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by Despegar 7y ago
iFixit and the other "right to repair" advocates are talking their own book. Apple products are uniformly the same across the entire installed base so it's easy to keep parts in stock and meet expected demand for repairs. The
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Struggling Farmers See Bright Spot in Solar(wsj.com)
4 points by Despegar 7y ago|0 comments
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by Despegar 7y ago
Maybe you should relay this story to the FTC and the federal prosecutors so they can investigate this and bring Juul to justice.
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by Despegar 7y ago
The old Mac Pro was never updated, but they never stopped production of them.
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by Despegar 7y ago
>Is this sort of a "if you don't make us pay tarrifs on component X, we'll build component Y in the USA?" They're basically responding to these stories by WSJ and Bloomberg saying that they're moving product
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Organised Labour Has Returned(ft.com)
1 points by Despegar 7y ago|0 comments
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by Despegar 7y ago
$300k a year doesn't seem like much to pay for union leadership if it covered a large enough number of workers. It might be expensive on first glance, but it might be more expensive to not negotiate collectively.
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by Despegar 7y ago
I don't think "ecosystems" are a priority in and of themselves for Apple.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Nah. If they feel inclined to do something more powerful than the Content Blocker API then they should build the ad blocker themselves into Safari. It can be off by default and configurable by users. It'd make the Content Blocker API k
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by Despegar 7y ago
>just like the FDAs procedures make it impossible to invent a new drug unless you're already an established, giant pharma company. This is complete nonsense. The biotech industry is very large and vibrant and are most certainly not
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by Despegar 7y ago
While I think CCPA is a step in the right direction from the status quo, which is basically a free-for-all, it's still a mediocre privacy law. GDPR remains the gold standard because it's opt-in, CCPA is opt-out. The only reason it
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by Despegar 7y ago
Why is it better than Adyen?
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Block your TV from having internet access and get an Apple TV
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by Despegar 7y ago
Wired has a good article about how it works https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet...
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The economic policy at the heart of Europe is creaking(economist.com)
3 points by Despegar 7y ago|0 comments
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It'd be extremely foolish for any advanced economy to give up on intellectual property, including software patents. Which is why it's not going to happen.
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by Despegar 7y ago
>if US politicians wouldn’t fully support a potential WWIII-esque intervention It's amusing but that's not even the real concern. Israel, Iran, the US and the world all know perfectly well that there's no existential threa
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by Despegar 7y ago
EPIC is much better on privacy than the EFF is, who only has sharp words for government surveillance but otherwise acts as the tech industry's lobbyist. https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/why-arent-priv
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by Despegar 7y ago
The 9/11 tapes are pretty chilling. http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/...
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Making it abundantly clear why the US needs to pass a GDPR clone into law.
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by Despegar 7y ago
>The app store is not a retail store. That's one of the major factors in the antitrust analysis. Well no. What you cited was related to the Supreme Court's analysis of the App Store case, but that was only related to the issue
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Don’t Hack Back: Call the FBI and They’ll Call NSA(breakingdefense.com)
2 points by Despegar 7y ago|0 comments
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Anyone that's expecting Apple to annually refresh their statements about this under oath to not be considered compromised is probably acting in bad faith. The first time was good enough for anyone that actually wants to know if Apple h
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by Despegar 7y ago
Replying to this just for anyone else that reads this later: Tim Cook confirmed this was still the case in this 2018 interview with Vice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD1cP8SK3Q0&feature=youtu.be...
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by Despegar 7y ago
That's an uncharitable reading of an extremely clear statement. And it's also understandable why it's less affirmative. He's being conservative because he can't speak for what everyone who works for him may or may n
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by Despegar 7y ago
Apple has already publicly said in court filings, and under threat of perjury, that they don't make any exceptions for China. From Apple's filing [1]: >Finally, the government attempts to disclaim the obvious international impl
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by Despegar 7y ago
Apple has already publicly said in court filings, and under threat of perjury, that they don't make any exceptions for China. From Apple's filing [1]: >Finally, the government attempts to disclaim the obvious international impl
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by Despegar 7y ago
It's honestly surprising that people still continue to insist that anyone but Google is responsible for the current state of affairs. It's completely because of Google's business incentives. Google's pivot, from a Blackb
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Google’s Android Suffers Sustained Attacks by Anti-Uighur Hackers(forbes.com)
7 points by Despegar 7y ago|0 comments
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by Despegar 7y ago
Apple credits people who report vulnerabilities after every update. There are no public comments from Apple aside from those routine acknowledgements. Apple patched this within days of finding out about it. This press release is about every

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