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by kmlx 3y ago
italy in 2020: > 55-64 years: 14% > 65 years and over: 22.08% from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Italy
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by kmlx 3y ago
why is it not a good thing?
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by kmlx 3y ago
it's already competing, and quite successfully (hello battery life and ram usage). but when google.com displays a "better in chrome" message, or when they adopt some proposal instead of waiting on the process, then it's
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by kmlx 3y ago
> with similar flawless execution > Just off the top of my head, London Transport of London used (and still does) Oyster Cards (contactless smart cards). when they switched the system to also support contactless credit cards all they
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by kmlx 3y ago
> This will open a ton of possibilities the biggest possibility i see is chrome 99% market share.
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> Why do you think so? lack of competition. protectionism. etc > I see the usefulness of avoiding companies not being based in Emilia doing a cheese that is called Parmigiano, or not based in Naples doing Bufala, or Pachino.. I should
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by kmlx 3y ago
> Miller is trying to pull itself up with the brand Champagne and is pulling the brand down. yes, this is how some europeans see it. imo it’s absurd. > Miller High Life has proudly worn the nickname ‘The Champagne of Beers’ for almost
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by kmlx 4y ago
one random tidbit that struck me was that the term "Byzantine Empire" was actually an invention from the 1500's. the "byzantine" people actually called themselves Romans, and the empire was called "Roman Empire
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by kmlx 4y ago
did the french government put that guy on a terrorist list somewhere or what? also, the refusal to share passcodes and subsequent arrest is more common across the world then one would expect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by kmlx 4y ago
> I'm the opposite, as looking at android, where do we see this? fraud. we'll see lots and lots of fraud. a new avenue will be open.
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by kmlx 4y ago
that's browser standards territory. also, this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebCodecs_A...
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by kmlx 4y ago
> Sure ChatGPT can hallucinate but Google's results rely on some random person somewhere to have properly answered something. i don't know about your experience with chatgpt, but to me it's been untrustworthy. so much so t
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by kmlx 4y ago
right, that too. but i prefer the honesty of having the “beta” label than the lack of it.
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> hopefully it’s to a Microsoft as long as it's not Microsoft itself of course.
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by kmlx 4y ago
> The official pixel case got destroyed due to wear in not even a year welcome to the "official case" club. all my iphone cases get destroyed in max 6 months, with one lasting less than 3 months. during the course of an iphone
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by kmlx 4y ago
i think it's about expectations
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living conditions is not GDP.
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by kmlx 4y ago
or a PC in general: > Global PC shipments tumbled to 56.9 million in the first quarter, down 29% from the same period a year earlier https://www.wsj.com/articles/pc-shipments-fall-29-led-by-dro...
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by kmlx 4y ago
> Apple's sales plunge the overall PC market declined 29% https://www.wsj.com/articles/pc-shipments-fall-29-led-by-dro...
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by kmlx 4y ago
Project Starline is actually quite cool: https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/ "Google will begin testing the technology with corporations such as Salesforce and T-Mobile beginning in
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by kmlx 4y ago
if you care about battery life then safari is the way to go.
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by kmlx 4y ago
> I know it's hard to believe for a lot of people on HN but not every country wants to become yet another soulless cog of the globalized world are you referring to Italy? a country where producers sell products all around the planet
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by kmlx 4y ago
that's a great article. > Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong > From panettone to tiramisu, many ‘classics’ are in fact recent inventions, as Alberto Grandi has shown
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by kmlx 4y ago
> Why not stuff our stomachs with even more lab stuff? more? everything is genetically modified in order to support the current (and future) population levels: https://www.fda.gov/food/agricultural-biotechnology&#x2F
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by kmlx 4y ago
this just tells me it’s only a matter of time before they will be forced to split. windows, office, xbox, devices, github, azure, zenimax, activision blizzard and so many others i’m forgetting.
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by kmlx 4y ago
> HSBC on Monday averted a crisis in Britain’s tech sector by rescuing Silicon Valley Bank’s UK arm, a dramatic fire sale concluded after all-night talks led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Bank of England. > A sale of SVB UK, w
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by kmlx 4y ago
lehman brothers had total assets of $639B when it filed for bankruptcy on September 15, 2008. adjusted for inflation that's ~$800B.
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by kmlx 4y ago
Silicon Valley Bank UK confirms it’s a standalone independent UK regulated bank. London, 10 March, 2023: Silicon Valley Bank UK, the financial partner of the innovation economy, today moved to confirm to its UK clients, partners and externa
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by kmlx 4y ago
related: https://www.ft.com/content/82b70f3e-092f-449f-b32d-38b3dc66e... > European and Asian stocks rattled after sell-off in US bank shares > Fears over health of banks’ bond portfolios compound nervousness ahe
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by kmlx 4y ago
> The short interest has already exploded, the stock has already lost 40%, and now we’re in takeover/bailout territory. > You’re a day late. just one sec: SVB Financial Group Pre-market 57.50 −48.54 (45.78%)

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