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efraim··on Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it
What are your concerns about being naked around children?
efraim··on FAA Statement on Pratt and Whitney Engine Emergency Airworthiness Directive
You can't tell from that picture, the damage could have been sustained from the cowling. There is speculation that the damage is from a fan blade but that has not been determined yet. The video of the engine doesn't show any corresponding damage on the side where any fan blade could have exited either.
efraim··on FAA Statement on Pratt and Whitney Engine Emergency Airworthiness Directive
This looks like it was a contained engine failure, even though the cowling fell off. A portion of a fan blade was embedded in the containment ring and the other damaged blades is missing but probably went out the front, slicing the cowling on its way.
efraim··on American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday
Did it leave a trail?
efraim··on Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
If there's a computer in it, there is no clear technical difference. The difference is how people use it. You don't use a switch as your only computer device, banks and stores don't need to create apps for all those platforms to be competitive.
efraim··on Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
It's dishonest to pretend that smart phones are not a very large and important portion of the digital market today and very hard to be without. They are used for payment, identification, messaging etc that a laptop or desktop can not replace. Having the choice between apple or google is not much of a choice. And a company that wan't to reach the public must have a smart phone app and therefore must have a ios app.

Your list of manufacturers does not take the platforms into consideration. None of those are allowed to use apples platform unless they follow their strict rules.

There isnt't a competitive market unless ther's free movement and perfect information and the two smart phone platforms have large lock-in effects today so it hardly qualifies. The portion of the market that is android or windows are competitive markets, it's easy to switch from a samsung phone to a lg phone.

efraim··on Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
Apple is well compensated for their ecosystem with the price of their phones. Epic wants to create their own store or be allowed to use another payment processor than Apple for in app purchases. Apple would still have plenty of revenue from the app store and hardware.

If epic and others was allowed to use multiple payment processors in the apps, or to install different app stores such as epic games or steam, you wouldn't have fewer choices you would have more.

efraim··on Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
General purpose computing. A game console or Tesla computer is not made for general programs, they have specific purposes.

It's also a case of "you know it when you see it", iPhone wasn't a big platform when it launched but now it's the primary platform for many peoples computer needs, it should not be exclusively run by a private company.

efraim··on Violentmonkey – An open source userscript manager
I switched from greasemonkey to tampermonkey because the webextension version of greasemonkey wasn't compatible with some of my scripts anymore, but tampermonkey was.
efraim··on AirPods Max
But is the higher price necessary or an artificial segmentation of the market? Of course expensive sounds better than cheap, but could $100 headphones sound as good as $500 or are they really that much more expensive to make?
efraim··on Apple Ending "Fortnite Save the World" Updates for Mac
Right, very few products are entirely new. That's especially true with apple devices which is why I didn't agree that the apple watch is a blue ocean innovation. They are good at taking ideas and making them better.

I would argue that the app store became popular because the iphone was already popular due to being the newest product from apple that had built a following with the ipods and keynotes where the journalists where applauding everything Steve Jobs said. It's easy to forget how bad the iphone was when it was first released.

efraim··on Apple Ending "Fortnite Save the World" Updates for Mac
From a security standpoint yes, but but the usability wasn't that bad.
efraim··on Apple Ending "Fortnite Save the World" Updates for Mac
Android had trusted face unlock since 2014
efraim··on Apple Ending "Fortnite Save the World" Updates for Mac
How is the apple watch a blue ocean innovation when smart watches existed before that? It might be better but it's not a new product, similar to how the ipod wasn't the first mp3 player. Is faceid a usability innovation over previous face recognition systems or is just more secure?
efraim··on Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach
Denmark has had 100 deaths per million and neighboring Swedish region Scania has had 139 deaths per million (1.4 million population). The death rate of just the regions of Zealand and Copenhagen is 170 per million (2.6 million population). The same strategy has been in place in Stockholm and Scania, so why is the death rate not higher everywhere in Sweden?

Maybe leaving schools, stores and restaurants open is not what's behind the high number of deaths in predominantly Stockholm, but something else, like how the elder care homes are managed. It doesn't seem fair to point to Sweden's high death numbers when Stockholm is a big outlier that skews the average. In most other parts of Sweden the people are doing fine, without lockdown.

efraim··on Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
What is the point of your comments? You mention the community as an organism that can't control where the harm is directed, that is acting in self-defense. But the people looting, breaking windows and throwing stones are individuals that chose to participate in violent riots. They are not acting in self-defense.
efraim··on Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
That still doesn't make looting self-defense.
efraim··on ICQ New
What are their strong ties to the russian government?
efraim··on Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible
Don't they already do that? They are part of the MDN Product Advisory Board since 2017.

Blog post of the announcement: https://blog.chromium.org/2017/10/building-unified-documenta...

efraim··on Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster, study finds
Also, people like to sit next to people they know such as family. A column approach sounds more effective, but it would split up people traveling together.
efraim··on Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?
But they don't have wires that are annoying and tethers your head to your phone.
efraim··on Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
Volvo is testing self driving cars on public roads in Sweden.
efraim··on The Porsche Taycan's Two-Speed Gearbox
A CVT can't handle as much torque as a gear-based transmission.
efraim··on Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
Press win+tab to open the view to create new desktops and use ctrl+win+arrow key to switch between them.
efraim··on Vimeo Disabled My Account for Submitting HTML
At least enough to unsuspend the account after they suspend it by mistake.
efraim··on VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports
A lot of projectors in conference rooms and class rooms.
efraim··on Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement Violates Constitution
Would a police officer looking at tire tread depth also be considered an illegal search?
efraim··on Julian Assange arrested in London
He certainly has some mental health issues, that's for sure.
efraim··on Julian Assange arrested in London
The police in Sweden and every other country would save so much money if they could just ask the suspected criminals to be interviewed over skype instead of having to fetch them and take them to a police station. Or why not ask the person to be interviewed where they want it to happen and the police can come to them, with the prosecutor.
efraim··on You probably don’t need input type=“number”
> It'll work in Chrome (and other Blink-based browsers), but nothing else.

Then it isn't the right choice.

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