euyyn

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by euyyn 9y ago
So a mere 1.5 billion then? :)
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by euyyn 9y ago
Fair enough! I haven't read the details of that decision.
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by euyyn 9y ago
> your entire comment is something I would imagine the person you are replying to agrees with, which is precisely why they made the comment they did Let that person reply then? I'm refuting the parallel between the two cases, even i
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by euyyn 9y ago
> a bullshit argument: using the apparent benefits of the monopoly to defend its existence; this (bad) argument also applies to Microsoft. It doesn't apply is what I'm saying. > In my post, I demonstrated that if that posted
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by euyyn 9y ago
> what they were doing was purposefully bypassing their own algorithm to their advantage, giving doctored results Where did you get this from?
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by euyyn 9y ago
Microsoft never had a "web browser business" they wanted to boost. They had an OS monopoly they preserved illegally like the mob. Not the same.
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by euyyn 9y ago
US vs Microsoft was completely different.
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by euyyn 9y ago
> Compare MS and the bundled Internet Explorer: Yes, it was more convenient for people not to be required to download a browser after installing the OS. That was a non-issue, as OEMs were able (and did often) pre-install any number of so
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by euyyn 9y ago
> The profits generated can then be used to attract even more consumers. Wut?
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by euyyn 9y ago
There's never been any impediment to people giving away their music for free to create exposure. To radio stations, TV, movies, as free concerts, as mp3s to download from their website, whatever. The argument "I'm pirating th
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by euyyn 9y ago
Are you trying to argue that Standard Oil didn't have much lobbying power? Or that politicians/courts were less corrupt back then?
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by euyyn 9y ago
lol that's not why we're unemployed in Spain.
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by euyyn 9y ago
Yeah that's not what happened. People were very happy indeed with Microsoft products. Back when Netscape Navigator was better than Internet Explorer in all respects, people were very happy with NN too, and would have been happier if th
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by euyyn 9y ago
Of course everybody prefers a browser to be pre-installed, but Microsoft did way more than that. They strictly harmed users to protect their Windows monopoly from the threat of Java apps. Java applets distributed via the web (executed by Ne
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by euyyn 9y ago
Is that causation, or only correlation?
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by euyyn 9y ago
Effective at predicting outcomes of interventions. As in: My country's situation is X. If I tweak such and such policies this way, will that lead to situation Y? And then it actually happening.
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by euyyn 9y ago
> if you start with the reasonable assumption that a pirated copy doesn't directly translate to a sales loss I think the reasonable assumption is that it translates on average to a fraction of a sale loss; less than one, but more th
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by euyyn 9y ago
> all of Google's partners who can purchase our data I'm pretty sure that's the empty set.
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by euyyn 9y ago
Probably easier to hack any other mail provider than hack into Google and own it so badly as to being able to read emails in plaintext.
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by euyyn 9y ago
So it's like the case of TV news in Venezuela, where you can't say the government banned news in general, only news that don't pass their censorship. Chinese get to see video streams, but only those the government wants to sp
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by euyyn 9y ago
Not saying it's an easy calculation, but as "a legal solution" it already exists.
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by euyyn 9y ago
> What would you propose as a legal solution for this? By "for this" do you mean "to have a decent minimum wage"?
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by euyyn 9y ago
Yeah, that's kind of his point, I understood: If you have to pay humane wages, you have a stronger incentive to invest in automation.
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by euyyn 9y ago
> if that's the case, you'd have to protest lots of start ups and companies in silicon valley. There's no shortage of toxic workplaces. What's even the point here? You're aware that no one has to protest a compan
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by euyyn 9y ago
> As bad as Uber might be, they might be less bad than the alternative. In those terms, one may not want to champion the legacy system as better. The alternative isn't the legacy system, which nobody's saying is better. The alt
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by euyyn 9y ago
Hahaha holy crap!
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by euyyn 9y ago
> a better product tailored to the Chinese market What were the differences?
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by euyyn 9y ago
Oh, wait!
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by euyyn 9y ago
Ah, I see! Not sure if you're the same user as the ones above, but the Compute Module 3 doesn't come with networking chips, so it's a no-starter for Android Things.
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by euyyn 9y ago
> I'd probably be unemployable There's no reason for any of your information to be shared with the prospective employers here, no? The flow of information here is from the employers, via Google, to you, not the other way around

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