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by writepub 7y ago
Search engines should treat searches on individuals as a separate, special category. Laws need to be protect personal information from Google's excuses. When federal laws on personally identifiable information were drafted, they weren&
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by writepub 7y ago
Please, oh please, do tell me what this controversy is really about.
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by writepub 7y ago
OR - since flutter re-uses chromium code (Skia, etc ..) and possibly has an IPC architecture similar to a browser to isolate the dart VM from rendering/painting pipeline, flutter's memory and CPU footprint is likely to be close
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by writepub 7y ago
Which camp does that put me in - I use the tab key for code indentation, but my editor is configured to replace tabs with 4 spaces
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by writepub 7y ago
Flutter's memory use is between 80-100MB??!! That's just as much as Carlo [1] or Lorca [2], that use Chrome as the front end! This is NOT what I expected, and certainly not in line with the "lean, performant" GUI market
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by writepub 7y ago
Laws with inherent conflicts of interest are supposedly unconstitutional. Can any lawyer comment on this? Can we have the ACLU challenge these in court?
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by writepub 7y ago
After a very long time, this is a fine piece of investigative journalism to make the top 30 on HN. I wish the main BuzzFeed site did more of this than the clicbait.
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by writepub 7y ago
City planners who approve new housing zones in low lying areas are partially to blame here. If climate change is a known risk, how is it legal to approve housing in such areas? We should encourage approving city expansion only into regions
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by writepub 7y ago
Oh what a beautiful lie. "If only Google blocked devs more, we'd all live in security Utopia". And that's why folks, what the world really needs is not the open web, or open anything, but an Apple/Google/Ultr
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by writepub 7y ago
After dealing with Apple's process, no one EVER said we need more of that! Among other things, the ease of approval is waht makes Android more loved by many devs, please don't spoil that
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by writepub 7y ago
We need someone to take Svelte on a test drive for something more complex than a to-do list. I'm assuming the results will be favorable to svelte, but please blog after said exercise. The un-ending list of blogs and tutorials on to-
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by writepub 7y ago
Spotify is big enough to take Apple head-on and get Apple to negotiate. But most companies aren't big, and cannot challenge the hegemony of Apple. Hope hopen against hope that Spotify doesn't concede, for the sake of the ecosystem
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by writepub 7y ago
Is this the component in use here?
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by writepub 7y ago
Which office suite are the tools based on?
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by writepub 7y ago
The article seems to suggest gains going to the top only. Here's a list of improvements since the 1930s that all of society, especially in the West, has experienced: 1. Massive increase in average lifespans 2. Lowest per capita crime r
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by writepub 7y ago
This is a much deeper question, and answer than appears at the surface. Consumer tech is designed to be addictive, and it's marketing aimed at unconscious insecurities. Realizing that, and exerting self control can be tricky, especiall
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by writepub 7y ago
There are parts of San Diego near the border, where the only network a phone receives is from a Mexican carrier, while being inside U.S. territory. Racking up roaming fees from auto-updates and background app execution is a common occurrenc
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by writepub 7y ago
Putting all your eggs in one basket never a good idea, regardless of the vendor. If multinational companies diversify their cloud usage, why does the DoD not do it? What's important here is a mandatory multi cloud buying requirement, w
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by writepub 7y ago
Because big tech companies have become the arbiters of speech online, and they are disproportionately favoring one party in their actions. This was woefully apparent in Google's congressional hearings [1][2], where Google's only
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by writepub 7y ago
The big question is: "How likely are KaiOs users willing to install third party apps". From the article, it seems like pre-installed apps have ample usage, no mention of installation post hardware purchase.
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by writepub 7y ago
> So, that 30% cost is really just the price That's wildly inaccurate. It's easily disprovable: Apple's costs aren't proportional to the pricing of software sold through it's stores. Does your refrigerator maker
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by writepub 7y ago
It's interesting that you cited retail. In retail, there's an actual cost to stocking items, especially in areas visible to the customer. No such cost exists on the app store, in fact Apple makes you pay extra to advertise for wha
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by writepub 7y ago
Apple is marginally better than the rest at privacy, but their marketing centers around it. If you're naive enough to fall for their marketing, this should be a wake up call. This, and the zero resistance Apple offers China, when they
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by writepub 7y ago
The allegation here is of intentionally suppressing her campaign. Google acts behind a veil of secrecy, and without access to internals, the best you have to work with is their word. And I DO NOT trust the robo-responses from giant corporat
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by writepub 7y ago
Google's strategy of standardizing microservice infrastructure around kubernetes is likely to benefit them greatly in the long run. Any large company wants to avoid vendor lock-in, and [kubernetes + containers] offers a compelling alte
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by writepub 7y ago
Tulsi and the article are specific in their mention of Google's 88% market share, because it is material to her being heard in 2019, when most of our communication is online. The FEC has no mandate to regulate monopolies, but when a mo
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by writepub 7y ago
> there is no “disparate impact” rule ... There are rules against circumventing campaign contribution laws. Intentional suppression (as alleged) of Tulsi's speech, or that of any other candidate, is equivalent to donations to her op
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by writepub 7y ago
In-kind political favors by companies is expressly illegal under FEC regulations. Google propping up a candidate or suppressing another is effectively campaign contributions (or suppression) worth millions of dollars by Google to certain ca
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by writepub 7y ago
Multiple FEC laws where companies are barred from electioneering in kind, which is exactly what is alleged to be happening here. Political activity by companies is regulated. A petroleum company cannot offer in-kind donations of "unlim
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by writepub 7y ago
It becomes illegal and election interference when that Corp is a monopoly with effective control of speech and discovery on the internet. No law entitles Google to gaslight America and interfere with democracy.

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