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by javagram 6y ago
The XCloud streaming service has several hundred games. Youtube has millions of individual videos. There’s an obvious difference in scale that makes reviewing one possible and the other not. Apple could never even propose to have each indiv
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ITunes / Apple Music should work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_music_loc... only lists a few alternatives and a lot of defunct services like Amazon and Microsoft’s shutdown cloud player and G
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AGPL is widely avoided by corporations precisely because of this problem... Corporations vastly prefer BSD/MIT style licenses or at most GPLv2. GPLv3 is avoided, AGPL is avoided even more.
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Firefox never had the dominant position that Chrome has now. Chrome can get away with breaking the web because most people wouldn’t even think to switch to Firefox or IE at this point.
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This is a nice sounding story but I don’t think it’s true. There were already publications from China in early February stressing that tracing the virus via symptomatic cases alone would not be enough to stop the spread. Here’s one from Feb
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Yes, as the other person said, Yandex is available in the USA right now. I’ve seen Yandex bots crawling the USA-based websites I manage at my job. And that’s totally fine. We don’t have a great firewall here in the USA. At least not yet.
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If the president is taking this actions in retaliation for the expression of free speech on the platform (TikTok audience skews young, which is a very anti-trump demographic) that may violate the First Amendment if proven. Viewpoint discrim
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This isn’t about Chinese control, considering the President dismissed allowing Microsoft to buy the app. Microsoft is a US company.
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> The wheels of justice turn too slowly for election interference The logical solution would to start spinning the wheels faster, not take authoritarian action. Of course, the FEC right now doesn’t even have a quorum and has only had one
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“A few years ago” was 17 years ago, for reference, when he was a 19 year old college student. Facebook is working on Reels to compete with TikTok, but I’m sure Zuck would be happy if Trump takes out the competition for him. There may not be
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Clinton established the WTO and signed NAFTA. He also saber rattled against China during the taiwan straits crisis, bombed plenty of foreign countries, went to war over Kosovo in violation of the UN charter, and various other actions. I don
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TPP was created to counterweight China’s influence by increasing commercial ties between other Southeast and East Asian nations and the USA/Canada.
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This is basically a modern “Turtle Robot” similar to Logo, I guess. I wonder how much, if at all, seeing the robot move in real life is beneficial vs simple onscreen display like Logo provided.
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> Who wants to have a mortgage on a house that is going down in value every year? Sounds like a car loan. If the house was cheap enough, people would probably be OK with it, but of course starting from current prices it would be incredib
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Nintendo switch uses NVIDIA, but yes AMD is the provider for Microsoft and Sony.
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FWIW, https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/24/4751295... > But now there's a new theory. According to the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, li
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by javagram 6y ago
3 weeks from today we’ll likely be at around 1000 deaths per day, not 2200. https://covid19-projections.com/us The case fatality rate for the virus is going down due to increased testing (identifying more cases) and better
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by javagram 6y ago
News articles and press releases from the DOJ often include a theoretical maximum sentence that is unconnected with how a judge will actually assign a sentence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Federal_Senten
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Several brokerages offer a paper trading option so there’s no need to risk real money or fear accidentally leveraging yourself. Just google paper trading, I think thinkorswim has it along with others. If using an actual account just don’t u
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They didn’t choose the symbol at random but rather because it’s the symbol many Antifa supporters use to brand their movement https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Antifascist-Red-Triangle... Perhaps Antifa itself g
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A mix of inefficiency and corruption. Transit capital projects in the USA, for instance, are typically delayed for many years by lawsuits over environment laws, etc. For instance, near the nation’s capital: https://bethesdamagazi
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You can fix this today. Hold down on the link and choose to open in a new tab. It will remember the behavior and stop opening the link in the app, until you hold down another future link and choose “open in Amazon” or the equivalent. Not ve
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> So if there are too many H-1B holders competing with Americans, why not make it harder for companies to hire them over an equally qualified America This is literally what the H-1B visa program does, it makes companies jump through hoop
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Not great examples compared to amazon considering amazon is not just renting space to the seller, but also actually sells the illegal merchandise by taking payment and shipping it. It’s more akin to finding it on the shelf at walmart than a
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by javagram 6y ago
> Indeed, E2EE will enable criminals to go undetected. And this is a real problem. However, it’s an arms race that will end with criminals having proper, strong E2EE anyways. Individual child abusers aren’t part of a monolithic organizat
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The NLRB recently reversed itself and said companies can prevent their workers from organizing on the work email system. Expect the same would apply to FB Workplace. https://www.reuters.com/article/labor-disclosure&#x2F
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NYC was putting patients into hospital cafeterias, the Javits Center, and a US navy ship in the harbor if you didn’t notice. Moreover, many people who called in sick were told to stay at home because there wasn’t room in the hospital for th
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CDC tracks pneumonia deaths across the entire United States through two separate systems. It couldn’t sweep by undetected. When we actually got hit by coronavirus hard, alarms starting blaring immediately both in local health department sta
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> We now know that China locked down domestic flights originating from Wuhan in Jan 23. While at the same time pressuring various world governments and WHO to continue accepting international flights. As someone else pointed out, this is
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This just seems so bogus. Suggesting the virus was circulating in China as early as August but was being covered up? It’s the 21st century. There were many direct flights between Wuhan and the United States every day, as well as with other

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