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by krn 8y ago
According to Bloomberg, that's how everything started: > Apple made its discovery of suspicious chips inside Supermicro servers around May 2015, after detecting odd network activity and firmware problems, according to a person famil
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by krn 8y ago
A basic command line alternative using Headless Chrome[1]: chrome --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf https://www.chromestatus.com/ [1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/
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Justice Dept. Accuses Russians of Interfering in Midterm Elections(nytimes.com)
2 points by krn 8y ago|0 comments
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by krn 8y ago
I think it's in the best interest of the US not to turn this case into international relations nightmare. > I mean, this is just intense now. On record statements from four different huge players in this field, clearly and forcefull
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by krn 8y ago
In India, there might be no Uber left very soon[1]: > This rivalry has been less welcome to Japanese technology giant SoftBank, which holds large stakes in both Uber and Ola. Encouraged by their common shareholder, the pair have held tal
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Twitter pulls down bot network that pushed pro-Saudi talking points(nbcnews.com)
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by krn 8y ago
How does the latest Google's hardware compare to the latest Apple's hardware in terms of security? Can Pixel and Pixelbook now be recommended to journalists[1] as reasonable alternatives to iPhone and iPad, or are Apple's pro
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by krn 8y ago
> This is not even accurate: the service is incredibly popular in Middle East, Latin America and India [1] That's not what your source claims. It says, that these are the only big markets in which Uber still has a chance to succeed
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How the Finnish survive without small talk(bbc.com)
2 points by krn 8y ago|0 comments
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by krn 8y ago
What competitive advantage does Uber have over other companies? At least in my country, ride hailing companies are treated like taxis, and people switch instantly to the one that offers a better deal in town.
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by krn 8y ago
The problem with Uber is, that it's only really successful in North America. It's heavily restricted in almost entire Europe[1], and lags behind many regional providers, such as Taxify, where it's not. Uber's only real i
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by krn 8y ago
That's a good point. It's hard to compare a crowdfunded company with a one burning through more than 500 mln USD in VC funding. But I see no reason why people shouldn't be increasing their passive portfolios every month if th
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by krn 8y ago
> Their 'default' order price is a market order that they promise will not clear until after hours or the next day. Isn't this only true for the non-paying users, who are not subscribers of their premium plan? That's
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by krn 8y ago
Their entire business model seems to be extremely transparent[1], and they treat their users as customers, not products. I don't know what they are doing now, but I think that farming retail orders out is not something they would be fo
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by krn 8y ago
> A year in the making, Freetrade has built a bona-fide “challenger broker,” including obtaining the required license from the FCA (the U.K. regulator), rather than simply partnering with an established broker as it is understood Revolut
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by krn 8y ago
Freetrade[1] is a crowdfunded European alternative to Robinhood. [1] https://freetrade.io/
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How Sears Was the Amazon of Its Day(nytimes.com)
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Apple under fire for allegations of controversial business practices [video](cbc.ca)
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by krn 8y ago
How is VSCode different from Firefox? Both have telemetry enabled by default, and both allow to opt out of it[1]. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/
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by krn 8y ago
I would argue, that MBS is the wealthiest person on Earth, and no foreign asset freezes can affect him. As a crown prince and a future king of Saudi Arabia, he has trillions at his disposition, and nobody above him. The body language of Vla
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Trading apps vulnerable to hacking, report says(ft.com)
2 points by krn 8y ago|0 comments
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by krn 8y ago
> CNN should do basic fact checking before reporting stuff like this. And it did: > However, on its website, Apple does not list fingerprint verification as one of the Apple Watch's capabilities. A representative from the company
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Apple Watch worn by Saudi journalist may have transmitted evidence of his death(edition.cnn.com)
4 points by krn 8y ago|4 comments
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by krn 8y ago
Saudi Arabia's missing princes: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40926963 Saudis Said to Use Coercion and Abuse to Seize Billions: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/11/world/midd
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The Chinese phone giant that beat Apple to Africa(edition.cnn.com)
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by krn 8y ago
> It's hard to compare it with the other providers since with Hetzner you are renting unmanaged servers, not turning up cloud instances. Hetzner Cloud is already a thing[1] and is a direct alternative to Amazon EC2, if you choose de
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by krn 8y ago
Google under Eric Schmidt (from 2001 to 2015) was the one people learnt to love.
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by krn 8y ago
> I thought Lauren does a good job here of distinguishing between the people who work at a company, and the emergent behavior of a company based on profit motive or other incentives. I have always found a company to be a mirror of its CE
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by krn 8y ago
> [...] as someone who's used GKE, AKS, EKS and Hetzner for kubernetes clusters. How does Hetzner compare here? In terms of both, general experience and costs.
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by krn 8y ago
I don't like the secrecy, but I don't mind Google being in China. Just like with Apple, Chinese people would be better off with censored Google than without it at all.

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