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by writepub 8y ago
The proper response is both an IP transfer condition on all Chinese goods sold in US and Europe, supplemented by tariffs. If Huawei is forced to transfer their hardware, software IP for the right to sell in Europe, China will get a taste of
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Whatever your opinion of Russian politics, from a technical standpoint, aiming for full autonomy of critical services at a national scale, is praise worthy! If successful, this is also scary, as Russia will be free to wreck havoc on the gen
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I can't believe the down-voting for suggesting Google - clearly NOT a provider of essential infrastructure like phone lines or internet connectivity - NOT be classified a class II common carrier! In what universe are companies like Goo
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Yes - they're a private company, albeit unfair in this particular instance.
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The reason for US' paranoia about Huawei is a scenario where the network (built with Huawei gear) could not only triangulate locations in real time, but also transmit voice and data via backdoors to China.
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If you've paid attention to Facebook's most recent quarterly, you'll realize that people don't really care about the things they claim to care about. Facebook's recent privacy breaches haven't really affected t
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While dense writing makes it harder for the presenter to gloss over details, it makes it that much harder for the audience to grasp the idea. PowerPoint is designed for the audience. Maybe a presentation for a live audience, and a dense pa
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The press doesn't have the freedom to blackmail and do illegal biddings for powerful people, and destroy lives when lives aren't newsworthy.
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Why does his behavior on Twitter, good or bad, need mentioning here? What does it have to do with the article? It feels like the new normal is for absolutely everyone to be in everyone else's good books. I'm sure a TON of people i
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Apple projects an aura of protection, and most of the protection it does really well, is of the bottom line, by crippling W3C compliance on Safari, and pushing devs and users to it's app store
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But why don't we deserve both speed and security, at the same time?
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Ah! If VAT is not a tax, and Google's operations inside the EU doesn't contribute to EU coffers, you must be all for moving Google's EU subsidiaries offshore, and saving whatever VAT Google's customers pay? Google record
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What in my statement implies Google directly pays VAT taxes. I make it amply clear that "discounting government's VAT income from Google's operations", i.e. owing to the actual operations that result in transactions with
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by writepub 8y ago
Unless actual numbers are cited, discounting government's VAT income from Google's operations is not useful. We need a number to understand whether or not Google's contribution to the coffers are actually lesser than the fine
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> First of all, VAT is collected by the vendor VAT is collected by the government. Just because VAT appears as a line item on a bill, doesn't mean the vendor gets to book that as revenues. > Second, almost all customers of Google
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Completely disingenuous representation. ALL of EU has Value Added Taxation, that takes money from every transaction to/from corps. For instance, buying ads on Google would automatically incur these taxes. What EU really wants is double
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It's naive to assume allies don't spy on each other, Canada most definitely spies on the US. The more pertinent question is who the Canadians trust more, China or the US, given the possibility of undetectable backdoors in equipmen
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The fact that this many in the community are willing to question the moderation, is indicative of a higher level of tolerance within the community for what it deems "civil". Please consider being a little more lenient while modera
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by writepub 8y ago
Like the nitro-boosted, high octane, adrenaline pumping privacy they extend to their users in China [1]? This whole "Apple is so special that thir brutalistic absolutism is warranted" attitude is tiring. More $ flow through Apple
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Why? Why not stop at the legally stipulated punishment proportionate to the crime. Why is there a need to deplatform someone to the same degree, regardless of the gravity of their crime?
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I agree with your opinions, and sympathize with the chronic downvoting and excessive moderating meted out here. There's little difference between the left and right these days, they've moved so far extreme that their underlying ph
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When people code, most of the time, is unrelated to work-life balance. Many people code weekends if they slacked off during the week. How many hours they code is probably a better indicator. Commit times and frequency aren't really ind
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> "Nobody credible..." Your implication that doubting Apple is incredulousy, is ludicrous! Why is Apple so damn special? At this point, there isn't any evidence that Apple is involved, and yes, they go on a PR blitz to foc
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The evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. Their W3C compliance is abyamal, and it's certainly NOT because they care for the user. The way they banned Steam from streaming games, by retroactively changing app-store rules, it appears
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You better believe Apple intentionally curbs the ability to repair outside it's stores. The "right to repair" movement and subsequent legislation was squarely pointed at Apple. There's simply nothing Apple won't do
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I'd argue this is how HN hits a glass ceiling. Somehow the moderators of HN think the community is mature enough to have meaningful discussions, but completely immature and unable to handle topics that the mods don't consider kosh
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Lots of unsubstantiated claims here. WD doesn't need the OSS community, the community won't make or break the project. They're a 'nice to have' at best. Remember, if this really means savings of $X (that goes to AR
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There's a trend here: you claim moral authority to defend unscrupulous aspects of your government/country, but don't extend the same privilege to, say the American defense agencies, or Google, who'd like to do business w
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Like most non profits in tech (Mozilla, Wikipedia, EFF, ...)
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How do you feel about Switzerland? Would you refer to Swiss patriotism as toxic? I wouldn't! Switzerland, the country that made it possible for Nazis to store their wealth in numbered accounts, and still holds the largest reserve of il

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