gressquel
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let me piggy-back, is Apple going to have proper HDMI ports in future? Im going surface book the moment my current macbook stops working.
Karma, should never have removed HDMI ports.
it will become a sterile, homogenous environment.
Its the diversity (like the repos mentioned above) that made github the goto code-sharing site.
I, for one, would rather jeaopardize the service to defend the rights of such fringe developers. Together we stand.
what did they do with LinkedIn?? I havent noticed any change.
as for Skype, its completely ruined. I have it installed but I am scared to open it. Horrible GUI. Constant updates and generally just useless now.
I am gonna wait and see. I know they messed up Skype really bad, but LinkedIN for example they havent touched and destroyed.
I will wait and see..
The price of btc is not 9300 as article says but 7400 $.
Article date is 5/7/18 AT 11:53 AM ?
Peter Navarros Death by China is a good read too
2. No, iOS people are not switching. They are staying but not buying newer models due to lack of innovation. Personally I would never switch to the cesspool named Android. Laggy, malware infested garbage
Posted by
gressquel on Monday April 23, 2018 @03:14PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Its annoying to hell out of me. My sponsorship with Microsoft is running out, meaning I have to pay for the VM that my iOS app is running on.If I subtract my server cost + 33% AppStore fee, there is not much profit left.Why cant Apple give some slack to indie developers with low app income? 30% fee is way too much.This duopoly in the smartphone market is very, very bad!
yet Zuckerberg is testifying as I write, denying, dodging the responsibility and questions. I can't believe it, instead of laying down and confessing, he is trying to justify and blame everyone but Facebook.
The senators asking the questions are completely clueless. EU/GDPR will properly deal with FB.
I am usually a advocate for privacy and right to be forgotten but in this case I am with Google. The criminals can easily erase their conviction and start 'scamming' victims again. Remember a time when I was looking for apartment and I Googled the name of the owner only to find news articles about how he had built 2 apartments inside one, even though they had no fire escape.
I don't really know, but as facebook usage declines they will become more and more desperate to make up for the loss of revenue. One of these days when most people have moved over to another platform there will news in the media "Facebook sold users private chatlogs".
I have a feeling none of these "decentralized" social networks are going to succeed in capturing the users, but I believe one of these will attract the users for something else than the feature "decentralized". When it happens, whoever owns the site will then move away from the initial concept and build the site around the side-effect feature that attracted the users and then capture the entire audience and thus kill facebook once and for all-.
is it weird to find them fascinating? I am a millenial and WW2 and its horror is something that I have learnt, but to meet survivors (of holocaust) and surviving items is very exciting.
I will repeat my previous post:
I expected a non-conditional apology but there he is blaming on a single app being able to extract data.
We dont want apology for the breach, we want apology for collecting all the data for so many years. We want to FB to delete the data they have collected even if it means a massive reduction in advertisement revenues. But I guess none of his algorithms can foresee the end of FB.com in the western part of the world.
Good night sweet prince.
I expected a non-conditional apology but there he is blaming on a single app being able to extract data.
We dont want apology for the breach, we want apology for collecting all the data for so many years. We want to FB to delete the data they have collected even if it means a massive reduction in advertisement revenues. But I guess none of his algorithms can foresee the end of FB.com in the western part of the world.
Good night sweet prince.
Comes from a guy bending over for communist regimes to protect the revenue.
I have 0 respect for people who sell their core principles for money.
Don't wanna sound like a party pooper. But isnt this the same as what movie streaming sites are shut down for, linking to sites with copyrighted material?
For information: I love to download or stream movies and tv-series.
It happened last week in Sri Lanka too. Although the government was quick to block FB i think 3 muslims died.
I think Japan, Germany and South Korea prefers to "lease" US military as they're doing now rather than having their own military as the sole defence for the country. Germany in particular has shown signs of enjoyment in such an arrangement, leaving them to focus on other issues like building their economy and commanding EU. There is a reason why Trump is demanding more commitment from other NATO countries. An analogy to computer game would be, US is defending the NATO countries (+japan og SK) while the others are focusing on 'booming'.
If one day germany, japan or south korea were to decide to have referendum to remove US troops and get majority vote, I am sure US would remove their troops. So in short: no, US is not holding a gun to them because the other countries are certainly enjoying US nuclear and military umbrella protecting their territory.
China as a superpower will cease to exist if its economy crashes. Its economy is very dependent on EU and US. So yes, they will have to respect the rules.
I hope you can forgive me but I feel its very demanding to write this over and over again. I think I have written about the Sri lankan airport thing before in detail. The reason I leave the keywords in my post is so people can do a google search and find the necessary information.
The most recent is docking of Aircraft carrier in Vietnam for the first time since the cold war.
There is also a closer relationship with Taiwan and new bills being made to apporve sale of weapons.
The american ships and aircrafts have also ignored the territory of the artificial islands sending signal to all the commerical boats that the water is for everybody to use.
I meant Myanmar actually. But you are right Uighur is another black mark on chinese politics.
Btw the chinese government is a support to burmese actions towards the Rohingya population, thats what I meant with my initial post. I am not going to repeat everything but there are plently of articles.
My proposal is the initial proposal the western countries had for China. Let them into WTO and give the all the opportunities western countries have. And China certainly made good use of it. But the proposal also expected China to adapt to democracy and values like free trade. But instead they have become corrupt with power and gone the wrong direction, even electing a "dictator". Now its time to take away the giveaways:
- If China is going to practically make life hard for western companies to operate in China, then same will happen to Chinese companies. Huawei is already experiencing this.
- If you are going to steal intelectual property and mass-produce items then this will have implication on trade.
- WTO sanctions needs to be implemented until China starts to respect the rules that every other country follows.
1. China with its vote in UN security counsuel was a major suppord for Burmese government to do what what they did without fear of being punished. Google "China Rohingya" theres plenty of articles.
2. Are you literally justifying building island in other countrys sovereign territory? There is absolutely no excuse for this. How would Beijing like it if France or US moved their aircraft carrier 1 km outside of Shanghai?
3. China may not be capable of attakcing through convential war, but they are doing more nastyness without it. Supporting the Sri lankan governments assault on the tamils literally killing 60 000 people in the last weeks of the war in 2009. Imprisoning nobel pieze price winner till his death? Punishing Norway economically for awarding nobel peize price? Suppressing the muslim population in their country (Uyighur?)
Stealing technologies and preventing any outside countries from enforcing IP-theft lawsuits.
The list is too long to mention.
I really dont like the Trump administration for various reasons, but one thing they have done right is showing firm hand against China. Especially when it comes to the artificial islands in South China sea and also the attempts to buy western technology by buying companies and institutions in US.
I hope more countries wake up to what China is trying to do. Artificial island, Rohingya-cleansing, Sri Lanka airport etc. Its just the beginning, we need to be prepared.