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by techpression 5y ago
If you only look at it as pure loss, which would be wrong, WhatsApp (Facebook) most likely made a lot more money (and will continue to so) with the data, than they were fined.
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by techpression 5y ago
The only decent fine was the Amazon one and even that one was minuscule compared to their net income. It was also covered in secrecy and will likely be overturned and drastically lowered like the other big cases like British airways and Mar
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by techpression 5y ago
“Payments are done using the mobile banking app or the online banking environment of your own bank. “ that’s from the ideal webpage, we’ve had solutions like that for a while too, that’s not why people want ApplePay, it’s for payments in st
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by techpression 5y ago
ApplePay doesn’t have a 30% cut on transactions, no bank in world would touch them if that were the case. So does your country provide phones that also serves as payment solutions or is it still plastic cards? Or are you suggesting everyone
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by techpression 5y ago
People tend to have more requirements than you do for payments, my bank doesn’t even offer minute info on transactions or full payment info until two days later, I have it on the second in my phone. I also don’t want to carry around plastic
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by techpression 5y ago
Instead of screaming “fanboys”, please try to recall how horrible the payment platforms were before, in Sweden it was the literal dark ages before Apple Pay with banks and other vendors trying to force the most obscure and user hostile solu
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by techpression 5y ago
They should have nothing to do with payments? And yet their first product is so vastly superior and more secure than any product offered by banks or card providers, tell me how keeping the status quo with plastic cards is better.
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by techpression 5y ago
If I understand this post correct they seem to like the idea of putting routes in the file system (Next uses magical file names as a way to generalize routes for those who haven’t used it). To me this makes absolutely no sense, a route does
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by techpression 5y ago
In a previous life I built a photo sharing community and it was quite common with >10MiB uploads, the limit I set was 25. It’s just as you say, you want the highest possible quality (within reason) for rescale purposes (and 2x monitors l
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by techpression 5y ago
I will assume this will end up just how banking regulation ends up, the banks makes the same amount of money (or more) and the loss from regulation is made up somewhere else (higher fees, worse interest rates, etc). Pay-per-download seems t
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by techpression 5y ago
The industry needs political incentives to even exist and now they want incentives to fix the problem the incentives created. Why don’t we just agree on state financed and owned wind power and be done with it instead of feeding the middleme
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by techpression 5y ago
That is the typical “two wrongs make a right” argument, fossil fuels being bad makes it ok for wind turbines to generate land fill too.l And I answered a statement about recycling of turbines, nothing more.
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by techpression 5y ago
You would be very wrong unfortunately. There’s currently no way to recycle or reuse the blades and it’s a big problem that nobody seems to care about. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-tu
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by techpression 5y ago
I use Apple One (family) and can add storage on top of it. It’s not very many tiers, but 50GiB, 200GiB and 2TiB. Which puts storage at 250, 400 and 2200 in total. Adding 2TiB is 10 dollars a month (on top of the one subscription) which is c
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by techpression 5y ago
He’s definitely not innocent, he has shown both misogyny and terrible leadership, but when you make a press release firing him, while at the same time ignoring all the other problems (people) that is in the company he becomes the scapegoat
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by techpression 5y ago
Thanks for catching that!
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by techpression 5y ago
New leadership? He took over when it was engulfed in flames (he’s just the scapegoat), they need to clean up above him. This is a CEO and board problem, who let this run rampant for over a decade.
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by techpression 5y ago
Vivaldi does what you’re asking for, natively without plugins.
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by techpression 6y ago
For a lot of people and teams, having to know about and rely on a bunch of third party dependencies (not seldom the effort of one or a few developers without financial support) is not a positive thing. Not saying these specific gems are a p
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by techpression 6y ago
Ok so that explains a lot, and has nothing to do with Windows 10 as a whole (which has a separate N edition as every Windows since XP).
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by techpression 6y ago
Not at all, the N spring from the anti competitive ruling in EU courts (2004 with associated fines) saying that MS couldn’t bundle WMP with a near-monopoly on the market. The condition was that MS was allowed to sell it with WMP as long as
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by techpression 6y ago
That is a complete rewrite of your original comment, Windows N is about a lot more than a few codecs, it excludes Skype, Windows Media Player and other media playback applications. Your claim was that Windows 10 only sells in N editions whi
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by techpression 6y ago
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/get-windows-medi... “Included in clean installs of Windows 10 as well as upgrades to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 or Windows 7.” My Windows 10 also plays H.264 from a cle
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by techpression 6y ago
I like this idea, much like Windows N (that the EU fought years for boasting how good it was for consumers and yet nobody bought it) Apple could release a iPhone - insecure edition, offering no security features, just like how Microsoft rem
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by techpression 6y ago
Please do enlighten me about my agenda, this will be very interesting to say the least.
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by techpression 6y ago
Proven false by Swedish schools, just this week a pretty thorough investigation showed that same result schools in certain cities had almost twice the funding per student compared to others, for no gain.
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by techpression 6y ago
Finland didn’t do the same thing at all, they modeled their system based of the Swedish one back when it was state driven and science based.
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by techpression 6y ago
Most people with a non-political agenda would agree that the problems with the Swedish school system began when it was handed over to the municipalities from the state, I don’t think there has been a successful migration of responsibilities