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by snehk 4y ago
Use the Brave browser then. It's on the App Store. If you're the type of person who wants to add other search engines and trigger them via URL parameters, you're the type of person who knows that Apple's system is a wall
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by snehk 4y ago
This has happened to like ten years ago. Had a domain with my last name and after it expired, someone bought it and kept it for a year. The last name is absolutely uncommon and there are about ten people world wide who have it. It's al
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by snehk 4y ago
You don't make any argument here? Your next line could have been: Cultures all around the world treat women and men differently so what a woman and a man do must be caused by society. Or all those things are mostly hard wired and peopl
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by snehk 4y ago
I think you're talking about two different things here. I never argued that they are on the same footing. That's true for every country on this planet. My main point here was that Facebook and Google are allowed to operate in Chin
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by snehk 4y ago
Like I said; the features don't work reliably. I've driven thousands of KM in a Model 3 and the features are impressive but not reliable. I'd go for less impressive but more reliable every single day.
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by snehk 4y ago
> It is actually insane that we let China do whatever they want here while US companies are effectively prevented from gaining a foothold in China. I wish people, at least of this site, would stop with this argument. US and European comp
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by snehk 4y ago
Both things can be true and it doesn't have anything to do with being pro-anything. The US government has a very long history of simply lying about things when it fits their goals so independently verifiable evidence is what's nee
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by snehk 4y ago
You should read up about things like Crypto AG and then you'll notice that country of origin is indeed completely irrelevant.
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by snehk 4y ago
My experience here is the opposite. I have an Audi A8 and my girlfriend drives a Tesla Model 3. In my experience, the Audi is way, way more reliable when it comes to the features. The features just work for me. I've never had any prob
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by snehk 4y ago
> There isn't a country in the world which does this. My government requires me to have ID, which contains a photo and finger prints and you cannot get a SIM without ID. That's Germany and it's true for many, many countrie
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by snehk 4y ago
> Streaming isn't going away, but there will be more ads and higher prices, and we'll have to see what happens to content libraries. They'll all be available to those who pirate. When Netflix first started its streaming se
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by snehk 4y ago
But that's not true for Germany.
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by snehk 4y ago
I just tried it using a VM and a VPN and I cannot reproduce your claim. Searching for "covid" and "corona", for example, literally shows me the current videos about China's crackdown on recent protests from Vice, Fl
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by snehk 4y ago
It depends on the content. YouTube rewards long watch times, which is why the people creating content stretch the video's duration regardless of whether it's needed or not. Much of the content in the past was largely devoid of act
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by snehk 4y ago
That's just not true. The "source" for US intelligence was called Curveball and the information came from Germany. The German intelligence service, BND, warned the US multiple times that the information was made up. Even the
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by snehk 4y ago
Yes, they printed the lies about WMDs and put out loads and loads of articles in support of the war.
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by snehk 4y ago
Just make the data collection itself illegal. Completely and without exceptions. Then ban all apps that don't follow the rules. Everything else is completely hypocritical when there's not a single big US social media app that does
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by snehk 4y ago
Amazon recently announced a similar product and it seems like Remarkable has increased their marketing budget because of this.
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by snehk 4y ago
To be fair, they all tried their own crappy adapters that were the same as everything else but simply incompatible due to the design of the thing. Apple's lightning connector was simply better than what others offered. They had a data
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by snehk 4y ago
I don't want to be a Debbie Downer but what about this is revolutionary here? They're making plastic items on a really small scale using plastic. I'd also guess that the energy they're using for this is causing more envi
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by snehk 4y ago
Overseas companies don't have to follow US laws? That's completely false.
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by snehk 4y ago
The hashtag gay is hugely popular. Using the search shows that videos using the hashtag have gotten 159 billion views.
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by snehk 4y ago
> inb4 “but US-based social media companies track you like this too”. Yes they do, and it will become a growing problem depending on how much you trust the government of the day. The US has literally assassinated people based on exactly
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by snehk 4y ago
There is no political party in the US that is against the rigorous collection of private information of people entering the country. Biometric data, social media account disclosure, excessive questioning by the TSA. You literally have no op
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by snehk 4y ago
The automated system collects the exact same data as the non-automated one.
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by snehk 4y ago
The rich can often basically just buy their way out so there's no need for anyone to fall out of any window.
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by snehk 4y ago
> It helped kickstart a domestic, government-obedient tech industry. How long do you think US companies could operate in the US if they weren't government-obedient? Or any company in any country for that matter.
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by snehk 4y ago
But it wasn't a programming error, right? So why would it matter whether the code was written by an unpaid intern, a $9/h engineer or their senior software engineer? The code seemingly did exactly what it was supposed to.
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by snehk 4y ago
What you just wrote is just so wrong that only a complete fool would waste their time engaging with you. Do you really believe that the previous sentence is a worthwhile contribution? There was literally zero argument in the original post.
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by snehk 4y ago
Germany recently passed a law because of this. Providers who offer contracts over the internet now have to also show a "Cancel"-Button that cannot be hidden behind sub-menus. It's really great.

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