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Agreed—electronic books should be free.

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Software can be modeled as a social relation. Unless you're manufacturing your own chips from scratch, that is. Charging people for software never sat right with me.

I don't think most of the people in this thread are journalists

NBC wouldn't know how to navigate bls.gov if you put a gun to their head. And it's all downhill from there

That was the original meaning dating back at least to thomas paine (bless his heart). It is a term impossible to deploy in good faith.

You could say this about 99% of articles posted here. One might even say VCs are in the business of wasting peoples' time. But, my time is not wasted, and my cortisol managed not t…

Of all of ai's crimes, the greatest is bringing down the em-dash, the king of punctuation. Commas, periods, even semicolons can never hold a candle to the flexibility of the em-das…

First, all three branches are obviously quite corrupt. Second, congress can obviously still avt to speak on behalf of us and they refuse to do so.

True. It's the courts that failed humanity. Or perhaps the shits that invented copyright to start

One'll learn what is possible, how things work, etc. you sound more like a bitter veteran than a curious child and this attitude is not helpful.

At some point "slop" stopped being actually indicative of quality and I miss those days dearly

You need to find customers for several-generations-ago models before this makes any sense. AMD is a lot more incentivized to look than mr vanilla llm is

What evidence is there of Musk's competency? Actual testimony that he has provided input that has led to revenue (or some more indirect form of success)? We can all hold and spend …

> Have you considered that there are reasons to do things beyond financial incentives? I'm coming around to the concept that this account might be influenced by financial incentive…

> This is a mind-blowingly clueless assertion. This is not a person capable of rationally assessing facts. At best this kind of writing is interesting as an artifict of human delus…

Sure, but you can hardly expect to interact with the world in a rational way if you explicitly decide to ignore it

What part offended you? The statement of fact?

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I don't think you can anymore , explicitly emphasizing present tense and not even a month ago, but there were many many many months where you could.

You can't activate the hardware with a different ID regardless. It requires the owner to relinquish ownership. I'm sure this is different with different components of course depend…

> They send them to countries where they aren't locked iphones will remain locked regardless of what country they're in. I presume you're talking about states who are seemingly unw…

Why bother stealing iPhones? Is it just for the scrap/recycle->repair value?

Same thing that happened to every other brand on earth: product quality was sacrificed to serve profit. Even the seemingly well-meaning Ben and Jerry's fell. Anyone who has read sc…