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by exceptione 1mo ago
> As Tim Wu points out, the money Amazon makes from payola exceeds the advertising revenue received by all the newspapers in the world by 300%. Alongside that number and its implication for the news media, Jeff Bezos buying the Wash
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by exceptione 1mo ago
The shit happens from how these funds are bound by their statutes to buy into index funds. A while back, there has been some insightful commentaries here on HN regarding the spacex IPO and the subversion of stock exchange.
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by exceptione 1mo ago
We can't open x links as X is suing privacy respecting proxies, so I can't assess which David Sacks you are talking about, but if you mean this guy [1] orbiting the likes of Thiel, Trump and Kennedy jr, than that isn't quite
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by exceptione 1mo ago
> but it is hard to cut your own lane when these mega groups control so many aspects of the stack and have such outsized capital and political influence Are you able to shed some light on this? It would be interesting to hear wha
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by exceptione 1mo ago
> And did you know pension funds invest in this stuff?(which is bad?) Not if this were something healthy. This wouldn't be the first time joe average is holding the bag when the rich set the house on fire again. The USA econ
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by exceptione 1mo ago
> Since the Cancer Capital firms have become so powerful, the overall balance of power between founders and VCs has flipped; instead of founders having a company that VCs would try to fund, now VCs publish extremist political manife
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by exceptione 1mo ago
> private intelligence companies use such tooling to gather information on individuals for business and private customers too. Yes, that is a very scary. These weapons are being used against journalists and politicians threatenin
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by exceptione 1mo ago
> It's actually really, really impressive what they've accomplished. You should be proud of it. No doubts about that, they are world class. But they are seeking to reduce oversight, and they succeed at that politically
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by exceptione 1mo ago
Yup, but here is the rub: you and me can't buy the real stuff. You have to be a professional law breaker, which means you are in organized crime (don't forget the white collar guys), or you are working for Intelligence, in whateve
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by exceptione 1mo ago
> Graphite belongs to the same category of commercial surveillance technology as Pegasus, the better-known spyware developed by NSO Group. Both are classified as mercenary spyware, meaning private companies develop and sell them to
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by exceptione 1mo ago
Thank you for clarifying this.
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by exceptione 1mo ago
Morocco is notorious for its nepotism though. The run on Ceutta can't be unseen from the problem that for many young Moroccans pursuing an education is almost useless, as the opportunities are exclusively for the political elite. A who
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by exceptione 1mo ago
One reason is that this is mostly a brain firmware phenomenon. My personal observation is that some people are able to nail a domain with good conceptual integrity, but there are also many (clever) people that quickly reach to a mechanical
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by exceptione 1mo ago
yes, but not on GOS.
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by exceptione 1mo ago
> The detailed software allowed them to enter various parameters including the weather, runway condition, and any systems failures, and then calculate whether it was possible to land. But when everything had been entered, the progra
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by exceptione 1mo ago
> They're packing lots of signal into fewer words FYI, these are so-called `load-bearing` words.
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by exceptione 1mo ago
Fair point.
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by exceptione 1mo ago
> That's also incorrect, because the gmscompat app is just a helper app. Hmm, ok. I was reasoning the helper app was needed to get around the default assumptions from Google Play Services. > Those permissions are han
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by exceptione 1mo ago
> Turning on automatic software updates from Google would make me vulnerable to that threat. Using MicroG instead of Google Play Services would make me less vulnerable to that threat I would say that any auto-update mechanism is
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by exceptione 1mo ago
True. I think this one is closer to the truth: < https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_packages_apps_GmsComp... > There is no READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE mentioned there.
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by exceptione 1mo ago
Are you talking about the US here? I am hoping this would be off-limits in Europe.
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by exceptione 1mo ago
There is an AppStore app, I am not sure if this is the one we are talking about? < https://github.com/GrapheneOS/AppStore/blob/main/app/src/mai... > That one lists: ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
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by exceptione 1mo ago
That can't be true? < https://grapheneos.org/faq#hardware-identifiers > As of Android 10, apps cannot obtain permission to access non-resettable hardware identifiers such as the serial number, MAC addresses, IM
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by exceptione 1mo ago
Maybe I am misunderstanding something but the cookiewall says: Datenverarbeitungen von Werbeanbietern einschl. personalisierter Werbung mit Profilbildung. Zustimmung erforderlich für kostenfreie Nutzung This reads to me like you e
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by exceptione 1mo ago
Yep. Waiting for someone writing a paper titled "All you need is coffee" or something.
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by exceptione 1mo ago
Maybe we could replace the link with the mdr.de? Heise.de violates GDPR law by using a "pay for play" model. I am sorry for the meta comment but websites like these should be on the black list imho (and it escapes me why the germa
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by exceptione 1mo ago
Noob question: does this only separate instruments, or can it also be used to separate and extract speech from different humans in a conversation?
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by exceptione 1mo ago
Because Swiss scientists and businesses want to collaborate and trade with European partner networks of science and industries. One of the EU main principles is collaboration and win-win. It is not zero sum. Example: The Netherlands is weal
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by exceptione 1mo ago
That mandate has quite changed, even more when you look at the non-retired cohorts. Reintegration with the EU will take plenty of time.
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by exceptione 1mo ago
In practice, these countries implement already a lot of EU law. It isn't that difficult for say a Switzerland to join the EU and they have good reasons to, as access to programs like Horizon is a huge benefit. The economies of these co

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