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by actuator 5y ago
From the Verge article it seems the CPU in SoC would be some licensed spec based on Exynos, so I am guessing we aren't going to see CPU performance close to A series processors, but it does seem like a promising start. Google has an in
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by actuator 5y ago
Thanks for translating these. BBC quotes the total revenue number at $34B. That would mean non ad revenue doubled from 3 to 6 billion dollars. I wonder what constitutes non ad revenue. https://www.bbc.com/news/business
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by actuator 5y ago
A more scary vertically integrated monopoly? Services revenue increasing is just scary. A single company owning everything from the silicon to the device to the OS to the app gateway, web browser and software services is going to backfire f
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by actuator 5y ago
Rather than revenue increase, the more interesting thing seems to be the significant fall in loss. Since they are close to profitability, it might allow them to be more aggressive on pricing.
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by actuator 5y ago
I think more than lasting longer, it might be because of the improvements per dollar spent. We haven't seen dramatic improvements in power consumption or silicon performance, so it might be just profitable to keep the hardware longer.
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by actuator 5y ago
I might be mistaken but didn't Tiktok report $36B revenue for last year and they are way more young compared to YouTube. YT has much more variety of content than Tiktok like music videos, educational content etc. Bytedance's numbe
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by actuator 5y ago
I am sure the big names missing from the list are also doing it. Five eyes, Russia, China probably have much better capabilities than the ones on the list. The list for India is weird though. It has a lot of names which are in the pro curre
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by actuator 5y ago
Do they have control of the lands you mentioned at present? That's the only reality that counts to make it within the country. Also, Ladakh is hardly a troubled area from within.
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by actuator 5y ago
Afaik, Myanmar is not a hostile country. Neither the elected government nor the military dictatorship has animosity at the state level.
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by actuator 5y ago
Yes, there are but in iOS even PWAs are at the mercy of Apple as they anti competitively don't allow any competing browser engines.
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by actuator 5y ago
> it is so apparent at this point that any country who chooses not to board this train will be at the mercy of those who do This is hardly the only solution though. We can also shift to just plant based diets from crops which are not wat
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by actuator 5y ago
E2E is mentioned in the article as a target for few of the alternatives mentioned but how do you trust these companies to build the E2E tech safely unless it is open and if not E2E, I would trust them way less than big companies like Google
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by actuator 5y ago
> The bandwidth alone I imagine carries a pretty hefty price for an app like Netflix. Apple doesn't pay for Netflix's server costs. They just host the app, there are ways to mitigate the cost of hosting the app as the other rep
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by actuator 5y ago
There are platforms that debut on phones first and either are limited to phones or launch way later on web. WhatsApp for example was a phone only thing for such a long time.
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by actuator 5y ago
It is such a welcome thing. Big platforms like Netflix, Spotify don't owe any revenue share to Apple, Microsoft or others. They made their own brand and have been responsible for their own success. These big OS/device companies in
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by actuator 5y ago
Can you expand on why the the role didn't work out for you? Was it lack of direction on how to bring the research advances as a product or was it the lack of support for the research itself?
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by actuator 5y ago
> Jeff defend Megan Kacholia's firing of Timnit (yes, I read the paper) and call it a resignation. From what has been put outside, don't you think Timnit's mail to employees as a manager was out of line for someone in her
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by actuator 5y ago
I think they are right. Even personally with the Google/DDG split I use, I almost never search for products on them. I go to Amazon or any other retailer. If I don't know what to buy and I need reviews outside of Amazon then I mig
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by actuator 5y ago
Can you elaborate on what breakthrough happened there in solar? I always thought it was economies of scale and cheap labour that led to photovoltaic cells becoming cheap. But I do agree that it is very efficient to prototype and scale thin
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by actuator 5y ago
> Instead, they get to keep a reputation which is far better than the other megacorps'. I think this is what having strong marketing gets you. You can see from the defence on HN/Twitter where most people would be fine with Appl
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by actuator 5y ago
The problem as I see with Twitter is, if I am following an expert in some field I am interested in, say cryptography. I love their tweets about the subject, papers they share etc. I love their expertise in cryptography but I am not the leas
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by actuator 5y ago
I concur with the parent comment. A lot of these groups show such a deep religious fervour to their "ideology", that any slight disagreement to them on any topic is not allowed. They will hound you out, suppress your opinion if yo
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by actuator 5y ago
It seems like their safe search is hiding even search results for other related search terms. I am not sure how they were moderated to be not safe. https://archive.is/KOTNB I hope Microsoft has a good write up on how this h
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by actuator 5y ago
Should we have vouch for stories that haven't been marked flagged yet as well? I will search for HN's ranker formula but right now, it shows this story in 8th place to me. The upvote/time would put it on top, so I am guessing
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by actuator 5y ago
Considering the upvote count even the hot rising posts on front page have. I would assume the flag threshold to be quite small. I don't know if each flag vote counts the same or does it depend on karma/account age, but at least fr
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by actuator 5y ago
> but the fact of the matter is that before the App Store, people were not willing to pay for apps. Apple created the market singlehandedly. Umm.. this is some serious revision of the history. - People did pay for apps. I along with plen
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by actuator 5y ago
Well, both the statements are worded way differently. The same variant thing can be worded as "Covid-19 variant wreaking havoc and causing severe hospitalisations and has killed 3.5M people came from #{COUNTRY_A}" The same careful
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by actuator 5y ago
I agree that Trump's use was to definitely please his supporter base and blame China. But except for some racist bigots, I really doubt calling it the China virus/flu means that someone is trying to blame Chinese people for it, ju
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by actuator 5y ago
The article content mentions the new name Delta, unlike the headline so I am guessing the copy editor is aware. Anyway, I guess my view is not as charitable as you as it is coloured by their coverage of events in the past.
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by actuator 5y ago
Tell it to our politically correct liberal friends at Guardian, they are still using the country name. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/india-covid-va...

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