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In more open ecosystems like the web browser, you can literally install extensions that tell you where you can buy something for cheaper. I'm sure Amazon, Walmart, and friends would love for that to be impossible.
The virtual space only "belongs" to Apple because they've deliberately walled it off.
You're right that it's a second-class citizen.
No, they're all mostly the same on a fundamental level. If you're familiar with any of the big three, you're far ahead of someone who has never used public cloud before when learning a new one. Nonetheless, some employers won't want to eat the cost of getting you up to speed.
Employers I've been exposed to tend not to care which public cloud you've used, just that you're familiar with how cloud works overall.
This seems to be the same thing for feature flags, because these days people are farming FF management out to vendors like LaunchDarkly.
For me personally, e-readers have not caused any loss of focus. In fact, the integrated dictionaries often keep me MORE focused than the interruption represented by pulling out a dictionary or googling a word.
I'll acknowledge there is a tactile joy to physical paper that is lost when using an e-reader, but for me it's well worth the trade-off for the the portability and space saved.
Also consider that often, people who are expressing skepticism of digital reading have only ever tried it on laptops and iPads, which is a very different (more distracting) experience from an e-ink reader.
- unjust distribution of the cameras themselves
- camera data is used for selective enforcement (alert a nearby office when minorities are driving through white neighborhoods)
Tools are only as unbiased as the people deploying and using them.But different Catholic populations around the world have different degrees of dogmatism, and papal statements like this can have profound human rights impacts in the long run.