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by tosc 4y ago
Right, but there is an exception for carriers such as Twitter from being treated as publishers, responsible for the material they distribute and monetize from their website. They aren’t treated like press , but they need to be.
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by tosc 4y ago
> theres a good chance they’ll screw something up like the waterproofing seal or leave a loose connection that you won't notice until weeks later You must be strongly opposed to right to repair, since repair shops are incompetent to
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by tosc 4y ago
> Repairability is orthogonal to reliability This is clearly not true when we’re discussing user replaceable batteries or the like. It’s a trade off, like most things in engineering. There are many extra ways things can go wrong by makin
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by tosc 4y ago
> My interests as a consumer and those of "people who make money out of repair" are almost completely aligned I don’t see how. The less reliable the device is, the more business they get. The more reliable the device is, the
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by tosc 4y ago
We shouldn’t legislate repairability at the expense of reliability. The only people that benefits are repair shops. That should be up to the user to choose, as it is now.
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by tosc 4y ago
Yeah - it’s fairly obvious that linked article is in bad faith. The 79-pound repair kit is what Apple uses in its stores to avoid damaging phones that remain under warranty. If people want to buy a bunch of cheap tools and risk damaging a d
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by tosc 4y ago
It seems like weird logic to legislate that Apple and Samsung must make their phones less reliable for everyone simply because a 5 year old phone made by a cut price manufacturer is no longer supported. Why did you buy the ASUS phone if y
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by tosc 4y ago
Just because people who make money out of repair are making this claim, doesn’t make it true. See for example: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/04/apples-self-service-r...
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by tosc 4y ago
You don’t have to buy a new phone to replace the battery. Just take it to any repair shop.
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by tosc 4y ago
This is just wrong. Replaceable batteries add cost and fragility to the device, make battery life worse , and most phones die because they stop getting software updates anyway. Replaceable batteries will increase e-waste because there wil
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by tosc 4y ago
Why not just stop using Twitter? Who cares whether the FBI has its thumb on the scales or if it’s Elon Musk and his friends? “The world’s digital town square” is a marketing slogan , and nothing more. If you instead accept that is simply
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by tosc 4y ago
Who said anything about doing nothing? Why not just accept that there’s been a Cold War going on all along and we’ve just been pretending otherwise.
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by tosc 4y ago
Ok, this is fine, but that means we have to classify Twitter as press , with all of the responsibilities as a publisher that this entails.
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by tosc 4y ago
So every troll and bot farm should be able to have each tweet judged by a jury?
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by tosc 4y ago
Man that is so horrible. Not all places are like that. Unfortunately it tends to be smaller places that are more trustworthy. I suggest that at very least you may need a good immigration attorney.
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by tosc 4y ago
There is no ‘finished’. We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
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by tosc 4y ago
> Create & grow a community of your dreams with all the features you love from HackerNews (and more!) How did you replicate dang? Was there enough history to train a large language model?
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by tosc 4y ago
> The official narative is: China bad, America good. This isn’t accurate. The official narrative is that America’s way of life is under threat from China. This is just true. China would say the same thing, and that would be true too.
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by tosc 4y ago
> I described what is supposed to happen, Not very relevant to those for whom it doesn’t. > and what happens most of the time. This blithely elides the possibility that it’s not random who it happens for and who it doesn’t. Have you
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by tosc 4y ago
> He would have been arrested then released on bail and made the next flight. They would both be presumed innocent until proven guilty. Why do you assume this?
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by tosc 4y ago
> It’s highly unlikely that there’s some individual out there that’s in charge of both situations What a bizarre straw-man. Of course there is no individual. There are numerous democratically elected policymakers. What difference does
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by tosc 4y ago
It’s only a multibillion dollar fraud, so it’s fine for him to fly first class. Imagine if instead he’d been caught selling loose cigarettes on a street corner.
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by tosc 4y ago
> But when you examine it, it doesn’t really make any sense at all. It’s a great way to perpetuate inequality, especially wholly unearned inequality. This paragraph doesn’t make any sense at all either. The reason is that there is no mea
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by tosc 4y ago
Have you tried putting gravel in your socks at the beginning of the day? It feels great when you get home and finally take them off.
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by tosc 4y ago
That expectation has generally been based on having a well respected CEO. Having no CEO may reasonably affect expectations.
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by tosc 4y ago
Is there any evidence the “view count” is accurate? Apparently it’s just an estimate based on analytics, and I see no reason they wouldn’t just overstate it.
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by tosc 4y ago
Improperly?
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by tosc 4y ago
Because the time before their birth is not in the future?
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by tosc 4y ago
Do you mean people with terminal illness?
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by tosc 4y ago
Why does anyone care?

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