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fjdjsmsm··on Pence and Lawmakers Evacuate as Protesters Storm Capitol, Halting Count of Votes
He is submitting more because they keep getting flagged.

There is a coup going on right now. How do you not understand what is happening?

fjdjsmsm··on What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
Why do all of the posts about the coup keep getting removed?
fjdjsmsm··on U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
Over the summer there were hundreds of thousands of people and they weren’t allowed close to any government buildings. Now there’s a few hundred and they just let them into the capital buildings with what seems like little resistance?
fjdjsmsm··on The Senate has entered into a recess as the Capitol Police lock down building
Apparently a coup is too political for Hacker News!
fjdjsmsm··on Italy Will Rebuild Colosseum’s Floor
What you see now is the result of previous poor restorations. The Colosseum had become overgrown with plants and was like a large public garden. It was unique. For many of the plants it was the only place you could find them in Western Europe. It is believed that the seeds from many of the plants were transplanted through the excrement of the animals from the games.
fjdjsmsm··on Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
The lawsuits were for iOS not MacOS.
fjdjsmsm··on ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
Arguing what things are based on their dictionary definition is often a mistake. The people that compile the dictionary are not experts in every field. They optimize for brevity, and their sources are not exhaustive. They are not trying to be encyclopedic and all encompassing.

Note, have have worked with people assembling a major dictionary. They are just regualr people with regular foibles.

fjdjsmsm··on Reading Camus in Time of Plague and Polarization
So, Maoism and ‘the woke brigade’ are the same thing? This is exactly my point. Thanks.
fjdjsmsm··on Reading Camus in Time of Plague and Polarization
Except it isn’t about quoting. Many on the right claim that Orwell, Camus, etc were in-fact right wing and hated the left because they disagreed with extremist Stalinists and such.

It is much like religious people claiming Einstein was religious.

It seems to be a common tactic to rebrand people as believing in the opposite of what they did.

fjdjsmsm··on macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon
All of the Apple products that have achieved broader success have been derided by ‘Alpha Geeks.’ The original candy coloured iMacs, iPods, iPhones, iPads, were all attacked by geeks.

If Microsoft is less successful in the home market now, it is because Windows is seen by many consumers as too techy, and too difficult.

fjdjsmsm··on Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism
A part time carpenter is still a carpenter. Evans claim wasn’t that Murdoch is an amateur. His claim was that Murdoch was categorically not involved with VC.
fjdjsmsm··on Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine
In Europe, Canada, Australia, etc everyone has access. Why doesn’t access drive up their cost? Clearly access isn’t what is driving up the costs in the USA.
fjdjsmsm··on Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy
Attempted murder is still manslaughter.

Breaking election laws in an attempt to influence an elections outcome is still breaking election laws whatever the outcome. It doesn’t have to be entirely their doing.

fjdjsmsm··on World of Warcraft 9.0.2 client runs natively on Apple Silicon
Apple isn’t selling to third parties, but I bet Google wants to. Google must be putting pressure on Qualcomm, and maybe Nvidia, to make something competitive. If they try, within a few years I’m sure someone can.

Imagine 3 years from now there are a bunch of Chromebooks selling at Chromebook prices, but offering intel performance. That would start to hurt Microsoft.

fjdjsmsm··on Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review
You can pinch to zoom with a trackpad.

I too assume touch based Macs are coming at some point. But I expect them to live alongside conventional laptops for as long as people continue to buy them. Whenever I’ve tried different kind of convertibles they’ve felt like compromises. The tablet and the laptop seem like the best version of each.

fjdjsmsm··on Don't use third party auth to sign in
Techno-feudalism is exactly what cyberpunk novels were describing. They were dystopias. They were warnings about letting corporations control everything.
fjdjsmsm··on Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
I think it is notable the new mini’s colour is light silver, rather than the previous dark ‘pro’ silver. Presumably there will be another model a year from now.
fjdjsmsm··on Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies was dishonest, says judge
Microsoft at the time owned 90 percent of the entire computer market.

The only thing Apple has a monopoly on is things Apple sells. If it is deemed that you can have a monopoly of a subset of a market, ask yourself how this will be applied to other businesses in the future. Does a mall have a legal (not colloquial) monopoly on stores in the mall?

Edit: If you make a game that has a store in it, do you have to let others sell thing in your game’s store. You have a monopoly on things sold in your game. Your game is a platform.

fjdjsmsm··on China's social credit system is both unique and part of a global trend
So your response is to participate?
fjdjsmsm··on China's social credit system is both unique and part of a global trend
Genocide should not be an ‘unfortunate fact of life.’ And lets be clear ‘sufficiently eliminating cultural distinctions’ means genocide.
fjdjsmsm··on Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance
If they are employees, and you are doing that, it is actually illegal.

You are either a consultant, or an employee.

fjdjsmsm··on Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance
The article lists several examples of things that go beyond avoidance. He paid millions in mysterious ‘consulting’ fees that appear to have gone to his kids, despite them being employees. He declared that he had no financial benefit in a business he walked away from despite still owning 5 percent of it. ...
fjdjsmsm··on Apple CEO Impressed by Remote Work, Sees Permanent Changes
Or, both thing can be true. He can believe a physical office is necessary, while also believing changes should be made to make it easier for people to sometimes work from home.
fjdjsmsm··on Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
They could just charge a single upfront amount of money.
fjdjsmsm··on Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
Some problems don’t have easy simple solutions. Any answer will have some outside cases.

If a schizophrenic parent has in the past harmed someone, should a court ignore this when determining custody. It is unfair. If you err on being too lenient some people will be harmed. If you err on being stringent some people will be harmed.

Complex problem cannot be solved with ideology and maxims. All solutions will fail some people sometimes.

fjdjsmsm··on Rethinking the App Store
95% of the public don’t even know what GitHub is. The vast majority of people aren’t going to run patches a developer posted there.

Anyway, the argument was that the Apple app store was stifling app development. In your reply you yourself say the apps on the Google store are “Maybe not quite as high” quality.

fjdjsmsm··on Rethinking the App Store
Are there many more innovative apps on Android?
fjdjsmsm··on Rethinking the App Store
The problem with this argument is the existence of Android. The app ecosystem on Android is not appreciably better than iOS. Opening iOS to third party app store will likely just increase copyright infringement, leading to fewer paid apps.
fjdjsmsm··on How two British orthodontists became celebrities to incels
Nowhere did they say they should suck it up. They said they should seek therapy if they can’t deal with it, instead of taking it out on other people.
fjdjsmsm··on Vision Experiment Resolved a Centuries-Old Philosophical Debate
I believe what they mean is that you know the manhole is a circular object seen at an angle, rather than an ellipse shaped hole.
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