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Comment Re:It's valid (Score 1) 247

Google pays a lot of money to be set as the default search engine. That's the limit. Apple doesn't give them access to location data without a popup authorization screen.

Personally I switched my search to DuckDuckGo in settings. But should Apple make that the default for everyone? The reality is google does have better quality results. Should they sacrifice quality for privacy, or give people the choice?

Comment Re:Kissinger, Arafat and Obama are the reasons why (Score 1) 155

Please don't make me defend Obama. The Nobel Committee laid out the reasons that they voted to give Obama the award. In 2009, Obama began drawing down troops from Iraq, and also gave a well-regarded speech in Cairo to the Muslim world, promising a reset after the Iraq war and mutual respect. He also not only gave a speech at the UN calling for a world completely free of nuclear weapons but he started organizing UN security council meetings to try and get unanimous agreement to reduce the world nuclear weapon stockpiles. These reasons were why the Nobel committee said he deserved it; citing their original founding criteria to determine a person or entity who promoted peace and reduced armies.

Of course he later increased troops in Afghanistan and stepped up drone attacks.

Comment Race to the bottom (Score 2) 54

Reddit is doing a speedrun in trying to destroy user trust. First they crush third party apps and then are caught lying about it and slandering the developer of Apollo, then they get rid of the Reddit Gold features and announce more user tracking/monetization.

Power users are fleeing the site and moving to Lemmy, which is growing quickly with all the disaffected users. When this is all over Reddit will be a husk of its former self and just another 9gag.

Comment Re:Simple Reason (Score 1) 177

I agree. People are trapped in their paradigms. When the iPhone was announced, a lot of people recoiled at the idea of a touch screen only phone. Why? Because most touch screens prior to 2007 were terrible. People remember poking at ATM screens with bad accuracy, or pressing hard with a stylus on cash register signature pads that were not sensitive.

People are resistant to the idea of VR because they remember either Google Cardboard or large heavy arcade headsets. They can't imagine light thin hardware like BigScreen Beyond.

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