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by nocturnial 7y ago
I know it's way too late but the majority shareholder of that company confirmed your interpretation in an interview.
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by nocturnial 7y ago
I think you're the one who first propagated the idea in this thread that the US was doing this for exclusive access, not me. We're getting off topic. You agreed that the reuters article was fair. If not then don't use it in y
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by nocturnial 7y ago
I never said the US was trying to buy it for exclusive access, if that is the conspiracy theory you're alluding to. You need to bring it up with the one I replied to. They were making those claims, not me. It's called a strawman&#
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by nocturnial 7y ago
Fair enough, so why was that particular article flagged on HN?
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by nocturnial 7y ago
It was flagged and thereby removed from the front page. I don't want to speculate why it was flagged.
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by nocturnial 7y ago
I think you have the wrong article. The one I was talking about was from reuters and was officially confirmed by the german government.
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by nocturnial 7y ago
??? The previous one got more than 200 upvotes and then was removed...
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by nocturnial 7y ago
Don't bother upvoting. All the other stories about this have been killed.
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Germany tries to stop U.S. from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine(reuters.com)
309 points by nocturnial 7y ago|286 comments
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by nocturnial 7y ago
They need access because they need the data. Suppose the WHO did recommend a zero travel ban from/to China, what do you think would happen? Nothing would have changed. It's still in the hands of the politicians in those countries
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by nocturnial 7y ago
I disagree because telemetry collects _your_ data. This means, in an ideal world, if you are pissed off enough about the company collecting it, you would have a chance to alter it and mess up their metrics. Your data => you can and have
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by nocturnial 7y ago
Urgh! They already ignore robots.txt. This is because we need to write some weird sh!t on all our pages. Now they tell us it doesn't even matter if we do...
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by nocturnial 7y ago
I never mentioned everything, I never said shutup was a search engine.. Not everything in this thread is related to "everything", some things are related to windows dailing home to ms hq. dang: I'm done with this bullshit, it
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by nocturnial 7y ago
OK, I have karma to spare... Not even google is claiming to put it in escrow otherwise you would've given me a link where they claimed it was. You have no idea what you're talking about. If you want to say that google holds on to
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by nocturnial 7y ago
Oh great! Now I get downvoted because I know what escrow means. It would help if those who bothered to downvote me would provide a link where google says they held the money in escrow instead of a link where they said they would just hold o
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by nocturnial 7y ago
Escrow means an independent third party holds on to the money. It's a lot more complex than that, but let's take this simplified position as a starting point. The things you posted only justified my position. Google holds the mon
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by nocturnial 7y ago
> then that revenue is held in escrow This maybe a translation/different legal point of view, but I really doubt it's being held in escrow. If it's being held in escrow, google would've provided the other party with t
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by nocturnial 7y ago
I also use O&O shutup. It's portable and needs to be run only once and perhaps after a windows update. Lately, the windows updates doesn't seem to alter the changes I made using shutup. It's a convenience tool. If you loo
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by nocturnial 7y ago
Same here and this isn't the first article from techcrunch on HN which redirects me. To be honest, it's kinda pissing me off to click HN articles just to get redirected to spam/ad or in my case a warning page notifying me of
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by nocturnial 7y ago
In a lot of cases the attacker can only write to a limited range of memory addresses. If that string happens to fall in that range, they can use it to write to other addresses and/or find out where in memory certain things are stored.
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by nocturnial 7y ago
If you are an EU citizen, you can ask the company for that data yourself and if they don't reply, file a complaint with privacy commission of your country. The various privacy commissions (PC) in the EU are actually talking to each oth
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by nocturnial 7y ago
Would those databases also have the option to trace the data back to the origins of that data? It wouldn't solve the privacy issue but I think if companies are compelled to hold a record from whom they purchased/obtained data, it
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by nocturnial 7y ago
> What do you do? First ask them why they need this system. If it's reasonable then implement rules and laws so it can only be used for this specific purpose. If the reason for installing it is to prevent theft then they shouldn&#x2
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by nocturnial 7y ago
If two parties can't decide on the value, I would think it's only natural there would be no transaction. If I set the value of my photo at $2 million and company X sets it at $0.20, am I forced to sell it at $0.20? If two people c
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by nocturnial 7y ago
A bunch of companies took hold of a distributed system of information and centralized it under their control. Now those companies are claiming they cannot control disinformation, adversial content and whatnot because they have too much cont
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by nocturnial 7y ago
That's a really schizophrenic argument. On the one hand because they are this large, they cannot currate content. On the other hand they are arguing because they are this large they are the only ones who can currate this content. I wou
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by nocturnial 7y ago
In Belgium there's a similar law which almost prohibits the usage of Ring. In the law, there are two main usages of this kind of system. In case you want to use it to identify persons who ring your doorbell, you need to comply with the
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by nocturnial 7y ago
I very strongly disagree with this approach. Suppose a candidate identifies a crucial flaw in your production code but for some reason the hiring negotiations breaks down and can't hire them. What happens next? Do you compensate the ca
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by nocturnial 7y ago
Democracy isn't dead because it got defunded. > Usually you take the good with the bad and vote for the candidate that agrees with you on the issues that you care about the most, or the one that seems more reasonable overall. How is
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by nocturnial 7y ago
If I'm reading it right, the company asked to transfer control of the code-base. It's not a cease and desist which you normally see in ownership disputes. I'm not in the US and the laws could be different. But from a local le

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