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Presumably because most people don't think that "going out and doing something" is inherently superior to "watching movies and TV".

I don't think Overwatch runs on MacOS.

Gitlab CE is open source, but Gitlab EE is not. EE does have some features that CE is lacking.

Personally, I think that their evidence of prejudicial behavior was pretty weak, which is the stance that Ginsburg and Sotomayor took as well.

It will be interesting to see what happens the next time a case like this makes it to the Supreme Court. I was hoping we would get a decision that would set more precedent about this kind of "freedom of expression vs freedom of religion vs civil rights law" debate.

I suggest that anyone interested in the case read the actual ruling. It's not that long and not hard to understand. [1]

Personally, I thought that the majority ruling and the dissent were both pretty compelling. I'm not sure where I would have come down on this issue.

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf

You can't force them to bake a cake for someone, but you can fine them, throw them in jail, or put them out of business for refusing.

However, I suggest reading the Court's opinions to see what reasons they actually used in their ruling.[1]

Their ruling focused largely on how they felt that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission (CCRC) didn't properly respect the baker's religious beliefs, and that the CCRC has demonstrated inconsistencies with their rulings on other similar cases.

[1]https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf

I haven't heard anyone say anything bad about Azure that can't be said about AWS, GCP, or whatever IBM calls their cloud hosting service.

That is exactly the kind of feature I think they will implement. They will probably add more support in Visual Studio and VSCode for GitHub as well, although their support is already pretty good as far as I know.

They can also throw paid GitHub features in with their Office 365 package, like they currently do with Skype. That would further consolidate companies on the Microsoft platform by ensuring that they don't have to leave it for code hosting.

I don't really care if you choose MacOS over Windows. Plenty of people do. There are good reasons to. I even agree with you on some of your points.

My contention is that you implied that Windows 10 does not even meet the low bar of "barely usable" when you said that you have to delete half of the OS to make it barely usable.

That is a lie. Windows 10 is usable out of the box without any modifications. Saying otherwise is spreading misinformation, which I don't support.

I'm not sure how Linux's viability as a desktop OS is relevant to Windows being usable or unusable.

I have no idea what else they've installed, just like I have no idea what MacOS or Linux install. They're all black boxes to me. I see no reason to think Windows is any worse than it's competitors.

I assume by spying, you are referring to Windows 10's telemetry. Personally, I think concerns about it are overblown and calling it spying is misleading at best. It's for diagnostic information. You can set it to only send basic diagnostic data if you so choose. I am in favor of companies collecting diagnostic information about their products to improve them.

I'd love to see some sources on your claim that they are colluding to avoid paying market rates to developers.

Yes there is. I have no problem with people saying Windows 10 isn't good, even if I personally think it's good. The "goodness" of an operating system is pretty subjective.

I do have a problem with people calling it barely usable, which is a much more objective (and incorrect) statement.

I downloaded the maps for my state. Are there local maps that I would need to download as well?

> GitHub being unprofitable makes the situation worse because one knows then MS intend to make major changes: either to destroy it, or squeeze money from it.

GitHub no longer needs to directly turn a profit now that it is owned by Microsoft. They just need to use GitHub to increase their profits from Azure (or any of Microsoft's other money makers). I don't think they need to make drastic changes to GitHub for that to happen.

> It is outrageous that I have to delete half of the operating system to get something barely useable

Seriously? Windows 10 is a perfectly usable OS out of the box. I can open up the included web browser and go to whatever website I want. I can install Office, Visual Studio, a Linux subsystem, VLC, a VNC client, VirtualBox, Chrome, Firefox, and every other piece of software I need without any hassle.

Yes, there is something called "Bubble Witch 3 Saga" in my start menu that I did not install. I understand why people are upset about things like that even if I don't care.

Windows 10 has plenty of flaws that are worth pointing out, but using ridiculous hyperbole doesn't add to the conversation in a productive way.

Last I checked, AWS is in first place by a wide margin, followed by Azure and then IBM in third. Google is trailing all of them at the moment.

Unless you've got some data to back that claim up, it's likely that the answer is "it doesn't, and some kind of bias just makes it appear that way to you".

I just installed OSMand to try it out, and it didn't have the street I live on. It also didn't have my place of work on it, although it did have that street at least.

Seems worse than Google maps to me.

Thus far we've only seen ARM chips that can compete with the low end of Intel's offerings. An ARM processor in the 12" Macbook makes sense. I don't see Apple switching the MacBook Pro line to ARM in the next five years, though.

My point was that Russia and China (and France, the UK, and many other nations) are going to develop them anyways, regardless of whether the US develops them.

Anyone who likes living in a world where the US has military superiority over Russia and China (and every other nation) should support the US military, Google, and any other US company developing these weapons.

And one of our largest welfare programs. It's pretty easy for an 18 year old with no marketable skills to join the military and end up with some skills and a free college education.

Regardless of whether Google works with the US military on this, or if another company works with the US military on this, or if NO outside company works with the US military on this, or even if the US military doesn't work on it at all, autonomous AI powered weapons are happening anyways. We can't put them back in the box. The prosperity that technology brings us comes with a cost. Weaponizing technology will always be a part of humanity.

The only question for someone in the US should be "would I rather the US (and its allies) develop these weapons, or China develop these weapons, or Russia develop these weapons?".

The percentage of people that had access to a Commodore 64 was relatively small, so a person had a high chance of not having access. That means it was lucky to have had access.

The percentage of people that are killed in a car accident is relatively small, so a person who is not killed in a car accident doesn't need to be particularly lucky to avoid being killed in a car accident.

Yes, luck is a factor in everything, but the role that luck plays in everything is not the same.

Yes, that is quite obviously luck. People don't get to choose your parents. You were lucky enough to have parents that taught you about investing at an early age.

Hard work and luck are both parts of success. Humans just have a tendency to downplay the luck aspect.

I'm not saying it's all luck. Hard work is important. Luck is also important. It's pointless to argue over which is more important in my opinion.

However, a lot of successful people (including the person I was originally responding to) downplay the role that luck plays and exaggerate the role that hard work plays.

My logic concludes no such thing.

Assuming you believe that genetics plays a role in our skills and traits, then luck also plays a role. A person has no control over their genetics.

A person also has no control over the economic status of their parents, the area of the world they are born in, whether they receive proper nutrition as a child, what kind of education they get as a child, and an infinite number of other factors that contribute to whether they will end up rich or poor.

Yes, hard work is important to becoming wealthy in most cases, but there are so many factors that people dismiss when they say that luck has a small role.

> Having some talent at hiring and managing people helped.

Luck.

> Spending my teenage years writing clever little programs in 6502 assembly language on my Commodore 64 instead of smoking weed and partying helped.

Lucky enough to grow up with access to a computer in a time when that wasn't common.

> Having a strong knack for math and computer science helped.

Luck again.

Anecdotal, but installed Home on my computer about a month ago and used a local account with no problem.

> An app for those who take music seriously.

> Do you like music streaming services?

> Do you enjoy companies telling you what you should listen to each week?

> Did you stop buying music years ago?

> If you answer with "yes" to any of these questions, Decoupled wasn't made for you. Sorry.

Why bother alienating people who enjoy streaming services? Plenty of people, myself included, use Spotify but also have music that isn't on Spotify and want a good player for it.

I would also argue that anyone who takes music seriously should love music streaming services, because they offer an incredible value for the price.

The concepts of pain and pleasure don't really apply to many forms of life. Bacteria, plants, fungus.

The only goal that all livings things share is the drive to reproduce. Anything without that drive dies out, which explains why it's essential to life.

At least one organization agrees with you and is trying to do something about it.

https://www.slow-journalism.com/