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sassypotato··on AppStore Reviews Should Be Stricter
The author has given an iPad to a one year old, and even taught them (read: nudged them into) getting adicted into phone games. This is terrible parenting.
sassypotato··on Bloomberg pays off $20m debts of 31,000 felons so they can vote in Florida
You do know the uteruses removal thing is fake news right?
sassypotato··on PandaDoc employees arrested in Belarus after founders protest against violence
What fascists?
sassypotato··on Islamic State: Giant library of group's online propaganda discovered
It's a shame really. Reminds me of how whenever there is a right-wing terrorist attack/mass murder everyone, including tech companies, try to hide manifestos and other media as much as possible.

What happened to the truth setting us free.

sassypotato··on Islamic State: Giant library of group's online propaganda discovered
So, how can I peruse said library?
sassypotato··on Anatomy of a Bubble – Tesla and Bitcoin
> If they keep growing at And that's where the falacy is. Nothing keeps growing forever. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

You don't need great analysis to see that something that has appreciated 131 times in less than a year is a bubble, unless they cured cancer or seriously undersold at their IPO. And no one undersells by that much.

sassypotato··on The problem with C according to a C++ developer
C is not a "low-level" language.
sassypotato··on Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo
I never understood when Americans threaten people with court expenses in TV series or real life. I was under the impression that no matter the case, if you are unable to afford representation, a state lawyer is appointed and does a barely passing job. Wouldn't a barely passing job be enough for a judge to throw a case like this away?

I've actually been in court and it has never been an expensive experience.

I suppose from one comment I read that patent law is different, and you have to actively defend your patent, but I see this theme in many different types of cases; for instance someone starting directing a documentary about something someone didn't like attention drawn to. How can this possibly be expensive to defend.

sassypotato··on Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong
None of those things was solved in the last 3-4 years though.

Some might now be done via AI, but is it done any noteceably better than 3-4 years ago? I certainly don't trust my camera to adjust itself, or the sleep analysis to be any good, or the article recommendation to not recommend based on outrage, or the spam filter to work at all.

sassypotato··on Why did the atomic spy do it?
On the other hand the USSR allied itself with the evil Nazis so they would both invade Poland. The USSR was clearly an expansionist and imperalist power and given the gulag system reached it's peak well before the start of the war, we know Stalin did not care at all about human life.
sassypotato··on Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere
Yes such a shame we can't focus on our economy, just because of outdated things like liberty and human rights.