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by mtgx 6y ago
Probably by far the biggest and most positive thing the EU could do to ensure EU startups come anywhere close to US startups in growth is to mandate English as the second official language for all EU members. The language barrier is a HUGE
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by mtgx 6y ago
> I moved all my money to "value" stocks last week Why not something that has less of a chance to fall in a recession, like gold?
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by mtgx 6y ago
This thing where Facebook collects a lot of data in ways to which most people would object for years and years, and then when they get caught they claim it was a "bug", is getting really old. To make matters worse, they usually te
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by mtgx 6y ago
She only became president because Merkel forced the issue. I think Frans Timmermans (an excellent option!) had a chance to win it before that, as well as Vestager (the antitrust champion in the previous EC). They gave Vestager the VP job to
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by mtgx 6y ago
Self-certifications of any kind are such a scam.
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by mtgx 6y ago
What did they think was going to happen when Google bought the largest mobile ad network by far for both Android and iOS a decade ago? (AdMob) Antitrust agencies and governments in general need to set more pro-active ground rules that attem
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by mtgx 6y ago
They did, and failed: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-to-licence-GPU-technolo... My guess is they failed because Geforce at the time was too much of a "desktop architecture", and my guess is that it still is.
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by mtgx 6y ago
Couldn't Arm publicly ignore that seal of authority? Kind of like when a certificate expires and you revoke it? I don't understand how the guy controls anything. Even if say he has all the designs copied in China, Arm Global could
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by mtgx 6y ago
Exactly. Apple takes a lot from you, then gives you some crumbs back, and everyone praises it for how "generous" it is. Imagine if Microsoft decided to take 30% of all online transactions that happen on Windows PCs...Pretty ridicu
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by mtgx 6y ago
The fact that Tesla can use the car logs AGAINST drivers when an accident happens, but the owners/drivers themselves don't get access to the same data to defend themselves should have been clue #1 years ago.
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by mtgx 6y ago
The explanation could be that Google would prefer to use the excuse that "it's our objective algorithm that downranked our competitors, not us!" And before you say "Aha! There you go assuming malice instead of incompeten
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by mtgx 6y ago
Brave, run by - wait for it - Mozilla's old CEO, is the best alternative right now. It's a shame this is happening at Mozilla. I was also quite shocked by their recent article to "safely return to shared memory between tabs&q
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by mtgx 6y ago
This PDF might help, it explains the differences with other ISAs https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.p...
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by mtgx 6y ago
Kind of puts the trolley problem in a new perspective -- forget about saving five people or only one , it's more about whether or not you'd save five people or buy that long-range upgrade for your Tesla. https://en.wik
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by mtgx 6y ago
More studies referenced here, also showing ~55 ng/ml being optimum for maximum health benefits. The current recommendations are way below that. Well worth to watch the whole video: https://youtu.be/v3pK0dccQ38?t=4105
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by mtgx 6y ago
All other chip architectures should adopt Arm's SVE2 or something similar. https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b...
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by mtgx 6y ago
The bar is already pretty low in the US. The FBI has trained cops to hide the use of stingrays from judges, so who really knows how many times these were illegally used to incriminate someone while telling judges they got anonymous tips or
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by mtgx 6y ago
Battery capacity continues to be disappointing with most Google phones. They always seem to choose them on the lower-end side compared to the competition. The phone is a good value overall, but 3,100 mAh will hardly last you one day and be
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by mtgx 6y ago
Does it support the Keystone Enclave? Or is SiFive Shield an alternative to that? https://keystone-enclave.org/
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by mtgx 6y ago
Do they know where from exactly? Something that costs a lot and isn't looking very profitable right now could be critical for Intel in a few years.
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by mtgx 6y ago
WSJ: Surprise ruling is a victory for privacy activists This wasn't a surprise at all. It was very predictable from the beginning for one simple reason: the US doesn't have strong privacy laws and the US government's surveill
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by mtgx 6y ago
I mean, would you rather be overweight and not sensitive to quickly storing even more fat through carbs, or thin/regular and more sensitive to gaining weight quickly through carbs? The body adapted to storing carbs over a long period o
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by mtgx 6y ago
> but that is also arguably true of patent cabals like MPEG (you just hope that the cabal is big enough that there aren't any patentholders lurking outside) Apparently, they aren't. There are at least 2 other patent pools tha
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by mtgx 6y ago
What you're looking for is the AV1 codec, which finalized a year and a half ago and will likely see much wider adoption, simply because none of the members want to pay royalties. https://aomedia.org/av1/ https:&#
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by mtgx 6y ago
> Prior to the Release of Android 10 we announced a new constrained sandbox for software codecs. We’re really pleased with the results. Thus far, Android 10 is the first Android release since the infamous stagefright vulnerabilities in
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by mtgx 6y ago
Yubico has said from the very beginning that they will stick to NFC because Bluetooth is not secure. Bluetooth is a 3000+ pages spec that's a mess and will likely always remain a mess. Maybe it's time for something better?
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by mtgx 6y ago
I know this is still a very rough idea, but I truly believe the future of content monetization is having some kind of decentralized or even federated payment system and digital wallet that's provider-agnostic and allows people to do &q
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by mtgx 6y ago
It may be ignorance for most of the politicians that support the bill, but it's not ignorance for those creating and co-sponsoring the bill, but pure maliciousness. They want to give the government the power to read every single thin
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by mtgx 6y ago
It's like asking "is mass surveillance that different from targeted surveillance"? Yes, of course it is. Orders of magnitude more people could be negatively and undeservedly affected this for no other reason than the fact tha
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by mtgx 6y ago
Also a king in efficiency: https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/11/22/arm-supercomputer-ca...

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