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by kmlx 3y ago
the general idea of a fine is to discourage future infractions, not to destroy the company. fines don’t need to be existential in order to be effective.
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by kmlx 3y ago
why treat this small part (browsers) separate from the rest? are browsers not running inside an OS that runs on hardware? > (labelled gatekeeper) with just 20% of the market. pretty incredibile imo.
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by kmlx 3y ago
and mozilla can use the same firefox version that they use in RoW in the EU.
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by kmlx 3y ago
> "We are still reviewing the technical details but are extremely disappointed with Apple's proposed plan to restrict the newly-announced BrowserEngineKit to EU-specific apps," Mozilla's spokesperson lamented. "T
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by kmlx 3y ago
thanks for reminding me. from heavily taxed sales.
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by kmlx 3y ago
> and everything else Companies don't pay for but enjoy fruits off of companies pay for everything, it's just that they pay it indirectly. income tax, corporation tax, vat, the taxes just keep on piling.
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by kmlx 3y ago
they compute the deviceid on the server using signals from the browser. i think having js disabled is just another signal.
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by kmlx 3y ago
> So as a user my preference not to be fingerprinted or tracked takes a back seat in the name of fraud detection? the issue is murky for certain use cases. take payments for example. fingerprinting is used at scale in that field, and for
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by kmlx 3y ago
> Someone else with the same browser, OS, and laptop model would have the same fingerprint. the collision rate of their ids is stated to be 0.05% what they do is basically collect a lot of signals from the browser (audio processing stuff
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by kmlx 3y ago
> Or you can ask your government to protect its citizen from monopolies that’s one take. i got a different one: the ship has already sailed almost two decades ago. that’s when these kinds of solutions should have been implemented. today
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by kmlx 3y ago
isn't Stoxx 50 just the EU? i think you're missing some huge players (Shell, Novo Nordisk etc) but to get back to the general point, that list looks kind of bleak to me. bags, makeup and oil. at least there's ASML in there (i
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by kmlx 3y ago
> No one makes money making music anymore. when was "making music" a money maker? or for that matter, when was creating any art form a money maker? i think making money out of art is an anomaly, not a rule. and i think that&#x2
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by kmlx 3y ago
for gaming in particular: https://www.ft.com/content/cc6bd66c-6341-4367-85cc-86d274102... > Game over? Industry suffers slowdown after decades-long winning streak > Sales growth in consoles and mobile apps hit as
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by kmlx 3y ago
if we're discussing averages, it's a bit of everything. there's clearly an imbalance right now and things are adjusting. if we're discussing an individual company, it depends. what i do know from some companies that i wo
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by kmlx 3y ago
airalo is ok, but it really depends on the country. i used ubigi in japan in singapore and it was really cheap and very good connectivity.
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by kmlx 3y ago
> We do need some protections in place. i find impossible to believe that people that are currently working in the music/film industries will not take advantage of these new technologies (see designers that went from pen and paper t
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by kmlx 3y ago
> If dealers are making lot of money from cannabis from i've read cannabis is not a money making product for "dealers". cannabis is used to introduce customers to other much more profitable drugs.
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by kmlx 3y ago
i worked in that field. one of the main reasons adult entertainment is optimised so heavily is because lots of users are from countries with poor internet. countless hours spent on optimising video delivery, live broadcasts (using flash bac
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by kmlx 3y ago
i made the point further down below. shall we compare nyc to a village in italy? we can, but there is literally nothing in common, everything is completely different. you can compare norway to sweden and finland. or the US to canada.
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by kmlx 3y ago
hong kong. super low taxes, great public services. singapore. low-ish taxes, excellent public services. there are others.
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by kmlx 3y ago
you somehow assume that i care about any of this stuff. i do not. i simply don’t think the EU knows anything about anything and that it has the best interest of citizens at its core. i think the EU will continue to split the internet for pe
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by kmlx 3y ago
it’s tiny. it’s like comparing a village of hundreds to a metropolis like tokyo/nyc/london. totally different problems/solutions. there is no equivalence, there is almost nothing in common between the two. norway should be co
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by kmlx 3y ago
there’s 5.5 million people in the whole of norway. what are we talking about?
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by kmlx 3y ago
> No, the EU is not acting this way because they want an "EU Apple". Nobody over here has the illusion of any such mega corporation ever coming out of the EU. i don’t know what case you’re making, but “sore losers” isn’t a winn
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by kmlx 3y ago
> I find it quite disturbing that high taxation is seen as a negative aspect of Europe. after receiving the same services for no or minimal tax i also find it very disturbing that people still think high taxation is necessary.
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by kmlx 3y ago
$7T is ~10x Taiwan’s GDP :)
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by kmlx 3y ago
> Outside of Intel, pretty much everyone else uses TSMC to build their computing chips. this isn’t correct. UMC, SMIC and TI have more than 10 fabs each. Nanya 3 fabs. Micron > 10 fabs. Intel > 10 fabs. Tower Semiconductor 7 fabs.
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by kmlx 3y ago
> I wonder why apple is so hell bent on enforcing Safari/Webkit as the browser engine? security. browsers are famous for escaping their sandbox. this is from November 2023: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/
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by kmlx 3y ago
> Per the terms, this poor sap and everyone else who forgot about their hulu account signed into some airbnb is subject to service termination. other services (Youtube, Netflix etc) have a feature where you can log other devices out. hu
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by kmlx 3y ago
“San Francisco supervisors”, in case anyone else wonders what’s a “supervisor”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Board_of_Super...

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