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    After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful

    You’re correct yet miss the point. When I message my wife, I know she’s on Android for “the features” and the texts I send are green (SMS), but when I message 4/5 friends they’re blue because most have iPhones. So you still know who has an iPhone or Android from your own messages to them, which...
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    After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful

    The real issue is that Google made a knockoff product—Android—to capture the ad revenue that will come from the mobile market. Now that they have most of the ad revenue (they pay Apple billions to have Safari search be Google), they lack a motivation to innovate because all Google does is sell...
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    More than FarmVille: Why is Take-Two paying $12.7 billion for Zynga?

    There have been at least 6 editions and it’s been released on every major console and PC, so you can buy Skyrim a lot of times. You should not, but you can.
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    Prior infection vs. vaccination: Why everyone should get a COVID-19 shot

    Any pathogen—an intruder such as a virus or bacteria—gets collected at the site of infection by professional antigen presenting cells (dendritic cells and macrophages) that are like the crime scene detectives collecting evidence of the intruder. The evidence is then brought to the detectives...
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    Uber asked contractor to allow video surveillance in employee homes, bedrooms

    Given this is Uber, I assume their management wants photos and ages for the employees and their household members so they know who to “keep track of”, and they’d never accidentally allow these people to be monitored remotely except during work hours. After all, Uber has a sterling reputation...
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    Deep dive into stupid: Meet the growing group that rejects germ theory

    So seasonal flu is due to…increased “toxins” during the fall and winter…everywhere in the hemisphere? Food poisoning is just because of bad diet, regardless of where you’ve been eating? And all the times scientists gave a virus or bacteria to animals and those animals got sick but animals...
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    Apple’s anti-sideloading PR blitz includes white papers, interviews

    Every company exists to make money. Of the “tech” companies: Apple makes hardware and software and sells services for profit Amazon mostly profits from AWS and acts as a storefront to monetize collecting users’ purchase history Google gives away some services and only makes profit from ads...
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    All those electric vehicles pose a problem for building roads

    “Rural drivers tend to drive farther just by virtue of where they live; should they always pay more?” In a word: yes. Living in a rural area is not a right. People moving to more rural areas destroys wildlife habitat, requires more resources to provide basic services, and generally involves...