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by mtgx 6y ago
For one, because we had evidence of this for a few years now - that Apple's Arm chips can beat Intel's chips. It was mostly ignored because "but that's just peak performance - not sustainable in a phone/tablet envel
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by mtgx 6y ago
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx is a step in the right direction, as it's the first "PC-class" (more like mainstream laptop-class) ARM processor, a processor actually designed with laptops in mind, unlike all the other ARM pro
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by mtgx 6y ago
Dropbox and Google could easily encrypt the files locally with your own key prior to uploading them to their servers. But of course they won't do that, because then how else will they mine your data? Also, you probably shouldn't t
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by mtgx 6y ago
There probably need to be laws that you can't be both a platform and compete against those on your platform with your own products/content. And make sure to close the "we'll just ban our competition from the platform the
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by mtgx 6y ago
All telecoms are. It's no coincidence that telecom security is crap. https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/Olkl/sources-we-were-pre... ? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/j
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by mtgx 6y ago
The NSA has gone way beyond that now. Expand "room" to fortress , and then multiply by 8. https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub...
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by mtgx 6y ago
You seem to be talking about battery cell price and the article is talking about battery pack price, which last I checked tends to be at least 30%-50% higher. For EVs it might be more if they also add cutting edge cooling systems, etc.
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by mtgx 6y ago
> I hope this gets rid of the "out-raise your competitors and spend ridiculous amounts of money on ridiculous money sinks" strategy forever. Narrator: It didn't. As long as there is greed and speculation, people will con
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by mtgx 6y ago
Oh, sweet irony. Let's see how quickly Burr does a 180 on his comments and proposal to break encryption. Proponents of increasing surveillance powers tend to change their minds rather quickly when the same powers are used against them.
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by mtgx 6y ago
Not to mention that with the latest few generations of CPUs Intel has also increased burst/decreased base clock while promising unrealistic power draws. In other words, Intel's CPUs are mostly about "burst" performance t
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by mtgx 7y ago
And pretty much ever since the GCHQ/conservative UK government have been freaking out about it and it's been one of the main reasons they wanted out of the EU. The GCHQ really, REALLY wanted out of the fundamental charters of righ
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by mtgx 7y ago
No, the "facts" you keep reading about (from the same companies trying to sell you on the technology) are extremely misleading. Tesla for instance does that statistic against "average driving" but the "Average drivi
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by mtgx 7y ago
His point is that their #1 priority was keep this under wraps instead of fixing it as soon as possible, even if it meant more people had to learn about it to protect themselves and not have the virus spread. Coronavirus has disrupted many b
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by mtgx 7y ago
Sure, but money shouldn't be exchanged throughout this process. That should be explicitly illegal. As would any other way to influence the politician (offering jobs, etc). Do hearings, have technical staff to consult you on issues, etc
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by mtgx 7y ago
Except the US is by far the worst at this because it allows lobbying and political influence through donations. In most other democratic countries this is illegal. It's intellectually dishonest to pretend that lobbying just means &quot
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by mtgx 7y ago
People are going to go to prison for this, right? Or has all white crime been made legal in America? Because I can't tell anymore.
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by mtgx 7y ago
He meant UX and feature-wise capable, not hardware-wise. He's right, if the OS itself was more advanced, than even if the same people who own iPads now wouldn't be interested in using those features other than their regular media
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by mtgx 7y ago
Yes, and the point is how do we define "badly enough". Badly enough as in they can ever do it a few times a year against a few high-value targets, or badly enough that they can do it to "only" a few tens of millions a ye
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by mtgx 7y ago
Yes, the point of the article is that there are very few if any checks and balances. If you support anything but paying lip service to checks and balances then you would support restricting US government's surveillance powers and requi
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by mtgx 7y ago
They're turning the web into a close system, just like Facebook did (kind of), so that later on, when it's too difficult for anyone to leave this closed system, they can also start charging sites just for appearing in the "or
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by mtgx 7y ago
Nope. I actually thought this was well known. What did suck on Apple's part was that they wouldn't allow you to disconnect the actually end-to-end encrypted iMessages from the iCloud backups for many years. So since most people ke
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by mtgx 7y ago
The public understanding as well as awareness about these new technologies is so much lower than it needs to be for it to start demanding that politicians do something about it before these technologies permeate society and new generation
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by mtgx 7y ago
Yeah, but if you read closely their speeches, they're trying to paint this as if we shouldn't benefit from "warrantproof encryption" or be able to "resist a warrant". Leaving the technical details aside such as
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by mtgx 7y ago
Such corporate-managed PACs should be made illegal. I may not be able to come up with the perfect solution myself, but I'm sure there is a way to maintain regular people's ability to organize and even donate politically without ha
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by mtgx 7y ago
Call it monopoly, monopsony, or neither of those. At the end of the day it's about a company's abuse of power against users and smaller competitors, and that's what matters. If you get confused when this begins being called
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by mtgx 7y ago
Nadella has just said that he would support a "don't-call-it-a-backdoor" backdoor key for the U.S. (and I assume other) government(s): https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/13/21064267/microsoft-
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by mtgx 7y ago
I'm willing to bet this is a PR attempt showing something along of the lines of "look, we protect your data by firing the people that look at your videos!" Which is absolute nonsense if this is their data protection policy. T
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by mtgx 7y ago
Sooner or later we'll get laws saying that each electronic device MUST have a replaceable battery. In most cases, whether intentional or not, only the battery needs to be changed, but because of the way products are designed now, you h
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by mtgx 7y ago
That first article title is so bad, mainly because those who have been following the smartphone industry for years know that if given access to such battery technology smartphone manufacturers would just add 8k screens, Threadripper-level C
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by mtgx 7y ago
A decade behind would mean their software security is at Windows 7 level at least. It's far from that. More like Windows XP first edition at best.

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