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Apple is, and has been for a very long time, both a hardware and software company. They sell this as an advantage. Since long before the iPhone was a thing.

“More and more, software is getting integrated into the hardware… Yesterday’s software is today’s hardware. Those two things are merging. And the line between hardware and software is going to get finer and finer and finer. And one of the ways that we’re approaching the problem of trying to remove the barrier is to try to look ahead a few years and try to make some predictions at how the technologies are merging, and at the same time very carefully looking at the kinds of high level tools our customers are going to need and trying to make those two points the same target.“

  —Steve Jobs, 1980

As a disclaimer, I’ve written Swift, but this seems to be a simple concept. The first name is the interface and is used at the call site, and the second (optional) name is used within the scope of the function, should the developer want a more descriptive name.

I don't see it on desktop, which means I don't get to see Mowgli and I'm pretty disappointed about that.

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Yes, I was talking more about the statement, “There's just no competition for price.” But as it was pointed out to me (several times over, lol) that it’s not always so simple when price matching.

Did you read in the article the part about Best Buy matching prices? That seems to undercut your assertion that price is a differentiator.

You’re missing my point. If the argument is: "We're in the middle of a global pandemic quite possibly caused by Chinese people consuming animals that shouldn't be consumed,” then I would like to be clear that swine should also not be consumed, as they too have caused a global pandemic.

So long as that threshold is based on science and not, “they eat weird stuff,” I’m okay with that.

If the threshold is: has caused pandemic, then swine is off the table, pun intended.

No it’s not. Nobody is saying that the 2009 swine flu pandemic was anything but that. It was a global pandemic.

Don’t say seat belts don’t matter for us because the other car was a hatchback instead of a pickup. They were both still car accidents.

How do you quantify the risk, and where is the line drawn?

That's a bit like the fallacy of relative privation: Because what the west does isn't as bad, they aren't culpable. Again, there was a global pandemic caused by pig farming just 11 short years ago, and everybody is still eating bacon.

I’m not sure being wild is a good indicator. I would think the opposite might be true wherein industrial farming and close quarters would cause more disease, just like how we talk about population density and covid-19. If you aren’t exposed to others, disease can’t spread. For instance, H1N1 didn’t start in the wild. And it didn’t start with an exotic animal. But it was a global pandemic.

The only position you can safely hold is to not eat meat. A weaker position could be around the sanitation and care of stock and its preparation. But what you eat doesn’t matter, be it pig or dog or squirrel or bat.

I’m curious to know if you think the animals the west consume which cause disease are satisfactory.

Headline: "Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott"

Root Comment: "Sounds like Verizon's Facebook advertising spend is losing value because of COVID-19, so they're using this a way to redirect focus away from the negative impact on their business."

Parent Comment: "Why is it impossible that Verizon is responding, at least in part, to public pressure against Facebook?"

Your Comment: "I suspect you might not get an answer to this since it's not something anyone has actually said here."

I read this the way the parent commenter read it as well: everyone is explicitly avoiding the notion that Verizon may be doing this because they feel like that is best for their public image. What I can't tell is if you're asserting that no one will answer because everyone is coming up with other ideas that seem to avoid the obvious, or if you think the parent commenter is asking a baseless question.

Not sure why folks are downvoting me... perhaps giving the humorous out is rubbing folks the wrong way.

I looked at the links and didn’t see mention of those values, and I don’t know if they are commonly known, so I’m going to ask again.

Where are these numbers (95% of women and 50% of men) coming from?

Are those percentages based on data you got somewhere, or are they a part of the 84% of statistics that are made up on the spot?

How do you like the Purism Librem? I'm a long-time MacBook user but have been looking around (and holding onto my late-2013). I'm curious about the build quality of the Purism machines. I'm willing to spend quite a bit on my tools. And I still remember the issues that ThinkPad's had with backdoors... so, I'd love to find something that has a high build-quality and puts the user first.

Employee engagement sounds like talking to people, and that would drain me much faster than programming.

You imply people in the countryside own the means of producing food, but the consolidation of agriculture tells a different story.

I’m curious what your metric of success is?

And what is more convenient than an ad blocker?

Im not suggesting that it will work (to pay per article as we’re describing). But the idea that you should get something for free because you don’t like it isn’t how most things work. Caveat emptor.

Conversely, people said it didn’t cost any practical amount of money to listen to music, yet Spotify thrives.

What you were suggesting in the parent comment was a pay-as-you-go system wherein you pay something like $0.10 per article.

I know of no restaurants that would charge you if you got food poisoning. But saying that when you ordered a colossal burger it went straight to your waistline isn't a good excuse not to pay. Don't go in if you don't want to pay.

I don’t want to pay for all the meals I eat, a large number of them are terrible... So I don’t go back. But you have to pay for what you eat.

I am talking about at the platform level. My mom isn’t going to install DNS666. She wouldn’t trust it.

I believe Apple is trying to get in front of this, and hopefully that means Android isn’t far behind.

https://www.consumerreports.org/software/apple-ios-13-will-i...

You’re missing the point. I directly quoted the original response because you misread it and said subpar. The person in question is not subpar. The person is also not so valuable that others need to emulate them as you just put forth. The person is simply above average but thinks they’re amazing and acts accordingly.

> Slightly above average with a complex...

I don't think this person would get fired anywhere I've worked. It's difficult and expensive to fire someone. You open yourself up to possible legal action even if you put them on a performance improvement plan. The best is to try and manage them out, but if the work you need to get done outstrips the people able to do it, you'll keep that above average person who thinks more of themselves than they should.

You’re in a thread about Apple keyboards. However, I am confident you could find a thread elsewhere that isn’t discussing TouchBars.

This one perhaps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20531955

I would like you to be able to buy a laptop with the TouchBar. However, I would like to be able to buy a laptop without one.