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by dannyr 6y ago
You are basically Amazon's ideal and loyal customer! Only consume things within Amazon's world. Fortunately, Cory Doctorow is an esteemed author that has enough avid fans who would buy his content even though it's not on Amaz
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by dannyr 6y ago
Are the ads that good for you to be tracked by these companies everywhere you go and sacrifice your privacy?
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by dannyr 6y ago
What if it's anti-covid-vaccine misinformation?
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by dannyr 6y ago
But there are only 2 malls! Iphone and Android.
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by dannyr 6y ago
There are only 2 major mobile platforms so we don't have any choice if both decides to make money off our data. You can nitpick on "need". Such typical HN response to focus on 1 word just to pick on something rather than the
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by dannyr 6y ago
I'm not a big Apple fan. But if Apple thinks it makes business sense for them to be privacy-focused, that it would get more people to buy their products, i'm all for it! And I know it doesn't block what could be an ads busine
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by dannyr 6y ago
> Having 3rd party stores will be net negative for me as a user. Having 3rd party stores will not prevent you for using the Apple App Store exclusively. > As a user I will end up with 10 stores on my phone, each has my billing informa
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by dannyr 6y ago
"They're no worse than your run of the mill tech company" So media should stop reporting on possible bad actions by Uber? Excess coverage or not, the media exposed discrimination and harassments at Uber that led to the compan
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by dannyr 6y ago
I mean it's a search engine so it should rely heavily on third-party content in its search results. Google links to these news sites in search results and drives traffic to them. If Google grabs significant parts of news articles that
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by dannyr 6y ago
Sadly, it's gonna take a while before actual legislation is enacted. If Fortnite gets banned, they'll stay that way for a long time unless they remove direct payment.
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by dannyr 6y ago
In a time where so many people are looking for jobs, this is gonna be a race to the bottom.
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by dannyr 6y ago
Add Duterte to that list. He appointed 11 out of 15 justices to the Philippine Supreme Court.
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by dannyr 6y ago
They are divesting the US operations though. So basically different owners for US, China and the rest of the world.
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by dannyr 6y ago
So how will this work? Will there be 2 apps? Tiktok US and Tiktok for the rest of the world?
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by dannyr 6y ago
Sadly, in a number of countries (like Philippines), small businesses have presence only on Facebook properties because FB controls the distribution. Facebook made a "charitable" act to make it zero-rated that people's access
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by dannyr 6y ago
Do you use a service for online singing lessons? Or just Youtube videos?
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by dannyr 6y ago
If Google is really doing this, you'd think they could make messaging and social media apps that are actually competitive.
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by dannyr 6y ago
Why do we assume it's a young person doing the hacking?
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by dannyr 6y ago
Apple banned Facebook's Onavo VPN app while it wasn't banned on the Android Play Store.
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by dannyr 6y ago
India banned Tiktok and other Chinese Apps. Apple and Google complied with the government order. https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/07/02/apple-google-comp... Apple also removed a bunch of games on its
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by dannyr 6y ago
Without the cooking part, Sprig was doing this back in 2014. Delivery staff drives around a neighborhood with a bunch of hot meals. Sprig only offered 2-3 dishes.
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by dannyr 6y ago
You could say that Chinese restaurants in NYC are also built to deliver. These restaurants have had their own delivery fleet for decades. For a non-chain business, probably the key is being in a dense city where majority of your customers a
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by dannyr 6y ago
Microsoft has shown improvements over the past decade because it's not a monopoly anymore and has lost to Apple and Google. Wait til they become dominant again and they'll be back to their old ways.
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by dannyr 6y ago
Except that Facebook use algorithms to promote posts to its billion users.
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by dannyr 6y ago
There is a big difference between a newspaper and Facebook (with over a billion users) spreading misinformation. This is like comparing a match stick to jet fuel.
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by dannyr 6y ago
I'm not affected by misinformation and incitement of violence so I'm ok with it. /s
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by dannyr 6y ago
What a crazy coincidence then that Floyd right died after a policeman pinned his knee to Floyd's neck for 8+ minutes huh?
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by dannyr 6y ago
Employee request like protecting their health. Why would a company grant that request? /s
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by dannyr 7y ago
Good for Airbnb to do this. Any idea how much cash reserves they have? This and their monthly burn rate will deplete their reserves since not much revenue is coming in.
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by dannyr 7y ago
Or maybe the government just cares for its residents. Getting stuck in a room for 2 weeks is not easy. Govt is just trying to make it more tolerable.

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