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by bouncing 2y ago
Sure. I'm just pointing out that regardless of branding, the quality of the products is (1) not equal, (2) still correlated with where the vehicle is assembled.
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by bouncing 2y ago
I would argue that point, at least somewhat. Even among Japanese cars, you can see in reliability reports the difference between cars where the final assembly is in the US or Mexico vs final assembly in Japan. For example the Mazdas truly m
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by bouncing 2y ago
The new Lincoln Nautilus, for that matter, is made in China.
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by bouncing 2y ago
The stance of the US is that ByteDance has to sell off what is already a separate product (TikTok). Google, Facebook etc don't have a "Chinese market" product at all, so there's nothing to sell off. If they did have a Ch
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by bouncing 2y ago
> And it's even more implausible to think China would allow this as a result of a US law aimed at limiting China's power. Well that’s the crux, isn’t it. If TikTok is just a business, like ByteDance insists, any business would
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by bouncing 2y ago
"Never discuss politics or religion in polite company." Sometimes, grandpa's advice was good advice.
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by bouncing 2y ago
See also Bulma; you can totally get by without JS for most projects, though again, you'll miss out on the more interactive things.
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by bouncing 2y ago
Again, iCloud is super-opaque, so it's hard to know exactly what's going on. As far as I can tell, when you add a file to an iCloud folder, it indexes it locally, uploads it, and the index sticks around even after the file is evic
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by bouncing 2y ago
I switched from Google Drive to iCloud in 2021. I haven’t looked back, but also, my use is neither heavy nor demanding. I just keep my documents in iCloud and otherwise use git for my heavy lifting professionally. iCloud is opaque. It tells
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by bouncing 2y ago
That's totally a good point and I don't mean to say you haven't got me on that. The one thing I might point out, though, is that environmentalism wasn't a cultural shift, it was mostly just a response to a practical prob
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by bouncing 2y ago
Well, the civil rights movements is about as individual as it gets. In the past, collectively , groups had responsibilities. Women had a duty to society to raise children and blacks had a duty to not rock the boat. The civil rights movemen
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by bouncing 2y ago
Hanson seems to suggest that the cultural drift is aimless or unguided. I'd argue the opposite. There are exceptions to this, especially very recently, but almost all cultural shifts in the west of the past 150 years can be traced to o
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by bouncing 2y ago
Android has handled this fine since approximately forever. It focuses the element, but doesn't necessarily bring up the keyboard until you tap it.
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by bouncing 2y ago
That's more or less how HTML has always been. Before Chrome, it was IE just adding stuff. Before IE, it was Netscape just adding stuff. JavaScript itself is just a browser adding stuff. Like it or not, W3C standards have always been re
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by bouncing 2y ago
I find that often, having a tool that enhances something you never did doesn’t make you start doing that thing. But there are exceptions. I never had an address book or calendar until I had a Palm Pilot. It might have just been that I was b
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by bouncing 2y ago
There are debates and groups on other networks. But there aren’t schisms over alt text or content warnings for food on Threads.
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by bouncing 2y ago
I would rephrase it: mastodon is full of cliques. The cliques form around moderation, politics, whether they federate with Threads.net, what content warnings are used, and even whether alt text is “required” for images. Then some instances
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by bouncing 2y ago
It’s unlikely you’ll lose it all, but suppose you write a clever app — maybe a cvs editor. Suppose you find out your cvs editor infringes on a patent and you’re liable. Suppose some business suffers data loss and sues. These things do happe
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by bouncing 2y ago
I went down the deep dive of “falsehoods programmers believe about names” [1] and on my most recent project, made the name field a completely open ended text field; let the users type what they want. It ended up being a quick mistake, espec
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by bouncing 2y ago
So your liability is limited. That’s like asking why you need a seatbelt. You can get the simple company type (disregarded entity) and all the advantages of limited liability with an LLC.
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by bouncing 2y ago
There are a lot of reasons not to form a sole proprietorship. You have personal liability, for one.
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by bouncing 2y ago
I had my first LLC in grade school over a summer. I didn’t make a ton of money, but I did earn enough for my first real computer, which launched my interest in programming. When my wife started her current business as a consultant, she was
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by bouncing 2y ago
Your individual identity is tied to the EIN, LLC, and bank account. I doubt it’s that useful for tax evasion. Each little step of friction discourages some entrepreneurs and adds barriers to entry for incumbents to prevent competition. And
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by bouncing 2y ago
Not to brag, but there are so few things to actually feel some civic pride for in America, and business registration is one of them, so I guess we have that. I can get an IRS EIN (tax ID), register an LLC, obtain a sales tax license (only r
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by bouncing 2y ago
And here I thought it was just a Thievery Corporation album.
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by bouncing 3y ago
Would a lot of those Delta customers be loungers though? I seldom buy food at an airport because I can just drink and eat for free in the lounge.
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by bouncing 3y ago
Maybe it depends on how it’s measured, but I’m not sure about the largest employer claim. I found this list: https://www.careeronestop.org/Toolkit/Jobs/find-largest-empl... Is your count perhaps including all the
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by bouncing 3y ago
I’d wager the C Suite at Apple, at most, approved PWA support but it was an engineer-boosted project. In contrast the DMA compliance stuff is definitely driven exclusively by the legal and strategic teams. The legal team isn’t concerned wit
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by bouncing 3y ago
You’re conflating two separate issues. One is App Store distribution. The per install license thing is bullshit but it might comply with the law. Keep in mind the DMA was written to privilege companies like Spotify, not to give you a proper
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by bouncing 3y ago
Saying that some channels are not censored thus no censorship happens is obviously wrong.

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