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fjdjsmsm | 5 years ago | on: U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

Over the summer there were hundreds of thousands of people and they weren’t allowed close to any government buildings. Now there’s a few hundred and they just let them into the capital buildings with what seems like little resistance?

fjdjsmsm | 5 years ago | on: Italy Will Rebuild Colosseum’s Floor

What you see now is the result of previous poor restorations. The Colosseum had become overgrown with plants and was like a large public garden. It was unique. For many of the plants it was the only place you could find them in Western Europe. It is believed that the seeds from many of the plants were transplanted through the excrement of the animals from the games.

fjdjsmsm | 5 years ago | on: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

Arguing what things are based on their dictionary definition is often a mistake. The people that compile the dictionary are not experts in every field. They optimize for brevity, and their sources are not exhaustive. They are not trying to be encyclopedic and all encompassing.

Note, have have worked with people assembling a major dictionary. They are just regualr people with regular foibles.

fjdjsmsm | 5 years ago | on: Reading Camus in Time of Plague and Polarization

Except it isn’t about quoting. Many on the right claim that Orwell, Camus, etc were in-fact right wing and hated the left because they disagreed with extremist Stalinists and such.

It is much like religious people claiming Einstein was religious.

It seems to be a common tactic to rebrand people as believing in the opposite of what they did.

fjdjsmsm | 5 years ago | on: macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon

All of the Apple products that have achieved broader success have been derided by ‘Alpha Geeks.’ The original candy coloured iMacs, iPods, iPhones, iPads, were all attacked by geeks.

If Microsoft is less successful in the home market now, it is because Windows is seen by many consumers as too techy, and too difficult.

fjdjsmsm | 5 years ago | on: World of Warcraft 9.0.2 client runs natively on Apple Silicon

Apple isn’t selling to third parties, but I bet Google wants to. Google must be putting pressure on Qualcomm, and maybe Nvidia, to make something competitive. If they try, within a few years I’m sure someone can.

Imagine 3 years from now there are a bunch of Chromebooks selling at Chromebook prices, but offering intel performance. That would start to hurt Microsoft.

fjdjsmsm | 5 years ago | on: Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review

You can pinch to zoom with a trackpad.

I too assume touch based Macs are coming at some point. But I expect them to live alongside conventional laptops for as long as people continue to buy them. Whenever I’ve tried different kind of convertibles they’ve felt like compromises. The tablet and the laptop seem like the best version of each.

fjdjsmsm | 5 years ago | on: Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies was dishonest, says judge

Microsoft at the time owned 90 percent of the entire computer market.

The only thing Apple has a monopoly on is things Apple sells. If it is deemed that you can have a monopoly of a subset of a market, ask yourself how this will be applied to other businesses in the future. Does a mall have a legal (not colloquial) monopoly on stores in the mall?

Edit: If you make a game that has a store in it, do you have to let others sell thing in your game’s store. You have a monopoly on things sold in your game. Your game is a platform.

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