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One of the value props was the inability to reset and resell if it were lost or stolen. Now that it’s cracked there is more of an incentive to not try and find the owner. As for ac…

The argument isn't that its better than buying a new battery, the argument is that it isn't conveyed in the contract. EDIT: Also, knowing this happens without Apple adjusting their…

Highest GDP in the world?

I’ve heard another take that Spotify ownership allows them to play almost any music because JRE inherits Spotify’s license to play it. Also this is a licensing deal for a set perio…

I tried Jitsi Meet in a conference call of forty people and we all switched to Google Meet because it was so unreliable and broken. This might have to do with compute limits on the…

I also hate all open source Remote Desktop solutions, but I ended up using SPICE with Proxmox. Nothing else will forward audio and handling Remote Desktop at a virtualization level…

>AGI could be the ultimate tool to free every human being from toil I don't believe that's inherently a good thing if you mean that literally. I used to subscribe more to the AnPri…

I have had nothing but bad experiences with Lenovo ThinkPads, and refuse to buy anything else of theirs (especially in the wake of Superfish). I had a T60 that had the both hinges …

Time has value, and economies of scale make it more efficient. I worked at a CSA for a while and the amount of time it would take an individual to have the diversity of foods we pr…

Companies exist to maximize some measure, and maximizing "social" isn't inherently a good thing. All the nonsense that happens on social media is the same as what happens in real l…

Most advantages that quantum computing has aren't practical for most people outside "the HN tech bubble". It's meant for specialized types of high throughput computations.

Its a lot easier for Apple to fix security issues within the Apple ecosystem than it is for Apple to pressure Adobe to fix the problem, port it over to the suite iOS/iPadOS/macOS, …

I'd argue that most men that won't have sex probably have some character issues they need to work out personally, or otherwise need to develop into somebody interesting. Dopamine h…

That's similar to saying that technology isn't about liberating the worker, but rendering most of the work force obsolete and only hiring the top 20% of performers. Your freedom do…

Killer Mike had a documentary on Netflix (?) about black life in America, and mentioned that money flows out of the black community far faster than any other minority in America. I…

I agree with you in spirit, but the Fairness Doctrine in the United States was a variation of this, where the FCC required that approximately equal time and attention be paid to al…

Google's definition of socialism "a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or…

State owned production and distribution. The things these markets sold were (most likely) not state produced or distributed, since they were Western goods.

He is just stating it matter-of-fact, since they could use USD to purchase things at a (free) market price.

Google Play allows for different "tracks" for publication: internal testing, closed alpha, closed/open beta, and production. My approach is to keep releases in sync with Git branch…

Robert Moses was criticized for doing similar things in New York City (making overpasses too low so buses couldn't go through, etc). Have you read The Power Broker by Robert Caro?

A lot of it probably has to do with income. Linux is free, but everybody I know that uses it only uses it for work.

I might buy some of these Uber bonds [1], they are probably my favorite of the current tech companies, so why not help out a bit. [1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-…

New York is probably one of the most union heavy places in America. Checking where they are unionized more isn't an accurate reflection of the rest of the world.

>Society doesn't benefit from this. Low-status jobs still have to be filled, at least until technology eliminates them. Its purely additive. Being well off doesn't mean you can't d…