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by pb7 4y ago
Reading through your past comments, it's clear that you have a strong dislike of Google[0] and a history of reactionary comments lacking both substance and clarification when challenged[1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. If you're not going to post
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by pb7 4y ago
If you have $211K or more in your 401(k) invested in S&P 500 or similar, you technically have $15K invested in a single stock: $AAPL.
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by pb7 4y ago
You don't even have to buy anything. Insult Linux in a forum full of tech nerds if you want to see a demonstration of this.
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by pb7 4y ago
I agree with the civility, but it's a consequence of strict moderation. Reddit has subreddits that are just as civil, also due to strict moderation. On the other hand, what betrays this community as being not much more sophisticated th
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by pb7 4y ago
What startups had better products than Stadia? No company of any size has lapped Waymo. Waymo is the industry leader by a long shot.
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by pb7 4y ago
Zoom’s stock is down 86% from ATH. They’re hardly thriving.
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by pb7 4y ago
How many times are you going to repost this on an article about Google? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33102761
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by pb7 4y ago
I’ll one up you. I contend people here are simply average even in their domain of expertise, let alone anything outside of it. It’s not a special hideout for geniuses, it’s a generic forum not unlike Reddit. The only reason it appears the w
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by pb7 4y ago
Instagram is a platform. It’s not a clone of that just like Tweetbot is not a clone of Twitter.
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by pb7 4y ago
They didn't shove the content in your face. They made you aware of it so you can decide whether you want to pay for it or not. This is such a dangerous line of thinking. Do you feel entitled to people wearing revealing clothing too? Th
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by pb7 4y ago
No. You’re not entitled to other people’s property, intellectual or physical.
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by pb7 4y ago
It only turns back on 24 hours later if you turn it off from Control Center. If you go to Settings > Wi-Fi, it will turn off permanently.
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by pb7 4y ago
I don't care enough to find the biggest stories over the last 15+ years but here are two articles from January 2022 referencing a class action lawsuit over freezing of funds without explanation: https://arstechnica.com/
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by pb7 4y ago
PayPal has a long shiny history of screwing people over and Venmo is now not only owned by PayPal but the app is hot garbage and gets worse with every update (probably due to the aforementioned ownership).
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by pb7 4y ago
You should know that your entire account can be wiped out with the information that's on one of your checks. It's time to leave that archaic technology in the past like the rest of the world.
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by pb7 4y ago
At the end of the day, ByteDance can't do anything that clashes with the wishes of the CCP and that is a risk. If it were to attempt to IPO on US exchanges, it would be subject to even more scrutiny.
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by pb7 4y ago
8 years old, referencing the same unlawful behavior mentioned earlier.
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by pb7 4y ago
I didn't claim to speak for billions of people.
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by pb7 4y ago
>illegal Exactly. What's illegal here is perfectly fine in China. Let's not equate the two. US government may get data from US companies but at least it takes a warrant. Chinese government straight up owns the servers.
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by pb7 4y ago
That's your personal opinion. You don't speak for the ~7.7B people not in the US.
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by pb7 4y ago
One is controlled by an authoritarian government, the others are private (publicly traded) corporations in a democratic country.
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by pb7 4y ago
Your snark lands flat because knowing that you will lose control of your company at an arbitrary point affects every single of one of those points listed. How will I fulfill my vision if the government will take over when it finally gains t
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by pb7 4y ago
I don't think any company officially operates in Iran due to sanctions. In any case, Twitter isn't going to comply with a sanctioned country's requests, especially ones for censorship.
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by pb7 4y ago
It's pretty interesting to see the same Hacker News that is up in arms daily over privacy concerns get excited about handing over to a startup their SSN and other personal information that can be used to open any financial account on t
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by pb7 4y ago
Your I Bonds are not FDIC-insured. FDIC does not insure bonds. If your account gets compromised, there's nothing they can do for you. https://www.fdic.gov/resources/consumers/consumer-news/2022-...
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by pb7 4y ago
Your solution to protecting ourselves from being dependent on an authoritarian government is by being authoritarian to our own first? How would nationalizing it help one bit if China decided to block exports?
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by pb7 4y ago
How would that help anything?
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by pb7 4y ago
That's the whole point, we're not okay consuming products made by these types of countries, that's why there is an effort to move production elsewhere. This thread is discussing why the alternative may be better but not good
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by pb7 4y ago
If you pay someone to dispose of waste and they just dump it in the ocean and pocket the money, what do you call that? They can just refuse to accept the deal or charge enough for it to be feasible to dispose of it sustainably.
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by pb7 4y ago
Calling out societal problems is not racism. Indians calling out police violence in the US wouldn't be racism either.

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