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by bryan_w 6y ago
What are you on about? This is the result of Facebook being regulated at a government level.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Why wouldn't you backup your data periodically? You would if you self hosted, it's the same for online services
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by bryan_w 6y ago
I promise you, real life in America is nothing like Twitter.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Apple app store policies prevents reading SMS messages which means it will never have the green bubble/blue bubble functionality of imessage
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by bryan_w 6y ago
If Apple didn't allow 3rd parties into its app store, then it would be fine. Once you operate a platform for third parties to join, you have an responsibility to ensure that other platforms providing the same service are possible witho
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Btw, the above was an attempt at a GPT3 trap. I could tell by the sentence structure that the person I was replying to didn't seem normal
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Google is making sense here. The evils they are fighting against helps doubleclick. See Google plus (G+) it can drop and abandon things. Big. What do you think?
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Thank goodness you've given up because your points were so incoherent that it was borderline spam.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Not if they don't innovate. Music TV and movies have had to do so in the last 20 years, I don't see why news should be different.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
If this law was a tax, you would be correct, but this is a law to force Google to pay news corp
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by bryan_w 6y ago
What data would they have on you? I'm assuming you're using a browser with tracking protection extensions, so what data are they stealing from you?
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Are you sure that is a thing?
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by bryan_w 6y ago
What feature are you talking about? Can you link to any official documentation or post a screenshot?
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Actually I think the incentives are aligned here. If they can't show the pictures that they have claimed to have deleted then they can't use it to bring in eyes for advertisers, which means that the data is a net loss for them, ca
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by bryan_w 6y ago
The problem is that unlike oil or phone lines, it's not physical infrastructure, so the government could order all they want and Google can respond by rm -rf / on all their servers and walking away and founding "google2"
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Consider Russia (or the middle east) where it's still Not ok to be gay. Encryption helps you text your significant other without being thrown in jail or sent to a reeducation camp.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Normal folks: Keep the above post in mind next time you see an post thats overly cynical. This is the logic that the top minds of HN use to come to their viewpoints.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
You could create a Google ad to get the word out.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Indeed, when one big advertiser defects, the remaining advertisers get cheaper ads which should lead to more conversions
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by bryan_w 6y ago
If you have to ask, you don't have what it takes
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by bryan_w 6y ago
> They want google to pay for re-hosting That's odd, usually companies pay Google to host their content via GCP
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by bryan_w 6y ago
You say that but people were pretty upset that Google couldn't confirm if anybody exploited the G+ security bug past the last two weeks that it was discovered.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
> Is there any reasonable term that's not likely to eventually end un in some personal, irrelevant conversation? "Anti-trust", I'll even give you " competition", but "big picture" seems overly broa
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by bryan_w 6y ago
But a bank employee can leak data as well. Some would say more important data than some tweets
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by bryan_w 6y ago
> I wouldn't want to call engineers in at 3am for a problem that can be fixed by following a documented devops process. Why would there be a process that could be executed that wouldn't already be automated? If the ops guy is
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Doordash went down
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Those poor Firefox users who enabled DoH
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Why not both? This system seems open to having cases won/lost because the judge didn't ask the right question to expose a fact.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
This is what you get when you allow permanent WFH. People you're never met in person with the keys to your kingdom
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Why constraint it to large companies? Most companies avoid paying taxes. Heck, most people who have their taxes professionally prepared are avoiding paying tax

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