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> it's having higher not lower price, forcing buyers to pay more. Exerting control over a market to raise prices is another traditional method for abusing monopoly power. This isn't what Google is doing re: news. The method
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Indeed they have had control of that market for some time. Being a dominant position over a market generally isn't illegal, but most antitrust laws put restrictions on how that monopoly power can be used.
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> Google News doesn't have ads A traditional abuse of monopoly power is providing a good or service at a loss to gain control of a new market.
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For several weeks my mother hasn't been able to fill her regular prescription for hydroxychloroquine that has been an important part of managing her lupus for >30 years. The rush to use it against covid-19 is starting to harm some o
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Numberphile interview with mathematical biologist Kit Yates(youtube.com)
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> I doubt that the birth of the precariat was consciously and intentionally master planned by anyone. It was consciously and intentionally create, but the planning is usually obscured behind euphemisms. Nobody directly says they are tryi
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> I expect it to be heavily lobbied against Dan Geer (from this[1] talk): >> The software houses will yell bloody murder the minute legislation like this is introduced, and any pundit and lobbyist they can afford will spew their di
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> they have a plausible reason for discontinuing the use of "inconvenient" paper cash. After all, it's only used for money laundering, drugs, criminals, gambling, and prostitution. This excuse is already being used against
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> How exactly do the police freely gain access They don't, Kyllo v United States isn't about gaining access to someone's devices. The police used their own thermal camera to search Kyllo's residence: >> In ord
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> The court stated that this does not constitute a search From the court's opinion (the above [1]): >> ... obtaining by sense-enhancing technology any information regarding the home's interior that could not otherwise hav
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The only things in my pocket are my wallet and keys. My phone[1] could probably be used for remote surveillance, but without a warrant, that's a crime. Note: intent and expectations matter. A cellphone by itself (without any type of &q
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Alexa et al are also normalizing "always on microphone that sends audio to a remote business over the internet" technology . According to the bright-line rule from Kyllo v United States [1], when a technology is "in gener
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> they think because they’re all the way out [here [in the Hamptons]], they’re safe As economist Mark Blyth warned[1], "The Hamptons are not a defensible position. The Hamptons are a very rich area on Long Island that lie along low-
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Resilience in Complex Adaptive Systems(youtube.com)
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~sigh~ just got this note from my mother, who has taken hydroxychloroquine ever since she was diagnosed with lupus over 30 years ago: > just spent a nightmaremorning trying to get my Lupus meds. [after this hydroxychloroquine/covi
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Pi Day Rant 2020(youtube.com)
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In addition to this article, a very good video discussing unions in the game industry that includes an interview with Game Workers Unite and testimonials from people working in the industry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2
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Computerphile interviews Nintendo FamiCom creator Masayuki Uemura(youtube.com)
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I never buy thing with a credit card, because I don't have a credit (or debit) card. Don't assume that everyone has the same options.
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An API is a promise . The difference between an ordinary shared library, OS feature, or RESTful service and advertising the same code as an API is fundamentally a promise. If you usr my library by calling functions foo() and bar() as descr
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> Yubikey The Yubikey has similar storage features and is the perfect size and shape. Unfortunately, it's missing the main feature I'm talking about: easy inter-device communication. > What purpose would you need it to be ba
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Something I really wish existed: a very cheap , pocket key chain size, battery powered USB device that stores crypto keys and OTP pads. The idea is that you set it up (plug it into a PC or phone) with an identity and contact information
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"Trusted" may be military intelligence jargon, but term "trusted computing" originated at Microsoft in the early 2000s. After several particularly nasty internet worms gave the company a (justified) reputation of terribl
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Bribing Intel employees is probably expensive and might have legal risks. Instead, just hire one of the many skilled technicians in Shenzhen. For a good discussion of this topic, I recommend Andrew "bunnie" Huang's talk about
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Yes, I did notice that. There is nothing preventing a web browser from using the same methods and libraries. > they don't have complicated browser UI problems While not as complex, they do have a UI that overlays the video. Howeve
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How Rockets Are Made – ULA Rocket Factory Tour(youtube.com)
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> "anonymization" generally just involves replacing a name or credit card number with some other identifier. DJB's description of "anonymization" while talking[1] about his job as the man in the middle at Verizon
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> This is about being able to play web videos without causing you to lose CPU performance and battery life. This has not really been supported on Linux or X11 This is simply not true. I've regularly used hardware accelerated video o
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Minimum Wage Machine(blakefallconroy.com)
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SPC700 and ARAM – Super Nintendo Entertainment System Features(youtube.com)
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