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Re:Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health... by systemvoltage on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @11:28PM (#31831712)
Step 1) Allow Gov to build up regulations so complex that it requires a force of nature to over come. Step 2) Big Tech builds technology around those regulations and sells it to people. Step 3) Viola! we have a giant massive ocean-like moat that surrounds the Big Gov + Big Tech castle. Never to be breached by the likes of Silicon Valley startups or otherwise.

We are already in a dystopian time.

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Re:Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health... by tchvil on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:34AM (#31832053)
I see it frequently here... I suppose it comes from French. Viola means rape(il la viola) or break the law(il viola la loi). The real one is voilà! And dropping the accent, is apparently acceptable in English. Voila! ;)
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Re:Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health... by jholman on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:56AM (#31832191)
Because we're writing in English, "viola" is neither rape nor lawbreaking, though "violate" can mean either of those. In English, "viola" is the name of a stringed instrument.

Voila, behold a viola! One fourth of a string quartet!

But if you're irked by "viola", it could be worse, they could have written "wallah", which is all too frequent.

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Re:Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health... by samarthr1 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @02:14AM (#31832593)
And in Hindi, Wallah means 'person'. Generally used in conjunction with their business. For example, a sweet shop owner is called a Mithai Wallah.
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Re:Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health... by bombcar on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @10:26AM (#31836401)
Violà! A wallah in Walla Walla with a wall a' wallabies!

https://wallawalla.org

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Re:Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health... by jfk13 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @10:38AM (#31836578)
> In English, "viola" is the name of a stringed instrument.

Or a flower.

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Re:Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health... by jcranberry on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @11:16AM (#31837146)
Contextually the person is obviously trying to use the french borrow word voilà.
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Re:Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health... by afiori on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @03:17AM (#31832935)
> il

Are you mixing French and Italian articles?

As an addendum wiktionary[0] is always useful when searching other meanings of a word

[0]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/viola

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Re:Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health... by Contexti on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @06:35AM (#31834176)
il is a pronoun[0] in French.

I haven't learned French since high school, but here's how I would translate the examples:

il la viola "He raped her"

il viola la loi "He broke the law"

[0](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/il#French)

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Re:Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health... by afiori on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:32AM (#31835205)
oh, I did not know, but I studied about 6 hours of French in my life, so it is not surprising.
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Re:Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health... by kwonkicker on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:51AM (#31832156)
I laughed hard at this revelation
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