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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Are there any actual cases of EU startups being fined under GDPR without being given a chance to fix their stuff. I was under the impression that the enforcement so far has been pretty lenient.
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
IIRC the ratio of people at risk of famine as been going down steadily while the population increased until Covid (I assume it should get back on track eventually, though)
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
There very significantly less trees in Europe (also wildlife in many places) 100 years ago. Same applies for industrial pollution (not CO2 emissions).
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
> It is not obvious to me that the UK, for example, would not enjoy much higher standards of living if it had half the population. The problem is the transition to this lower population. You’d have a period of 40/50 years where olde
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
The problem is when that innovative company becomes the new IBM/GE/Oracle and starts treating every client as nothing else but a revenue stream instead of focusing on creating new and innovative products. I don’t think Apple/
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Because Apple and a Google created a market where there was none. It basically impossible to make money from selling mobile apps to consumers before them. Had Verizon singlehandedly created the internet and had no real competitors they migh
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Well even with all the available competition most developers seem to consider the 30% fee on Steam fair enough to host their games there. So maybe that 15/30% is not as ‘massive’ as one might think, especially considering that the app
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
> in developed countries, In the EU it’s legally capped at 0.3% for all transactions (0.2 for debit cards).
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
There are plenty of different platforms besides Spotify which have comparable catalogs and are available on all/most platforms (even Apple Music has an Android app). Their subscription prices are almost the same so the market seems to
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
I would still expect that most people on FB have a higher number of ‘authentic’ relations there on average than someone who plays Fortnite has in-game. Unless all of your friends/family play it all the time as well. I guess it depends
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
I’d assume most connections for most people on FB are with people they actually know in real life. Surely they must be more ‘authentic’ on average?
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Licensing their engine is just a side business for Epic and I’d bet on average their not getting anything even close to 5% (all their bigger clients should have custom agreements). But that’s fine for them since they’re making loads of mone
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
On paper Intel is still a very solid company in a dominant market position (albeit that market is not necessarily a growing one). It still has great margins and 6-7x higher net income compared to AMD. And has arguably caught up with AMDs CP
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
I think that’s partly because most US teams are run like business (i.e. their owners want them to be profitable) whereas European football is largely a competition between Russian and Gulf oligarchs on who can spend more money. This is espe
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
That not really true though. M1 had considerable better single core performance at the time of release than anything else with a comparable TDP. And the Neural Engine is only useful is fairly narrow use cases.
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Afghanistan unlike Iraq was pretty clear though. Bin laden was hiding there and the Taliban were refusing to give him up also Afghanistan was in a state of permanent civil war and the Taliban government was not recognized internationally .
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
I’m sure that globally London and probably Paris (probably a bit more debatable) are much better know for their professional sports teams than any city in the US.
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Most social revolutions only occurred because the people in charge were incompetent and almost completely clueless. As long as the regime can co-opt (or otherwise remove) the potential leaders of this revolution and commit to some modest re
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
ChromeOS is Linux in name only, just like Android. Google just needed a kernel and a functional low level stack. They can switch to Fuchsia in the near/medium future and most user would probably not notice a thing.
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
I think Japan cultural was/is seen as both ‘untainted’* due to their historical isolationism and the ability to mostly resist foreign encroachment and sufficiently sophisticated enough not be considered inferior which makes it pretty u
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
If NATO declared a no fly zone, assuming the Russian government is rational and primarily concerned about about their military objectives, it would immediately remove all their planes from Ukraine because it’s almost certain that the Wester
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
The Russian people (unlike most other people in history who were targets of ethnic hatred) have the full control to stop this, though. I don’t think any Russians who have declared their opposition to their current government are explicitly
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
I’m sure they’ll fall in line with whatever the US government policy is.
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
They seem to be merely reacting to what general public opinion is (I assume their goal is to keeping their platform relevant rather than to shift what people think). If there was a widespread negative reaction to what they are doing in the
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Facebook is not really making a decision themselves here, they’re just basically reacting to the prevalent public sentiment in the west. It’s not particularly different to what newspapers etc. were doing during WW1, WW2 or any other war (to
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Well the comment above (which I assume you didn’t read) implied that ARM would have to changes it’s business practices to remain competitive. Whereas I think it’s current businesses model is the main reason it’s still competitive. Longterm
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
But is RISC-V somehow superior to ARM soo much that ditching their ISA and switching to RISC-V is their only way to survive. Is there anything specific about RISC-V that would ARM to make significantly more efficient cores (and I don’t thin
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
And if ARM started allowing everyone to use their IP for free you would expect them to survive? ARM the architecture might survive but probably no ARM the company. IMHO a more likely outcome with Risc (assuming it gets widely adopted) would
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
But it seems they were never valued at over 1billion (which iirc is the definition of an ‘unicorn’)
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Except that we’ll never know how much violence would there had been in Donbas had Russia not sent their troops and weapons there back in 2014. And it’s not like Putin cares about the people in the Donbas soo mich that he just had no other c

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