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by writepub 7y ago
Henceforth Intel CPUs shall only compute on workloads deemed kosher by the cancel/activist/de-platform crowd.
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by writepub 7y ago
We're taking about streaming services (Netflix specifically). The accurate comparison is that Apple Music, Google Play Music, Spotify, etc. all DRM their services.
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by writepub 7y ago
An anecdote is irrelevant. There's vast amounts of peer reviewed research that supports the need for DRM, and unequivocally proves the financial harm piracy can inflict on content creators
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by writepub 7y ago
> Can you go to Netflix and just download a .mp4 of their latest show? Nope You're fundamentally questioning the need for DRM - which is naive. Netflix AND the studios would go out of business in no time without the ability to prot
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by writepub 7y ago
Non sequitur! The FDA is a government entity with a mandate to protect citizens, bound by non-fluid law. Apple is a self-serving private company, not beholden to user's interests (but shareholders), with an extremely fluid, arbitrary s
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by writepub 7y ago
Not according to [1]. Install base of iOS is higher in the US [1]: http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-stat...
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by writepub 7y ago
WHY should one pay any amount to Apple, to develop software? Apple artificially props up obstacles to development, and then "sells" tools to overcome them! And WHY should Apple even review and approve apps that run on hardware YOU
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by writepub 7y ago
I do not trust Google, but I do not trust Mozilla either. An overwhelming majority of Mozilla funding comes from Google, Microsoft, and other giants it directly competes with. Added to that, many of it's battles (at the W3C and like) p
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by writepub 7y ago
Given WASM's 32 bit address space, you can effectively validate a programs memory access statically, with a one time initialization in virtual memory - for instance if you'd like to restrict all WASM memory to 64MB, you can alloca
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by writepub 7y ago
Because LLVM IR is CPU-Arch specific. For instance, IR for x86 cannot be used on ARM CPUs, which is also the reason why Apple's bitcode representation intended to make apps portable, doesn't cross the iOS (ARM) <--> MacOs (x
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by writepub 7y ago
There is no point you are making about the OS (Android) by claiming Google controls an app (Play Store) running on top of the OS. The OS itself is free and open source and devoid of Google control - ample examples have been cited in my comm
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by writepub 7y ago
Agree that the install process is convoluted. Like someone else noted, if one's not signatory to Google's partnership, there are ways to remove most, if not all, of the friction.
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by writepub 7y ago
Google's Play store is Google property, isn't a part of AOSP and isn't open source. One voluntarily chooses to install play store on phones without it, or, if you're philosophically against it, use a competitor's
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by writepub 7y ago
Such iron, much grip. You can trivially install Google play store and services on 98% of the non-licensed phones in China. The fact that a $50B Chinese domestic Android market is thriving with zero control by Google proves the thesis to be
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by writepub 7y ago
Please examine the revenue per capita of San Francisco. And they have taxes on a myriad of things, sales tax is ONE of them. [1] has a better summary of reality, than a myopic comparison at sales tax %. [1]: https://news.ycombina
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by writepub 7y ago
This optimistic hand waving is all OK - but starting in 90 days, when the US embargo kicks in, WHAT architecture will Huawei chips (Kirin?) use, when will they be designed and production ready and who will want Huawei phones with brand span
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by writepub 7y ago
Who's "we"? If you mean Apple, their IR (bitcode) is alomst a 100% the same as LLVM-IR, so it is not really Apple's. Aside from WebAssembly and PNacl cited in my parent comment, there's .net IR, JVM byte code, yada
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by writepub 7y ago
I hope you read the original article, that clearly lays out the (non) optimizations being done in VDOM. In any compute environment, doing more than necessary spins CPU cycles wastefully. I believe the optimizations you speak of try to limit
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by writepub 7y ago
I meant, they are alternatives for Apple to consider, instead of reinventing the wheel on a cross architecture IR. Of course they won't help current Mac apps that don't have IR in those formats
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by writepub 7y ago
> where is the concerted push to turn these document renders into general purpose, fast, desktop-quality rendering engines The DOM is fast enough for desktop apps @60 or even 90 frames per second, especially of you follow best practices
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by writepub 7y ago
That's way too broad and not how it ought to be. THIS is why you see rich cities like San Francisco and Chicago preaching ever higher taxes, while simultaneously providing worse services for it's citizens. There's a feedback
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by writepub 7y ago
Basic question: what is the legal basis for cities to tax something? I understand physical goods sold within a city benefited from infrastructure and security the city government offers, and agree to a tax on them. But digital goods and ser
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by writepub 7y ago
Somehow Apple seems to get away with blocking whatever app they so choose, government or not, and not face antitrust charges. Most developers would agree that Apple's approval process is a lot less transparent, cutthroat and arbitrary,
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by writepub 7y ago
It's always amusing that no one talks about more efficient ways to use revenues, than blindly increasing tax, when it comes to the government. Has ANY government service become any better, over time while taxes have constantly risen?
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by writepub 7y ago
Alternatives: 1. WebAssembly 2. A subset of LLVM-IR that's architecture independent. PNacl from Google used this across chip architectures
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by writepub 7y ago
Here's a refresher of the definition: "intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself" None of the scenarios described in your tirade fits the definition. And back to the original article, it's highly
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by writepub 7y ago
> Voting no because you don't understand something is expressing hate for things that you don't understand It's a stretch to call it "hate". I mean, as long as we're playing with words, maybe you can classif
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by writepub 7y ago
> What do you think bigotry is if not being opposed to something for reasons other than its own merit? Opposition to things for lack of awareness in itself isn't bigotry. Opposition because of hate of something you somewhat unders
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by writepub 7y ago
1. The numerals are actually Indian [1], that Arabic traders picked up and propagated elsewhere. I don't think it changes the findings as I expect the respondents to have answered in a similar fashion. 2. I don't believe this is e
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by writepub 7y ago
At what point in life can one's hardships be discounted? First job application after college? Should every job application have an adversity score? Should every promotion consider this? Should you be entitled to more government benefit

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