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As many others have pointed out, PayPal goes out of their way to make sure they are not a bank.

The build quality is excellent. It isn't quite as good as a MacBook, but I'm willing to take the hit from A+ to A- for the repairablity. It's much better than any other laptop I've…

They recently updated it [1] so that it does tell you why. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/25/22550951/microsoft-pc-hea...

I can set up and sign in to MacOS without using my Apple ID though.

This article title is grossly misleading. As far as I can tell from the article, no actual votes have happened. The group behind this is just pushing for counties to support them. …

It can do 120 FPS, which is considered “high frame rate” for televisions. 60 FPS is generally considered standard.

Agreed. They are trying to conflate two issues that are separate. If Apple was blocking all VPNs from the App Store, they would have a valid argument, but Apple is blocking it for …

Another way to look at this is that Steve realized there was nothing this guy could do to help him at the moment, so he hung up on him.

So you disagree with it morally but watch it anyway? And then don't even pay the people who produced it? Isn't that even worse? I think there's nothing wrong with porn in general a…

I'm pretty sure they're saying that Apple, etc. are trying not to offend China with their programming. It's unrelated to Gawker, but mentioned in the article.

For a $1,000 laptop? I disagree. It’s fine for a $500 one but Apple doesn’t sell those.

Same here. Recently, if it's anything that's health related, I absolutely avoid Amazon because of the mass of fake products out there. I needed some vitamins recently and my first …

It uses Bluetooth LE for proximity sensing so that you can pass audio from your phone to the HomePod just by waving them near one another.

The sound quality is way beyond anything Google or Amazon offer. If you have other Apple devices, it works just like Siri on your phone. I've got one in my kitchen and it can hear …

Obviously it will be hard for a phone with 1/10th the z index to fit the same optics that a DSLR came. But I work in video production and I can tell you that for 99% of people, the…

I’ve never understood this type of “gotcha!” that always gets trotted out when a company uses another company’s product to develop their own. If all of the debugging, testing and f…

There's no way that $200 million is break even for that movie. The budget alone was $200 million, which doesn't factor in marketing...which will probably be higher than normal sinc…

It actually has the A12 Z, not even the A13.

> It’s just what they do. Then we should work to change that. As a society, we should find this kind of stuff unacceptable. There should be some baseline level of transparency and …

Traditionally, you just encode the video with a new frame every X frames, regardless of shots. It might sound trivial, but it is still extra computational work to figure out when t…

That’s only a temporary stopgap before they convince a court or change the law so that being part of that chain with intent to infringe copyright is enough to get you sued.

I don't see how that justifies torrenting it but most new movies are available within a few months on DVD/Blu-ray. (Obviously there are exceptions for things made by streaming comp…

I feel like you're purposefully making this hypothetical difficult and throwing up as many roadblocks as possible. The obvious answer is that either you own a DVD player or you can…

I feel like you are purposefully ignoring the fact that you can easily get all of those movies (and tons of others not on streaming services) on DVD or Blu-ray for relatively cheap…

For anyone that hasn't seen They Shall Not Grow Old, I highly recommend it. Peter Jackson (of Lord of the Rings fame) spent years working with the British government to digitize an…