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by buran77 2y ago
The submission title has almost nothing to do with the meat of the announcement. This unfortunately is buried in a link from a tweet, quoted by another tweet, about 2-3x past the threshold of effort most people put into reading to get to th
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by buran77 2y ago
> Lawyers are pretty good at finding reasons to appeal against judgements. Good ones sure are. But OP saying "Google should appeal" implies OP is aware of one solid such reason, a reason why the French court was wrong, and Go
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by buran77 2y ago
> a ruling by a lower court which sets a very dangerous precedent There's no precedent of any kind being set here. Court orders have to be obeyed unless overturned, this isn't an unprecedented 2024 thing. France has a civil la
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by buran77 2y ago
> I am more surprised that Google did comply with the order Why would it be surprising that a company complies with a court order or legislation of a country they operate in? Does Google routinely ignore court orders in the US? > what
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by buran77 2y ago
Because GP's comment mixes the concepts and who thinks what in a very "I'm just asking a question" way, while suggesting that everything not illegal is 100% fine. People don't appreciate that because they see exactl
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by buran77 2y ago
> EU car makers are very successful in China > I don't think you understand how the Chinese car market works at all [...] This is about every major car maker having set up large JVs. The distinction between Chinese and EU compani
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by buran77 2y ago
The only thing the EU can do is make sure it keeps the internal market and its players on equal footing. The EU cannot make the rules in China or regulate their market and China rarely plays by any rules anyway, even the ones they ostensibl
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by buran77 2y ago
China can afford short term to massively subsidize their auto industry if this means it will completely wreck the local industries in Europe and US. Because once an industry is wrecked, it's very expensive to unwreck it.
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by buran77 2y ago
> This describes almost all human activity outside agriculture. Shelter, medicine, education, transportation—none of this is biologically necessary by some measure. Of all things, why would agriculture be the one exception from "lei
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by buran77 2y ago
> Why do you think someone who walks and bike everywhere should pay increased taxes to subsidise empty buses running around the place? This is a question that can be applied to a lot of things, with deleterious results. Why would a perso
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by buran77 2y ago
The sarcasm made an already shaky point even worse. There's a huge difference in magnitude here (writing a note vs. screen grabbing everything you ever do on the computer), and also a difference of awareness (intently recording one m
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by buran77 2y ago
> Microsoft is very adamant the images are stored locally But this is today (as in "at the literal moment the statement was made"). What about tomorrow? History is plastered with examples of things companies were adamant abou
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by buran77 2y ago
Until a year or two later when MS rolls out the feature of "AI" on "your data". Or gives the option/default to store the recording on OneDrive. Or any number of options that MS can monetize somehow while selling it
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by buran77 2y ago
The even more worrying thing for anyone considering any solutions which do such mass surveillance, regardless of motive (like Windows Rewind). They're all one or two steps removed from massive scale access to these recordings. All of
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by buran77 2y ago
A 1000psi fire extinguisher uses ~5mm thick steel even for that relatively small diameter cylinder. A typical extinguisher is ~200ish psi with a wall probably ~1mm thick. This highlights that high pressure and "thin steel foil"
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by buran77 2y ago
At that point you're not dealing with a "flimsy structure out of thin steel foil" that you can inflate to hundreds of psi. You described what's basically a submarine, multiple high and low pressure hulls able to withstan
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by buran77 3y ago
> your jokes Wish I could claim credit. I didn't even manage to bring them to this thread as you can see above, let alone to the world. As I said in the earlier comment, I was not familiar with any of the PAL joke/backronyms in
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by buran77 3y ago
Maybe different continents had different versions and they finally aligned when they had the chance to talk to each other. I worked at the places that developed and built the equipment and tech used in TV stations, just across the ocean.
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by buran77 3y ago
Maybe, it's not out of the question that some would do that but I've never had the feeling it was common or desirable even then. GP referenced the '90s hence my guess. A late '80s Micro TAC, especially with the fat batte
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by buran77 3y ago
> and battery life was short In the mid-'90s and 2000s phone batteries lasted longer than they do today, assuming the regular usage of the day.
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by buran77 3y ago
More familiar with the "Twice" version. But what I meant was that the reply looked more like a "mine's longer" type contest. Missing the most famous of the jokes, for NTSC, is a weird omission for someone in the ind
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by buran77 3y ago
Tell us the NTSC joke so it doesn't look like you're playing favorites. :)
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by buran77 3y ago
The best CRTs may have been ok but most CRTs in the history of their kind were not what you describe. I've seen and used my share of them over many decades. Even in the 2000s any of the hundreds of CRTs in an office would have been r
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by buran77 3y ago
Between Brussels and Frankfurt (EU institutions I mean) the general consensus was that the Greek situation was more akin to loansharking than anything else. And Germany was undeniably the largest driving factor behind this approach, and the
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by buran77 3y ago
> Maybe software copyright should expire when a company dies Why just bankruptcy? I'd say any software copyright should cease when the owner cannot or will not continue supporting the software to work to the level of functionality f
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by buran77 3y ago
People generally see subsidies given to companies as a contract. Subsidies in general aren't a contract. People don't have to "do their part" when they benefit from a subsidy (like vote for a specific party because they
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by buran77 3y ago
> they tend to not be well supported by the number Personal opinion or did you ever talk to anyone investigating these things? First of all, the fraud is committed by the patient, they're the one submitting the claim to their privat
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by buran77 3y ago
In some countries in Europe, if you have private insurance they'll pull off the "call charge" trick as often as they can. Need to make or reschedule an appointment? Make a call. Did some blood test and need the results? Call
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by buran77 3y ago
> They have an obvious incentive to like it: they're getting paid for doing nothing. My friend, this is weapon's grade ignorance, and this is a very, very charitable characterization. Your big idea is that people want these con
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by buran77 3y ago
From my personal experience (very anecdotal of course, also Western but outside-US view*) I can't remember a time I've heard someone saying "$dictatorship is just as free or freer than the USA". I occasionally heard &quo

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