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by sfifs 6y ago
The point of the anti-trust regulations is that some of these kinds of contract terms become illegal as market power increases - particularly contract terms around using dominance in one market to unfairly gain dominance in another market.
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by sfifs 6y ago
> You can't force someone to sell something they don't want to, especially because Apple is nowhere near a monopoly... The case is going to not about that. The case is going to be about Apple not allowing developers to tell the
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by sfifs 6y ago
What I think is happening is Epic is trying to force a jury trial on anti-trust and won't hold out for a settlement unlike Amazon and Netflix. At this stage all Epic's actions are geared basically around collecting arguments to br
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by sfifs 6y ago
This problem is well known. I think the big opportunity is now to figure out ways to solve it efficiently at scale - in times of excess power, how to store energy. Until a few years ago, the cost of Solar/Wind didn't make it worth
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by sfifs 6y ago
It was foolish for Apple to retaliate IMO. I think this example will be used in multiple litigations to paint a picture for jury that Apple operates in bad faith and anti-competitively. I am also certain Steve Jobs emails from the eBook tri
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by sfifs 6y ago
Well.. dumb bombs dropped from high altitude attain a terminal velocity of almost Mach 1. I suppose SDBs would be somewhat slower but probably not by much. So it's going to be interesting to see how such a diffuse swarm doing a hundre
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by sfifs 6y ago
So let's do the math for this option. F22 wingspan is about 14m. Let's go easy and say you want a one drone in a square of 30m x 30m ie ~2x the wingspan. To cover 1 sq km, you need ~1000 drones. But the operating ceiling of an f22
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by sfifs 6y ago
So proponents of hundreds of cheap drones theory tend to forget that kinetic energy is 1/2 m v^2. So Energy required to catch up with a fighter in increases with square of velocity and modern fighters can all supercruise. That energy h
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by sfifs 6y ago
This appears to be really shoddy research and once again illustrates why a macro economic approach to this problem simply doesn't work and why public have stopped listening. The researchers are trying to use a system level risk returns
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by sfifs 6y ago
So a question for the knowledgeable on this subject. Over the last few years, we continually keep seeing discoveries large number of intra and extra solar system astronomical bodies that do not radiate at high luminosities or frequencies. P
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by sfifs 6y ago
Did this startup founder just seriously make a case for their B2B product's growth model with Facebook's B2C network effects based growth model? Sounds like a company headed for https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com&
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by sfifs 6y ago
> why would a person use the corporate computer for their (allow me the use of the word) 'hobby'? Doesn't have to be hobby. A lot of corporate code these days is based on open source libs. What if you fix a bug and want to
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by sfifs 6y ago
In BigCorps, if there's a stupid requirement, there's usually a reason for the stupid requirement to be there in the first place but getting to the reason might require un-peeling a few org layers to since the people enforcing the
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by sfifs 6y ago
I had Google cloud break twice this week. First their "AI Notebooks" images broke some dependency, then some IAM change broke the cloud console interface. Though our engg. team is on it, Pointless hours of productivity lost :-(
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by sfifs 6y ago
At this point, i would consider any engineer who even considers a nuclear power plant within 200km of an inhabited area to be highly irresponsible. As a species, we have not demonstrated the ability to create engineering organizations that
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by sfifs 6y ago
> She has a manager who (apparently) has a low tolerance for risk. He probably got to where he is by spinning situations so that it's not his fault. We're talking about Matt Cutts here who took what was likely a massive pay cut
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by sfifs 6y ago
> The real answer is to encourage and protect our ability to innovate while waiting for China to run out of things to copy. When did you last visit China? That train has long left the station :-) Advanced materials research, Aerospace an
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by sfifs 6y ago
The irony is this designer made an excellent demonstration of poor design :-) i agree none of the graphics use actually seem to mean anything intuitively to me. Looks like just pretty placeholder pictures. Also if one find oneself writing d
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by sfifs 6y ago
Looking from outside, the ability to act together as a society to achieve a socially desirable outcome seems to slipping in the West. There's a point where the balance in society between duties and entitlements seems to have flipped.
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by sfifs 6y ago
> that almost nothing in the country is oriented around children As I'm actually living in Singapore for several years with a small child, i find this comment quite strange. I've lived in and visited many cities in the world an
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by sfifs 6y ago
What's the available alternative for Mobile? X86 has never matched ARM on power efficiency vs. compute trade-off for mobile
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by sfifs 6y ago
I'm kind of wishing this trend will push investment in something open like RISC V. Up and coming countries should definitely be thinking - if US targets China today, it could be them next.
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by sfifs 6y ago
The problem is actually that people are forced off of their homes, personal property and way if life should there be a big accident. For an average householder it's their life savings, friendships, community and way of life wiped out t
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by sfifs 6y ago
Or plonk three clusters of solar cells at 120 degree gaps and lay cable to connect them? No storms or weather to worry about damaging the cable and you'll always have power.
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by sfifs 6y ago
At my workplace, we've started using Confluence for some projects and it's been incredibly productive. I still loathe JIRA but Confluence has been incredibly good for technical collaboration and documentation.
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by sfifs 6y ago
I'm sure any American Government support for electrics pales compared to what the Chinese government is doing but isn't government investment a great thing? That's what every sane country with a car industry should do :-)
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by sfifs 6y ago
I'm not saying it's a legal requirement, I'm saying it's likely a smart tacit compromise. On one hand - even after end to end encryption, we continue to see WhatsApp messages quoted in prosecution including in SEC actio
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by sfifs 6y ago
The unencrypted backup system is almost certainly implemented mainly to give government authorities easy access to chat history when presented with a warrant whenever possible. Since this is offered as a helpful feature, very few think twic
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by sfifs 6y ago
Having discussed this with my great grand parents who were born in the early nineteenth century, i am very confident most urban folks and a lot of rural folks in India knew how the British were looting India unlike how it's characteriz
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by sfifs 6y ago
Exactly right. What do you think they're doing with that data - acting as social altruists? :-) Having unique data and insights you develop is not a crime - indeed it's what you specifically want. Sourcing and acting on informati

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