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   by mmmmmbop 6y ago

   Of course the U.S. has no authority over any two foreign companies that do no business within the country. However, if one of the two companies engages in interstate commerce in the U.S. -- which TikTok does -- it is considered to be a U.S.
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   by mmmmmbop 6y ago

   You are spot-on about the constitution guaranteeing that laws must not be passed just to punish a certain company. What I believe you are missing, however, is that there is existing law that the divesting order is based on. Any acquisitio
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   by mmmmmbop 6y ago

   > Regardless of what you think about TikTok, the banning of an app in the interest of "national security" is largely unprecedented. Every legal action was unprecedented at some point, until a precedent was set. That alone is no
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   by mmmmmbop 6y ago

   I think in Tinder there is an in-app purchase available that boosts your profile such that more users see your profile. Notably, it does not change your app experience. I am sure Apple takes a 30% cut there. Isn't that equivalent to
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   by mmmmmbop 6y ago

   This is probably not relevant to you, but there is Republik, a Swiss-German online magazine. They extensively link to their sources (see e.g. [1]). There are no ads, no pop-ups, no donation requests, no paywalls, just a (somewhat expensive)
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   by mmmmmbop 6y ago

   Congratulations on the kid! I hope Germany continues to treat you well and that you enjoy the country. Thanks for bringing up the relationship perspective. That's something I hadn't considered. To my Europe-centric brain, it seems
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   by mmmmmbop 6y ago

   That's great to hear. I've lived in three different countries in Europe and spent a year in the US as a visiting student. Like you, I really enjoy seeing how other places operate. My main motivation for moving to the US are the ca
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   by mmmmmbop 6y ago

   Thanks for your perspective. My understanding is that through an internal transfer visa it's feasible to receive a Green Card, especially as an EU citizen. I'm actually eyeing NYC, just because I'm really intrigued by the per
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   Ask HN: Thinking of Moving to the US from Europe

   4 points by mmmmmbop 6y ago|12 comments
10. 250.▲
    by mmmmmbop 6y ago

    This phenomenon exists in the German language as well. The "Schwarzschild" in Schwarzschild radius literally means "black shield", but it is in fact named after Karl Schwarzschild. On the other hand, there are terms like
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    by mmmmmbop 6y ago

    I can speak for only one of the FAANGs, but the work I do there is definitely the most exciting to me personally from all the companies I've been at. There are challenging technical problems that require discussion with other engineers
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    by mmmmmbop 6y ago

    Or according to the US and their extraterritorial law called DMCA.
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    by mmmmmbop 6y ago

    Let's assume the odds are fair such that the odds of all horses sum up to 1. Betting on all other horses would give you 1:1.02 odds whereas they should have been 1:1.01. While there is no way to answer for sure how many races you would
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    by mmmmmbop 6y ago

    I wonder if this policy is valid outside the US. If so, are you allowed to discriminate against veterans of the Wehrmacht, or the SS?
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    by mmmmmbop 7y ago

    All upcoming electric cars seem to follow that route. It just took them a while to catch up. The Audi e-tron and Mercedes EQC are recently released SUVs that are hardly distinguishable from their combustion engine counterparts. The upcoming
16. 256.▲
    by mmmmmbop 9y ago

    So they're doing this vector correlation for every song in their database (40 million)?
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    by mmmmmbop 11y ago

    Guess it is meant to say write. I cringed reading that.