App Store purchases matter? I’ve bought hundreds of apps over the years, but really don’t care about them. Nobody uses a lot of paid apps, and a lot of them have moved to subscriptions anyway.
840.
by zepto 5y ago
Apple’s market share is growing, not eroding.

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