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by IBM 9y ago
It's amazing to me how many comments here excuse Google's behavior by offering the impractical "solution" of just not using a smartphone (a false dilemma) when the obvious answer is to get an iPhone. That's the advi
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by IBM 9y ago
If they have no existing product on the market to Osborne then pre-announcing the product is fine and probably good if it depresses sales to competitors.
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by IBM 9y ago
I prefer the Apple that is willing to forgo a holiday shopping season to make sure the product meets their standard of quality.
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by IBM 9y ago
It's an exciting time for antitrust. The movement is getting stronger on both sides of the aisle [1]. [1] https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novemberdecember-2017...
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by IBM 9y ago
Jim Chanos, a famous short seller known for his Enron short (and who's also shorting Tesla), often refers to the book The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse by Marianne Jennings [1] when talking about identifying financial frauds. Here&#x
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The Ongoing Battle Against Tax Havens(spiegel.de)
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EU closes in on Google as it prepares second antitrust fine(telegraph.co.uk)
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Something is wrong with children's videos on the internet(medium.com)
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by IBM 9y ago
>I don't know why people think competing against Apple is hard or impossible. You just made the case against this. The fact that they won't make an IoT blender is why they're hard to compete with. Apple is the polar opposi
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by IBM 9y ago
Russia is an "illiberal democracy". Germany absolutely isn't.
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by IBM 9y ago
I'm not German but my understanding is that AfD has walked the line. NPD on the other hand didn't but the courts said they were too insignificant to be banned, which may have increased the legal hurdle in the future which might no
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by IBM 9y ago
>The Internet companies lost the high ground in regard to censorship and 3rd party speech when they tried to shutdown Daily Stormer. When Google or CloudFlare were told that the website was using their services, instead of taking the hig
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by IBM 9y ago
The solution to that is to aggressively enforce antitrust laws already in the books, not to oppose "laws of responsibility" because it might have disproportionate impact on small companies. Note that Germany's "Facebook
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by IBM 9y ago
This law is just the German constitution applied specifically to a certain industry. Germany doesn't have free speech in the same vein as the First Amendment in the US. When the Allies created the German constitution they avoided the t
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by IBM 9y ago
It's remarkably refreshing to see this comment on HN. The pirates have become the navy and it's time to grow up.
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by IBM 9y ago
The German concept of militant democracy might make Germany the only liberal democracy capable of dealing with the realities of the 21st century [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streitbare_Demokratie
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by IBM 9y ago
Then don't? VCs aren't the only source of capital. I also have no idea how you could say the US has a "banking monoculture". There are almost 5000 banks in the US.
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by IBM 9y ago
This law is very clearly designed to tackle a negative externality from tech companies. It could have been more expansive, but it's limited to just sex trafficking. Governments have antitrust laws to handle monopolies. If you're c
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by IBM 9y ago
>Amazon and eBay would be able to absorb the increased legal risk under SESTA. They would likely be able to afford the high-powered lawyers to survive the wave in lawsuits against them. Small startups, including would-be competitors, wou
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by IBM 9y ago
All these takes https://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/27/new-macbook-pros-and-the-...
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by IBM 9y ago
Narrative killer: Mac unit sales up 10% YoY, revenue up 25% YoY
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by IBM 9y ago
"Doing it their way" isn't smart if their way isn't actually better, which they haven't demonstrated to date. And judging from this article it seems Tesla is cutting corners (which seems habitual with Tesla) as if y
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by IBM 9y ago
It's obvious why they're doing it, they're a business. Why wouldn't they try to maximize buzz for their product? It may help on the margins but it's not at all like some startup. Apple is a 41 year old company and a
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by IBM 9y ago
The idea that anything reviewers write will have any measurable impact on iPhone sales is laughable. Can reviews or other media coverage kill a startup? Sure. It happened to Juicero. An Apple product is like a Star Wars movie, it doesn&#x27
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by IBM 9y ago
They gave them 24 hours until the embargo was lifted. I'm not sure why some blogs are upset about it though, because they could have waited however long they wanted before they published something. They clearly wanted in on the initial
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by IBM 9y ago
There's no "jihad" against tech companies from the NYT. What you're seeing is called critical coverage. The NYT's business model is also clearly focused on subscriptions and it has been for a few years. Trump being
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Review: iPhone X(techcrunch.com)
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Mark Warner: Tech Millionaire Who Became Tech’s Critic in Congress(nytimes.com)
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by IBM 9y ago
This company is complicit in ethnic cleansing and the top comment in this thread is about activating interest groups to ward off regulation. It's outrageous.
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by IBM 9y ago
Governments have the tools to deal with that as well: antitrust.

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