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by ksk 6y ago
Well, every ad-driven revenue model is at odds with privacy. There is zero chance that Google is going to support any privacy measure that will block themselves from spying on users. Google not only wants all your data to reside on their se
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by ksk 6y ago
Well, the other thing is that smart people like Steve Jobs can easily learn new skills and acquire knowledge even after college. He worked in tech for decades, so I'm sure he's read more a few books and/or experimented with t
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by ksk 6y ago
>They trust the App Store because they trust Apple's curation/privacy/security. That's what has caused this flood of software purchases from consumers. Trust doesn't come cheap. People buy way more on Amazon, and
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by ksk 6y ago
Google gets hit on the privacy front pretty regularly. I guess it depends on the issue. But not to worry, I'm sure there will be plenty of time and opportunity to complain against injustices from all corporations in the future. A signi
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by ksk 6y ago
That is exactly right. Comcast's TOS allows them to discriminate on internet traffic. Maybe Comcast can even make a twisted argument that its in the user's best interest. I'm sure nobody here wants them to do that. We already
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by ksk 6y ago
What is obvious is no single person requires all of it, and everyone uses a different subset of features so its nice to have everything in one package. The integration with their admin cloud service allows easy management of the software in
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by ksk 6y ago
I work in vaccines and I gotta say I was actually pleasantly surprised with this article. Most articles and frankly many comments on HN too border on the naive, and readily accept any study as "proof" of their position. This artic
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by ksk 6y ago
There was also a marketing campaign for Net Neutrality by pretty much every single tech company. It's perfectly fine that anyone at anytime can raise awareness for their cause. And in this case, the cause is in everyones interest who i
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by ksk 6y ago
Civil disobedience. The entire purpose of government is to serve us, and we should change the rules if we think that a 30% money grab of all developer's income is unethical. Its the same reason we support Net Neutrality. We instituted
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Yes, 100% agree. The problem always seems to come when there is money involved. Especially when you take someone elses money, and then get corrupted by the pressure of returning the principal with interest. You get slow-cooked into compromi
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A product like an OS can have an associated maintenance plan / service that you can pay for. Agreed.
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I think it is. Sorry, I don't see anything else I can reply to in your comment.
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What I'm getting at is the subversion of the control of the platform from the user to the vendor. Maybe it was due to the technical limitations of the time, or the sensibilities of geek-culture, but the vendor never controlled the devi
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I think this kind of behavior is wide-spread - Climbing a ladder and then kicking it down once you're on the top because you don't need it anymore. Twitter is the famous example of doing that where they grew their network on the b
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by ksk 6y ago
Yes, it is setting a dangerous precedent. A general purpose computing device is now a "service" that you need to pay for. With that logic you can call anything a service. An OS is a service that lets you stream "unlimited&quo
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by ksk 6y ago
I am curious to know what security holes you can exploit in a fully patched system with a firewall.
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They also paid Dell to make it the default, but I suppose that's more ethical than tricking people to install it by bundling it with Adobe Flash or whatever other junk. But to be super fair to Google, it certainly was an excellent brow
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by ksk 6y ago
More companies would adopt WFH if they see the success (primarily economically) of other companies who adopt it. Its really as simple as that. Why would any company want to rent expensive commercial real-estate and other overhead if the end
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by ksk 6y ago
>Let's at least let our work culture hit a nice 50/50 split between office jobs and remote jobs before we damn the WFH movement too much. I don't think a 50/50 split is required to test out any new idea. All you need
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by ksk 6y ago
>Unless races are all wired differently, I think it's safe to assume that there should probably be equal representation in every single field. Is that your argument? Maybe I used the term wired a bit loosely, we're all the same
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by ksk 6y ago
Isn't there just an infinite series of questions that you can ask? How come there are so few paraplegic entrepreneurs? How come there are so few Eskimo entrepreneurs? I don't think that equality of opportunity will necessarily lea
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by ksk 6y ago
There is also the other (more important than opensource) kool-aid about how "green" Apple is. Meanwhile they're choking the repair industry which is reducing the e-waste on our planet. And they give themselves a gold star on
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by ksk 6y ago
Unless their position is "all countries equally violate human rights", they should minimize their footprint in countries with egregious human rights violations. They get to decide which countries go onto that list. Maybe they thin
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The author/editor is completely irresponsible with the use of the word "can" in the title, and the immediate next line walks it back with "raises concerns". This is what tabloid magazines do. Disappointed that its c
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That's the end result. How do you get there?
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I suppose that makes sense, but literally everything a camera sensor (+ image processing chain) does affects the final output in some way or another. The CFA, the demosaicing algorithm affects color, the optical low-pass filter that's
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I am interested to know how you would solve this problem.
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I am curious to know what you're shooting. For me with my Sony A9II, after shooting tens of thousands of frames, I haven't encountered a single situation where lossless/lossy 14bit/12bit made any difference.
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The fundamental question is of "rights". Do we apply 17th century morality and economic models for digital markets? Modern problems need modern solutions. We need to re-define where these "rights" of digital businesses c
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Google also has a monopoly on online advertising. Where else do you suggest advertising your product?

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