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by xvector 2y ago
This is great, but I doubt this will ever actually be enforced. At least not without Switzerland dramatically increasing its investment in FOSS.
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by xvector 2y ago
Crowdstrike merely shows how much people depend on big tech and they don't even realize how much they rely on it. I think you have too much faith in the average person. They scarcely understand how nearly everything in their life has b
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by xvector 2y ago
> normal people who are sick of billionaires exploiting the entire planet Don't understand what big tech does for humanity and how much they rely on it in the day to day. Literally all of their modern conveniences are enabled by big
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by xvector 2y ago
Do read through the linked article. Not sure how you could make cloud compute more private if you tried; apart from homomorphic encryption.
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by xvector 2y ago
> If Facebook can't release data it trains on because it would compromise user privacy, it is already a significant privacy violation that should be a scandal Thousands of entities would scramble to sue Facebook over any released da
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by xvector 2y ago
I'm not particularly concerned about the user limit. The companies for which those limits will matter are so large that they should consider contributing back to humanity by developing their own SOTA foundation models.
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by xvector 2y ago
The primary modality through which most people experience media today is their phones, so vertical video is just fine.
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by xvector 2y ago
CrowdStrike's reasoning is that an instantaneous global rollout helps them protect against rapidly spreading malware. However, I doubt they need an instantaneous rollout for every deployment.
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by xvector 2y ago
I find it absolutely insane they wouldn't be doing this. At the level their software operates, it's sheer negligence to not sanitize inputs.
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by xvector 2y ago
No, what is stopping a similarly designed EDR from causing the same problem on Linux?
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by xvector 2y ago
The EU can only miss out on so many Industrial Revolutions before it fades into irrelevancy.
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by xvector 2y ago
What could they possibly be spending that money on?
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by xvector 2y ago
NYT pictures show the bullet going behind his head, he puts his hand up to his ear and it comes away covered with blood. Probably the bullet.
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by xvector 2y ago
Huge VR fan here. I tried the demo in the Apple Store. It was cool and all, but nothing game changing. From a company like Apple - somewhat disappointing even. The technology just isn't there yet for a compelling product. Apple should
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by xvector 2y ago
10% is way higher than I thought. Probably <0.1% of my transactions are in cash. Cash is cumbersome and annoying. I wish there was a digital anonymous replacement.
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by xvector 2y ago
They do not have any meaningful companies that actually have to worry about the end-user viability of tech. Spotify, Indeed, and Booking are maybe the only real examples of consumer web apps from the EU, there are literally hundreds larger
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by xvector 2y ago
This just seems like deflection. The EU does not have an understanding for modern consumer tech products, period. That they have old giants still producing sub components has no bearing on this discussion, it's not like their industr
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by xvector 2y ago
There is no justification, this is just more thinly-veiled rent-seeking from the EU.
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by xvector 2y ago
The EU would rapidly collapse if US big tech pulled out. It actively prevents the development of a flourishing tech industry.
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by xvector 2y ago
Maybe we should just fine any company 100% of revenue if they breach a law, since that's just as arbitrary of a number and makes our region more money.
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by xvector 2y ago
The DMA was badly drafted, and it's quite protectionist. The EU does not write good tech legislation overall, because it does not understand tech industry at a cultural level, having never built out its own.
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by xvector 2y ago
EU missing out on yet another Industrial Revolution, just like they did with the consumer tech, dot-com, and smartphone eras. But you can only miss out on so many Industrial Revolutions before you fade into irrelevancy. It's strange an
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by xvector 2y ago
FWIW I worked as a SWE at Apple for a few years and it did not seem like women were discriminated against in any way. In my experience these pay differences overwhelmingly come down to not being aggressive enough when negotiating offers a
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by xvector 2y ago
Okay, you leave, and now your employees are dead (probably tortured to death on LiveLeak.) Or you could pay the ransom, report it to the DOJ, and then leave, like Chiquita did.
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by xvector 2y ago
Rotting is a lot easier to spot than structural failures and cracks slowly building inside concrete walls. Wood beams can be repaired more easily and individually than concrete if they do rot. Finally, modern woods are less prone to rotting
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by xvector 2y ago
> when it comes to scheduled foreign terrorists, there is no (legal) excuse Okay, how - as a human being - will you reconcile that with the fact that your employees will be tortured to death if you don't pay? You could stay legall
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by xvector 2y ago
Updated my comment with details
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by xvector 2y ago
The DoJ actually acknowledges the payments were made under duress, but it is still technically a violation. The AUC absolutely threatened to kill their employees.
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by xvector 2y ago
> No, you withdraw from the country. And you watch your employees die? Great, you've saved your business and yourself from legal ramifications, and the people you worked for are dead, and your business is in ashes. Chiquita did actu
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by xvector 2y ago
Having lived in both constructions, for the American environs, wood-built houses are vastly superior to cement ones. Wood construction is better insulating, easier to repair, easier overhaul as the times inevitably change, naturally regulat

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