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by xenobioticants 10y ago
To be honest, the situation across the pond is flummoxing to Europeans.. ISPs here are only service providers and nothing more. They're seen as a pipe to the internet and that's it. They often do offer 3-in-1 packages (television,
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
One of the biggest beefs I have with how Americans deal with the NSA is that they're cool with them spying on EU citizens. As long as its not domestic, you guys are cool with it. Its as if when you are not an American, you have no righ
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
So you'd rather have it be that no one has access to these free educational lectures/videos than that a small minority (<20%) can't use them? That's pretty much the perfect example of cutting of your nose to spite you
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Which Google has made exactly zero progress towards. Google Now has access to a lot more data and is a lot more useful than Siri, but if you curse at Siri for doing something wrong, she (it? they should really gender AI's.. helps with
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Also, you're not fighting for the/your privacy of today- you're fighting for tomorrow's privacy. Facebook is scummy with your data, but Google (who knows hell of a lot more about you) is pretty nice with your data. The p
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
To pile on: all of you guys reside in the US. Google Maps its data is much more up to date compared to Apple Maps in most of the world. Navigating in SE-Asia with Gmaps is a breeze. Apple Maps constantly sent me to places, only to have the
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
Yeah didn't mean to sound that abrasive.. damn booze. It is a nice feature indeed
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
It uses a combination of Bluetooth (if you're near/connected to your car's stereo), motion sensor and GPS. If you started moving at 70KM/h nowhere near a train or bus station, and then suddenly stopped moving at that spe
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
I am sorry for the broken formatting of the scenario part but Hacker News its editing refuses to save my changes. Peace y'all!
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by xenobioticants 10y ago
'it really is a giant among giants.' You're confused. That would be Alphabet, not Apple. To put it in perspective for you, Google has: ~90% of the search market ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/216573