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Amazon faces new antitrust challenge from Indian online sellers(reuters.com)
2 points by ckastner 6y ago|0 comments
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by ckastner 6y ago
The first iteration of the aforementioned EU directive was published in 2005 [1]. Before that, individual countries had tightened their individual rules. The Wikipedia page on money laundering [2] details the consequences of 9/11 on re
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by ckastner 6y ago
> If you have eight figure net worth or access to same from external sources it's not particularly difficult to start your own offshore bank. An eight figure net worth is not even close when it comes to considering starting an o
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by ckastner 6y ago
> you are aware that there is no "post 911 world" in 90% of the world, right? In the financial world, there definitely is. Because of how 9/11 was bankrolled, AML laws were severely tightened. Quoting the subject line
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by ckastner 6y ago
> I hope people aren't getting tired of the 8086 :-) On the contrary! These posts are fascinating and captivating!
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by ckastner 6y ago
> Why not go with the approach to try and fix it upstream where it belongs instead This tool auto-fixes things in the Debian packaging -- the stuff that lives in the debian/ directory. Upstream has nothing to do with this. As a
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by ckastner 6y ago
So I'm far off on both counts. Thank you for the correction.
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by ckastner 6y ago
For the their most advanced process, too? I wonder because NVIDIA, AMD and others requiring that process all seem to land at TSMC. Qualcomm, too, but that's hardly surprising.
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by ckastner 6y ago
It's interesting to see that they are using Samsung's 7nm process. I thought that, apart from the work they do for Apple, Samsung kept their high-end fabbing mostly to themselves.
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by ckastner 6y ago
> If there were actual competitors, their rates would be much lower... around 2-5% probably. Now that's an interesting (though highly impractical) idea! Imagine both app stores on every phone, providing the exact same service. T
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Tesla Gets Crushed in Germany by EVs from Volkswagen, Renault, and Hyundai Group(wolfstreet.com)
64 points by ckastner 6y ago|133 comments
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Arm rival SiFive raises $60M from SK Hynix, Aramco(reuters.com)
11 points by ckastner 6y ago|1 comments
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by ckastner 6y ago
I stand corrected. Well, whatever the official name is, I meant the most pure version of Android but including the Google apps (which I haven't managed to get rid of yet entirely).
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by ckastner 6y ago
Same here. I used to buy Google hardware exclusively for my mobile needs because I wanted the pure AOSP experience (without all the crap the other vendors load), but it was very hard (Nexus 5X) to impossible (Pixel C) to get hardware replac
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by ckastner 6y ago
In another submitted story regarding the rumor that Intel might rely on TSMC for some of its future products, one comment indicated that [1] "Intel’s fab capacity is several times TSMC’s". I haven't fact-checked that, but giv
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by ckastner 6y ago
I'm a huge AMD fan but I fear that its current valuation already has an immense amount of success already priced in. They are doing absolutely spectacular work, but there's still much to do, and there are significant risks. They
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by ckastner 6y ago
> Hydro is dirt cheap already. Apparently, hydro produces a significant amount of greenhouse gases within the first 100 years or so, resulting from decaying plant matter and so on. There was a story on HN a few years ago, IIRC it listed
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by ckastner 6y ago
Does TSMC even have the capacity to produce 6nm, 5nm, 3nm etc. for the leading CPU manufacturs AMD, NVIDIA, Apple, and Intel? If not, that's probably good news for TSMC's future profit margin, but it's worrisome that there is
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by ckastner 6y ago
As Jack Dorsey said [1] in an interview a while ago: "I also don’t feel good about how Twitter tends to incentivize outrage, fast takes, short term thinking, echo chambers, and fragmented conversation and consideration." I see T
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Facebook sues EU antitrust regulator for excessive data requests(reuters.com)
222 points by ckastner 6y ago|148 comments
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by ckastner 6y ago
> VW's position is its weakness, it has everything to lose and nothing to gain from the peak they've reached. I think that’s a very reasonable argument to make. However, Tesla is not even close to this peak VW might have reac
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by ckastner 6y ago
> "The list goes on in terms of growth & profitability" It better. Tesla has a market cap of 4x that of VW, a car maker with €256bn revenue and ~€17bn profit in 2019. It is beyond me why anyone would buy this stock over VW,
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YouTube not liable for user copyright breaches, EU court adviser says(reuters.com)
2 points by ckastner 6y ago|0 comments
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by ckastner 6y ago
Note that it is not mentioned under what conditions, just that "[...] will have basic functionality". So probably something akin to Waymo's experiment in Phoenix, rather than cross-country level 5.
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by ckastner 6y ago
> The group of European marketing firms said the pop-up warning and the limited ability to customize it still carries “a high risk of user refusal.” It‘s somewhat odd to see this framed as a bad thing.
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Google-backed groups criticize Apple's new warnings on user tracking(reuters.com)
4 points by ckastner 6y ago|2 comments
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by ckastner 6y ago
> How many packages do you, as a package maintainer, maintain? Can you say with high confidence that you are aware of all of the flags offered by all of those packages, including changes to the defaults between package releases? Absolu
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by ckastner 6y ago
systemd plays a crucial role on systems that use it. Whoever builds systemd for a distribution should definitely be aware of those flags; if you don’t understand them, then you are not qualified sufficiently to ship systemd for others to us
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by ckastner 6y ago
I'm not arguing against the autonomy part, on the contrary: I join you in arguing in favor of it, and also that such an autonomy requires a brilliant personality at the head of it. However, while the combination of autonomy and brillia
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by ckastner 6y ago
I'm not entirely convinced that Johnson's example generalizes well. He might just represent an instance of survivorship bias. Some people can be brilliant at something while at the same time being toxic, with the toxicity ultimate

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