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by d1zzy 6y ago
There are many problems that cannot be solved by the resources available to a medium sized company. Which is why you need multiple governments to get together to help out something like AirBus or space programs. Similarly Google at its scal
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by d1zzy 6y ago
That hasn't been the experience for me. I have much fewer questions now than I had when I started to program 30 years ago. Not to say that there aren't a lot of new things I don't know about that are coming up every day but t
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by d1zzy 6y ago
To take this comparison further: you still need to transfer your assets out of the first bank, otherwise you lose all of that. Similarly you would need to get your digital assets out of Google, using Takeout. But not sure if Takeout is a se
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by d1zzy 6y ago
When was the last such horror story you heard? (and I specifically mean shutting down access to Google Account and all services) Last time I heard this type of story was back in Google+ times when it was trying to enforce some silly real na
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by d1zzy 6y ago
And you will know when that happens and then you can stop using the service.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Depends on what problem you are trying to solve. If you are trying to make COVID19 go extinct then yes, lockdowns aren't sufficient. If you are trying to avoid overwhelming health care resources (so they are available to dying patients
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by d1zzy 6y ago
I think we can all agree (and I don't have to prove) that if nobody would ever meet anyone outside their home there would be 0 infections. So that would be the ideal. We could have states just mandate very strict shelter in place. Woul
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by d1zzy 6y ago
It's a bit of a stretch to be comparing using a different smartphone (you don't even need to use ANY smartphone) and moving the place where you live, work, etc. Next, we'll see people complaining how google.com should be disp
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by d1zzy 6y ago
So what exactly does Epic want here? To force Apple to sell iOS (with configurable/multiple stores) as separate software that you might install on a separately iOS-less bought iPhone? To force Apple to sell iOS-less/unlocked iPhon
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by d1zzy 6y ago
> Actually Apple would be the biggest company, in the market of people who have smartphones in the US. They just recently have a bit over 50% of that market. Is Epic requiring Apple to only open their stores in the US?
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by d1zzy 6y ago
People stockpiling guns at home for the unlikely event that they will need to use them to defend their lives/property qualifies for a "well-regulated Militia"? That's news to me.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Just look at the blatant lies he said about COVID19, it's laughable if the consequences wouldn't be so serious and tragic. Yes, politicians do lie (mostly in terms of vague while being up for election), but that doesn't mean
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Oh wow, I'm so happy I'm not the only one thinking this. I noticed this transition over the past few years on these forums and I even commented about it in the past.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
It's pretty easy, just find a reputable company somewhere outside of the US.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Case in point: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ Look for the fingerprinting result.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
I noticed that around the time the old press started pushing out articles against Google because it was threatening their livelihood. That made sense. However, the general sentiment seems to have changed in the meantime. Have the HN demogra
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by d1zzy 6y ago
That seems obvious to me: lowering your cost of living means you are willing to accept $X-1, or if you personally don't want to another person that also moved out of high priced living area may accept a lower salary (so they get your j
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by d1zzy 6y ago
So the content creator has decided to insert their own ad inside their content resulting in a worse user experience (since you seem to be complaining about it). Should Youtube ban in-content third-party ads?
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Geographical IP relocation seems like a common reason to use it. Also just because Google may have access to some information it doesn't mean that everyone else has. You can't stop companies from gathering information when you int
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Let's assume that happens. Then instead of going after the hosting location RIAA will go after the developers which, until now, had no reason to hide their identities. That's what Blizzard did with bnetd, they sued the devs and in
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by d1zzy 6y ago
They cornered the market and there are plenty of situations where a taxi is more or less necessary.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
In the US? Because in many countries I'm aware of there are business profit taxes...
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Why would a US tech discussion site built around a US startup investment company have such a strong representation of the European interpretation of antitrust? Genuinely curious...
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by d1zzy 6y ago
I sure hope anti-trust law makes a distinction between good business decisions (that build moats around your business and allow you to not become obsolete and be outcompeted) and anti-competitive decisions. Or are we going to say now that p
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Twitch, however, seems to be doing great without being able to advertise their videos on Youtube. This is more of a discussion of walled gardens than typical monopoly abuse.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
People say this as if the entire (or majority) of Android's success rests with what they initially purchased. In my opinion it has very little to do with that and a lot more to do with the billions of dollars invested into developing,
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by d1zzy 6y ago
So what are you going to do, force Apple to sell their search default option for less money (whatever DuckDuckGo can afford to pay) in order to support more competition? It's really Apple's choice and interest what it does with th
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Why would a company believe it's doing illegal stuff? That wouldn't make much sense unless it's made out of people that are OK with doing illegal stuff (Mafia?). So of course most employees don't believe that. And whethe
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by d1zzy 6y ago
This argument doesn't seem correct to me. It's not like Google has had great customer support when they started out and later on, as they became a monopoly, they stopped doing that so it's one of the (many) signals it's
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Maybe workplaces (and the public in general) should adopt the same rules as to what constitutes political discourse and then we'd stop having threads around "everything is political" statements...

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