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by Despegar 7y ago
It was the natural outcome absent privacy legislation like GDPR. Why not create a two-sided market out of everything?
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by Despegar 7y ago
The only actual solution to this is legal, not technical.
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Greed Is Dead(the-tls.co.uk)
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China is also firing up more coal plants. https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-tougher-times-china-falls-ba...
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PDF version: https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/app...
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Doctors Win Again, in Cautionary Tale for Democrats(nytimes.com)
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Perhaps that's true for a startup still trying to prove their concept, but it might not for one that has achieved product/market fit. "Hybrid cloud" is starting to get traction for large enterprises adopting the cloud [1
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by Despegar 7y ago
I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I saw this headline on Twitter. It's just kisses fingers . So now that everyone knows they are waffling on whether to stay in the business (and have a deadline), Microsoft and Amazon just n
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Google execs reportedly debated getting out of cloud computing(cnbc.com)
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>Strategically, airlines are in a worse position if Boeing goes under. Not only do they lose the planes on order. They also lose their service and replacement-parts provider. The survivors would, in the medium-term, face an Airbus monopo
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>So, Google was not dishonest from the start, it was idealistic, and then at some point, the idealism crashed into reality, and that's when things started to change. The initial attempt at a unique culture was an honest attempt. I c
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The thing about Google's culture is that it was always dishonest from the start. And it was dishonest because they were deeply ashamed of how they made money. So from the very beginning the culture was built around being "Googley&
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As far as I know there are no non-solicitation or non-compete agreements involved in this case at all. It all hinges on the fact that he was employed by Apple and owed them his undivided loyalty.
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Yeah this is almost certainly about chips intended for future Macs.
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They're alleging breach of duty of loyalty and breach of contract. He was setting up and soliciting Apple employees for his new business while employed at Apple . If he left and tried to poach his former co-workers that would have bee
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Apple’s Safari privacy features are driving down prices for advertisers(9to5mac.com)
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Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India(newyorker.com)
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JavaScript was a mistake
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/22/how-tech-lost-on-t...
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>and get a bunch of people killed That's what it will take for Congress to amend Section 230 in a way that exposes the tech industry to liability (other than for sex trafficking, which was only done because victims and their familie
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by Despegar 7y ago
Mobile computing has finally arrived
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Apple Calls New Russian Smartphone Legislation 'Equivalent to Jailbreaking'(macrumors.com)
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>I get that unions might be necessary in industries where workers are actually exploited, to protect said workers. But FAANG engineers are pretty much in the opposite situation. I don't like people creating an us-vs-them situation t
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>But the real issue is that media (not just digital) has ZERO incentive to change their practices. Attention is the currency of media and since controversy and sensationalism draw more eyeballs, they are used by actors across the spectru
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by Despegar 7y ago
The pie may have grown, but aside from labor in the Global South, the people who have captured the gains from that growth have been the capital class in the developed nations (i.e not blue collar workers or the professional class). And no,
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by Despegar 7y ago
According to this report, that Russian law was targeted at Apple [1]. It also says that Apple has told them they'll leave the market, which is pretty credible because Russia is a small market. This is a Google translation: >Accordin
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by Despegar 7y ago
The first thing is only possible on Android, not iOS. As far as the iCloud keys, Apple insists that they maintain control of them. And at the end of the day, anyone can just decide to disable iCloud backups and they won't have to worry
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>How would China gain access to their citizen's phones then? There's no way that they don't have some type of ability to get into any single citizen's phone. Through literally every other part of the stack from the wi
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His answer is consistent with what Apple has said about iPhones and iCloud in China in the past [1]. The lack of pressure he's talking about is pressure to implement backdoors or otherwise compromise the end-to-end encryption in their
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Dynamic Email in Gmail Launches on Android and iOS(venturebeat.com)
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