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by kmlx 5y ago
> So you propose to copy the private data of European citizens on US servers? > What happens when the law makes that illegal? just follow the Chinese model. complete blackout between the European Union, China and ROW. this is where th
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by kmlx 5y ago
yes, this. but this practice is less common than i would have assumed at first. there are websites out there that even after paying their subscription they still put up ads.
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by kmlx 5y ago
is this true? did not know this…
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by kmlx 5y ago
> I don’t think it’s just a small community. it’s the smallest of communities: > Between late February and November [2021], there were 360,000 NFT owners holding 2.7m NFTs between them. Of those, about 9 per cent — or 32,400 wallets —
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by kmlx 5y ago
> one of our few “unicorns” “There are currently 37 private $1b+ businesses headquartered in the UK—a further 14 have exited, whilst 2 are no longer active 13 UK companies became unicorns in H1 2021—the largest concentration of new unico
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by kmlx 5y ago
sorry, i assumed you wanted deep market penetration. of course no reversible tx is ok as long it’s some obscure niche that no-one uses. otherwise there will be issues.
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by kmlx 5y ago
not in the US, in the UK. i know financial systems in the US are about a decade behind those here. for example: we have Faster Payments in the UK. completely free instant payments between bank accounts. and when i say instant, they’re milli
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by kmlx 5y ago
it depends how modern, but most are there. we develop primarily on safari and see no issues.
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by kmlx 5y ago
ah, so the carriers are exempted, interesting, thanks. so i guess the other route is what most companies do: webapp…
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by kmlx 5y ago
this makes absolutely no sense. apple never said 30% is just payment processing. they claim the infra, the testers, the approval etc etc costs a lot. so now we know it’s 27%. which is absolutely normal. should any app use their proprietary
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by kmlx 5y ago
i don’t get why you are forced to do this. the app for my phone network just opens a webview where i pay for stuff. then i close the webview and the funds just show up in the app. do they also pay 30% to apple?
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by kmlx 5y ago
it’s been 9 years since gta 5, a game which generated $6 billion in revenue for take two. i “played” the recent matrix awakens unreal 5 tech demo and boy i really miss just driving in a huge open city. hopefully this announcement means the
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by kmlx 5y ago
> and the average privacy-conscious user not wanting tracking. zero traction in the real world for this. people will click on whatever you show them.
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by kmlx 5y ago
that’s just one of many ad campaigns, plus a computer is not by definition a general purpose device.
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by kmlx 5y ago
> It’s not like they make money off of the hardware microsoft hasn’t made any money off of the whole xbox ecosystem since it’s inception 20 years ago. it’s been loss making since day zero.
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by kmlx 5y ago
> Yeah, if you don't like the fee, just make your own phone hardware, your own processor, your own screens, your own OS.. no, you just need a webapp.
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by kmlx 5y ago
> 30% is just too much. i see you never had to deal with retailers.
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by kmlx 5y ago
wait, you're advocating killing the executives of these companies because of methane leaks? or just bombing their homes? both feel completely disproportional, and completely divorced from reality. not only that, but i think this commen
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by kmlx 5y ago
> but technically well, the difference is quite important.
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by kmlx 5y ago
restaurants provide food. serving bad food gets clients killed. no comparison whatsoever with some websites. what you're writing about has to do with state overreach.
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by kmlx 5y ago
oh, ok. so basically something that everyone is already doing?
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by kmlx 5y ago
my bank automatically does this without me needing to do an update. worst case it just puts the money back into my account. > I'd basically just say though that if you want a company or state actor to be able to reverse transactions
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by kmlx 5y ago
> harmful practice what's the harmful practice here?
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by kmlx 5y ago
> has no marketing team "has no marketing team" is different than "has no marketing". the stars on github are part of marketing. good docs are part of marketing. that tweet from a 3rd party is marketing. if a project
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by kmlx 5y ago
> All data collected through the TCF there is no data collected via TCF: https://github.com/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/GDPR-Transpa... CMPs are the popups that save the preferences and thus enable the collection o
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by kmlx 5y ago
> If you're not familiar with Northern European culture, I'm quite sure the companies can expect literal inspectors in their offices expecting clear answers to where the data is and what was done with it. zero chance of this ev
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by kmlx 5y ago
> making them liable for a fine of up to $32.3Bn per year > their fine is 250k euros massive disconnect between reality and imaginary worlds.
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by kmlx 5y ago
this looks like a classic "flame bait" comment. > Collecting and selling digital data is not a legitimate business enterprise. a whole international industry, legislators across the planet, entrepreneurs, employees, voters, use
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by kmlx 5y ago
> And with Brexit, the biggest obstacle to that has been removed this is false. very few european countries want a federal, unified state. so nothing of meaning will happen until a lot of things change.
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by kmlx 5y ago
compared to coal, most are. but is it more env friendly than solar or wind? i think not.

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