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Yes, "abuse of market position" is path dependent. Offering something then taking it away is materially different from never having offered it at all.

https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1704313887074488540

There is a very clear market desire for desktop style apps delivered through browsers. Users love it. Users hate installers. Users hate updates. Webpages have neither. Companies lo…

I don't know the difference between the user and system store, but I do know that apps can choose not to trust certs installed by the user and instead only trust their own that the…

> Is there a difference between the products, or is it just the Apache versus commercial license? Ie. will you be able, but not allowed, to view and make changes to the commercial …

My team is using an Apache 2.0-licensed FOSS project in one of our products. We've recently learned that a different division of our very large company has purchased a commercial l…

See for example a slide from education advocates which states that asserting "2 + 2 = 4" is "Covert White Supremacy". https://twitter.com/HTheijsmeijer/status/1571174175162699778..…

I guess it comes down to how widespread you think the coercion that you mention is. I tend to believe the current rate of non-cis identification is at least an order of magnitude o…

That is a fair ask. To be honest, I am unwilling to devote to this discussion the time which would be required to research examples. I will concede that if these things never happe…

Just to be clear: are you saying the argument is bad because these things are never taught, or are you saying that these things are good to teach actually?

That's a strawman. The steelman version is something like the following chain of reasoning: (a) gender identity is something that everyone has that is distinct from sex, (b) with e…

Fair point!

> “People don’t buy Swiss watches to tell the time,” he said. “Apple probably sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry but does that matter if they’ve grown during t…

I think airlines actually face a lot of liability around the transport of unaccompanied minors--what if they lost the kid? The few times I traveled unaccompanied as a minor, the fl…

okay, that's just an idiosyncratic requirement. i don't ask that anyone do that for any of the cultures i'm from, nor does anybody that i know. hell, i haven't even read my own cul…

I think I default more to guess culture? I certainly don't ask for help much--almost never--but I think that might be because I'm very independent. My personal problem with ask cul…

Can you please describe a kind of engagement with Asian culture or products that you will not dismiss as orientalism? I fear that everything will fit neatly into Asian hate or orie…

Americans love kpop and anime. The hate is not for Asians.

The concern is not data collection. The concern is demoralizing content.

> Sure, why not? It's not like it's a huge sacrifice on my part. It's just a little reduction in convenience. No big deal. I can easily imagine a world where in ~20-30 years, there…

afaik reading env vars requires no sys calls and thus will not appear in strace

Honestly if social media companies pulled out of Utah, I could see tens of thousands of families choosing to move to Utah for that reason alone.

I'm always very unimpressed by this kind of argumentation. There's a clear difference in kind between Hackernews, Reddit, Instagram, and TikTok. Sure, they all feature user-submitt…

> Grades and SAT scores are only one factor of many that are used in admissions decisions. The other factors were added specifically in order to give universities leeway to massage…

Years ago I came across this talk about a guy who built a Clojure wrapper around OpenSCAD in order to design his own keyboard. Potentially relevant: https://youtu.be/uk3A41U0iO4