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Donald Trump lambasts EU over $5.1bn Google fine(theguardian.com)
9 points by samspenc 8y ago|0 comments
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Apple iCloud data in China is stored by government-run telco(engadget.com)
13 points by samspenc 8y ago|9 comments
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System76 New Manufacturing Facility(blog.system76.com)
2 points by samspenc 8y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Moves Forward on $200B China Tariff(bloomberg.com)
30 points by samspenc 8y ago|36 comments
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The China-U.S. Power Struggle Is Just Beginning(bloomberg.com)
2 points by samspenc 8y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 8y ago
Is this supported in other browsers as well?
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by samspenc 8y ago
I'm guessing the problem - as with most small retail stores in Manhattan - is rising rent. Ironically, that is resulting in plenty of retail vacancies.
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by samspenc 8y ago
This was interesting: "However, it was only available in five countries and accounted for less than 1.5% of clicks to news publishers on average. From research we found that over time people found the product to be less and less useful
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Satellite data suggests China and other authoritarian regimes are fudging GDP(washingtonpost.com)
20 points by samspenc 8y ago|4 comments
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Chinese military lasers injure US military pilots(cnn.com)
2 points by samspenc 9y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 9y ago
When I read the original article, my first thought was: wow, someone could or should really build an interface on top of this that let's you cast all things. Looking at this GitHub project, looks like it lets you do exactly that.
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by samspenc 9y ago
Reduced or flat revenue (most likely online ads) not being enough to sustain the German and Spanish editions. English / international website is probably the only one that is still profitable or breaking even. Totally my guess btw, not
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by samspenc 9y ago
How does this stack up against HBase and Cassandra, which seem to have gotten traction already in the same areas that FoundationDB seems best suited for?
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Ask HN: Transcript of Facebook CEO's Senate Testimony?
1 points by samspenc 9y ago|0 comments
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Notes show Zuckerberg expected resignation query(apnews.com)
3 points by samspenc 9y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 9y ago
Total guess here: In addition to having two products that do the same thing, I'm guessing they may want to distance themselves from goo.gl links since a shortened URL with that domain somehow seems associated with Google and seems more
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by samspenc 9y ago
This. Plus network effects. Once you have people sharing files in Photoshop, Indesign and AE formats, everyone who's working with you has to adopt Adobe as well. GIMP proves that it's possible to build a competing product that has
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Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped U.S. Colleges(bloomberg.com)
253 points by samspenc 9y ago|202 comments
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by samspenc 9y ago
Currently, Google Drive is telling me: "Wow, this file is really popular! It might be unavailable until the crowd clears. Try again." (Page title: "Too Many Requests") I didn't even know Google Drive had a throttlin
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by samspenc 9y ago
+1 . I always see these comments about "developers in NYC make well over 200k at established companies" and I'm yet to see instances of this. AFAIK, only Google and Facebook have fairly sizeable engineering offices here and p
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by samspenc 9y ago
The first time I've heard of Webflow but I'm intrigued. In working with clients on building websites, I see there's massive demand for easy ways to set up e-commerce and selling stuff online, and the existing solutions don&#x
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by samspenc 9y ago
Perhaps this article (linked from the OP) can add more context: https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/02/05/rub...
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Rubio: Florida schools should end Chinese-funded education partnerships(politico.com)
1 points by samspenc 9y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 9y ago
What makes this more fascinating is that if you look at the NYTimes' annual revenue over the past four years, it remains consistent at $1.5 billion or so: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ANYT&fstype=ii&amp
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by samspenc 9y ago
CrashCourse: https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse Neat 10-minute educational video clips on pretty much all topics (economy, politics, film-making) Movieclips Trailers: https://www.youtube.com/user&
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by samspenc 9y ago
Ah, so interesting! I actually looked this up; have a look at this on English Stackexchange (not the greatest reference, I know): https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/159821/what-do-p... It looks like some
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by samspenc 9y ago
Not the OP and unsure of exact market - but I'm going to hazard a guess that "not to scale" is because of the needs of the design industry. I suspect that this is the sort of thing that they print and put on walls so that the
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by samspenc 9y ago
Thanks for that info! That means AWS's China business accounted for less than 0.25% of its global business (based on sale price.)
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by samspenc 9y ago
Two things I take away from this. 1. Amazon decided that the risk of doing business in China (handing over information & know-how to the government, helping it suppress the human rights of its citizens, etc) was not worth the revenue th
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by samspenc 9y ago
This part of the article where he describes crunching through some additional user data unnerves me: "It was like pressing a field of livestock into the sausage grinder, and getting out one hot dog as a result. And Facebook users are a

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