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by Despegar 3y ago
Apparently you have a higher standard for "get along" than I do. I think not being actively at war for decades qualifies.
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by Despegar 3y ago
They have for decades since the armistice agreement was signed in 1953 after the Korean War.
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by Despegar 3y ago
It's time for the US to end the sanctions on North Korea. The abuse workers face is a straight line result from the fact that virtually all aspects of their economy are under total embargo. North Korea is a nuclear state, and they will
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by Despegar 3y ago
New Google Chrome feature blocks attacks from something websites shouldn't be able to access in the first place.
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by Despegar 3y ago
I would guess this policy is the result of ADL, other pro-Israel lobbying groups, and Israel itself, pressuring social media groups as part of their hasbara operation. And perhaps Elon Musk is a Zionist himself (he's certainly friends
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by Despegar 3y ago
The Epic v. Apple trial showed that no one got special deals. And Epic v. Google did show Google gave many companies special deals, like Spotify. Ironically that played a big part with the jury deciding against Google.
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by Despegar 3y ago
Tim Sweeney is mad about having to pay Apple's App Store commission. Developers for many years believed that by having their own "payment processing" they could pay nothing to Apple. However the district court ruled that Appl
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by Despegar 3y ago
I think that would be the case if they were given to the US and other Western intelligence agencies. My scenario requires competition between geopolitical opponents to create an incentive to worry about defense as well.
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by Despegar 3y ago
Perhaps Apple should provide research devices directly to the US's and China's intelligence agencies and pit them against each other to help close more vulnerabilities. The agencies can decide on their own where to strike the bala
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by Despegar 3y ago
Is that actually true? Has the price of these exploits been going up year after year, or has it topped out at some level?
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by Despegar 3y ago
I mean progress from today.
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by Despegar 3y ago
I'm curious to know from experts if there's anything Apple can do to create a step-change in terms of security of iPhones? Like if the going rate for a zero day is $1 million, is there anything Apple can do that can drive that up
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by Despegar 3y ago
There was no partnership as far as I know. Masimo met with Apple's M&A team, they didn't do a deal, then Apple hired Masimo employees to do it themselves. This complaint of Apple meeting with some company and then stealing the
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by Despegar 3y ago
It's just become a meme among tech enthusiasts (on Reddit, HN, etc) and tech journalists that "blue bubbles" are a real social problem. The origin of the meme was this amusing post by Paul Ford 8 years ago [1]. They took it a
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by Despegar 3y ago
I don't see why it's impossible. It requires coordination and millions of dollars in funding by all the respective governments, but if the world thinks CSAM is a serious problem, then it's a drop in the bucket. CSAM doesn&#x2
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by Despegar 3y ago
The veto system would have to require that the equivalent of Russia and China's NCMEC agrees that the image/video's signature that's going to be included in the database is actually CSAM at a low level operational level.
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by Despegar 3y ago
This is the only compromise I would accept, otherwise I'm in favor of E2E with no backdoors. People who care about preventing CSAM and prosecuting pedophiles should consider this an improvement over the status quo.
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by Despegar 3y ago
If national legislation by Western governments provided that only signatures from this org could be included, then I'd support it. But I don't know anything about this INTERPOL list, does it actually require consensus by all of th
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by Despegar 3y ago
The only way for this system to work would be if the database of CSAM were managed by consensus by geopolitical rivals. That is, it would have to include Russia and China. This is the only way to ensure that Western governments don't a
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by Despegar 3y ago
If there's going to be removable batteries for any product it will be for new product categories like the Vision Pro. Apple is definitely not going to take established products like the iPhone and change it up just to be different (whi
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by Despegar 3y ago
I was being charitable. It will be vastly worse for the US. And in the event of a war with China it could very plausibly be the end of the US as a unified state. There will certainly be plenty of political violence.
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by Despegar 3y ago
The US has no national security threats in its region. Conscription would only be about fighting a war with China, which would be a war of choice (like all US wars).
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by Despegar 3y ago
If the US ever tries to have conscription again, it will destroy the state as it exists.
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by Despegar 3y ago
Are there any particular companies that are trustworthy?
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by Despegar 3y ago
Bluesky is the only one that feels like early Twitter
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by Despegar 3y ago
It's unfortunate that biotech funding also depends on the same low rate environment that tech does, because while the tech industry has mostly been spinning its wheels on nonsense after the iPhone (like crypto), there's real innov
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by Despegar 3y ago
All that says is that the iPhone was a uniquely good business and opportunity that will likely never be matched by any product for the next few decades. There isn't anyone claiming the Apple Vision Pro will be as big as the iPhone in t
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by Despegar 3y ago
It's not in Apple's interests to get into military contracting because of the potential to damage their brand, as well as avoiding the geopolitical tensions that would invite.
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by Despegar 3y ago
Which is probably the point of the R1 and the real-time subsystem.
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by Despegar 3y ago
This is an academic argument for a purist. The fact is that Apple checkmated them by allowing monetization of podcasts directly. Without being effectively countered, Spotify wouldn't just be 25% of the market, they'd be the YouTub

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