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by peoplewindow 9y ago
The initial implementation was a JavaScript-heavy web application in an era when people weren’t used to that. Browsers weren’t optimized to run so much code and so the user experience was terrible There seems to be some historical revisio
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
But why do those people not found companies like Amazon? When was the last time the CEOs of existing companies feared disruption by a firm founded by an accountant? Why was the United Launch Alliance apparently so helpless in the face of Sp
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
BeOS was trying to disrupt the operating system market, so he was up against other programmers on their home turf. That example doesn't refute my thesis. I hadn't heard of Shai Agassi before. He seems a better counter-example, alt
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
The author laments the rarity, excellence and thus dominance of companies like Amazon, although this article could have been about Apple or Google too. Rather than ponder to what extent if any government regulation is the answer, it'd
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
ISP revenue - none. Revenue for all the free services and sites the ISP connects you to - almost all of it.
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
It's actually slower to not use exceptions and what you describe is not an advantage - exceptions also force you to deal with it or pass it along, if the exception is checked. Bounds check failures aren't of course because that wo
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
This came up a few days ago as well. You can't just abide by these laws because it's so unclear what they mean and say. Notice how the findings are always that a firm didn't do "enough". What is enough? Where in law
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
I think the opposite - people come up with all sorts of justifications for why what other people are doing is wrong . This lets them feel self satisfied, virtuous and perhaps a little smug effectively for free, and if their position is per
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
That's not the hard part of the VAT rules. If it was just asking the user what country they're in and then submitting sales figures by country, that'd be easy. There are two hard parts to what the EU did, for businesses. The
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
See here: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-and-human-rights/ In the section "Wasn’t the UK supposed to get an opt-out from EU human rights laws?" The summary is, when the Treaty of Lisbon awarded the EU ne
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
HIPAA and other mega-regulations like them have the same problems. And they do cause people to just give up rather than deal with the risk. I've listened in on various conversations around health products over the years. HIPAA is a com
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
From the perspective of the US company, then it's not them getting fined so not their problem. And if the EU wants to fine its own companies for buying adverts, they can go right ahead and do that. Doesn't seem very practical for
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Why have any law at all, by your logic? Just have a single law that says "Whatever we decide, is final" and make up all rulings and fines on the fly. No 'weaselling' is possible then. Only problem is, it's totalitar
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
No. That's not how the EU works. That's how a national government would work but not the EU. The GDPR is not a directive so it does not have to be translated into national law. It is directly binding and applies immediately everyw
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
I disagree. I followed the shopping case closely. At no point was it obvious what Google did wrong, or why providing shopping results is a problem but not maps or videos, or how you would predict and avoid such problems in a new company and
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Read the article. The violation was: "Facebook hides default settings that are not privacy-friendly in its privacy center and does not provide sufficient information about it when users register" How is putting privacy settings in
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Leaving doesn't mean erasing all the profiles. It just means shutting down local corporate presences. It'd suck for the employees but Facebook can run things out of Palo Alto just fine. I'm not sure what it'd involve for
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Point is that the UK government already has a tax regime. It has no incentive to fine Facebook so much there's a risk of it leaving. The ICO already said that it doesn't intend to use its big new fining powers under GDPR anyway, a
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
How is the law reasonable? It's not even clear what is allowed under it and what isn't. The EU refuses to clarify anything, the only time any decision will be made is by courts, if there's an actual dispute in progress. The r
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
1. GDPR is a good example of why to abandon the market imo. It's not even clear how it affects backup strategies, let alone more complicated questions. Most vaguely written law I've seen in a long time. I can't help but suspe
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
I think if I was creating a new social media website today I'd probably not set up any presence in the EU. The sheer quantity of fines for vaguely specified "crimes" being handed out makes it a deeply unattractive business en
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Rust runs. Look at the PR queue.
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
The forecasts were not based on that, you can go read them. That's something invented later to try and explain why they were wrong. But even if you were right about that, Article 50 was invoked and no insta-recession occurred. Regardle
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Even then government's own analysis shows that all Brexit scenarios will have a negative impact on Britain's economy Did you read my post at all? Government ministers are saying that its own analysis is suspect and not to be bel
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
No it isn't. http://www.dw.com/en/jean-claude-juncker-migrants-need-legal... Europe will clearly need immigration in the coming decades, so we have to provide those who want to come, and are able to come, and who
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Because dictatorships are so famous for their 100 year horizons? The USSR planned its world in 5-year spans. That's about the same length of time between elections in most democracies. Lots of people like to say things like "one o
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Well is that observation specific to India, or do you mean in the west? In the west it's disappeared because the projections were all wrong. The population in rich countries does not replace itself. Without large levels of immigration
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Such high taxes and levels of corruption are hard to describe as "capitalism" of any form. Those are attributes much more associated with communism. I would note that the EU's Vice President and head of foreign affairs is an
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
And if you introduce a voting threshold of 80 because "they're going to die soon anyway", thus ensuring their lifetime of experience is ignored, what stops you deciding that it's now all the fault of 75 year olds? Where
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
They weren't technical limitations. It failed due to problems with its community. They deliberately drove it off a cliff-edge and claimed the new broken Bitcoin was better than the old working Bitcoin.

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