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Re:Lenovo stole a fan's video to promote the foldable Motorola RAZR
on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:09AM (#19977970)
Yeah, and the Youtuber used Motorola's logo for his render -- without permission.
Re:Gmail really wants me to say yes
on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:06AM (#19977949)
My life is locked into one gmail account. All my notifications, passwords, bank statements, invoices, to and fro emails from exes, etc. etc. come to this gmail account. I have to rewind too much of my time to go to every place that uses my gmail account and change it. I can't do it. I'm locked in for life.
Re:Why I Don't Buy Organic, and Why You Might Not Want to Either
on Friday July 20, 2018 @12:49PM (#17576670)
Interesting. CropLife Foundation is funded by the major companies that make pesticides. https://croplifefoundation.org/about/funders-corporate-suppo...
Re:Why I Don't Buy Organic, and Why You Might Not Want to Either
on Friday July 20, 2018 @12:42PM (#17576595)
The author says .... "and the actual pesticides used today are mostly relatively non-toxic to humans."
Nothing can be further from the truth. Most (in fact all) pesticides used are designed to kill biological cells. So pesticides do not distinguish between a caterpillars cell or a humans. All pesticides are harmful to humans, some in tiny doses, some in large doses.
FYI - Landmark lawsuit claims Monsanto hid dangers of cancer caused by its weedkillers. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/22/monsanto-tr...
Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case
on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @05:19AM (#17556581)
Paywalled. Small article. Copy pasting entire article as comment.
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BRUSSELS—The European Union plans to hit Alphabet Inc.’s Google with a record antitrust fine of €4.34 billion ($5.06 billion) on Wednesday, according to an official familiar with the matter, a decision that could loosen the company’s grip on its biggest growth engine: mobile phones.
A formal decision—which would mark the EU’s sharpest rebuke yet to the power of a handful of tech giants—is set to be taken during Wednesday morning’s meeting of EU commissioners following a presentation by competition chief Margrethe Vestager, according to the person. No discussion of the decision is expected, the official said.
The EU’s antitrust regulator has been looking into whether Google had abused the dominance of its Android operating system, which runs more than 80% of the world’s smartphones, in order to promote and entrench its own mobile apps and services—particularly the company’s eponymous search engine.
Google, which can appeal, has rejected the EU’s case since the bloc issued formal charges over two years ago. Google says Android, which is free for manufacturers to use, has increased competition among smartphone makers, lowering the prices for consumers. Google also says the allegation that it stymied competing apps is false because manufacturers typically install many rival apps on Android devices—and consumers can download others.
The fine would top the EU’s €2.4 billion antitrust decision against Google just over a year ago.
Wednesday’s expected ruling would be the latest in a series of decisions in which the EU has cast itself in the vanguard of a backlash against U.S. tech superpowers, on issues ranging from competition to taxes to privacy. Ms. Vestager has become the face of that battle, arguing that regulators must do more to restore fairness to the digital market.
The EU’s executive announced Wednesday morning that Ms. Vestager would give a press conference at 7 a.m. ET.
Write to Laurence Norman at [email protected]
Re:Openbook social network
on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:58AM (#17548528)
A long long time ago (in 2010), Facebook sued a start-up called Teachbook for using 'book' in its name. Hope you don't get into that muddle.
Re:Show HN: I ran sentiment analysis on Show HN comments and got the m...
on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:17AM (#17540665)
"I don't fucking hate dogs"
A double negative is a positive.
Re:Ask HN: Should I abandon a functioning SaaS with no paying users?
on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:06AM (#17540613)
If it’s costing you very little to maintain the site, don’t shut it down. Reduce the price. I’d suggest $50/year. Your current pricing is USD 20/month or USD 240/year. I feel that's high. Have a 'yearly pricing'. I have a single page site on squarespace (https://www.peopledock.com). I pay $60 per year once a year and forget about it. Paying month-on-month is a hassle for me.
Re:At Initialized Capital, Odd Couple Looks to Do VC Differently
on Thursday July 12, 2018 @02:25AM (#17512581)
I think the point here is, a Founder-VC is better than a traditional VC because the Founder-VC understands ”the life and art of being in the trenches”.
Re:Online museum of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software
on Saturday June 30, 2018 @05:35AM (#17430155)
Here's another http://www.oldversion.com - where i find old versions of software that do not have built in mechanisms to serve ads.
Re:Dealing with Hard Problems (2015)
on Sunday June 24, 2018 @03:21AM (#17385413)
While i agree with most of them, i would strongly recommend against “Work backwards”. While this has helped me initially in mathematics, it took extreme effort to get rid of this habit.
Re:Show HN: Self destructing, encrypted messaging with file upload
on Sunday August 31, 2014 @02:08AM (#8248567)
See also The SVYFT Project : https://www.svyft.com
* i'm part of the project.
Re:Talk – Smart, Private Messaging
on Friday June 20, 2014 @10:56PM (#7923984)
True, i remember the whispersystems fanboys trolling all over the telegram.org founders.
Re:RIP HumbleFool
on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @08:50AM (#7909742)
Re:How a Chatlet works in SVYFT.
on Thursday June 05, 2014 @09:41PM (#7855773)
How a Chatlet works in SVYFT.
Shut Up and Eat.
Re:HackerChat – A private chat for the HN community
on Monday May 26, 2014 @09:42AM (#7799689)
Here is a public chat room for Hacker News community.
https://www.svyft.com/public-room/1401111637278432404
You will need to register on www.svyft.com though.
Re:Show HN: SVYFT – Team collaboration built around group chat
on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @01:39PM (#7773932)
Phonetically similar to SWIFT. Yes, I guess we may lose out a bit on word of mouth.
Show HN: SVYFT – Team collaboration built around group chat
How to pronounce Satya Nadella.
Congrats Satya Nadella on becoming the CEO of Microsoft.I'm from India and have noticed that Satya Nadella's name is pronounced SaaT - Yuh // Nuh - Dell - Ah.Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, John Thompson and maybe the entire non-Indian language speakers seem used to pronounce it that way. There's nothing wrong here and i believe the same is the case when people try to pronounce German or Eastern...
Re:Poor Man's Firebase: LevelDB, REST, and WebSockets
on Monday January 13, 2014 @03:22AM (#7049473)
You might like https://www.meteor.com/
Re:Poor Man's Firebase: LevelDB, REST, and WebSockets
on Monday January 13, 2014 @03:21AM (#7049469)
Yes we can open source it. It works pretty well. You will have to maintain these 'minimum' servers to get > 99% availability.
2 NodeJS app servers 1 Redis Master + 1 Slave 3 RIAK cluster (recommended 5)
You might want to checkout https://www.meteor.com/ as well.
Re:Poor Man's Firebase: LevelDB, REST, and WebSockets
on Monday January 13, 2014 @01:23AM (#7049243)
Just to clarify things a bit; our setup worked fine. The only reason we switched to Firebase was, being a small team, we didnt want to maintain all those servers.
Re:Poor Man's Firebase: LevelDB, REST, and WebSockets
on Monday January 13, 2014 @01:02AM (#7049199)
This is quite nice.
Before we (https://www.tesla.im) switched to Firebase we had (still have) our own realtime system built with NodeJS, Websockets, Amazon SQS (as backup to ensure messages don't get lost) and a RIAK cluster.
Mount a Raspberry Pi-Powered Google Calendar On Your Wall.
US government considered Nelson Mandela a terrorist until 2008.
Indian PM's award Bharat Ratna award to themselves.
Re:Easy Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison
on Sunday November 03, 2013 @08:20AM (#6663104)
always wanted this. ended up putting numbers in excel.
thanks.