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by null_object 5y ago
> There are cultural differences, I put my smokes out and bin them There always has to be a Swede saying stuff like this. Living in Stockholm I see THOUSANDS of cigarette butts lying around on the ground, all the time. Reminds me of wh
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A Covid Origin Conspiracy?(city-journal.org)
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by null_object 5y ago
> I was eventually forced to upgrade my iPad because the YouTube app stopped working due to a required update that was unavailable for my device Which iPad is this? I’m running YouTube Premium on an iPad Air from 2013 - soon 9 years old.
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by null_object 5y ago
> Note that that 6-7 year "support" includes updates that will make you hate your phone My kid is still using an iPhone 6s and loves it. It works perfectly.
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by null_object 5y ago
> Most of the iPhone users I see… Instead of making knee-jerk anti-Apple assumptions, you might try to check some facts. edit: apparently the statistics I linked are behind a paywall, but the stats from the app I'm working on show m
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by null_object 5y ago
> Do you even look at Swedish mainstream media ever? These matters are definitely not widely discussed in "mainstream media" - I'd be interested in some citations if you think I'm wrong. I'd say they are known an
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by null_object 5y ago
> In Sweden's blinkered, self glorifying version, Sweden really were neutral (in the intuitive, common sense understanding of the term), when in reality they aided the nazis a lot I think you're being unfairly downvoted here, b
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by null_object 5y ago
I think most of us are feeling some schadenfreude because the poster is ripping-off a law-firm - but the disappointment for me is that (for the most part) (s)he seems to be treating it as an 8-hour day where (s)he simply skips work - which
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by null_object 5y ago
> And also will be unauthorized since they own no rights to derivative work (or even the original work) I'm sorry for the confusion, but my post was supposed to be humorous. On reflection I think there's nothing that can actual
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by null_object 5y ago
> the "core team" has started paying themselves ~$30k a month each But don't forget this team has the Q1 deliverable of presenting "a film treatment and budget by Roble Ridge Productions for the original animated limi
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SpiceDAO wins a $3M auction to buy a rare book of Dune(web3isgoinggreat.com)
3 points by null_object 5y ago|0 comments
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by null_object 5y ago
I started following some Tumblr blogs just last week after a 2 or 3 year hiatus. I fell in love again with not having to log-in to see the content, or being blocked after simply scrolling through a few user-provided thumbnails. Articles lik
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by null_object 5y ago
This is like HN bingo - how many posts before someone blames Apple for something totally unconnected. Yesterday a poster blamed them somehow for Tesla leaving a brake pad off a car..
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by null_object 5y ago
> I've never seen an American-style SUV in Western Europe I was actually thinking about these SUVs this morning, as their were two Cadillac Escalades [0] parked on my block in central Stockholm as I walked my kid to school. The
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by null_object 5y ago
> You can install your own browser on your own iOS device, you simply can't distribute it through the App Store. Or you can use one of the plentiful choices of browser that are distributed on the App Store and still updated for iOS
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by null_object 5y ago
> iOS also doesn't allow the browser to be updated after the hardware has reached end-of-support. Just simply not true. Plenty of browsers are still updated for iOS12 and 8-year old hardware like the 2013 iPad Air (which I still use
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by null_object 5y ago
> It's not like you can even install Firefox to get around it There are plenty of browser alternatives still compatible with iOS12 and 8-year old iPad hardware. I have no idea how this myth has become so entrenched on HN.
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by null_object 5y ago
> Apple made sure she can't get a new browser so that she would purchase a new device. period. Just bullshit. There are plenty of browsers being updated and fully compatible with iOS 12.
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by null_object 5y ago
> and you can't install any other browser. This is totally incorrect. There are a large number of alternatives. I still use an 8 year old iPad every day, and have an updated version of iCab Mobile running on it, which has given me
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by null_object 5y ago
> The current fiat system (and the Governments that control it) are completely enslaved to the welfare (pension) and healthcare demands of baby boomers. If we can craft a new financial system without spending 15%+ of our GDP and rising o
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by null_object 5y ago
Exactly this - my youngest is still using an iPhone 6s which is running the latest (iOS 15) version just fine, after only one battery update. We bought it in 2015.
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by null_object 5y ago
I cannot get over how much moaning and whinging people on HN do about supposedly not being able to choose their search-engine on iOS "without jail-breaking" their device when simply switching to another browser like iCab Mobile me
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by null_object 5y ago
The city council in Stockholm in the 60s had a plan to empty what they saw was the slum-center of the town, the residents of which they felt were morally degenerate, and move them out to the suburbs. The working classes would then commute i
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by null_object 5y ago
> I grew up in Stockholm and it too sadly is very, very car centric compared to Tokyo. Amsterdam, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Paris and others are much better... I’m really glad to see this because I moved from central London to central Stock
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by null_object 5y ago
> All of them (except for one) wanted to come back full-time, with some notable exceptions for hybrid. Some employees have kids so they went hybrid, but once schools reopened they all went back full-time in the office. We had the same op
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by null_object 5y ago
> Well I guess my own experiences with Apple reviews must be fictional garbage too then! This has fallen off the front page, so I’m asking out of real curiosity: 1. Have you genuinely had an app rejection that states that the reviewer ty
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by null_object 5y ago
> They will go to the search bar and type in “milf” or “butts” (I wish I were joking). They’ll try to search for drugs on your marketplace. If your app runs scripts, they’ll try downloading something and then yell at you for letting them
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by null_object 5y ago
> Have you ever taken a 30 minute bike ride over ice-and-snow-covered roads, in -20C temperatures, in the dark, on roads with no street lights or sidewalks (the sun sets at 2:00pm)? This is exactly the circular problem that everyone in S
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by null_object 5y ago
> weren’t for the fact that it seems like the only current and useful learning resources are Apples WWDC videos and similar content I don't know what you mean by "and similar content" but even though I agree that Apple&#x2
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by null_object 5y ago
So far all the comments are predictably negative and imply that Apple will at some time in the future attempt to covertly implement the feature in secret. Another take would be that they took on-board the extensive public criticism, and cha

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