LunaSea

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by LunaSea 1y ago
Facebook predates iPhones by 3 years.
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by LunaSea 1y ago
I doubt it. Legally you might, but in effect, you can't force someone to come to work and if you do they can sabotage or refuse to work. You could attach a financial penalty in case they refuse, but you can't collect money from pe
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by LunaSea 2y ago
People don't stay at companies long enough for it to be worth it to train them deeply.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
As an outsider, Java looks like a language that can be very fast but it seems like certain idiomatic practices or patterns lead to over-engineered and thus sometimes also slow projects. The Factory<Factory<x>> joke comes to mind
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by LunaSea 2y ago
But it's also the reason for why these Apache projects systematically get displaced by better and faster C, C++, Rust or Go alternatives.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
And both of these amounts seem to not be enough based on the resulting state of the world.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> They already had it from before people realized it was a bait and switch. So you mean to say that they made the same mistake that the supposed European users did with the app stores? > Upper middle class americans absolutely do, or
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> They absolutely do, you just like to dismiss it as being about status. No, they don't. I just gave you three counter examples. Why is it that iPhone users prefer GMail over iCloud Mail? Source: https://www.statista.com&
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> Europeans absolutely could, they're just too tight fisted to actually spend money on things like protecting privacy which is a major part of the whole problem. Users in the US don't care about protecting their privacy either.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
They could just split DV360 from Google Ad Manager and Google Ad Exchange.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> The US is much more resistant to it, which is a major factor in iOS share being higher and WhatsApp being an almost complete non event. iOS has a larger market share in the US because iPhones are a status symbol in America whereas Euro
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> The problem is European users are too cheap, and European regulators too short sighted. This seems to be a common issue for all countries, the US included. (See the Chrome spin-off talks currently taking place.) > What you are advoc
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by LunaSea 2y ago
The United States regularly spies and throws federal lawfare at European companies. E.g: Alstom So I wouldn't consider the playing field to be fair in the first place.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> Europe could easily have had a homegrown alternative to the Play Store on Android. In fact at one time it had several, only the users had no interest at all, and this was before Google went through their phase of locking things down mo
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> ...and how did that help solve the "european version of carribian crisis"? Well it didn't, and that's my point. This was the diplomatic route and it completely failed. There was never going to be a diplomatic soluti
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by LunaSea 2y ago
It really isn't, Russia was integrated in most diplomatic and economic circles before they started to invade multiple neighbouring countries. This integration is what led to Germany's Russian gas dependency in the end.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
Sure, but everyone else with solar panels will produce more than they consume at the same time as you.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
Gemini 2.5 Pro crashes with a 50) status code every 5 requests. Not great for a model you're supposed to rely on.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> If there was an option to have zero, zero, even minutely intrusive ads/tracking, then I will be willing to pay a price for it. If this is not an option, then I have zero remorse for your wasted efforts/loss of revenue. This i
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by LunaSea 2y ago
I would say that it is the most popular path among readers that is the winning one in the end.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
Oh, it is unlimited capitalism that prevents people from paying for their online newspaper subscriptions?
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> They are tricked into giving this consent because that's the only way ad industry can obtain consent to livelong invasive tracking. No, they're not tricked. There are obvious cookie banners with the possibility to see the lis
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> But ads on your news/shopping website? "What, paying for MY news? How dare they"
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by LunaSea 2y ago
Well I seem to be the only bringing proof and understanding into this debate. You're free to step in at any time with actual viable alternatives, studies, etc. May I remind you once more that the possibility to create this magical Inte
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by LunaSea 2y ago
A few years ago, a large publisher (Persgroep) in the Netherlands made a study comparing user preferences between two advertisement solutions, one would be a traditional personal data-based targeting solution and one privacy preserving solu
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> No. The users are tricked into giving "consent" through a plethora of dark patterns. Well you're free to bring this up to the various data privacy national organisations in the EU. But I see that we're moving goalpo
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> If a service cannot be offered at a certain scale without such practices, it should not be offered at that scale. That sounds like an opinion and one tha isn't shared by the hundreds of millions of users Google has o it's ser
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> Yes, yes it did. The skyrocketing revenue is attributable to increased internet usage across the globe, and Google outright owning a large chunk of it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. > Example: if you collect a
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> In a comment elsewhere in the discussion: accuracy of targeting is worse than random sampling https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43719816 I could provide a long answer but the gist of it is that the study is flawed.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
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