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by temp667 6y ago
HN would be up in arms and lobbyists would be running to congress and DOJ to get google and others in major trouble - but if google and apple just stopped supporting H.265 it would go away. Block uploads and streaming on youtube of 265. No
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by temp667 6y ago
Again, anti-trust being used because other businesses are hurt - rather than focusing on consumer impact. They attack the Amazon basics brand. The Amazon brands do well because there is such trash out there that regulators do absolutely N
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by temp667 6y ago
The only reason amazon does this is because their third party provider requires it. Same with book prices. Lots of cheap e-books, and then I see "price set by publisher" and its $29.99.
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by temp667 6y ago
I think part of this is the FAANG companies have so much money they can afford to hire these huge quantities of folks to fight the company while getting paid by the company. No one else could afford to do this because it just wouldn't
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by temp667 6y ago
Do google employees actually do work or just rallies, protests and walkouts. Seriously, google staff are walking out / protesting / rallying behind stuff every week. How can you afford to pay 120,000 folks who seem to be focused o
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by temp667 6y ago
Try doing the slack step of clicking on the phone icon to start a call, then adding screen sharing. We pay for gsuite and we pay for slack. google chat is no where yet.
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by temp667 6y ago
I have had good support retail side (granted, I'm not expecting much on my $20 item). On AWS I've had very good support. Also paying user of google products and GSuite - support not great on the gsuite side, but retail order for G
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by temp667 6y ago
Why not do this for Oracle? I've not found SQL Server to be too bad from the crazy Oracle stuff (light experience only - maybe bigger players have it worse?).
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by temp667 6y ago
Are you sure. The EU mandates much MORE monitoring in most cases. Self driving cars may need to have camera's on occupants to monitor them during driving etc. A lot of the safety stuff in EU is MUCH more nanny state and CCTV is much mo
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by temp667 6y ago
That's bad training. If they are stuck in a country because they won't pay the $20 exit fee because authorizing legislation was not properly adopted, then apple are idiots. It will take one person dying because of this policy for
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by temp667 6y ago
Exactly, and it's clearly permitted to pay in that case because being able to travel involves routine govt action. I have no idea where this legal advice is coming from.
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by temp667 6y ago
If the gift is to secure business this is likely true especially if the business relates to some govt or official of another country. Very strict there - you can't pay a bribe to get business or as part of business development. However
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by temp667 6y ago
You are spreading misinformation here. In many countries everyone has to pay a facilitation fee (aka bribe) for routine govt actions. These are for things like: obtaining permits, licenses, or other official documents to qualify a person t
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by temp667 6y ago
"That is illegal according to US law." Can I ask if you are an attorney - because this is absolutely 100% false. You are spreading misinformation here. If your employer fires you for paying a facilitation fee to advance a routine
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by temp667 6y ago
Scary - you would have to trust EVERY fingerprint reader not to capture your fingerprint AND you have to trust that you don't leave it anywhere for pickup. It's very hard to change your fingerprint as well, so having images of it
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by temp667 6y ago
It really highlights how terribly trained the pilots involved are - temporary inconsistency in measured speeds (there are still plenty of reasonable speed sources) in almost all other planes does not result in the plane crashing. Heck, my G
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by temp667 6y ago
By shoveling loads of cash at TSMC - does anyone know how much - it's got to be millions/billion?
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by temp667 6y ago
On HN every action by anyone is seen as some evil plan. Apple wants to alert users to genuine / non-genuine batteries (to mention latest downvote blast). That is evidence of how evil apple is (not even considering how many folks were g
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by temp667 6y ago
For folks with a family office the question is not too complicated. Someone says, would it be beneficial to have another passport (EU). The answer is yes (sometimes also intended to benefit kids by giving them lots of options in terms of sc
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by temp667 6y ago
I was never confused, but am more technical. I mean, how do you terminate to POTS, do the mix-ins etc without zoom decrypting on their end? If it's E2E encrypted and I have a dial in number - it's not E2E in that sense.
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by temp667 6y ago
Same with me - I'm over $80K in purchases based on my data request to them (excluding business where I admin a business account with multiple purchasers). Critical reviews do get taken down (I've no idea why). My reviews are legit
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by temp667 6y ago
THis is interesting - is this an Trump opposition dump on Biden? Pretty good timing if so :) And for all the folks going on about taxes. 1) Rich people can already avoid taxes by investing overseas and not generating realized gains so funds
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by temp667 6y ago
Simple, this was probably in motion during Trump era - and for whatever reason (ability to work overseas, live overseas in EU, own property etc) there was an advantage to having an EU passport. This gets him that. Not totally unreasonable f
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by temp667 6y ago
This really illustrates how ignorant a lot of HN comments are outside of the high wealth / tech bubble. Swollen batteries, bad batteries that were third party batteries were a pretty major iphone repair issue. Trying to cut down this o
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by temp667 6y ago
You and others fail to understand that if a scam can be run it will be run. Apple is trading on its reputation. "It's only OK to show non-genuine once". Scammers love this. They install the bogus battery, click through the wa
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by temp667 6y ago
Great - after the cookie wall nightmares from the EU we get this. Good to see the EU continuing to innovate.
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by temp667 6y ago
IF you know the associate and trust them and think they will screen the right way - the small team can often be folks who know / trust each other. It can be hard to add someone particularly outside your standard networks.
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by temp667 6y ago
I know a lot of folks on HN don't like what Apple does to confirm genuine product (ie, battery notification if a third party is swapped in etc). I feel like a lot of folks on HN don't buy used / second hand products - especia
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by temp667 6y ago
I had the same thought. There should have been a play where you were the trusted metadata layer (across clouds even), but allowed actual images to come from S3, GCP, Azure directly (ie, serve metadata + hashes / signatures). Obviously
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by temp667 6y ago
Does AWS raise prices like this (I know Oracle does - OUCH). I've yet to be hit by one of these price increases and have been on AWS since the beginning. Until I migrated they supported my SimpleDB app FOREVER (I mean, it wasn't e

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