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New comment by dirkgently in "Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue"

dirkgently — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 10:22:14 +0000

> The world isn't fair, and Apple isn't obliged to give away their stuff for free.

True, and you are not obliged to give pass to Apple either.

New comment by dirkgently in "Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue"

dirkgently — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 10:15:47 +0000

> you're one of the 10 vetted apps that do what yours does, instead of 1 out of 100 on the Play Store.

1. Citation needed (because looks like you are pulling these numbers out of your ass).

2. And by your argument, looks like people have more choices on Android. Who would have thought?!

New comment by dirkgently in "Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue"

dirkgently — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 10:04:45 +0000

No. But they did cone up with a design that allowed infinite login attempts.

New comment by dirkgently in "Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue"

dirkgently — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 10:03:27 +0000

> I am in control with Apple.

Steve Jobs is laughing in his grave.

New comment by dirkgently in "How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]"

dirkgently — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 17:10:17 +0000

You are wording this in a way that it implies that this (block) happens by ios. That's not true and you know it.

New comment by dirkgently in "Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (2015)"

dirkgently — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 15:58:16 +0000

> so pissed off

> single bike sticks out like a sore thumb

Now it totally makes sense.

New comment by dirkgently in "Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors"

dirkgently — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 16:24:57 +0000

It's like all the @$$holes in the same (board) room.

New comment by dirkgently in "One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine"

dirkgently — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 02:10:21 +0000

> First, the author of the article has no professional credibility in either chess or machine learning. He's a professor of math and a writer. No disrespect to either math or writing, I love and value both very highly, but they have very little to do with chess and machine learning per se.

Well, do you accept Garry Kasparov qualified to comment on this?

"I admit that I was pleased to see that AlphaZero had a dynamic, open style like my own."

"Alpha-Zero is surpassing us in a profound and useful way, a model that may be duplicated on any other task or field where virtual knowledge can be generated."

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/1087

New comment by dirkgently in "Social networks are no longer social"

dirkgently — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 02:22:24 +0000

The plot is far-fetched, but that's not the problem.

It's the writing style - it feels like a cheap thriller written for teens. Too many characters and cheap tricks to 'educate' the reader about technical mumbo-jumbo.

Of course, this is my very subjective opinion. But having read enough PKD and Gaiman, my expectations are different than may be majority of the readers.

New comment by dirkgently in "Social networks are no longer social"

dirkgently — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:48:26 +0000

Sorry, but Daemon is one of the worst sci-fi books I have ever read.

New comment by dirkgently in "AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones"

dirkgently — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 08:10:25 +0000

Really?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple/apple-says-iphones-...

It wasn't Android. Apple did this deliberately, and only apologized when they got caught.

It's a ritual to bash Android and Google on HN, and Apple gets a pass every time.

New comment by dirkgently in "Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers"

dirkgently — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 08:01:16 +0000

Your Western counterparts also complain when Western government does this.

You have a really huge chip on those shoulders.

New comment by dirkgently in "Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo"

dirkgently — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 03:43:45 +0000

> The simple example here being how Google seems to prioritize "current news", particularly those clicked the most often, over actual search results.

Funny how I still don't see two links: 1. Google search for a keyword 2. DDC link for the same keyword

As I said, it's posturing.

New comment by dirkgently in "Clearing Up a Few Things About Facebook’s Partners"

dirkgently — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 03:37:08 +0000

Looks like you know for a fact that an App on Android is somehow granted more permission compared to the same App in ios - without users knowing it.

Care to prove your blatant lie with some evidence, or you are just going to bash Google/Android because it's the thing to do on HN?

New comment by dirkgently in "Clearing Up a Few Things About Facebook’s Partners"

dirkgently — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 03:33:44 +0000

Ah the inevitable, "it's all Google's fault" reply.

Apple Music tweets using Android

dirkgently — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:37:16 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1075007491262607361/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18714438

Points: 1

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New comment by dirkgently in "Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo"

dirkgently — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:02:25 +0000

To me, it seems all this long explanation is just posturing when a simple example would have proven your point.

New comment by dirkgently in "Google Has a Plan to Eliminate Mosquitoes"

dirkgently — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 20:28:02 +0000

A snide comment deserves a snide reply.

New comment by dirkgently in "Google Has a Plan to Eliminate Mosquitoes"

dirkgently — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 15:09:59 +0000

> And what business does an ad company have in getting into this?

Yes, instead of applauding the effort of solving a very difficult problem that could help people in real meaningful way, I am just going to go for cheap potshots to show how elite I am.

New comment by dirkgently in "Swathing is going out of fashion, as most farmers desiccate to ripen their crops"

dirkgently — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:56:47 +0000

> As someone that grew up on a farm, can you explain why?

One reason is sheer hypocrisy of the country to force developing or under-developed countries to stop subsidizing _their own_ farming.