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> I was not assuming bad faith, I was interpreting your meaning based on the words you said. Where exactly does "to be a contrarian" or "to hate on Apple" come from my words? That …

> I think you’re purposefully misinterpreting the meaning of the quote to be a contrarian or to hate on Apple. "Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html…

> install as a .pkg, satisfy Apple signing Keep in mind that a package installer becomes obsolete and nonfunctional when the code signing certificate expires, unlike an app.

> “They could think” implies critical thinking skills. No, it does not. What do you think "they could breathe" implies? That they were athletes?

> The market forces are the entire realm of what’s possible, now and in the future. I actually suspected as much and left "competing smartphones" somewhat vague. > When Windows see…

I believe Gruber's view is that the market forces in question are between iPhone and competing smartphones.

> Is Gruber starting to realize Apple's monopoly is bad? "I do not see the conflict between the view that the App Store review system is failing and the view that it's not the gove…

> has critical thinking skills That's not what the court testimony said. Could think does not imply could think critically, especially not when preceded by "could breathe", which i…

From https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/apples-tigh... > In a sworn deposition in the Epic lawsuit, Phillip Shoemaker, the former head of the App Review team, said em…

At its founding, the United States and the founders themselves exploited slave labor, so I wouldn't be so quick to praise what they were onto. There's also the matter of ethnic cle…

This was by design of the oligarchic founders, who were very skeptical of the majority, so it goes back to the 18th century too.

I would say that private financing of election campaigns causes corruption. It becomes one dollar one vote instead of one person one vote.

> 81% viewing free enterprise positively, compared with 54% for capitalism and 39% for socialism > capitalism is much more likely than free enterprise to be associated with unequal…

I have multiple email accounts. My website hosting company has email service. Fastmail is also good.

WebKit passes the request to a separate system process. On Mac, Firefox and Chrome, which don't use WebKit, handle WebAuthn themselves.

The motivation for this idea is to inflate the price of SPCX.

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> In political science, Duverger's law holds that in political systems with single-member districts and the first-past-the-post voting system, as in, for example, the United States…

I said, comparing a political monopoly to an economic monopoly, "In the same way, the obvious solution to a one-party system is to overthrow the government" The "external entity" i…

> getting themselves and 3 vote-eligible friends/family members to go vote Vote for whom? Political campaigns are self-funded. Financially, it's difficult for nonwealthy persons to…

> This is a direct outcrop of the winner-takes-all electoral district system which forces parties to merge to have a chance at winning. I'm not sure this is true. When the highest …