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by writepub 7y ago
I'm assuming most jailbreakers probably don't want to enable piracy, but just want to use apps that Apple won't compete with fairly - like Steam game streaming, or a browser built with an alternate engine like chromium.
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by writepub 7y ago
Request to Apple: Just let this slide and see how it plays out. Remember when you took out SuperBowl ads [1] demonizing authoritarian, totalitarian megacorps that told you how to think and what to do - YOU are that company in 2019. Maybe if
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by writepub 7y ago
The only thing you haven't accounted for is buying power. Income comparisons have to be normalized along with buying power. $12K in China-2019 is likely greater than $32K USA-1984??
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by writepub 7y ago
> Because you managed to get under my skin... I'm not betting on the remainder of your comment being objective. In 2019 if someone can get under your skin by just politely asking for evidence, maybe just maybe, you aren't enga
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by writepub 7y ago
Regardless of the attempt here at painting a country's foreign policy as partisan, any given country favors one U.S. party over the other. Right now, China probably favors a Democrat led government, so does Iran. The U.S. probably favo
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by writepub 7y ago
And how's this different from America spying on Israel, or any of the five eyes nations it claims to not spy against? Every country spies on everyone else.
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by writepub 7y ago
The money comes from lobbyists for previous incumbents in those industries, like legacy taxi, hotel, restaurant... businesses. Those legacy businesses also tend to have stronger Union bases
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by writepub 7y ago
No you shouldn't be writing in Ada. Embedded software running all kinds of sensitive workloads, from pacemakers to routers/switches use C for it's superior tooling, universal support across compilers and chip vendors, massive
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by writepub 7y ago
The lesson here is for Uber drivers to realize it can't be a career, and quit, just like you did. I don't believe they're being compelled or misled into driving for Uber/Lyft. Additionally, mass exodus of drivers from Ub
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by writepub 7y ago
Do you really trust Apple with yours? [1][2]. [1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351 [2] https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/29/stop-apple-listening-siri-rec...
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by writepub 7y ago
Every one of those features appeared in Chinese & Korean Android phones 2-3 years ago. Neither are these "feats", nor are they unique to Apple. They're already behind the curve on these features. The only commendable thin
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by writepub 7y ago
Tesla... Saving the lives of sleepy divers since 2018
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by writepub 7y ago
Where is the analysis on the percentage of traffic served via IPFS to back up any claims of the benefits of IPFS. It appears to me that Cloudflare accepts IPFS as (another) source for it's CDN operations & any benefits of flat CPU
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by writepub 7y ago
I've been cynical & critical about iOS Safari's standards compliance. I hope their own use of web components and other modern web standards leads to better compliance for iOS Safari.
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by writepub 7y ago
Not going to happen. Apple has a very realpolitik approach to it's totalitarianism. China is not an adversary Apple can take on, by it's own internal judgement. Hence, iCloud China runs on Chinese government controlled cloud wit
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by writepub 7y ago
1. Sandboxing doesn't need apple's app store, it's manual policy enforcement and arbitrary anti competitive rejections. Many, many sandboxes have existed with well documented permissioning systems that don't need anointi
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by writepub 7y ago
What exactly is Apple's role in the sale of digital goods? You made a comparison to selling via Walmart, which is a false equivalency. The app store can easily work like podcasts aggregating RSS feeds from developers, it's just th
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by writepub 7y ago
> as you don’t try to sell things through it Why? Why does Apple insist on playing middleman, if not for totalitarian control over all commerce on the platform? How is this not monopolistic anti-trust behavior?
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by writepub 7y ago
Internet killed the paper star. Before news went online, good, reliable content was paid for with subscriptions. Going online, paired with the rise of social media changed what it meant for content to be "good" - redefined it to s
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by writepub 7y ago
While the advice is valid and agreeable, many people have already used Facebook successfully for dating, based on many of the same parameters FB plans to use. Only difference being the degrees of separation - without FB's dating app, i
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by writepub 7y ago
There is already a computer in the SSD, replete with DRAM, multcore CPU, custom math acceleration (depending on SSD design and vendor), etc.
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by writepub 7y ago
Keyword advertising's entire premise is based on advertising against keywords, the system is working as designed, and I do not believe Basecamp needs to buy an ad if someone is already searching for "basecamp". On the other
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by writepub 7y ago
Pricing does not work this way [1]. Smaller companies tend to offer a lot more accessible support, which is not as loudly advertised. In any case, if pricing did work this way, Saas would be a race to the bottom, which the market has shown
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by writepub 7y ago
Indeed - contrarian viewpoints are to be avoided at all costs for productively mass converging on falsehoods.
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by writepub 7y ago
Glad to see Israel has nothing to do with this. Wherever CBP presence increases, questionings increase, regardless of race. To frame this tension as harassment targeting natives is disingenuous. CBP often gets accused of racism, especial
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by writepub 7y ago
The article, ahem hit piece, basically reports on surveillance commonplace along the border. But, by picking a border reservation, the exact same surveillance is falsely setting CBP up as a bogeyman apparently racist towards natives - all
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by writepub 7y ago
After browsing through your site I see that you're a kid, and see how you might be inclined to classifying certain creator-narrated-advertising to be amoral. The video you cite has high production quality, with a ton of time put into i
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by writepub 7y ago
American media picks sides. Most lean left, a few lean right. When a guest with opposing views does decide to come on, you'll see a lot more challenge than the usual friendlies. It has gotten so bad that the Democratic party regularly
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by writepub 7y ago
No - Google should be liable if it enables repeat offenders to purchase ad-dollars and SEO their way up to the top. At that point, Google isn't an innocent by-stander, but enabler. The article mentions a clear pattern, where the base U
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by writepub 7y ago
When Google indexes reputation impacting personal information, it is not verifying the authenticity of the information. This leads to a potential market for reputation harming falsehoods to be SEO-ed to the top of search results. Sure, sect

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