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by writepub 7y ago
"Your Libra wallet and funds have been permanently banned for violating Facebook code of conduct" read an email notification. Her crime? Clicking the "like" button on ...
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by writepub 7y ago
Observe the rinse-and-repeat patterns here: 1. Openly leftist media outlet [1] sensationalizes posts by a few users, and proclaims a non-sequitur - that the problem lies with the entire sub-reddit, instead of with a few users 2. SV tech c
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by writepub 7y ago
This has to be political, as singling out vaping while allowing alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, AND requesting tax dollars for "safe spaces" for drug injection, make zero common sense. Let this be a lesson - politicians will greenlig
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by writepub 7y ago
A cross-platform libc included with LLVM is much needed! Languages like Go, Rust, .. already abstract away arch and OS details, while one of the oldest high-level languages, C is still battling this fundamental requirement. There's muc
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by writepub 7y ago
We should really trust the openly left-leaning search monopoly on it's self certified neutrality - that's just common sense. If we start doubting the neutrality of our monopolies, how will they even gaslight us into submission?
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by writepub 7y ago
This is a bit of a surprise, as the new Microsoft seemed to move past prettiness, and embrace customer centricity. Curious how Microsoft Teams can rip-off Slack's features without access to, ahem, Slack. And I don't just head the
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by writepub 7y ago
> If Huawei has truly engaged in a long-term pattern of conduct significantly adverse to national security, surely, some independent security research would have already found and published a paper Presenting non sequitur as evidence has
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by writepub 7y ago
That's our perception as Americans. I wonder if the Chinese consider the occasional bad apples weaved into an otherwise savior narrative of the emphatically American superheros any differently than the economist views their heros. Afte
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by writepub 7y ago
He served in the US armed forces. Check out his origin story
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by writepub 7y ago
> Startlingly, the moral authority of the security forces is never challenged in the film. Far from being villains, they help save the world. You mean, the Chinese adopted Marvel's not-so-stealthy glorification of the American milit
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by writepub 7y ago
This might be a "philosophical, rhetorical" take on ownership, but by US law, it means something VERY specific, and grants very specific rights to owners, and prohibits those rights to non-owners.
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by writepub 7y ago
Typically, India is 10-15 years behind China. India is currently undergoing the same software boom that China went through 15 years ago (with Baidu, Tencent, ...). Hardware manufacturing is now moving to India, and India already has a compe
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by writepub 7y ago
Mine as well, I believe it was intentionally click baitey. However, it looks like they developed the tech in house, which is a testament to China's advances in R&D. I've long worked at semiconductor companies where employees w
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by writepub 7y ago
What would it take for wine to run in 64 bit mode and emulate Win32?
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by writepub 7y ago
> Why is this such a different restriction I'm a little confused why this question would arise. Use of property, private or otherwise, for illegal use is, well, illegal. Your example cleanly falls under the illegal classification. I
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by writepub 7y ago
This proposal is the equivalent of "there's x% unemployment, and 100,000 open jobs. If you insist on not filling those jobs, we'll tax you" There might be numerous reasons for the vacancy, but malice, where homeowners ar
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by writepub 7y ago
Utility companies wrongfully deducing occupancy based on usage is an ever grater issue than the proposal to spy on one's utility usage. FYI - your pitch is equivalent to spying on call metadata vs content, which has been proven to be d
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by writepub 7y ago
I understand the knee jerk reaction of HN to downvote, but a counterpoint, especially one explaining the Constitutionality of this proposal would be helpful
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by writepub 7y ago
Affordable housing (and rent) is an issue, but this isn't a well thought out solution for the same. The assumption of malice on the home owner for leaving a home vacant is unfair. If the state wants to impose such a tax, proving malic
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by writepub 7y ago
More Americans travel to India on business than Indians seeking H1-Bs. If the US wants to limit work visas to Indians, India should limit any work based travel of Americans to India.
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by writepub 7y ago
Your $2B number is way off. While most chips are manufactured outside China, most chip packaging happens within. So, all the costs post mass chip production (into cut silicon dies), including chip packaging, testing, PCB manufacture, assemb
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by writepub 7y ago
> Imagine if Apple decided they were tired of everyone moaning about Safari's missing features and decided to go the same way as Microsoft. Not happening. It's likely that Apple spends an inordinate amount of engineering on Saf
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by writepub 7y ago
While the stealing part is likely true, everytime a Westerner has dismissed the innovation ability of China, they've typically been wrong. China has long passed the phase of being an imitator with low cost manufacturing abilities, and
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by writepub 7y ago
Note that at least 90+% of Mozilla's revenue is from the big tech companies.
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by writepub 7y ago
NYT from 10 years ago would not have published this unsubstantiated propaganda piece. Facts are commodity in the age of search engines, and the only "value add" journalism brings to the table is "opinions". Even the once
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by writepub 7y ago
These are still results from the simulation phase. It's best to wait for actual results from a functional optical chip
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by writepub 7y ago
Because iOS is a majority of the install base [1] in the US and Western Europe. [1]: http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-stat...
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by writepub 7y ago
Why not stop playing middleman, and act like the podcast app - aggregate RSS feeds of self hosted apps. I can already answer the above question - because the app store's primary intent is to exert Apple's control over what softwar
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by writepub 7y ago
I don't faintly see the logic in this! The proof is in the pudding on Chrome's tangible open source impact: 1. V8 is used in a multitude of projects, node being the most impact-ful. And node has changed desktop (with electron and
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by writepub 7y ago
1. I fully agree with an investigation into Google. 2. Why hasn't any federal agency looked into Apple's behavior, where they sell hardware (and here bestow it's ownership to the consumer), but continue to play middleman in w

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