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by zepto 5y ago
Look back to Steve Jobs’s return. Long before they had ecosystem lock in, before even the iPod was released, he simplified the range drastically to make it easier for people to make the buying decision. Also, anyone who says “it’s felt lik
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by zepto 5y ago
> Kyle Weins (iFixit CEO) basically claiming that's the reason I.e. The last person who can be trusted to report on Apple’s motivations. It’s an absurd explanation. Some obvious other factors are: 1. The idea that a modular chassis
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by zepto 5y ago
> I'm really excited about how Framework could potentially shake up the whole industry! It won’t. The industry used to be like that back in the day before Apple proved that most people don’t want too many choices.
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The Pain Was Unbearable. So Why Did Doctors Turn Her Away?(wired.com)
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by zepto 5y ago
> doing it when receiving updates Updates are how they deliver updated battery management algorithms, not the metric they use to determine battery age.
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by zepto 5y ago
True. But that’s nonetheless likely to be transient over a reasonable time horizon for home ownership, e.g. 10 years.
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by zepto 5y ago
Not if you get a fixed rate.
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by zepto 5y ago
No, that’s simply false. You don’t have to go far upthread to see it. Here’s what they said: > In an ideal world a proof should be produced before anything is seized!
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by zepto 5y ago
In accessibility settings under “reduce animation”. It’s a huge relief.
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by zepto 5y ago
You can turn them off for the most part. I have.
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by zepto 5y ago
You sound like you think they were lying.
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by zepto 5y ago
The person I was replying to mentioned proof, not probable cause. I agree with you, forfeiture is obviously wrong.
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by zepto 5y ago
Hard to gather evidence if you first have to prove the crime.
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by zepto 5y ago
What ideas are listed as terrorist organizations in the US?
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by zepto 5y ago
> I will never say it's right to simply murder your opponents. But.. Nice turn of phrase!
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by zepto 5y ago
> I'm arguing it now, you may disagree No, you actually don’t present an argument that inconsistent enforcement is equivalent to no enforcement. You just argue that you don’t like inconsistent enforcement. > You may not think su
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by zepto 5y ago
> b) quite popular in Russia. This is true, but from what I hear this is mostly because he’s preferable than a power struggle between his oligarchs which is what people expect would happen in his absence.
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by zepto 5y ago
> Arguably, any instance where such enforcement mechanism fails to happen in response to an infraction in law, or fails be applied consistently to all actors, is a failure of said enforcement mechanism in totality No, that’s not ‘arguabl
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by zepto 5y ago
> military/security service coups were always very unsuccessful Until ultimately a KGB agent took over and has been in power ever since.
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by zepto 5y ago
You do realize the EU is further down the path of enabling censorship than the US?
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by zepto 5y ago
>> Except with no actual enforcement mechanism. > Can we not ignore when any given enforcement mechanism associated typically with laws don't get executed when laws are broken by various actors? > It's dishonest to pre
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by zepto 5y ago
> If you fork uniswapv2 code and deploy it on chain, it enshrines a bunch of rules that essentially tell one how they can interact with it in the same way these laws do. Except with no actual enforcement mechanism. Can we stop saying t
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by zepto 5y ago
> No one tells people how to build/run a company (and neither does the law in any particular jurisdiction, though they may set boundaries, This is essentially false. Corporate law, labor law, contract law, IP law, Tax law, and othe
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by zepto 5y ago
Sure, but the point is that there is no mechanism for building ‘organizations’. Nobody is explaining how to build anything other than financial derivatives. This is useful, but really just an optimization on finance as usual.
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by zepto 5y ago
Ok, so it makes sense that you can build certain financial derivatives out of it. However, there is no explanation of how you build an ‘organization’ out of this. > Law doesn't stop people from breaking laws or not upholding contrac
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by zepto 5y ago
Yes but the code doesn’t do anything to make users comply with agreements.
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by zepto 5y ago
> Because it can be enforced without being tied to a specific jurisdiction, expensive lawyers and army of accountants. How exactly can it be enforced without using the law?
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by zepto 5y ago
That magnets don’t kill people, but not of much else.
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by zepto 5y ago
This is great - such a strong datapoint that culture is the factor and not guns. Similar to the datapoint Japan provides about suicides.
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by zepto 5y ago
Without that nuance, the story makes no sense. We shouldn’t be blaming either the employee or Apple. The problem here is with the New York Times publishing this obviously bad reporting.

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