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by bepotts 8y ago
No I'm not blaming internet users for not "protecting their privacy", I'm saying people who care about their "privacy" shouldn't be so presumptuous about the rest of us. Plenty of people on Hacker News dis
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by bepotts 8y ago
Na, it was meant to reign in a group of companies the European establishment doesn't like under the guise of "EU citizens privacy". It's as transparent as Republicans wanting to speak to Google about "bias".
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by bepotts 8y ago
Or how about users take some ownership of their actions and educate themselves on how "free" services are making their money. If you don't like Google's tracking practices: don't use Google products. If you're
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by bepotts 8y ago
The only thing Europe has going for it is the size of its economy, and Europe is about to lose almost 16% of it. For comparison, that's a larger decrease than California leaving the United States economy. That's before we talk abo
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by bepotts 8y ago
Like I've said, the EU said the same thing about an EU army and that army is nowhere to be found. Even on the petty insults Europe falters, like when they all got pissed about the US leaving the Paris Climate Accords and yet the US lea
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by bepotts 8y ago
Sounds about as likely as that EU army that was supposed to make the EU independent of NATO, and thus, the US. How's that working out? The EU constantly talks about challenging US power (Macron and Merkel in particular), but almost nev
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by bepotts 8y ago
What like the next social network? I'm much more bearish on antitrust than most people throwing that term around, but even I am against Facebook being able to buy another upstart social network. They cannot be allowed to do that. May
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by bepotts 8y ago
I wonder what's Facebook's move after Instagram becomes stale and no longer "cool". It seems to me that the popularity of social networks are cyclical, and there's very little that a company can do to satiate a user
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by bepotts 8y ago
Maybe I'm just crazy, but if I didn't like Google Chrome (or if I was a privacy hawk), I wouldn't use Google products. Why do so many people complain about "privacy" and still use Google products? The people who thi
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by bepotts 8y ago
US tech giants haven't worried about competition coming from Europe for awhile now. They worry about competition coming from either within the country or China.
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by bepotts 8y ago
The EU would then fine Google for using their Search monopoly to dominate the News industry by promoting news article from the paper they bought.
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by bepotts 8y ago
I honestly don't understand why people keep comparing the culture of American cities and states to European ones. America is one giant country - the EU isn't. The cultural differences between Detroit and, say, San Francisco is min
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by bepotts 8y ago
Yeah, all these people acting like Amazon is just some giant company that didn't earn its size due to customer service and convenience are just ridiculous. Amazon entering a market is a huge deal and a net good for the consumer. I live
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by bepotts 8y ago
It probably has more to do with the fact that Canada is close to the US, so Canadians have plenty of opportunities to mingle with the American cultural players.
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by bepotts 8y ago
I think this is correct. If you Google search "African American Scientists" and "African American inventors", you get almost the exact same photo list as "American Scientists" and "American inventors"
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by bepotts 8y ago
I don't care either way about seeing payments; I'm just saying that plenty of young people (including my group of friends) don't see this is some massive privacy violation. Instead, it's a cool social feature.
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by bepotts 8y ago
I don't love the feature, although I do sometimes look through my friends' transactions. I guess it's similar to sharing a photo on Facebook, or doing a "check in" when you're at a location: it's simply
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by bepotts 8y ago
I use Venmo weekly and my group of friends love that feature. It's a sort of "social network" feature. It might not be for everyone, but there's plenty of people that are aware of the feature and aren't bothered by
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by bepotts 8y ago
Are Apple and Microsoft's map services built on OpenStreetMap? Or are they just contributing for the heck of it?
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by bepotts 8y ago
The reason the press is so obsessed with stock buybacks is because the press loves talking about how much the middle class is getting "screwed" by big corporations, no matter how benign the issue at hand is. If you make a lot of m
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by bepotts 8y ago
Only on the internet does the notion of a "gatekeeper" leading to some authoritarian universe make sense. In the real word, it isn't immoral to sell devices that don't run non-trusted binaries. If Tim Cook and Sundar Pic
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by bepotts 8y ago
As a consumer, I love it. I love that I buy an iPhone and Apple doesn't allow any non-trusted binaries to run on my phone, enforces strict style guidelines (the average app just looks better on my iPhone than Android IMO), has one plac
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by bepotts 8y ago
Apple and Google not only created the device and funded the R & D for the features, but also created the APIs, the tools, the infrastructure, and attracted the (hundreds of millions of) users. The 30% cut they ask of developers is more
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by bepotts 8y ago
Seems like she's just being candid to me. Journalism is in trouble, and it was in trouble long before Facebook and Twitter came along. Either adapt or die.
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by bepotts 8y ago
People say "governments favour local companies" to defend the EU's ridiculous anti-trust claims against US tech, and to attack America for not breaking up American tech monopolies. Apparently America is propping up all its te
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by bepotts 8y ago
I'm starting to see a lot of people charging Facebook/Apple/Google/Amazon with anti-competitive behavior, and yet most of the charges (including a lot of the ones the EU charges Google and Apple for) are just normal busi
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by bepotts 8y ago
It's their money. If they have a $1 trillion cash sitting on the sidelines doing nothing that is their right to do so. Apple doesn't make money to support governments.
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by bepotts 8y ago
Their walled garden approach is looking smarter and smarter with every EU fine that gets thrown at Google. As an aside: As an engineer, I dislike their walled garden approach; but I love their approach as a consumer. To be frank, most compa
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by bepotts 8y ago
It's legal to find ways to reduce your tax burden.
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by bepotts 8y ago
Facebook should definitely remove stuff from foreign actors trying to impact some political outcome (like Russia messing with Brexit or American elections) and any promotion by groups to incite violence (like gangs, ISIS propaganda, hate gr

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