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mulletbum··on Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke the mobile browser market
You lost me. Are you saying that the people who make Android OS can't reprogram Android OS? That is all this person is saying.
mulletbum··on Walmart unveils low-price analog insulin amid rising diabetes drug costs
They aren't voting for their own best interests. They are voting to stop people from killing babies and stop socialism (or whatever else they are told).
mulletbum··on If the Lab-Leak Theory Is Right, What’s Next?
Not going to stop Trumpies from lathing onto this article like flies on poo.
mulletbum··on If the Lab-Leak Theory Is Right, What’s Next?
For all those jacked up to hype your conspiracy crap again, just FYI it says "IF the lab-leak." As in, this is an opinion column, just like your conspiracy, not based on facts. Worse, the very first line is "We know enough to acknowledge that the scenario is possible, and we should therefore act as though it’s true." We know you are all humans, which means you COULD be pedophiles, so we should therefore act as though it is true. That is the world you want.......
mulletbum··on Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard
I honestly found keyboards like this cumbersome because I can only use two fingers. I thought that was there reason we got away from them in the first place? Then haptic feedback made it so touching the screen feels better, but the original iPhone showed you didn't need a keyboard. I am so confused on who would buy this device.
mulletbum··on Track Biden – The first 100 Days
No. Having a 100 million people vaccinated in the U.S. does not start at 0. Then you would have 100 million+ people vaccinated. The projection was made off of the data at the time of the estimate, which lead them to feel 100 million was possible. What you want is accountability for which president was in office for every last person, which is not what he is promising.

If Biden said "I would bring the DOW to 30k", you wouldn't expect him to first bring it to zero, or to arbitrarily start wherever it left off with the last president.

mulletbum··on Fitbit is now officially part of Google
isn't it more "what have they done" with your data that makes you think this needs to be /s?
mulletbum··on AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust
Luckily there are a bunch of other CPUs for sale too.
mulletbum··on KeePassXC 2.6.2 Released
If you don't want to pay a ton of money, I use KeePass Touch.
mulletbum··on At what grade level do presidential candidates debate?
They asked him why he supported fracking.
mulletbum··on Ask HN: I am “trapped” in a senior engineering role, how can I escape?
Exactly this, it comes with just life. Not everyone is a struggling single person blowing their money. Sometimes things just grow as you go even when you are not living an outrageous life style.
mulletbum··on Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
It would still be a phone.

That said, of course developers built the market, but not every developer built the market. Apple developers built it. Other developers have chosen to sell inside of it.

Without Apple Developers creating the store itself those developers couldn't sell anything. Apple could 100% do that if they wanted. In fact, the first iPhone was as such.

mulletbum··on Tesla cuts Model S price by $5k, bumps range to 402 miles
A 7% cut? Yes, it makes a different for all the other manufacturers which is why they constantly send me new pamphlets.
mulletbum··on Amazon Go Grocery – Full store open now
Meijer already does this, it is just a normal terminal, that knows your order based on your phone or some other scan, which then accepts cash like every coin return machine. It just dispenses change.
mulletbum··on Why we've never fallen in love with virtual reality
It also could be that you are looking through odd glasses that have black cones around them instead of fully encompassed video space.
mulletbum··on AirPods Are Becoming a Platform?
It's funny because I own both AirPods and 315s. I always have thought "Why did I pay so much for the 315s when I can get a crappy ol pair of wired headphones for $20 that work well enough." There wasn't a fantastic bluetooth connected option, I have owned 6-10 bluetooth wireless solutions, but nothing matched airpods.
mulletbum··on 16-inch MacBook Pro
189 Million
mulletbum··on Bob Iger Takes the Gloves Off for Disney’s Streaming Debut
That might be, but my 3 year old, 6 year old, and wife are on about the 300th play of Descendants 3, which never even went to the theater.
mulletbum··on Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon
I would do this if their p2p voice chat didnt work better than everyone else, including Hangouts and Discord.
mulletbum··on Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon
You are also older though. I don't know about you personally, but I was a fanboy all the same, but as I age the importance has decreased significantly, especially as I started to not enjoy the same types of games as I once did in my youth. My son however, he is just like me when I was 10, loves them. Likes waiting for them. Wants to be a part of the everything Blizzard.
mulletbum··on Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian
My brother runs a repair company for these vans. From my understanding that is not true only because he has set guidelines with them which he must make sure the align with.
mulletbum··on GoFundMe Bans Anti-Vaxxers Who Raise Money to Spread Misinformation
I am not an anti vaxxer, but this is more of a philosophical question. If we ban them, what are we banning them for? What happens if something they say ends up magically being true? How long would it take us to shift the tides back?

What if this was asbestos back in the day. "It's safe, we all use it, if it wasn't then our internal study would have told us." So they start banning anyone saying asbestos is unsafe. How long would it take us to fix all the blocks that are crying to save people from actual asbestos issues, that are 100% real.

And once again, I am not saying banning anti-vaxx is bad, vaccines are proven over and over again.

mulletbum··on What is it like working at a company after releasing a negatively-received game?
I am not from the game industry or anywhere near software mecha. Can you tell me why a company would want to pay you to work on your own pet project with their money without them owning the end result? I am just confused how this is a stipulation at any job. The place I work, if I designed a model for their products on their time, with their money, it is only acceptable that they own said product. Why would they allow me to go off an compete with them?
mulletbum··on Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament
How do you view us?
mulletbum··on Waymo CEO Says Alphabet Unit Plans to Launch Driverless Car Service
I just paint it like this:

If you made a teleportation system where you could step in and come out the other end anywhere in the world, but there is a 1 in 1000 chance you step in and turn to green goo on the other end, should we still adopt it?

You basically save millions of lives, but people have seem to come to the notion that they protect their own fate when in a car (which is 100% untrue). You may be able to mitigate some accidents, but getting T-boned at an intersection when you have a green light, but no visibility, is possible every single day. Your wheel bearing could blow out on the highway and send you rolling into a ditch. A deer could step out in front of you and go through your windshield and kill you. You have no ability to save yourself other than praying.

mulletbum··on iPhones are hard to use
Talk about a feature my 89 year old grandma will be terrified of.
mulletbum··on iPhones are hard to use
This has no basis in reality. Putting a feature like this upfront will cause more accidents than it will allow people with vision issues to use it frequently. People with vision issues need almost all text to be larger. These same people will be the ones accidently hitting this bar instead of brightness and not knowing how to fix it.
mulletbum··on iPhones are hard to use
Do you know what iOS onboarding even looks like? It literally can't be more basic without removing the exact thing you are trying to make a point to have.
mulletbum··on Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?
I reference this when I talk about HackerNews in general. I remember reading this post back then. I remember them slowly growing huge. It's kind of funny to look back and think I knew about their project from the very beginning.
mulletbum··on Alphabet Backs GitLab's Quest to Surpass Microsoft's GitHub
And? Vanguard does things to increase the return for their shareholders. Should I not invest with them?
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