tornadoboy55

> Essentially you want to have your citizenship somewhere where your foreign income is not taxed. Have a legal residence somewhere with low tax/tax haven. Earn your money/host your business somewhere with low corporate rates, have your assets somewhere where they aren't taxed massively and spend your money somewhere with low levels of consumption tax/VAT.

How to be a societal leech and contribute the absolute least you can 101. Sickening.

Better than the US standard of letting untested genes or chemicals loose on the population and testing/regulating only when a problem starts popping up, no?

Not only that, you guys seem to have a big amount of techincal debt. The macOS client was writing like.. 100-200Gb a day just a few months ago, and that was going on for months already until the noise about it picked up in the media. Now the macOS client (somehow its always the macOS client..) regularly starts using 90% CPU at random and doesn't stop until you kill the process. Again, has already been going on for some time and there's a forum post about it but no one is doing anything... do the Spotify guys not use their own client?

Then there's the myriad of obvious gaps in features that should be there.

1. You can 'Heart' a track in 'Daily Mix', but you can't un-'Heart' it.

1b. If you accidentally dislike an artist in daily mix, you can't undo that, so that artist won't play anymore.

2. You can like an artist for a certain Radio (and remove the like in the playlist 'liked by radio') but you can't remove an 'unlike'.

3. You can have either a public playlist controlled by you, or a collaborative playlist that's secret. Why not a public collaborative playlist for which I can select which users can edit it?

With most of the above issues there's one overarching thing: counter-intuitivity. You can often do an action (heart, like, etc.), and do so by tapping or clicking on something, but tapping or clicking on the same thing doesn't undo the action (probably because you can't undo the action).. and wouldn't you want to have your friends be able to see/follow your playlist that you built with that one Techno-listening buddy without granting them all editing rights?

I still like Spotify because you have the largest library and are available on the most platforms (Windows/Linux/macOS/Chromecast/Sonos/Digt.Amplifiers/PS4), but its a choice of 'sucks the least' rather than 'is the best'.

Note that I said average person. They will never touch a command line, so apt-get is out, and the Ubuntu Software Center is buggy as hell. Compare that to macOS: Drag app in .dmg to 'Applications' folder: installed. Drag app from 'Applications' folder to trash: uninstalled. Need to remove all settings? remove the apps' concerning folder in ~/Library/Application Support and plist in ~/Library/Preferences. Yeah, I'd say that's pretty simple. And although the Mac App store has its flaws (draconian sandboxing) it also works like a charm.

Please don't put a smile after that. Corporate tax evasion is a blight on society and people facilitating it are scum. Pay your dues, just like the people of a society have to.

Snaps (and Flatpaks) are awesome for publishers of apps and laypersons though. There's a reason the average person sees the macOS style of installation (and removal) as the gold standard.

Dropbox isn't an OS storage, photo storage, mail storage, mobile devices backup all rolled into one (and all of that switched on by default) Comparing with Google Drive is fair, but the aforementioned stuff is why Google offers a fair 15Gb that you won't cap out soon.

I have almost 50Gb of free Dropbox storage btw, through referrals + events like the space race. But that's not really a fair fight anyway, since (aside from Dropbox) no one offers free space in exchange for actions..

Nothing is off. Everyone who has even a bit of business sense can very clearly see that Apple is maxing its profit margins. They're dropping anything (relatively) low margin like Airport and Cinema Displays. They're charging an arm and a leg for dongles they know people will need. iCloud is still capped @ 5Gb, yet iCloud sync now by default also syncs your Desktop and Documents folder. That's on top of iPhone and iPad backups, app data (both iDevice and Mac) and iCloud mail. And the price for more storage is not cheap compared to competitors.

No one except Americans themselves see the USA as the holy grail of modern democracy. That honor would probably befall one of either the West European or Scandinavian countries.

For me personally I still wouldn't risk it with meat or fish. What if the brand you actually eat wasn't researched and actually does contain BPA (or a similarly unhealthy replacement) and thus you ingest it? Better safe then sorry..

Besides that, its pretty easy for me buy either fresh or glass-stored food at the supermarket, both of which are safe (but that easy access could be just because I live in Europe and its more usual to cook at home here).

... are you seriously too lazy to do ctrl+t->'canned food endocrine disruptors'->enter ?

And don't use the argument that the onus is on me for giving more links. If googling it is too much effort for you, how can you expect me to do it for you..?

> They use and adopt new products much faster than people in other countries, new trends start here, they are not shy of moving on to something better.

Nope. Just nope. Doubtfully on a personal level (Music streaming spread in Europe first with Spotify, for example), but infrastructure-wise the USA is so far behind it isn't even funny. The internet lines suck. The traffic light systems suck. The sewage and water system suck. In-house tech is decades behind Europe (most house furnaces are still the unmodulated on-off type ffs!).

>  U.S. has people from almost every country in the world. Most big cities are filled with immigrants. New York City is a prime example of that. It has people from 180 countries and people speak more than 800 languages in the 5 boroughs. This is unprecedented compare to any other country in the world. The most important part is that with such a high concentration of immigrants, people are more accepting of new cultures.

Again, no. Amsterdam has people of a 180 nationalities, for example. Also, because Europe is such a blanket of different countries (= different cultures) we've had to deal with 'new cultures' since before the USA existed. Furthermore, Europe has been (and is) socially more progressive for a very long time. We've had gay marriage much earlier. Drug use has been decriminalized for decades. Prison is rehabilitative instead of punitive.

All this article is basically an immigrant who feels like an American saying 'America, fuck yeah!', whilst not doing a modicum of research (the Amsterdam fact is easily Googleable).

Pro tip: never eat canned goods. The coating inside of them is loaded with endocrine disruptors.

Edit: nice to see downvotes without any discourse. Keep it up HN!

https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726844/

My man.. you know your shit. Seems like motion photography was indeed the culprit.. tbh I did think you were a dev who (recently) took up photography and was chasing the perfect picture with a rather firm trigger finger, but it seems you can safely ignore anything I said. Happy shooting :)

I've been using Macs for almost a decade now, never had something go belly-up that wasn't my own fault. Referring my anecdote, can't say the same about Linux sadly..

You should make Firefox feel native to each platform and follow its conventions, instead of trying to have a sort of unifying 'Firefox look' that feels out of place everywhere. Using platform-specific enhancements (like VideoToolBox on macOS for example) also would go a long way. Edit: most important of all is battery life though. Your browser can be super smooth, have all the nice extensions in the world and be FOSS, but if it cuts battery life in half everyone will hate it.

Safari has done tab throttling for years. Things like that are why Chrome used to cut battery life in half compared to Safari. I don't understand people who complain about something that's essentially a feature, not a problem.

> And when you’re trying to sort through 3-5k+ photos shot over a very busy weekend, comfort is the deciding factor.

From one phtographer to another, and not to be a dick, but if you're shooting that many photos in one weekend you're doing something wrong.. the only scenario where I can imagine reasonably coming up with that many photos is motion photography with burst. Easiest rule I can give you is to pretend you have an old-style camera with a limited amount of rolls. Imagine how many rolls would be reasonable for the session you're having if it was 1980? If you stick to that, your photo quality will dramatically shoot up and the effort you have to expend sifting will go down a lot.

Best battery life, best trackpad, best HiDPI scaling, best app selection under the UNIXes, ecosystem (Apple's garden is indeed high-walled, but its also very nice)

Oh yeah, and you don't have to be afraid an OS update will make your laptop unbootable. Has happened to me under Ubuntu twice.

.. that's like saying 'why can't macOS just be a DE on top of Linux/BSD?' If you want something that's totally cohesive, centralization is the way to go.

Having said that, there are definitely some major issues. One of the most contentious is not having a minimize button by default. Their reasoning is 'well if you close one of our apps, it resumes state when you start it up again, which is effectively the same as minimizing'. Not only do their apps not reliably resume state, most other apps don't support this, and their response is 'well that sucks.. but they should adjust their app to work with our specific distro gimmick kthxbai'. Another big one is multiple Window management: if I have 5 windows open of the same app and want to temporarily hide two of them, minimize accomplishes this easily. With Elementary, I have to pick which one I close last because that one will 'resume state'.

Another baffling thing is them not using the 'global menu' in the menubar that Ubuntu (and macOS) have. The global menu is probably one of the main reasons people like macOS so much (even though they don't realize it).. you know that whatever app you're in, you can always find all actions in the menu bar. Preferences are always under $APPNAME, Print is always under File, Hiding and viewing interface elements is always under View, etc.

Their (Ubuntu's as well) installer also doesn't use home partition encryption by default, nor does it offer an easy way to set up LVM on LUKS. This is a problem with most distros though.. with macOS having your disk FileVaulted is extremely straightforward and simple. It's literally flipping a switch. And the use of it is simple as well: Boot up, enter user password (which is also the encryption password) -> decrypt disk and login.

They also do some funky stuff to the Ubuntu installer since installing 16.04LTS gives me working Wi-Fi on my MBP 2015 Retina, but installing Elementary OS (which is based on the same 16.04LTS) doesn't even detect my Wi-Fi chip. The firmware and driver are there, so it should work (doubly so because same base distro), but it simply doesn't.

Almost everyone I know pays for Netflix and just torrents the rest. And it will stay that way as long as the market stays fractured. Spotify succeeded in dropping music piracy by ~80% because they have almost everything. Remember when Kanye said his album would only be on Tidal? Or Taylor Swift her new album only on Apple music (I know I know, shitty artists).. people didn't subscribe to those services just for that album, they just torrented it. TV production is more expensive than music production, so a $20-30 would be a more reasonable pricepoint, but anything above that, and again: people will just pirate.

Story of Google. See Play Music.

I knew the FSF people could be dicks, but this guy.. holy shit

Man... I feel your pain.. been in the same situation a few times, but why not just shame-roll (drop the bar to one side and just sort of wriggle out from under it on the opposing side)? It sucks but keeps you safe.

Not only online. If a girl (especially a pretty one) is having a lot of sex, other girls will be the first to call her a slut (mostly behind her back). It has always amazed me how vicious girls are to eachother, even in groups of supposed friends.. guys tend to shoot the shit, but they do genuinely stick up for eachother.

For all people saying this has been fixed: my Spotify on macOS regularly will spike to 90% usage when idling and stay there until I kill it. Reinstalls change nothing.

For most people (at least on Macbooks) the logic is this: this extension isn't on Safari.. -> Chrome. Hey, my battery life is cut in half -> Firefox. Battery life still cut in half, but now scrolling sucks too.. -> Safari with substitute extension

> usually rich girls, would fawn over how "deep" he must be, his feeling the need to fly off to Tokyo, etc.. Someone else in that building also installed a stripper pole in his room, and not surprisingly a lot of girls who were attracted to his levels of "richness" and "lifestyle" actually went over to indulge him.

It's pretty well known that a lot of girls at universities are there not only for academic purposes, but also to lock down a 'nice' future husband. Biology is what it is..

Edit: be PC and downvote all you want, but its a pretty obvious truth for anyone that did actually attend university.

Why not just place a product manager above each product (Gmail, YouTube, Play Music, etc. etc.) that each report to the master manager who's only job is basically to unify all the services and make them work together in a nice way. He would be the one to force everyone to use the same animations, same icons, same conventions etc.. honestly I never understand how companies with millions of dollars can't come up with the simple fix of 'give an experienced person total authority'.

> In an ideal world, the fix would be to not give half your players an aimbot, but you just know the product manager wouldn't go for that. Looks like they ended up adding a patch that tries to figure out whether you're actually using the controller.

No, this is the ideal world. Mouse users have more manual accuracy, couch gamers can still have fun vs. mouse users. Combating fringe cases (how many people actually plug in a controller and a mouse at the same time..?) makes no sense. This 'divide' worked like a charm on Titanfall.