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by plandis 7y ago
That's no different than health insurance companies in the US.
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by plandis 7y ago
Of course he is, US is in a much stronger position than the EU in the technology sector. You think he'd be saying the same thing if Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, etc... acted the exact same but were EU companies? I doubt it.
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by plandis 8y ago
Still heavily a work in progress based on the in-flight commits getting sent to valhalla-dev@
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by plandis 8y ago
> and finally steer customers to those products Do you have data that shows this actually happens? Everything else you stated before this part is a win for consumers in my mind. More competitors is generally a good thing.
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by plandis 8y ago
Where is the demonstrated consumer harm that warrants monopoly treatment? Adding private labels increases the amount of selection consumers have. You’d think we would hear more about it since basically every physical retailer owns their own
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by plandis 8y ago
What monopoly do these companies have? What customer harm is resultant from their monopolies?
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by plandis 8y ago
I’m not an expert in this but considering the purpose of these exploits is to gain knowledge of memory layout to then execute exploits against DRAM, simply securing your CPU isn’t going to be enough.
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by plandis 8y ago
Counter argument: If everyone else was doing it why would I? The amount of garbage I individually generate is negligible. I do recycle and compost but I can imagine that a lot of people will have this same thought.
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by plandis 8y ago
Why stop at Amazon? Seems to me that Intel is the invisible backbone behind ICE’s immigration crackdown.
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by plandis 8y ago
> This one was bad enough that Bezos left the field, yet Amazon (like every other software company) still asks these style of questions of its engineering candidates. FWIW Amazon does experiment with different interview formats. They use
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by plandis 8y ago
I find it fascinating that Google gets a 50M fine for not having the exact UX experience France thinks they should have but then fines a French company 250K for breach of actual user data. Makes sense.
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by plandis 8y ago
https://amzn.github.io has all of the various open source projects Amazon has created
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by plandis 8y ago
Amazon does extensive testing for the main retail site. If it seems counter intuitive I can still almost guarantee you it’s either a test to see if it increases revenue or has been shown to increase revenues.
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by plandis 8y ago
Amazon already has offices in NYC. Is it really that perfidious that employees would buy in a new condo building close to the existing office?
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by plandis 8y ago
I fully expect you to publically release all your emails. Even if you don’t do anything illegally. Truth is power, after all even if nothing illegal was done.
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by plandis 8y ago
I always found it fascinating this seems to purposefully (accidentally?) prohibit employees of big companies who are prohibited from open source software development work without jumping through a lot of hoops.
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by plandis 8y ago
There is a semi-famous write up about this: http://www.bainbrdg.demon.co.uk/Papers/Ironies.html
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by plandis 8y ago
Historically, 32-bit address space was large on the fledgling internet. It was relatively easy and cheap/free to get a /8. Amazon probably wants it to sell to their customers who need ipv4 instead of v6
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by plandis 8y ago
Okay but if this shows the reason for absentee voting does this leak sensitive health information? Name and address whatever, but if you have a physical impairment then is this now public record? Has anyone looked through the list?
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by plandis 8y ago
What does Google have a monopoly on? Do you not have access to iOS? Do you not have access to DuckDuckGo and Bing?
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by plandis 8y ago
First couple of paragraphs were appeal to authority, followed by anecdotes about what makes an iPhone hard for old people after which I stopped reading. The title of this article is click-baity. "I think iPhones are hard to use if you&
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by plandis 8y ago
I down voted you because I believe this post in is incredibly poor taste. Nobody is perfect and calling out perceived flaws is a pretty shitty thing to do right when someone dies. Especially true given that several people who have posted he
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by plandis 8y ago
I downvotes you because I think it’s incredibly fallacious to discredit the problems people have simply because you can find examples of worse off people in the world (in your example Syria). Obviously people in a civil war torn country hav
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by plandis 8y ago
In my mind the difference is that: * In the US: Don’t use social media if you don’t want to be tracked, it’s your choice. * In the EU: We cannot compete against big US companies so we will pass laws that are popular with entitled people to
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by plandis 8y ago
If there are viable competitors then can’t consumers simply move to different platforms? I primarily use DuckDuckGo, so how is Google search a monopoly? If you’re going to base it solely off number of users then you’re effectively punishing
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by plandis 8y ago
The person legitimately asking for differences in the two countries has yet to be given an answer, if you’d like to constructively answer instead making broad generalizations about users from entire countries.
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by plandis 8y ago
Who are “the liberals”? You surely cannot think that all “liberals” or even a majority I think we should be banning speech. If you do think that I’d love some data because as a self identified liberal I don’t want to ban hate speech. I thin
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by plandis 8y ago
Are you an American?
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by plandis 8y ago
Absolutely insane? I’ll pay for it if it’s better 1080Ti and it should be a pretty significant jump from the 980Ti I have now. Just because something seems expensive to you doesn’t mean it looks that way to others.
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by plandis 8y ago
I used this website for information for both a Chip8 emulator and later an NES emulator (which uses a 6502). The PPU for the NES was definitely more of a struggle but Emulator101 is still a great resource even if you want to go on for emula

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