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> China could crash the American economy any time they want. It'd hurt them, but it'd hurt America a lot more. Especially because oil exporters would immediately switch to doing oil trade in Euros, which would make it exception
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> Well, for me, having a company as big as Google providing a solution and commiting to fix the problem a few days after the guy reported the issue on his blog, is quite a good response. If that's a "quite a good response,&quot
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> Yes. The choice before Google is whether to enter the Chinese market. Staying out of China may make some people feel morally satisfied, but will not give Chinese people more information. Entering the Chinese market also lends prestige
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> Considering the blatant lies and misinformation being spread in the comment, the fact that it's a fresh, new account makes it suspect. What blatant lies? Everything there looks true, except maybe the employment figures (the US fi
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> Google doesn't fix the problem -> They don't care about their users. They suck. > Google fixes the problem -> Yes, but how many users suffered the problem before? They suck. You're missing the point. It's
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Here you go: http://archive.is/kY2pl
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>> Happy ending for one person. If anything this has scared me away from G Suite. Every once in a while we see an article on how to get away from Google and it sounds like a bunch of kooks, then things like this happen. > If you re
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Let me guess: his previous "G Suite Horror Story" post blew up on twitter, which made him eligible for the Google Support Grand Prize Jackpot : the attention of a real human being empowered to fix the issue. Second prize is a an
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Steve Jobs famously told Obama that "those jobs aren’t coming back" when he was asked about moving US manufacturing back to the US. Maybe Jobs was wrong. Apple's concentrated bet on Chinese manufacturing has opened it up to
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> You can't force a company or an individual to listen to your opinion on whether penguins are the greatest birds alive. No, that's wrong. The government can force a company to provide services to someone, despite however mu
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> So who determines which companies have the rights to exclude others and which doesn't? You misunderstand: I wasn't commenting on which companies have rights or not, but about which rights companies should have at all, and
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> Please interpret the word "Congress" to mean something other than the government. I'm not arguing what it should say, but what it does say. And what it does say is pretty clear. That's neither here nor there. I was
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> So Apple isn’t allowed the freedom to do as they want? Giving for-profit corporations "freedoms" like they were people was a mistake. Once an organization grows to a certain size, it has more in common with a government than
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> As a reminder to everyone: the constitutional guarantee to freedom of speech means that the _government_ cannot censor any views (outside of certain exceptions for threatening language, and the like). It does not mean that a private en
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Paywall bypass: http://archive.is/uTZHO
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I few months ago, I changed a developer-options configuration on my Android phone to increase the speed of the animations to the maximum. My phone felt so much more responsive, it was like I got a major processor upgrade. IMHO, two big c
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>>>>>>> If government-directed job creation is the desired goal, why not just hand the preferred companies cash? That would be a lot more transparent and targeted than subsidizing utilities Venezuela-style. >>>
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> If the local government is subsidizing them, then if they move to a different place, they lose the subsidy. No. What if they have operations in multiple locations? They could locate the bulk of their operations elsewhere, and only ma
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> Money is fungible. Whether they're saving it by having cheaper electricity or getting cut a check is irrelevant. That's wrong (and also kinda dogmatic). Money is fungible with itself, but it's not fungible with electric
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> this article has overestimated china's tech level, naive. It's not bad to overestimate your adversary's tech level. The US developed the far-superior F-15 because it overestimated the capabilities and role of the Mig-25
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> We already have a number on embedded processors and controllers in cars today, including systems responsible for critical operational parts of the car. > How autonomous systems will make anything different? Why do you believe people
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> If government-directed job creation is the desired goal, why not just hand the preferred companies cash? That would be a lot more transparent and targeted than subsidizing utilities Venezuela-style. This isn't a subsidy, it's
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> The FAA tests found that the anti-fire halon gas installed in airline cargo areas wouldn’t extinguish a lithium battery fire, but it prevents the blaze from spreading to adjacent material such as cardboard or clothing. Is halon toxic o
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Isn't Google calendar easily replaced by any CalDAV implementation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV
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> Almost all countries require compliance with some level of government mandated censorship. Why is China being singled out? Because the purpose and intent of the censorship matters. China's censorship is about suppressing dissent
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> That seems not believable at all i'd like to see source for that, i find hard to believe Apple, Oracle and such companies that are very protective for their code to submitted to one of most copy past countries in the world. The ac
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> Fastmail I can wholeheartedly endorse them. One other benefit is that they actually have real live humans doing customer support. I haven't needed it much (only when I was setting up my custom domain and feature requests), but i
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I always try DuckDuckGo first, and if I have trouble, then I fall back to Google. It doesn't cost me much, and I figure if I just default to Google then I'm endorsing a stagnant search market. It's better to support competi
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What's your point? The US military is going to engage in drone warfare regardless of the the objections of Google employees to Project Maven.
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I'm not a crypto skeptic: things like encryption, one-way hashing, etc. are extremely important, fundamental technologies with loads of math and experience behind them. They work, and should be used widely. Crypto-currencies are a tot

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