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by actuator 5y ago
Have their profitability prospects taken a hit because of whatever happened at ARM China?
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by actuator 5y ago
> India created the situation in order to split Pakistan in half. Do you reject what the US ambassador wrote in Blood Telegram itself? As far as I have read, it wasn't that they created the situation, the genocide was already happen
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by actuator 5y ago
It is not odd. There is definitely an economic reason and global power aspirations side to it. These are the same western countries otherwise which overlooked a genocide in East Pakistan which is now Bangladesh just because they needed a st
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by actuator 5y ago
I think they meant a US citizen wouldn't necessarily equate criticism of USA's actions to criticism of US citizens. Like their actions in Iraq or Vietnam. This might not be true for majority of population of some nations.
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by actuator 5y ago
> have seen the rapid spread of a bizarre image of China that has almost nothing to do with the reality on the ground. Even the western propoganda will come with its own hyperbole. But some things are clear cut, like creating artificial
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by actuator 5y ago
No, it is not an ideology crash. Apple is perfectly fine serving their own ads for which they are building a targeting profile. It is an incentive crash. Apple tried iAds before and it didn't work as they couldn't do good personal
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by actuator 5y ago
That's why I was commenting last week here that the antitrust lawsuit in US on monopoly is bogus. Tiktok has come out of nowhere in the span of last few years to compete. FB doesn't have a market capture as the US lawmakers and Li
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by actuator 5y ago
I wasn't aware about this and as someone who doesn't like censorship, I don't like Steam doing this. But the good thing is that even if Steam doesn't distribute them, these devs can distribute it through other stores or
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by actuator 5y ago
> Asian are prone to nearsightedness. Of people aged 20 and under, 96% of South Koreans, 95% of Japanese, 87% of Hong Kongers, 85% of Taiwanese and 82% of Singaporeans are affected by the condition, according to Kubota. Wow, this is so s
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by actuator 5y ago
> and Steam I don't need to use Steam to play games on PC or OS X. I can get them from anywhere else. Heck, Steam allowed me to activate my Humble Bundle keys on steam for free allowing games to be enabled on their platform when the
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by actuator 5y ago
Yeah, even I was under this impression. OP should cite a source if they know otherwise as from their comment it seems like Amazon is the only one abusing their position like this.
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by actuator 5y ago
I looked at the stat counter link. I am not sure what metric it is quoting but it seems incorrect. Facebook has 75% users, while Instagram has just 4%? Both are billion user apps. Also, unlike someone using an iOS phone or Android phone the
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by actuator 5y ago
I have lost hope on lawmakers doing anything meaningful here which can actually prevent the market domination misuse happening right now. I don't know if it is incompetence or lobbying.
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by actuator 5y ago
> As much as I hate ads, their tight control and singular policy change has made multi-billion dollar ripples in the industry. That's a sign of a monopoly. Yeah, it might be good for the user but a company making a change that shake
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by actuator 5y ago
I can't understand the whole merits of this case but for some reason it seems like regulators have been overzealous on some issues while ignoring other more worthy causes. The FB case in US seems a bit stupid as what exactly do they ha
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by actuator 5y ago
Yeah, they do and they get called out for censoring as well. People complain that their voice was suppressed. HN is a small community so this thing doesn't blow up. Imagine a big social media platform doing it. Just because some topic
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by actuator 5y ago
Have you been to any thread which mentions say China, India or several other topics? You will see a lot of toxicity and you can find several deleted or heavily downvoted comments. As even HN front page and commenr section is algorithmic. Vo
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by actuator 5y ago
But that's the exact issue no. Social media platforms create immense value as well. I might not be a user but I can see how it helps a lot of people as well. Do we enforce license on people to use social media platforms?
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by actuator 5y ago
Title is really poor compared to the content of the article. In any case, he is right. Look at the pattern, any large social network has these issues, which more or less seems like is related to how people interact. Twitter is massively tox
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by actuator 5y ago
and they did vote in a president who at least seems like supports what those protests stood for.
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by actuator 5y ago
Oh, their presence there was definitely ill thought; so was destabilising it during cold war through the same means that bit them back. For this, tough action for them and their allies did make sense just like it does for CCP at this point.
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by actuator 5y ago
Is it happening right now as we speak? If we go enough back in time every nation has blood on their hands.
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by actuator 5y ago
> I could also talk about the many ethnic groups in Napal and Himalayan regions, from which the Tibetan Buddhists assimilated many of the shamanic traditions of the region. From those Himalayan shamans perspective, the "lamaists&quo
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Pakistan and the United States have betrayed the Afghan people(foreignpolicy.com)
10 points by actuator 5y ago|16 comments
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by actuator 5y ago
> Chat is all about what happened recently and not about what happened weeks/months ago. While I agree in principle that email should be used for things that are not ephemeral, chat is used for a lot of things where history becomes
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by actuator 5y ago
Why is depression not related to intelligence?
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by actuator 5y ago
Yeah, that's definitely true. I think more than software updates, iPhone has an aspirational value in many parts of the world so there is good demand from people who can't buy a new one. Pixel in itself doesn't hold that valu
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by actuator 5y ago
But all those replacements seem to be with someone pulling apart the phone's components secured with glue. It looks extremely risky and likely to cause damage to phone or components like display ended up getting scratched. Also, are or
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by actuator 5y ago
At least my understanding was that the SoC would be different but the CPU core of phone SoC itself would be similar with the laptop/desktop/server die. The server SoC would probably feature more cores, with more memory interfaces
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by actuator 5y ago
Amortized cost on the update cycle of Pixel was pretty similar to iPhone(at least in some parts of the world). But I am glad that they are doing longer updates. I just wish batteries become replaceable again, my phone is 3.5 years old and t

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