Cknight70

Personally, I love the 7 Vibe 3 lifestyle, I know I'm being part of a team even when I'm not in the office. I don't let any of those ideas I have in bed go to waste.

For me its because I can directly link to images and text files as opposed to One drive or Google drive.

Would there really be any benefit from splitting up Amazon right now though? Assuming there were two symmetrical Amazons, both focusing on consumers, innovation, and growth, the only way I can see either being competitive is to cut corners.

In my opinion, there would be a much more compelling reasons to split up Amazon if they ever begin to focus on profits.

I'm not looking forward to that future either, which is why I'm still being politically active about net neutrality, just not title two.

The good thing is that the new law doesn't have to be permanent, there have already been a net neutrality specific law in Montana, I don't know if it is any good and I haven't done any research on it, but I'd be willing to bet its more relevant than title 2 was.

I've also seen a lot more articles talking about lack of competition in areas ISP problems and such since title 2 was repealed. So there is still hope!

Okay I think this is the answer I was looking for, thank you. It also helped me understand why my question was a little off the mark/why I got downvoted so much.

A bit off topic, but generally (not specifically Russian election influence) I get the impression people in the US are anti Russia. They don't want to strengthen relationships with Russia. Why is this?

Edit: I didn't mean this to seem like a loaded question, I really am just curious.

Not sure if the internet freedom bill was written maliciously, or with a "one problem at a time" approach. I would have loved for there to be a proposal to replace title 2 with something better, but maybe Ajit Pai knew straight up removing it would be more popular with the Republicans interests.

I believe the "violations" people cite are very blown up, example being Comcast blocking bit torrent, they worked with bit torrent and made their service much more efficient, win win for everyone.

That being said I do not trust big cable companies, and that's why I don't share the "The free market will take care of itself" approach some republicans seem to have, which ignores there is no competition in some areas to begin with. I'm pro net neutrality, and am hoping some future law can ensure this without being inherently suffocating for ISPs.

I live in a red state and e-mailed all of my representatives about net neutrality and I got a response back from all but one of them. From their responses, and my own research I've concluded there is another side to this story than just Republicans treating this like a partisan issue or votes being bought out from Comcast so large cable companies can make more money.

All my representatives expressed support for repealing title 2, saying things like it hurts competition, creates a higher barrier of entry for competing companies, and the majority said they were going to be working to ensure laws are made to have true net neutrality.[0] From the responses from my representatives, and from the research I have verified from them since then, I can say title two was likely not the solution we were looking for, I would urge you to look for viewpoints against title two as well, and remember to stay skeptical to avoid fake news from all sides of the political spectrum.

[0]Excerpt from one of my congressman, I'd type up one of my senator's responses but he sent me physical mail as a reply which I don't have on me: "Like you, I believe [people in our state] should have access to a free and open internet. Following the FCC's vote, I look forward to working with my colleagues in Congress to enact legislation that will preserve net neutrality principles while ensuring that the Internet is kept free from government regulations so it can continue to thrive and improve our connectivity and economy."

I live in a red state and e-mailed all of my representatives about net neutrality and I got a response back from all but one of them. From their responses, and my own research I've concluded there is another side to this story than just Republicans treating this like a partisan issue or votes being bought out from Comcast so large cable companies can make more money.

All my representatives expressed support for repealing title 2, saying things like it hurts competition, creates a higher barrier of entry for competing companies, and the majority said they were going to be working to ensure laws are made to have true net neutrality.[0] From the responses from my representatives, and from the research I have verified from them since then, I can say title two was likely not the solution we were looking for, I would urge you to look for viewpoints against title two as well, and remember to stay skeptical to avoid fake news from all sides of the political spectrum.

[0]Excerpt from one of my congressman, I'd type up one of my senator's responses but he sent me physical mail as a reply which I don't have on me: "Like you, I believe [people in our state] should have access to a free and open internet. Following the FCC's vote, I look forward to working with my colleagues in Congress to enact legislation that will preserve net neutrality principles while ensuring that the Internet is kept free from government regulations so it can continue to thrive and improve our connectivity and economy."

Here's a link to the character if someone wants to test it themselves https://pastebin.com/9Tr8ytTr

Duplicate of this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16334241

Why has Apple still not added the ability to view webms on iOS?

I feel like you could simplify your point to just "different personalities tend to gravitate to different interests and careers."

No need to even mention gender.

Seems to me that when you boil it down Apple's primary strategy now is to focus on convenience and simplicity in a purposely anti competitive way. What advantage does Apple music have over a service like Spotify besides being pre-installed? What about iMessage? What about Facetime? What about the MacBook with a single port?

Apple is not worried about competition or more importantly innovation, it instead focuses on creating a walled garden that can keep its users happy. The HomePod is not trying to be innovative it is trying to keep Apple users in their ecosystem.

Dupe from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16230532

Maybe its because I don't know what I'm missing, but I didn't start using Winamp until version 5, and I think its great. Sure it has a lot of unnecessary or even broken features (looking at you audio converter), but those are easy to ignore and you can even remove some of them.

Don't know if Last pass is good since I've never used it. I know its closed source and it has had numerous security exploits with it, though they seem to get fixed in a timely manner. That's just the negatives though it may be a good password manager for all I know about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass#Security_issues

I'd recommend Keepass.