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by d1zzy 5y ago
This is a very smart strategic move on behalf of Microsoft that I would have never guessed (not because it doesn't make sense but simply out of corporate pride, considering they are the authors of the "Linux Facts" memorandum
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by d1zzy 5y ago
> If you sell your house, even in a sellers market like today, you will immediately become a buyer in a seller’s market, facing the same inflated costs to get back into a house. Whether it's a seller's market, buyer's mark
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by d1zzy 5y ago
I also have Win 10 pro. How have you disabled ads and app store/one drive?
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by d1zzy 5y ago
More like $200 if you want Pro (retail) license and still get the same ads. I find it completely unacceptable.
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by d1zzy 5y ago
Having to use something like Steam (Internet based DRM) to play games effortlessly on Linux seems to beat the purpose. At that point I'd rather just have a separate Windows 10 install where all I do is just gaming.
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by d1zzy 5y ago
> - google can push chrome on people in their search results. and google pushed HARD. So hard they dominate the browser market and chrome is unfortunately not known for privacy. I didn't pay Google $200 (Windows 10 Pro retaile I pay
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by d1zzy 5y ago
2 ways I can answer this: 1. Personally, working from home has been a mixed bag. When I'm allowed to focus on one single task, I can do pretty well. The comforts of having my own office room, high quality monitors, keyboard and speaker
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by d1zzy 5y ago
> Maybe album cover art is just less meaningful in the year 2021. I couldn't care less what the album art looks like when listening to music on Spotify or YouTube. Do you listen to full albums or just mixes/random? I see it mu
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by d1zzy 5y ago
I don't think I qualify for either introvert or extrovert (that is, I tend to be self-reflective about some things and outgoing about others). There are plenty of other reasons too. It is much faster to communicate face to face (for me
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by d1zzy 5y ago
You mean how all these Amazon attack articles are focusing on the systematic problem and not narrowly on a single company /s
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by d1zzy 5y ago
Because the discussion is only focused on Amazon. If instead all such articles and complains would be "Amazon, among many other companies, give workers incentives to pee in bottles" then I would pay a lot more attention to it. Bec
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by d1zzy 5y ago
Well, at some point they will have managed to remove all need for unskilled labor and then everyone will be happy, right? /s
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by d1zzy 5y ago
Agreed. I may not have agreed with most things Amazon twitter said but IMO it was definitely refreshing to see a company answering back instead of being just a punching bag mute for the politicians to score easy wins like "hey look how
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by d1zzy 5y ago
Amazon is a big employer: what's the percentage of Amazon's employees engage in that? What's the percentage of employees of any other large employer, that directly competes with Amazon (so same market) that engage in similar
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by d1zzy 5y ago
Which seems to apply to some of our politicians too. Like the reply from Elizabeth Warren saying that maybe Amazon should be split up because then maybe they wouldn't have time to criticize elected officials. Or otherwise "stop cr
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by d1zzy 5y ago
I don't think having more wealth per capita is unreasonable, unexpected or unfair. In life you acquire things over time (capital, skills, experience, relationships), you get more of this the more time passes so it's to be expected
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by d1zzy 5y ago
My wife liked it so much we bought a couple of new ones when the product was retired just to make sure we'll have at least one working for decades to come. Still using one every day.
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by d1zzy 5y ago
Indeed I noticed the 2018 Macbook Pro became a much more useful machine for work and I was a lot more productive once I started using it clamshell-mode only with external keyboard/mouse/monitors.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
I think it mostly boils down to business loss that they would otherwise incur if they set themselves against those companies and thought them tooth and nail (the actual lawsuit cost would be insignificant). Meaning, no Google/Youtube M
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by d1zzy 6y ago
> No, that's not correct. Google goes above and beyond what the DMCA requires in order to curry favor with the movie/TV/music studios. Presumably Content ID was a part of Google's bend-over-backwards settlement with
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by d1zzy 6y ago
> Do you honestly believe that the person can look around any code base and find significant speed increases? In my experience, YES! It is often the new set of eyes (especially if they are on a a smart head with lots of time, energy and
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Yeah I would actually argue that a minimum amount of corruption IS necessary in real life. Unless you live in a utopian society with perfect laws and application of them, corruption allows to move wheels that otherwise take forever to move
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Was the shared data as a result of a lawful request? Any company would have to comply in that case.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
And you make that trade by using another browser (or Internet search service, email service, etc).
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Yeah, but on the other hand... http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160809-your-car-is-not-your...
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by d1zzy 6y ago
The stock compensation is a huge factor. $200k base salary but expect at least $100k/year from stock grants and with the crazy high increasing valuation of tech company stocks that can easily double.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
And how many of the people using Firefox use it with uBlock? I know I don't :)
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by d1zzy 6y ago
> Because it's too easy to say "I want to raise a healthy family", therefore it's a poor signal. Proving yourself with work, well remunerated or not, is a better signal. I think that's a fair thing to say but one
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Childless != lonely, or not having plenty of social contacts. Having kids tend to force one to deal with a certain number of issues which requires socializing of some form, so it may help for those that aren't naturally outgoing and so
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by d1zzy 6y ago
> but we should not discourage homemaking and stigmatize people who want to raise children. Nor should we stigmatize those that do not have a career and do not have children. Because that's a thing too. So it rather seems that the s

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