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> though I agree it's complicated and not widely understood He didn't say it was complicated or that he didn't understand it. He said it was un-true and it is.
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Right or wrong, they just keep digging that hole.
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> The organization issued an apology for the "mistake" and recommended to Hill to reach out whenever he has questions or concerns about a review. Before taking drastic action like pulling addons from the store, Mozilla should
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This guy is an utter tyrant. > It saddens me that they’ve been negatively impacted by Silver Lake‘s commercial decisions. He blocked IPs with no warning, that's why they're impacted. > WP Engine was well aware that we could
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This blog is so disingenuous. > I feel for impacted end users. But that they were impacted at all is WP Engine’s fault and responsibility to fix. Users are impacted because the update mechanism was pulled out from under them with no adva
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If you're providing your servers for free and include them as the primary update mechanism to an open source project for millions of websites, maybe you shouldn't use that as an extortion mechanism holding millions of websites hos
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> I think the dispute is in fact between the org and wpengine. Automattic sent the cease and desist to WP Engine.
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Mossad are taking this too far now...
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The person who set the license is also accepting PR's from forks. https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/pull/7
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Not disclosing this only really benefits them if it's a viable means of detection and they expect to use it in anger one day. (viable in the sense that it's no use if it only works when a stealth plane blocks line of sight between
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> it's simply impossible to place them in space I bet once it's no longer practicable to host them on Earth, hosting them in space will become possible. Sometimes, removing the easy option gets people solving problems they had
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No idea, that doesn't matter though because if Ireland didn't give these massive unlawful tax deals then it wouldn't be a major tech hub for large tech companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.. and that 13b$ tax bill woul
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If you're referring to a single pot of money that exists to support Research and Development, you would typically refer to that as "The European Defence Fund" as "entire EU defence fund budget" would be interpreted
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> LOL no there is not a single company or person in the world for whom 13 BILLION dollars is 'absolutely nothing'. Apple's revenue last year alone was $383 Billion.
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> It’s almost twice the entire EU defence fund budget. The EU defence spend in 2022 was €240 billion.
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> There is just a tiny count employees in Ireland, mostly legal to run the sandwitch. Utter nonsense. Apple Ireland has more employees than Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden combined. There are employment
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Apple Ireland has over 60 open positions for roles like Machine Leaning or Data Analytics while similar sized countries like Finland, Lithuania, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary have 0. Apple Ireland is home to Apples only self-
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You can google why do countries give tax breaks. Are you suggesting that Ireland did not benefit from this illegal deal?
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"According to Commission estimates, Ireland had given illegal tax benefits worth €13 billion to Apple" - ECJ Ireland gave illegal tax breaks to attract business from other countries which it succeeded in, and now also gets the tax
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> This means many people living in Ireland got less government resources than they would have No it doesn't. Ireland did this deal to benefit from it. What they lost from direct tax in one area they gained in others. Had Ireland not
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Somehow Ireland gets a 13 billion euro payday for illegally subsidising Apple so they do business in Ireland.
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Seems wrong that Ireland cheated the system to attract tech companies then also gets a huge payout.
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When you moved in to your house, did you think you would finish a PC build with 192GB of VRAM before you would finish the plaster boarding?
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VMware Cloud Foundation Automation – (Formerly VMware Aria Automation)
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> Smart devices capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations I think they would like their customers to believe this is active listening between two humans having a conversation but I doubt this is the case. I suspect
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> very much doubt that the valuation of Royal Mail would have been affected To include a postcode lookup on your website costs nearly £7000 per year. Given how popular that is I don't see how it couldn't have formed part of the
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> profoundly stupid mistake Surely the PAF formed part of the sale price when privatising Royal Mail? So if you removed it before selling (at a lower price), or you buy it outright after, is there really that much difference making it a
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> UXUI truckers so they can drive safely on a few hours of sleep I think truckers have significant UXUI AND regulation on how long they can drive. The Author does a good job oh highlighting the issues around UXUI that have not been analy
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> The grain of sand is available for collection from somewhere > staff a location still costs less than 30% of all ios revenue
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That's an interesting idea. What if, instead of 'subscribing' for $10, you purchase a grain of sand for $10. The grain of sand is available for collection from somewhere, doesn't matter where because nobody would bother
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