enitihas

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by enitihas 6y ago
Not an American, but seeing the current divide in the US makes me curious. What happens if Trump wins again in 2020?
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by enitihas 6y ago
Isn't this the route most US universities are increasingly taking, i.e judging applications on personality traits ( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollme... ) Offcourse, they co
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by enitihas 6y ago
> , in my opinion scale of a company has a minor relevancy to software quality after a certain size. Possible, but I didn't talk about software quality, I talked about number of users. > (case in point: protonmail). I think your
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by enitihas 6y ago
Because mobile numbers enable much more easier use than emails. I talk to so many people on WhatsApp who don't even know what an email is, and would certainly never use the app if it couldn't pick their contacts from Contact List.
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by enitihas 6y ago
> smaller US/EU firms will take place of larger firms. Why do you think smaller EU/US firms are more likely to take their place than Big Chinese firms. The Big Chinese firms will have economies of scale and more capital. >
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by enitihas 6y ago
I think the combined market cap/revenue of all the companies you mention would still be less than any of the 4 biggest tech companies of the US. Even the Chinese companies are way bigger. > A much more likely reason to me seems that
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by enitihas 6y ago
More like lean toward a future where Bing (giving MSFT a monopoly on search, OS, Office Suites, browsers and whatnot), or worse, giving Chinese companies the lead in the rest of the world, and maybe even the US (if the US doesn't regul
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by enitihas 6y ago
How is AWS a monopoly? There are several competitors, two with similar market cap as Amazon and likely more cash in the bank. AWS neither builds on any pre existing monopoly, not is being used to push another product. Contrast this with Azu
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by enitihas 6y ago
1. Walmart operates in many countries, plus their US only revenue might be larger than Amazon's all retail revenue. Plus Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook operate in nearly all countries, a much bigger number than Amazon. 2. Twitch is
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by enitihas 6y ago
What does monopoly have to do with market cap? Market cap is an abstract concept on how much the market values something, and doesn't have much concrete stuff to be based on. Market cap goes way up during bubbles. If companies were to
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by enitihas 6y ago
So like every other big retailer? Like Walmart, Costco and many others?
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by enitihas 6y ago
Sure, let's give politicians a stick to break businesses arbitrarily, since we don't like objective criterias. Got a problem with some CEO, cry monopoly and break it up.
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by enitihas 6y ago
> Amazon is a monopoly on Kindle, which is what the author has issues with. This makes no sense. Companies all have monopolies on their own products. Apple has monopoly on the iPad, which is a similar competing reading device. Sony has m
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by enitihas 6y ago
In what sector is Amazon a monopoly. Retail? Walmart is much larger and Amazon's share of the market is too small to be a monopoly. Ecommerce? Even in ecommerce, Amazon's share is <50%. Fun fact, Tesla has a 60% of electric car
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by enitihas 6y ago
In what sector is Amazon a monopoly?
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by enitihas 6y ago
So do you think bookstores are compelled to sell books? How is that free speech? That is compelled speech. And Amazon is not a monopoly in any reasonable definition. You can sell books on 100 different stores and via so many other publisher
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by enitihas 6y ago
Many American Universities are trying to do the same thing though, but since they are spineless and don't want to admit the existence of a quota, they are resorting to shady tactics like qualifying applicants on "positive personal
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by enitihas 6y ago
> and think it is better than golang's implementation. How is core.async better than the golang implementation. In golang, all network I/O you do is automatically asynchronous, so your goroutines won't block a thread on ne
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by enitihas 6y ago
But that assumes all of population is equally interested in all careers, including sports, music , tech, management and all.
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by enitihas 6y ago
Timeless principle: Follow the money.
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by enitihas 6y ago
How should it look like according to you to be good?
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by enitihas 6y ago
Never, that is not good for business. Simple.
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by enitihas 6y ago
To save people time, this is the percent of people in leadership positions at Apple (from https://www.apple.com/diversity/ , 2018): 63% White 26% Asian 3% Black 7% Hispanic 1% Multiracial 0% Native American, Native Hawa
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by enitihas 6y ago
You can see the list of board members, as well as the prominent executives, and people giving talks at iPhone launches. I don't think that fits in well with the article.
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by enitihas 6y ago
What do you mean by "sometimes", does WhatsApp generate a random number to decide what protocol to use? Do you have better recommendations which use E2E and are also already used by the masses?
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by enitihas 6y ago
No, in order to have privacy you can choose applications which appeal to different user base and have different tradeoffs. Like Signal, or even WhatsApp. Zoom appeals to a different user base and offers different features as selling points.
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by enitihas 6y ago
The thread is very good and offers some reasonable points putting their decision in perspective.
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That is because people don't want to use older software and use newer software that is better. It is not the fault of the authors that their work is more timeless than software.
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by enitihas 6y ago
Yeah, selling free software doesn't work out in the practical world. There are astonishingly few business (RedHat) making money selling free software, and we don't really want authors using that business model. (Want to know how D
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by enitihas 6y ago
I don't think anyone has any problem with the original lending scheme. That was totally fair. > What changed recently is that they began lending out to a potentially unlimited number of people at a time. But, you still didn't g

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