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by writepub 8y ago
There's nothing American about not using ER/Ambulance services. FYI - the employee still keeps his rights to call 911 on his own volition. This is in no way a defense of Tesla's on-site medical facility's policy of not
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by writepub 8y ago
Thank you for your comment - It proves my long-held theory that HN comments don't get flagged for breaking TOS, they get flagged by people who - 1. Have the power to flag (which everyone on HN doesn't equally have) 2. Disagree wit
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by writepub 8y ago
"plenty of liberal-minded Americans view the Web as a utility to which everyone deserves equal access." [1] [1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-the-internet-belo...
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by writepub 8y ago
About ideals and philosophies - they only matter when pushed to their limits. Free speech only matters when the said speech is disagreeable, ISP power only matters when the ISP disagrees with a website. Yes - we all approve of the ISP'
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by writepub 8y ago
I won't ever tell you to not chase money - one of the world's most prominent lies is that "money doesn't buy you happiness" I come from a heavily Buddhist culture that preaches disconnect from materialism, and I can
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by writepub 8y ago
I'm sympathetic towards the ISP and the readers of academic journals. However, this is also a gross violation of net neutrality. The ISP's power over a website is evident from their ability to block a website they have differences
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by writepub 8y ago
At some point the CEO needs to put his foot down and call bluff on those threatening to quit. There are plenty of talented, ambitious individuals who'd love to code and get rich, without all the externalities of holding the company hos
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by writepub 8y ago
As evident from oodles of press, it can be anything. From a damore memo, to search in China. From a deal with the Pentagon, to Trump's election. Anything and everything is outrage worthy for the average Googler, if you believe the pre
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by writepub 8y ago
Most people coding in C don't hang out on HN or SO. They are typically electrical engineers working for companies selling hardware. They tend to be less web savvy than the average CS/programmer types, but they're the ones bui
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by writepub 8y ago
This is an opinion, not a fact. It's likely that the incumbents, Google & Facebook, were both much further ahead and entrenched for Apple to break through. Apple also tried social networking (ping) and failed. And self diving cars.
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by writepub 8y ago
This is worrisome - US laws protect whistleblowers. I'm not a lawyer, and maybe lawyers here can confirm this, but it seems to me that the accused could've explored 'whistleblower protections' as a line of defense. On a
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by writepub 8y ago
If Google found the allegations credible, why didn't the accuser proceed with a lawsuit against Rubin? It's still not too late, if Google has a paper trail backing the allegations. On the contrary, if Rubin is innocent & being
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by writepub 8y ago
Here's a list of reasons wasm can be slower or faster: Faster: 1. Compiled to a strongly typed IR, wasm code means just one thing. For instance i32.add means addition of 2 i32s. In JavaScript a '+' operator has some 70 differ
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by writepub 8y ago
And how would this announcement have looked if Apple's iAd platform actually succeeded? While the weaponization of data is a legitimate cause for concern, Apple - the company that maintains a score on you - is hardly the one to be beli
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by writepub 8y ago
If only the courts showed half as much willingness to regulate Apple as Google. Remember when steam was banned from Apple's app store, and Apple retroactively modified it's ToS to justify the ban?
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by writepub 8y ago
This article is admission from there VC community that valuations are basically price gouged as a function of available capital - with little, if any, scientific basis the them. This was always evident from how badly unicorns have fared in
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by writepub 8y ago
QCs will likely break existing crypto currencies. Which begs the question - if someone does own a QC how much crypto can they steal without devaluing the currency in the process.
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by writepub 8y ago
Where's the analysis of how much Facebook benefits from other open source software? I'm sure billions of it's valuation can be attributed to everything from Linux that powers it's servers & networking to git & my
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by writepub 8y ago
Amazon/other store is not a compelling sales pitch to the end user. I myself wouldn't recommend the average user anything outside Google play, as it's light years ahead in selection, security, UX ...
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by writepub 8y ago
Impractical. You're a tech savvy individual. Regular folks will find it friction laden to install an app store via sideloading
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by writepub 8y ago
Funny how activist employees don't trust governments and other authority figures, but gladly violate the trust of the hand that feeds them by leaking stories when they don't get their way at work. Happens at AWS, Google, MSFT, ...
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by writepub 8y ago
How does this work, given prescriptions can only be issued by physicians licensed in a given state? Also, how is issuing this particular drug(s) different from any other issued in telemedicine encounters? Why isn't this already prevale
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by writepub 8y ago
This suit is frivolous - in a free market sellers and platforms should be free to do as they please, including pitching an alternative platform. That said, Amazon deserves this suit - remember, this is the same company that routinely sues f
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by writepub 8y ago
Is this a code error or a protocol error? If a protocol relies on a message from the client side to allow access, it's a protocol error! It's unlikely that ssh - a protocol that powers large swaths of software, has such an error,
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by writepub 8y ago
We live in an age of private companies owning the infrastructure facilitating daily life. For instance: 1. Communications infrastructure: FB, Twitter, private sites hosted on big cloud vendors 2. Payments: Stripe, Braintree, ... 3. Cloud: G
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by writepub 8y ago
> They block port 25 though They don't explicitly disallow it in their TOS, they just make it impossible by disabling the underlying tech. And this > no racism/unethical behavior. * no portscanning. * no illegal downloads&
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by writepub 8y ago
But Google isn't "risking it all" for China. It's merely attempting a business expansion that it's employees cannot seem to rationalize
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by writepub 8y ago
Correlation isn't causation. Sundar is an MBA and not a founder - true. He's also the guy who was called to steady the ship when founders got bored and moved on to sexier things. In my opinion, what you're experiencing is mor
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by writepub 8y ago
What has stopped them from doing this all this while? A shell company by Samsung renders any deals with Google impotent - a strategy used by many Chinese OEMs who have Google Android for international markets and their own app stores within
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by writepub 8y ago
What am I missing here? Google isn't changing the data they gather via their apps. They're adding a $ cost for access to it. You're basically paying twice - with your more expensive Android devices, and Google's regula

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