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781.
by toyg 2y ago
Let's not mix contexts. This legislation was (and is) pushed by European security services. If it passes, I guarantee that it will be (ab)used widely.
782.
by toyg 2y ago
Google sells eyeballs to advertisers, they don't sell to consumers. They've largely baked their pricing strategies in algorithms that self-adjust to increase costs as advertisers invest more, so that they don't have to expose
783.
by toyg 2y ago
You underestimate the power of SaaS. Companies do SaaS precisely because it allows for this sort of capricious rent-seeking at wildly-unregulated levels of greed. That's just the name of the game. If other companies don't do it ye
784.
by toyg 2y ago
Ok, well - in my cultural background, that sort of symbology is typically associated with scams, unsavoury types, and sexual exploitation. This pretension that life can be explained with magical patterns is fundamentally anti-intellectual a
785.
by toyg 2y ago
Well, it was a response to a similarly un-elaborated statement of opinion.
786.
by toyg 2y ago
It doesn't really matter why, does it?
787.
by toyg 2y ago
> Anyone trying to make a new mainstream language is completely insane, unless they're backed by a huge corporation. There are only two exceptions in the last 25 years that come close: Scala and Kotlin Kotlin was designed and back
788.
by toyg 2y ago
Have you heard of our lord and saviour the Pimoroni Badger? https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/badger-2040?variant=39752... I have one and it's awesome. They upgraded it recently with wifi: https://shop
789.
by toyg 2y ago
I personally find it creepy and offputting. I guess to each its own.
790.
by toyg 2y ago
We already have that for most hardware in practice, don't we ? The direction of travel in the embedded industry seems fairly clear: you have totally-open ecosystems strictly for hobbyists (arduino, raspberry pi, etc), and totally-close
791.
by toyg 2y ago
Such engineer probably made sure to note it was for testing purposes, like what was stated the last 47392 times this exact same problem was found in mass-produced network hardware. Now, the question is whether the subsequent failure to remo
792.
by toyg 2y ago
D-Link the company is one thing, but a company is made of individual people - each with their own needs and motivations. Intelligence work is so much easier when one stops reasoning in terms of groups.
793.
by toyg 2y ago
* codemonkey takes low salary from router manufacturer * codemonkey integrates it with low salary from $state_actor * codemonkey be happy, manufacturer be happy, state actor be happy - win-win!
794.
by toyg 2y ago
The alternative would have probably been worse, considering that Trieste has been slowly dying since WWI, more or less. Like Venezia (and arguably, various other parts of Italy), it was built to do something that is now largely unnecessary,
795.
by toyg 2y ago
I think the parent poster's point is that nowadays Japanese studios also significantly outsource to Korea, which is probably true.
796.
by toyg 2y ago
This. The XX century belonged to the US, with New York and Los Angeles attracting people and dictating the cultural and economic agenda. (West) Berlin's cultural life was undoubtedly lively but hardly dominant, even just getting there
797.
by toyg 2y ago
The generational link you mentioned has been broken in pretty much any city or town in the world, for decades at this point. Cheap planes and telecoms let people shuffle all over the planet, and the ones who will live and die in the same ci
798.
by toyg 2y ago
> understanding what global superpowers do in the modern era, as long as you have a more flexible definition Yeah, absolutely. I remember a certain sense of enlightenment as undergraduate when a professor laid out the way the US projec
799.
by toyg 2y ago
via Aemilia, now Emilia, is alive and well all the way from Milano to Rimini. It changes name a few times, mostly with additions (e.g. "Emilia Levante" to the East of Bologna, "Emilia Ponente" to the West, etc), but it&#
800.
by toyg 2y ago
I expect it does, if you're using Chrome outside of Incognito Mode. Iirc, there is an opt-out about "web history" on the google account - which then disables some other things so that it annoys enough people into keeping it o
801.
by toyg 2y ago
Sadly it's the norm across all companies and all sectors.
802.
by toyg 2y ago
Because they have to answer about the budget in aggregate. If three developers are paid $100k each on year 1, and they hire a new one on 120k on year 2, the average salary has only gone up 5%. If they don't hire and just bump the veter
803.
by toyg 2y ago
Godwinizing is the death of discussion. Cooperating in raising rent and cooperating in genocide are different things.
804.
by toyg 2y ago
"But, but, The Wire told me that The Coop is the way to go! They all made money without dropping bodies!" /s
805.
by toyg 2y ago
Not one of them but I expect they will justify it in the same way as anyone else: bills, food, mortgage, kids, etc etc. Do not blame the exploited, blame the exploiter.
806.
by toyg 2y ago
Well, in this case it is very literally rent-seeking, eh.
807.
by toyg 2y ago
I doubt much punishment will actually happen, beyond some nominal reparations; but it could establish a legacy in the field of SaaS antitrust, which could cool down some of the worst animal instincts in the market.
808.
by toyg 2y ago
What is legal with 40% of the market might well not be legal with 80-90% of the market. That's the entire point of antitrust laws. If 90% of a market is composed of companies that explicitly coordinate to fix prices, that's an ant
809.
by toyg 2y ago
Their production is not public. All links in the article to past production actually go to third-party papers analyzing their historic, declassified production. TBH the article makes it clear they are not perfect, by mentioning that they go
810.
by toyg 2y ago
It's a combination of that and status. Wealthy families would build tall towers as a way to protect themselves: if you think you're at risk of getting wacked by a disgruntled competitor, you take to live in your tower for a few mo

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