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No it doesn't weaken the argument. The point is that seems to elude you is that they aren't bribing other devs by offering cash for an exclusivity deal. In the cases you highlight …

Them doing exclusives is on their own IP isn't really the same thing is it? I will give them a pass on it. People have to remember perfect is the enemy of the good. Considering Ste…

>PAYING game developers for exclusivity is much different than CHARGING game developers 30% of their revenue. The way you frame it is totally incorrect and completely misrepresents…

It generally fails at that in my experience.

> Sounds like acquaintances No. They were drunks (I was becoming one myself). I told you in the sentence before that once I didn't come to the pub they weren't interested in spendi…

Yes I am aware. It can be confusing if you are new. I had someone ask me why it was different the other day.

Because for some is us the signal to noise ratio was too low (did I get that the right way around?). For me LinkedIn for me was a total waste of time. Good you find it useful use i…

That maybe but it differs from what is shown in the inspector (which shows the and tags). This could be confusing as the source html doesn't match how the browser interprets it.

I used to drink regularly down the pub. After a while I got sick of putting on weight and feeling rubbish and decided to give it up. The people I drank with after a few weeks stopp…

I literally setup almost everything I personally need in about a day on a VPS. As for services like LinkedIn I almost never got anything of value from it, it is worse than most job…

Disgusting attitudes like yours is all too common these days. It is anti-freedom, full of snobbery and it is nihilistic.

The article is talking about forced updates by vendors of consumer grade software. That is what we are talking about. Also the same rule still applies. If I had to use some terribl…

Well it will go on longer if people are encouraged by those that are capable to stay ignorant. Also Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Making excuses for ignorance is simply promoting learned helplessness. Yes I appreciate there are edge cases such as the mentally handicapped. However realistic I am talking about …

> If you've a following on instagram and you decide to leave for whatever reason, you can't take your followers with you. Maybe some will jump over if you link them to other platfo…

The last time I checked there was many competitors to Adobe in almost all the products they offered. You aren't forced to use their software at all. In any event you can slowly mov…

This is incorrect. You can almost always take your business elsewhere. It depends whether you think it is worth it, depending on how hard it makes the rest of your life. If people …

Unfortunately I should have expected a reply such as this. Everything is seen as a all or nothing proposition. I think it is pretty obvious that if companies are abusing their posi…

No you got it the wrong way around. The power is in the hands of the user. > That will never happen as long as shareholders are the only people that companies are legally beholden …

This old attempted gotcha. It doesn't prove what you think it does. I am well aware of the story. BTW British rail stopped being profitable back in 1955 (7 years after nationalisat…

I don't believe that for a second. In the UK where I live the government subsidise rail. Rail is very expensive, slow and unreliable especially compared to my diesel car. I would r…

I personally I make sure I have some form of automated testing (normally unit tests and e2e tests). As I like to know my code works but I can't do the writing tests first. It just …

Being smart makes confirmation bias worse because you can reason yourself into believing your confirmation bias away.

Many so called "enlightened people" will discard any data that doesn't fit with their opinions if that opinion is seen as virtuous/fashionable.