xazo

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by xazo 4y ago
It's already a competitive landscape. If you feel Apple is unfairly charging you extra for something, then you have a myriad number of Android and other phones to choose from. On the other hand, if Apple's model allows them to bet
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by xazo 4y ago
I never understand people who make this argument. Everyone has choice, go buy an Android phone and install/customize whatever you want. Apple has chosen what parts of their OS and user experience they control versus what part they let
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by xazo 4y ago
That's a trivial amount to enable Apple to provide documentation and tooling support for developers. I doubt it comes anywhere close to paying for all the libraries and frameworks they develop and maintain.
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by xazo 4y ago
The other stores wouldn't be paying for the ongoing development and maintenance of the iOS, UIKit, OpenGL/Metal, etc. That stuff is NOT cheap to develop and maintain. The final app that you see is trivial compared to the mountain
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by xazo 7y ago
I agree with all of your points. But there is more going on here. Take a look at the top 5 strongest men in the world. They spend their days working out and probably burn more calories in a day than I do in a week. They have big, strong
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by xazo 7y ago
> requires the much harder task of fundamentally changing your brain's relationship to food. The only way that happens is through practice and painful failure. I've been on this journey for over ten years now -- basically on th
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by xazo 7y ago
> I hear this and other fad internet diet stuff all the time I've been eating a lower carb diet with portion control for more than 10 years now with little to no exercise. I recently changed into a low carb diet. Over this 10 year
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by xazo 7y ago
I don't know about morbidly but have definitely seen many manual laborers that would be considered obese. If you want to be thin, spend >80% of your effort in the kitchen. If you want to be strong, join a gym.
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by xazo 7y ago
> ... your brain thinks you're starving and has all sorts of ways to wear down your will ... I thought losing weight was about willpower and starving as well. But you can only keep that up for so long until your willpower breaks.
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by xazo 7y ago
I recently finished reading Allen Carr's book "Good Sugar Bad Sugar: Eat yourself free from sugar and carb addiction". He's written a number of books to overcome many types of addiction and has clinics to help people wi
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by xazo 8y ago
A more informative title would be "Is Neuroscience a Bigger Threat to Human Distinctiveness than AI?"