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by avanderveen 1y ago
In my experience at Maxis (2021-2024), EA 202X was quite a nice place to work
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by avanderveen 5y ago
They might be willing to offer 1.4x. If you tell them you want at least 1.2x, they're probably not doing 1.4x. If you ask them what the range is and they tell you a range, you can at least ask them for the top of the range or more. Wor
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by avanderveen 5y ago
The last AMD chipset that supported Intel CPUs[1] was around the time of this fine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_690_chipset_series
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by avanderveen 5y ago
To me it feels like the original fine may have influenced by that. It would have discouraged Intel from offering these rebates to OEMs, giving AMD a chance to slowly get back into laptops. At the time Intel's mobile CPUs were far super
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by avanderveen 5y ago
There were many people over many studies that were responsible for mRNA vaccines and you don't hear them agreeing. Robert Malone had a small contribution early on. He's probably stirring controversy for publicity's sake.
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by avanderveen 5y ago
We still need there to be suitable alternatives, so there needs to be some regulation at least, to encourage competition and/or to prevent companies from reaching a point where there are no longer alternatives.
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by avanderveen 6y ago
There's three independent issues here affecting users and developers: 1. People are tracked in ways they don't understand without their knowledge or consent. 2. Apple requires that in-app purchases go through the App Store. 3. App
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by avanderveen 7y ago
> non-productive for society Why? I feel like a lot of people want to do things that are productive for society, that we have too little of right now. Things like producing art of all forms, building things, increasing their level of com
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by avanderveen 7y ago
This is a problem because companies can use this ID to correlate private user data, without anyone's knowledge or consent. There are companies that specialise in sharing user information. Some of them work by only sharing data with c
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by avanderveen 7y ago
I feel like I'm not understanding your comment. Is it that you don't want IRS employees sitting around doing nothing? Because if this resulted in losing $34B in revenue, it doesn't like they were sitting around doing nothing.
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by avanderveen 7y ago
My gut instinct is that the mob might be a (potentially significant) factor here. I could be wrong, but this is their bread an butter after all: bribe politician to get large-scale infrastructure project and then artificially inflate costs
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by avanderveen 8y ago
All this talk of regulating Google, Facebook, Twitter. What about Visa and Mastercard? How is acceptable for so much power to rest in the hands of such a small number of companies?
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by avanderveen 8y ago
Changing the UX for URLs in a browser that has overwhelming market share is going to change how people think about and assess the identity of websites they visit. Over time, it could make other browsers feel less familiar, old fashioned, an
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by avanderveen 13y ago
Semi-unrelated but, plenty of corporations see these fallacies as the best (and sometimes only) tools. In large markets money, political connections, and entrenched position are king. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by avanderveen 13y ago
Because HN readers aren't idiots. We know that it is good and right for sales tax to be charged on sales. And, that the sale occurring on the internet does not make it an essentially different thing than any other purchase of a good or se