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by la_barba 7y ago
>I keep seeing absolutely massive fines of American tech companies in Europe, fines marked up to account for Google’s global revenues. Maybe EU companies don't dodge taxes as much as US companies? Maybe there is a larger concentrati
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by la_barba 7y ago
>If you impose a 50bn fine then every other company out there will start having second thoughts about entering the EU market. Yes, don't enter the EU market if you want to dodge taxes. More countries should be enforcing this..
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by la_barba 7y ago
Ironically, all this voice input stuff is making the regular people bend over backwards so that the computer understands what they want. The one extreme is programmers who completely bend over backwards to tell the computer exactly what to
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by la_barba 7y ago
>This is based on an assumption that making the device serviceable is actually going to help with this. We are choosing between repairing phones versus tossing them in the garbage. I can see which one is better for the planet, given that
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by la_barba 7y ago
Agreed, I think there should be an option for paying for long term service/support. The 5years thing is purely due to lack of funding.
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by la_barba 7y ago
The more you look at the e-waste that is being generated and dumped (often in developing countries, or.. out of sight of most westerners) the more you realize that increasing repairability/re-use/longetivity of devices is importan
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by la_barba 7y ago
I know you meant it as a general statement, but I think it depends on the kind of noise, and obviously the type of signal. Its trivial for a computer to look past 'fixed pattern noise' to find the data in an audio-visual signal. F
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by la_barba 7y ago
Most of the time I vary the speed of the book as I read it. I think thats quite common (?) The last book I read had over a thousand pages, and some chapters which were not really interesting could just be skimmed without a huge loss of plot
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by la_barba 7y ago
Why the weird extremes? Did the Iphone 8 or X or a android flagship from 2017 stop being nice? Is that your standard for an "IKEA particle plank"?
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by la_barba 7y ago
>A preinstalled app is the reason to switch the platforms? No. What they actually said :- >Every damn Android phone I've bought lately has Facebook preinstalled, theres other things, but I'm done with it all .
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by la_barba 7y ago
Apparently if you market share increases you are no longer allowed to make "just works" products.
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by la_barba 7y ago
From what I understand the restaurant listed themselves on Google's platform with contact information, and a link to their own ordering website, or a way to call for a meal pickup. Google inserted an indirection where the orders get pl
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by la_barba 7y ago
I really don't mean this as a knock on the work you do.. but what is the actual complexity of the operations you're describing? From what little I understand of it, all HFT operations are designed to be as simple as possible. Like
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well.. I'm totally OK with the efficiency in online-advertising being low. My point was that after a certain point, there is no way to get a better ad-to-viewer match without violating privacy. Google was never on the right side of pri
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by la_barba 7y ago
What other ways exist to run a successful ad campaign?
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by la_barba 7y ago
Yes, we can do contextual targeting, but after that, what are the ways to improve upon the outcomes (from an advertisers standpoint) without violating privacy?
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by la_barba 7y ago
Yes, thats what I was thinking too. For Google, being in the ad business itself necessitates that Google's trajectory will be on shaky ground w.r.t privacy.
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by la_barba 7y ago
When switching from onboard -> dedicated, the resources (textures, shaders, etc) to migrate will be quite small. There is no question of migrating resources from dedicated -> onboard as that is never going to happen, unless .. again t
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by la_barba 7y ago
Is there any way to improve the matching of ads to the viewer without violating their privacy?
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by la_barba 7y ago
I guess I was thinking of this from a heterogeneous architecture standpoint (e.g. big.LITTLE) . You have differently-capable compute resources, and you need to pick the one thats best suited for the work-load. Rather than the app talking di
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by la_barba 7y ago
Does anyone know the technical reason that the OS can't handle that itself?
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by la_barba 7y ago
Actual headline: Whole Foods CEO: Highly-processed food not good for health.
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by la_barba 7y ago
That is ridiculous. Nobody said that. Sorry, this conversation is no longer productive for either of us. I prefer to have more rights, and not less, for the consumer. You can make up your own mind. Good bye and have a nice day.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Err.. even on my PC with a TPM chip that has biometric data, I can replace the RAM, GPU, CPU or any other component without a problem. People need to think critically with a technical mind, instead of simply accepting Apples fairytales. But
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by la_barba 7y ago
>It’s a phone where you might save $20. It’s not like it’s the right to vote.... You can thank them the next time you get your car fixed without buying a new car. >And when Apple doesn’t approve a repair shop there will be another upr
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by la_barba 7y ago
I think apart from the scale, they view labor as a risk, rather than an asset. The ironic part to me is they're hiring "genius" level talent to create these dummy level algorithms.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Being in the vaccine industry.. we take that term to mean reduced stress, back to normal life, and dollar signs.. :P
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by la_barba 7y ago
The 'article', if we are to be charitable here, is simply a press release. There is no substance to it, and we'll have to wait to see what parts they actually provide. >And how do you “choose” a reputable shop without know
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by la_barba 7y ago
Given that argument, Microsoft, Apple and other OS makers will pretty soon ship you operating systems without admin privileges, because those sneaky hackerZ might install backdoors...
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by la_barba 7y ago
Luckily, you can pay other people to do that. Apple prevents a customer from getting their own device repaired at a reputable repair shop of their choice.

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