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Comment #18862491
Agreed. As some other posters have pointed out Apple has some amazing tech in FaceID, AirPods, an ECG on your wrist. But where they fall down is the assume pros don’t want ports in…
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Comment #18829129
Yep. I keep <15 apps on my phone.
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Comment #18813146
I just don’t get how an already highly profitable, premium device maker raking in billions of dollars a year makes people nervous by not making as money billions as expected. It’s …
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Comment #18802959
> A lot of the complaining you hear from Swedish people is because they haven't really experienced anything different. They have no idea how comfortable life is here (still). As a …
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Comment #18802657
This is quite a different mindset from the American mindset of individualism and meritocracy which works for some but not for many. If I never had to worry about being bankrupted b…
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Comment #18779936
I'll second that. Due to a couple of significant illnesses growing up my family would have been bankrupted two times over if we lived in the US. Also, when one of my parents passed…
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Comment #18777092
I have to agree with this. If everyone can code then it would no longer be a commodity skill set of sorts.
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Comment #18763567
Lucky his partner is an attorney.
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Comment #18760814
Interesting that corporate America typically likes to have cookie cutter schedules that often intrude into our mornings. However, Jeff Bezos, arguably one of the more successful bu…
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Comment #18759337
Plus if I want to watch current TV or more recent shows alongside originals it’s available on Hulu. Netflix has lost a lot of the more bingeable shows and it really doesn’t have an…
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Comment #18755873
Hulu without commercials doesn’t have commercials in the middle of content.
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Comment #18755476
Same here. I literally found myself scrolling Netflix for many, many minutes on end. It essentially became Facebook. I don’t know if the issue is their catalog has expanded with so…
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Comment #18733442
Also a president with mental issues uses his powerful position to call the press “the enemy of the people”. Then his mentally unstable followers send bombs or get their hands on as…
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Comment #18731662
There’s just no end to the abuse of our data is there? Sorry, no Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant for me.
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Comment #18656477
I agree with this. Amazon could still be a huge marketplace if they stocked the virtual shelves and only sold legitimate items or their own brands. Target does it and that is where…
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Comment #18639635
If you bought a new iPhone 3G in 2008, and then a new iPhone 4 in 2010, you were buying markedly different machines... This is true. The first iPhone was a great product but 3G was…
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Comment #18599613
I’ve been beating this drum for a while. It doesn’t make any logical sense why knowledge/tech workers have to live close to these expensive cities or find affordability by becoming…
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Comment #18586787
Deleted Facebook and Instagram years ago. There was no point to any of it. It’s astounding that with all our tech advancements we are so good at building HA distributed systems tha…
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Comment #18586752
Agreed. Plus many six figure salaries are attached to equal or greater amounts of equity, 401K match and typically low cost health insurance. So while it’s not jet-set wealth it is…
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Comment #18586417
It’s kinda crazy that the whole FEE thing was treated like a lightbulb moment for the company when everyone else in the industry had them.
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Comment #18570834
A key passage from the article. "Once Americans began driving Hondas and Toyotas, they discovered that these cars had a lot more going for them than just gas mileage — they broke d…
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Comment #18549286
As a 'tech worker' myself these folks have my respect. Along with Dragonfly and some of the egregious privacy and sexual harassment issues at Google I have stopped using any Google…
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Comment #18542958
+1 for Netlify
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Comment #18461984
No worries. I deleted FB long ago and most recently fully weaned myself off Google. The reality is Gmail, Facebook, et al are ploys to get people to store their data on an ad compa…