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by toolcombinator 5y ago
This is part of Apple’s problem right now. They’ve lost focus. TV shows, cars, VR headsets, six different iPad models. So the small stuff suffers: iOS. OS X. AirPods. Airdrop. Airdrop just stopped working for me recently. The clock app in
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
Yeah, the US has a problem with spending more on healthcare than any other country, but it isn’t a “profit” or “administrative overhead” problem. (Insurance companies have legally limited profit margins on health insurance.) Does multiple p
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
Nah, I see it too. YouTube is especially bad.
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
Imagine sitting and complaining about “techno optimism”, when the very thing you write your screed on, is a product of it. Instant access to a world wide fountain of knowledge, a super computer in your pocket, never having seen hunger and t
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
Nope. First of all, healthcare in many European countries is often insurance based. Yes, in some cases it’s socialized. And in those places the healthcare system is rapidly falling apart/getting worse, and everyone who can afford it go
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
Funny how the people always banging on about the evils of capitalism have never actually lived under a communist system. And also seem to believe there’s some sort of socialist Utopia in Europe/Scandinavia, despite the fact that social
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
Don’t forget: “Entrepreneurs are evil!” Because you know, entrepreneurs aren’t an integral part of who helps shape the future. They’re evil capitalists. And in the future they’ll be evil space capitalists.
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
Techno optimism wasn’t just a sci-fi thing, it was the spirit of the times to a large extent in the Western World and Eastern Block alike. All the “Better living through chemistry” and dreams of tiny nuclear power reactors in every car and
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
If you look back at sci-fi from the 60ies, despite it appearing utopian today, it often dealt with the anxieties and issues of the day. Trek is a good example. It’s often hailed as “utopian” and “visionary” today, totally ignoring the Cold
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
I always liked SGA better, but you’re definitely right about SG 1. Which of course begs another question: SG1 was made in a time that we can call the Golden Age of TV Sci fi, along with the Trek shows, Farscape and many more. (Though grante
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
I just can’t take it seriously when the author presents such falsehoods as Western “vaccine greed”. (Both Moderna and Pfizer’s have made vaccines available at cost and promised not to go after parent infringement for the duration of the pan
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
Thanks for the tip! Don’t know the guy/blog but looks interesting! Also, I kinda miss the early 10’s where everyone was slightly less insane. This guy’s writing reminds me of those days!
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
The thing is that there are a lot of people out there who don’t particularly like fruits and vegetables (gourds or not), who can’t be bothered to spend hours every day on cooking “Real food” and/or who can’t afford “real food”.
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
I lost 75 Lbs thanks to cutting sugar and a ketonic diet. I’m down to my ideal weight, but going back on the diet after a break, because I find that it works for me. Considering that it was physicians who started the whole fat panic of the
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
Good for you! Glad to hear you found something that works!
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
There’s no doubt that Apple has the building blocks for a console, between the A X/M X SOCs, Metal, Apple Arcade and Apple TV. The only question is if they really want to further overextend themselves. They’re already slipping on softw
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
Nonsense. Modern reactors are safe. Even the old (inherently unsafe) reactors like the Soviet Chernobyl style design aren’t some sort of apocalyptical danger. Less than 40 people died in one of the most serious accidents ever (Chernobyl). T
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
And that’s why the US has been falling behind in the Nuclear industry around the world. A growing number of countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa are looking to nuclear power as a clean and cheap source of energy. But they’re going
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
The increased prison population because the war on drugs, was far from a “Nixon and Reagan project” as the post and linked Netflix documentary tries to portray it. In fact it was a bipartisan effort, where the Congressional Black Caucus pla
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
At this point it’s probably cheaper and easier for Apple just to pull in app painment from the Dutch market, and encourage local devs to use paid apps. The Netherlands is a tiny market after all, and there’s a political price to be paid her
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
They can always just withdraw the dating apps in question. It’s Apples store and they get to choose who get to be there.
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
The Abraham Accords that helped promote and support this realignment was one of the major achievements of Trump’s foreign policies. Unfortunately, the current administration has shown little interest or support for the initiative.
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
Sorry, I don’t see this succeeding for some of the same reasons why you don’t see open source jetliners. Software is one thing. Anyone can sit down and write software. Chip production though? Unless you look at the most simple of designs, y
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
Sounds like you might want to give Dragonfly a try!
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
The central problem here, is that RYF, just like the FSF itself, is outdated and hasn’t been relevant for a decade or more. It’s a dinosaur from another era with its hypocritical RAM vs ROM policies, or “secondary processor” loopholes. It a
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
The problem of course is that Purism markets the phone for security conscious people. Not hackers who have the skills and impulse to mess around with binary blobs and microcode. That’s dishonest. Go take a look at the Purism’s website about
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
I don’t mean to be rude, but your theoretical “1 monopolistic player” goes against practical experience. Let’s look at how privatization works in for example Europe. One (private) company owns the infrastructure (the actual railways) and pr
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
And btw: This whole debate is outdated, and like something out of a socialist pamphlet ca 1995. Public vs. private transport has mostly been settled, and the private sector won. All over Europe and in much of the rest of the world, public t
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by toolcombinator 5y ago
Sounds like this issue has more to do with poor planning than public vs. private.