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throw47474777j
3y ago
App Stores, the web, etc. How else does software as a service get sold? It’s not a new thing. Probably a lot of these things will just end up as features in existing systems.
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> but whose populations are nonetheless healthier. Population health is not caused by medicine. > Or are you talking about the problem of the severe ideological divide? Since you suggested that ideology is the “problem”, I would in fa
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3y ago
Why wouldn't people just use existing software markets?
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> The fundamental loophole is that "the free market" is practically a religion in the United States Blaming something for being practically a religion is about as empty a piece of reasoning as it's possible to make. Why no
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3y ago
It’s an imaginary line.
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3y ago
Apple didn’t mainstream anything, indeed they withdrew the plan after the discourse was overwhelmingly opposed to the idea.
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3y ago
A smart person who systematically mis-categorizes the world is worse than an idiot acting at random.
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3y ago
Or not, and these aren’t really analogies and in fact are just gibberish.
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3y ago
Battery replacements aren’t prohibitively expensive, and iPhone at least don’t get ‘thrown out’ - they get recycled or reconditioned.
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3y ago
It's a linux distro. It was already open source.
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> I'm sorry I just cannot understand your point at all. Unnecessary batteries being sold = people profiting from waste.
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3y ago
Always at a cost.
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> Why exactly would people change batteries that don't need to be changed? Phones do have battery health indicators, and buying one costs money. You can't seriously be saying you don't understand why people buy things they
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3y ago
More materials will be used. People will change batteries that don’t need to be changed, and will buy and carry more batteries than they need. There will be a massive inventory of batteries in the supply chain, many of which will simply
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3y ago
Harming the world more like, by making phones more fragile and less reliable.
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> you did posit in the previous reply that it's completely expected and a fact of life that larger powers overtake these smaller ones I think you’re just making that you, but in case you aren’t you’ll be able to quote where I said t
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> but they need more time learning They don’t need more time . They need a serious curriculum.
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3y ago
I’ve heard it argued by historians that there were likely to have been multiple prototypes of the antykythera mechanism, but each one was recycled to produce the next.
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3y ago
How reliable is Musk to report on this?
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3y ago
Are you a professional keyboard user? If so, I'd prioritize picking the keyboard that suits you best over price.
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Agreed. It looks like they are trying to manufacture a controversy in the hopes of raising their own profile. Dark.
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3y ago
With comments like these, it doesn’t really look like that’s what you’re up to.
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> Let's say China started supporting people in Guam who want independence Sounds like you’ve forgotten that Russia marched on Ukraine’s capital, deliberately shelling civilian targets, and Ukraine fought off the Russians on their ow
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> It’s pretty much the same thing Russia is doing. Complete gibberish. You can’t seriously be claiming that cities in Guam are being turned to rubble under heavy artillery fire, and children being kidnapped etc. Ukraine is at war .
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Why stop there? Humans were already eclipsed between 3800-3500 BCE when oxen began to be used for ploughing instead of people working the land with hand tools.
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It is possible to both agree with fighting back and trying to keep the peace such as it exists, and at the same time realize it’s obviously absurd to try to undo all the aggressions stretching back through history.
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> If we did not spend those extra tens of billions per year in projecting power, we could better serve our students, workers, retirees, infrastructure, etc. This is laughable. If we didn’t spend billions projecting power, we’d be much p
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Are you saying the natives didn’t fight back?
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> I'm quoted in the post. Quoted by your employee who wrote the post? At your request? To generate traffic for your site?
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3y ago
Google could actually take note of the issue and work to improve their reputation. Then these comments would die away.
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