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What would be immoral would be paying more taxes than absolutely necessary, since that would harm shareholders. Apple is a public company, their highest obligation is to their shareholders. We’re not talking about human rights violations here, it’s simply using the law in its existing format to save your shareholder’s money. It’s unfair to hold corporations to the same kind of social contract obligations that you would an individual, unless you are a believer in the “corporations are people” nonsense.

about 21 hours ago on Senate probe accuses Apple of avoiding billions of dollars in taxes with offshore havens 1 reply 1 recommend

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A hand squeezing a sponge.

8 days ago on Is One World Trade Center really the tallest building in the West? 1 recommend

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If they can fly themselves they’ll probably be called drones.

16 days ago on When a drone gets stuck in the arms of a rooftop statue, who's responsible for getting it down? 2 replies 1 recommend

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second: the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.

meter: the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.

They’re trying to create a definition similar to those in that it’s not defined by a physical property of some object that can change, but rather a universal constant.

18 days ago on Scientists are building a better kilogram 1 reply 3 recommends

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And you can use it in URLs and filenames

18 days ago on Scientists are building a better kilogram 5 recommends

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Yeah, and 365! They should find a way to change that to decimal.

18 days ago on Scientists are building a better kilogram 3 replies 1 recommend

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@WayAway Every process on iOS is allowed to run in the background as long as it has a task that requires it.

22 days ago on OS X 10.9 will reportedly include tabbed browsing in Finder and iOS-style multitasking 1 reply

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I’m not being sarcastic, I am an actual cocoa developer and I know what I am talking about. Everyone else here doesn’t actually understand how the iOS backgrounding engine works and is talking out their ass.

22 days ago on OS X 10.9 will reportedly include tabbed browsing in Finder and iOS-style multitasking 3 replies 11 recommends

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NSApplicationDelegate

UIApplicationDelegate

I assume they’re bringing the – applicationDidEnterBackground: and the app restoration parts to desktop.

22 days ago on OS X 10.9 will reportedly include tabbed browsing in Finder and iOS-style multitasking 2 recommends