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by kmlx 3y ago
yeah, it’s quite an experience what you’re describing. i loved it last time i was in akihabara. going back to yodobashi, seeing all the current gen electronics ever under a single roof spread out across x storeys was something i haven’t see
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by kmlx 3y ago
this is a super slippery slope. this would mean most manufacturers are actually monopolies because they have control over their own products. i don’t see how this makes any sense.
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by kmlx 3y ago
didn't they have them at yodobashi?
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by kmlx 3y ago
in order to change my address in the UK all I needed to do was to either send an email with some bill attached or just call (depending on the service).
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by kmlx 3y ago
what monopoly does apple have? not for smartphones: https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/global-smartph... not for macs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_compu... no
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by kmlx 3y ago
> Earlier this week, thanks to the clear language in the DMA, we shared how we plan to offer customers in the EU more choice I followed the link to see their plan of offering customers in the EU more choice [0] and all i saw was dark pat
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by kmlx 3y ago
what monopoly? https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/global-smartph...
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by kmlx 3y ago
yes, this is huge news for advertising, fingerprinting, and tracking. i think we'll see a boom in those markets in the following years (contingent on some factors, but still).
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by kmlx 3y ago
> For all I care we can remove Apple devices entirely in the EU. the rest of the world also has no problem with the EU confirming it's status :)
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by kmlx 3y ago
i can't wait to see what kind of tracking will be possible with these new technologies :) /s i know these guys https://fingerprint.com use so many of these when fingerprinting.
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by kmlx 3y ago
a bit of a silly comment. a PC is not a phone. a phone is something very personal, something you can lose very easily (and a lot of people do), something that you use all the time outside your home (on the street, on the bus, etc). a PC isn
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by kmlx 3y ago
https://www.asymco.com/2023/09/04/the-2-trillion-economy/ OK is an understatement.
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by kmlx 3y ago
you just need to read the article: > The good news is that the bad apps in question have since been removed from Google’s official Android app store. However, the cybercriminals behind this campaign are also using a separate set of 12 ma
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by kmlx 3y ago
> Finance is deflating like a slow puncture. i think that’s just a snapshot of the current economic situation around the world, not a long term trend: https://www.morganmckinley.com/uk/article/london-employment-
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by kmlx 3y ago
> In the last quarter [i.e. Q1 2022], the number of Brexit-related staff relocations to the EU has been further revised down, from 7,400 in December 2021 to just over 7,000 as March 2022 closes – significantly down from the peak of 12,50
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by kmlx 3y ago
> I wonder if there's a way to prevent the growth at all costs that is demanded by the financial markets. the way i understand it the problem is the product and the market that you’re selling into. for example: Renaissance Technolog
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by kmlx 3y ago
i remember that in november 2023 they announced their fourth round of layoffs. and closing 14 offices. total layoffs in 2023 were 1100. headcount at the end of 2023 was 7000. considering they are removing another 1800 jobs, they are on trac
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by kmlx 3y ago
from the article: > As of seven days and three hours into 2024, they had already earned enough revenue to pay it all off. revenue is not the same as profit. this is basic stuff. from the same article: > Still, revenue is a more accura
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by kmlx 3y ago
> It was an awful buggy mess no matter where/how you played it finished the game on the ps5. encountered 2 minor bugs.
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by kmlx 3y ago
on the contrary. more and more people are signing up and leaving twitter.
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by kmlx 3y ago
> We currently have a Conservative government, and they hate the NHS. while somehow simultaneously providing it with the most amount of funding ever: https://www.statista.com/statistics/317708/healthcare-expend.
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by kmlx 3y ago
> The UK’s net EU budget contribution in 2014 was £9.8 billion the state’s budget contribution. aka taxes and other income of the state. > Meanwhile the UK exported $276 billion worth of good to the EU more than half of its total not
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by kmlx 3y ago
> but I feel just as "rich" i think it really depends on the lifestyle you're accustomed to having.
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by kmlx 3y ago
i think it’s because he was running an extortion group: https://www.tenable.com/blog/brazen-unsophisticated-and-illo...
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by kmlx 3y ago
> they could have asked him, and it might have cost them orders of magnitude less. from the article: > He broke into the company's internal Slack messaging system to declare "if Rockstar does not contact me on Telegram withi
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by kmlx 3y ago
> we have no idea when they filed what papers where ... and when regulators answered and what, and then how the companies reacted, and when, and ... detailed timeline, explanations, submissions etc here from UK’s CMA: https://
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by kmlx 3y ago
this whole comment is just false. i suggest you read what actually happened before commenting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Marbles
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by kmlx 3y ago
> Elgin rescued the marbles from destruction from an apathetic state i would say it’s even worse than that: > According to a Turkish local, marble sculptures that fell were being burned to obtain lime for building.[5] from https:&#x2
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by kmlx 3y ago
> Really? Which ones? the US (ESTA).
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by kmlx 3y ago
how the hell are these guys able to hack into these systems? edit: nvm, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38658599

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