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by kmonsen 6y ago
The executive order targets wechat as well.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I guess in that case Catalonia is also a sovereign nation?
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by kmonsen 6y ago
It is often (always in the cases I was involved with) with government involvement so there is no risk of being investigated afterwards. This is just the way it works so everyone can say they don't pay bribes and still save lives.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
It is because the numbers involved (and a little bit the blatant corrupt attitude by the former CEO). Uber by design was created to break laws and hustle (and had a lot of issues with sexual issues for example as well). Seems like the curre
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Are they not just hiding in places which don't care about these kind of things?
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by kmonsen 6y ago
There are fairly easy ways to get around this. Everyone says they never pay ransoms, but they mostly do. It is not a ransom, but you hire some cousin to do a not existing project etc. These things happens in parts of the world where transpa
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by kmonsen 6y ago
They really do not say it at all, never mind literally. The twitter poster is using quotes "", but what they quote is never said. And the speaker specifically is arguing against calling Trump anything, and says we should speak bac
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by kmonsen 6y ago
This is not true, see here for example: https://www.google.com/search?q=aosp+android+tv+devices There are vendors shipping aosp devices, particularly in cost sensitive markets.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
They also can’t pay staff in the us or have bank accounts. Once us banks ban someone the rest of the world (except a few like China and Russia) usually follow for fear of the ban coming to them next.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Here is what you said: "To be clear, the US is a constitutional republic and not a democracy, and the constant use of the word democracy dilutes this fact." Here is what happens when you google democracy: "a system of governm
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by kmonsen 6y ago
He specifically left facebook so he could "shitpost for Donal Trump: https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/23/13025422/palmer-luckey-oc...
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Can you? Don't you need a credit card attached? Still possible but most people will not that far to hide information from facebook.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Palmer is a first class jerk and other things I would maybe get banned for saying, but this is as good and honest an apology as I think he can give. Things change, and it has been many years since he said this.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I think the key value of (our version of) democracy is the peaceful transition of power. For example from Clinton -> Bush -> Obama -> Trump. They all had very different views on what the country needed to do, but they all accepted
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by kmonsen 6y ago
This is a red herring, here is the definition of democracy: "a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives." The US clearly fits in here. The US is
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I think it is just a lot of Google employees on HN, I used to be one of them.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
It’s clearly bad (and I’m a left wing liberal), I think we need to give states more rights even if it sometimes will hurt causes we like. I also think we need to do another thing that is similar but not the same which is to drive down the s
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by kmonsen 6y ago
inconsistent
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I actually don't disagree with this, I just said it is not some "coincidence". Apple was first, Google decided to follow. Good for consumers? Probably not.
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Of course you can when you break the terms of services. Try adding some porn to your game and see it gone from both stores in a day as well. Or some other way to obvious break their terms.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I agree with the spirit here, what we really want are more phone operating systems and competition that way. They are of course really hard to make ...
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by kmonsen 6y ago
It's not a coincidence and I have never heard a claim it was. Apple set it at 30% and Google decided not to compete on price. Of course it is legal to set the price of your product based on a competitor.
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Which you can in android, it's a setting everyone is free to change at any time.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
There are a few things most outsiders don't understand about US healthcare: - It's primary purpose it to bill people, not to cure people. It is doing really well at this. - The secondary purpose is to provide incredible care to th
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Sure, but what about 300k, or 500k? Also, not all of those apply to Norway at least and some are provided by the government.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
The problem with most of your "reasonable ideas" (except racially homogenous societies which is straight up racist) is that they have consistently been used for racist reasons in history. I think if you hold almost any of these (e
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That’s the thing, I hate trump badly but he is at least partially right in China. The problem is working alone doesn’t work even if you are the US. And trump has no friends left so there is just him going alone. This was one of the reasons
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Also the Nvidia Wayland support is horrible.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
For me Tesla stock value is where it got confirmed stock valuation diverged from any data points. I understand there is a potential huge upside there, but no real data points would justify anything close to the current valuation.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I don't think that is true, see for example: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/824479587/heaven-and-hell-are...

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