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by ztrww 3y ago
> No virtual objects, no 3d anything Presumably this will be a thing since they support on the iPhone and tries making a pretty big deal from by showing virtual legos and other stuff in a keynote a year or two ago. The ARKit seems to hav
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> but both agree on principle of extracting monopoly rents. Steam’s competitors like GoG also take 30% so maybe it’s a reasonable price for the service they provide? Only companies like MSFT or Epic can charge less since their stores are
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by ztrww 3y ago
> find it telling that your initial reaction Telling what? My point was that Newton was a brilliant idea yet the hardware wasn’t there yet and it didn’t have clear use cases. Both concerns apply for Vision Pro so at this point it’s still
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by ztrww 3y ago
> Who doesn’t like macos? It’s buggy AF and Apple is dumbing down the UX/UI every year and customization options are almost non existent. Also compared to Windows multi-display support is thrash, no window snapping (?!) and Windows
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> Will we be able to "sideload", i.e. install things without papa apple's approval? I’m sure we all know the answer to this. > web engine that's not WebKit? rofl The AirPods, Pro Display XDR, even the iPhone were j
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by ztrww 3y ago
> The VR gaming market is microscopic compared to what Apple is likely aiming for here. They do not give a single flying fuck about this "established market", nor have they for any other market they've entered. The entire
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by ztrww 3y ago
> If it’s a delightful, polished, responsive experience for the stock applications IMHO this is a perfect description for the Apple TV.
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by ztrww 3y ago
Apple also released https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton Which was a great idea and a very innovative product literally ahead of it’s time by 15 years.
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> Unity as a partner. Shovelware games drowning in ads and iAPs?
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I guess the question is whether this the Newton or the iPad. It might take another 5-10 years before actual uses cases get figured out and at that point it might be very different from what Apple is offering now or are envisioning for the n
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by ztrww 3y ago
some people obviously did pay $500+ for headphones. We don’t know how many sets has Apple actually sold…
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People were paying similar amounts for high-end headphones for years.
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The difference being is that Valve is competing a (mostly) open market. Clearly they are offering enough value to earn their 30%?
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The market for gas/oil is already relatively extremely efficient so there isn’t much space left for cutting prices in that regard
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Why would you compare US to third world countries?
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> but I would be interested to see if any of the cardholders were black So are you implying that black police officers don’t hand out these cards and/or black people refuse to accept them. This seems to be an issue almost entirely r
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by ztrww 3y ago
> This is so dumb To be fair you used are the one who used this absolutely brilliant argument: > The main reason Linux is not used is lazy sysadmins who only care to support Windows and MacOS for other employees.
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by ztrww 3y ago
macOS is not particularly closed in comparison to Windows, though. The opposite in fact in some ways..
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> doing all of this since the 90s at least on desktop computers it wasn’t a very nice experience. Why would I want to watch anything in 240p win stead of 4k? Same for web, despite the bloat UX on most websites is miles ahead of what was
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by ztrww 3y ago
But it doesn’t support GPU passthrough? Which seems like a pretty big deal for many uses cases.
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The time required to test/verify any “answer” in medicine is years or decades and not seconds/hours/days like in software development. And well experimenting without being almost entirely sure of what you’re doing (and even t
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by ztrww 3y ago
I would be comparing how someone like Intel did during dot.com instead of Pets.com etc. Of course it far from being the same and Intel did struggle in the early 00’s but they still ended up dominating their market which had significant gro
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by ztrww 3y ago
> Russian liberated The same one who did this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_press_ban#:~:text=T... . a few years later? Seem like real freedom of speech loving bunch…
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by ztrww 3y ago
So governments do, some don’t, some occasionally try to do both. where I am not only are salary ranges mandatory on job ads but company also have to publicly disclose a lot of stats wages/salaries. Median, average, quartiles etc. for a
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by ztrww 3y ago
> Jobs advertisement ads and website getting commission if someone got hired from advertised jobs like most agency get. If you rely on income from the same companies that are reviewed on your site it will inevitably become just as bad as
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by ztrww 3y ago
> whose been affected by an organized crime syndicate I can’t think of anyone I know who has been affected by holes in the ozone layer. Must be a fabricated government boogeyman designed to force me to buy an inferior fridge. Law enforce
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The UK is especially bad because of its very restrictive libel laws, since it puts the burden of proof on the defendant.
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HUAWEI MateBook 16 has one so somebody must make them.
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Income tax? Publicly funded education? Innumerable (in a comment) other things especially including Medicaid and Medicare? > Not taking guns doesn’t require anyone’s labor, It does. Somebody has to take care of all the bodies. Mass shoot
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by ztrww 3y ago
birth rates are going down and if current trends continue total population should start decreasing at some point. But everything comes down to that. Human societies existed and even slowly grew in much worse conditions. So I’m sure what co

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