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From my understanding the distinction is whether or not personal data is being saved, so as long as iOS isn't saving/classifying specific 'faces' it's not illegal.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:52PM (#25695095)
As far as I can tell the video only provides evidence of one person with ties to "Insurgence USA" (a left wing group) being inside the capital during the protest. No evidence for 'antifa' and no evidence that there was any organized left-wing presence.
Re:How to overcome Phone Addiction on Saturday January 02, 2021 @06:18PM (#25617607)
The other discussion is about using psilocybin to treat depression, not phone addiction. They are different disorders and should be treated as such.
> Apps aren’t really that more expensive on iOS

Some are. [0] And because of the 30% cut many popular services simply aren't available through their iOS apps.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-app-makers-break-their-apps...

Re:The HubSpot Culture Code [slides] on Friday November 20, 2020 @11:00AM (#25161651)
This deck seems to explicitly confirm that HubSpot has not meaningfully changed in the last four years.
Re:They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video] on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:46PM (#24574777)
It's true that you can't pause a stream on Twitch, but Twitch allows you to save clips that are functionally equivalent to rewinding, which isn't available on YouTube. Twitch's UX&I is also much better suited to streaming than YouTube (bigger chat, multiple viewing sizes/configurations, no video suggestions).
Hurley is going to be the "Spacecraft Commander" as mentioned in the article. The parent comment also indicates that they will be bringing the flag/memorial/token back. I'm not sure what "large implicit assumptions" you are referring too.
Graphics drivers contain competitive optimizations that make a significant difference in the performance of the hardware. Since these optimizations are both costly (in R&D) and allow for the vendors GPU to perform better than a competitors, they do not share these optimizations (that a competitor may or may not use to improve their own driver). And since people pay ultimately for performance, not hardware, the driver is just as important as the silicon.

Your second point is correct, that open source drivers do get better support. AMD has better support on Linux than NVIDIA because it has an officially supported open source driver (AMDGPU). However, the support they receive from open-sourcing the drivers is not always the R&D required to gain a competitive performance advantage, limiting the competitiveness of an open source driver (at least compared to proprietary).