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A while ago, I posted about how if Apple really is working on a car, they need to have a big safety engineering organization, and how that would be at least as fundamental a shift in corporate culture as bringing processor design in-house was. This…
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mknelson said: "Some of the proposals in the House's report include aggressive measures like barring companies from operating in markets in which they compete. It also includes tamer ideas like increasing the budgets and powers of market regu…
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hodar said: zimmie said: Make your own platform. That is the remedy available to you. Banning users is a form of speech. You mean like Parlor? If I recall correctly, Amazon, Apple and Google worked in concert to eliminate th…
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9secondkox2 said: So... oracle made a product. They spent a lot of money creating this product. Everyone paid to license this product. Except Google, who decided to just steal it and hope no one noticed. Today’s Supreme Court says that’s “…
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entropys said: Attacking the messenger rather than the message is rather unedifying. If the message were not utterly incoherent, sure. As it is, Clarance Thomas is basically a case study proving a human can survive with tapioca where his b…
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If Clarance Thomas is against you, you know you've made an actual cogent argument. He is easily the least competent Supreme Court justice in the last century. He has written dissents which only cite other dissents he has written, as opposed to any l…
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noelos said: Well, I am victim-blaming here. Situations like this are literally the reason real banks for real currencies have FDIC oversight and mandatory deposit insurance, and why investment banks have SIPC oversight and insurance. …
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fruitstandninja said: Fred257 said: If Apple is found to be negligent they need to pony up the cash to this guy The guy was scammed and this is sad but saying it’s on Apple when the company misrepresented itself and then made a chan…
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Keep 230, and make it clear that bans and algorithmic promotion are both speech by the platform (which doesn't get 230 protections), rather than merely on the platform. Platforms remain not liable for what other, unrelated people say on them (comme…
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22july2013 said: zimmie said: 22july2013 said: AppleInsider said: While customers complained spouses should have received comparable Apple Card offers due to sharing bank accounts and assets, underwriters aren't required …
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22july2013 said: AppleInsider said: While customers complained spouses should have received comparable Apple Card offers due to sharing bank accounts and assets, underwriters aren't required to do so, and can consider other factors. …
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bestkeptsecret said: It would have been helpful if there was a note on what exactly Fresnel Lens are. I checked Wiki about it and, while there is probably no small way to explain what it is, a paragraph about it would have been helpful. …
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beowulfschmidt said: Hey legislators, stop accepting campaign donations from large corporations' lobbyists. That'll do more to "thwart Big Tech lobbyists" than any additional legislation will do. That's ultimately a version of the prisone…
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It's worth noting that the NFT actually refers to a JSON file somebody hosts which then refers to the work via a URL. There are already lots of NFTs which refer to JSON files which are no longer hosted where the NFT says they are, and others where t…
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nicholfd said: longfang said: Is there really a push for not owning the vehicle you use daily? Personally speaking, especially after the “situation” this past year, I would not want to share a vehicle with strangers. I don't care …
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nicholfd said: zimmie said: sflocal said: dysamoria said: This crap just never ends. It's amazing how things can go wrong, and it's irritating how there's zero accountability. In fact, there are armies of geeks out there…
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elijahg said: zimmie said: OutdoorAppDeveloper said: Right now, no one is talking about Apple's upcoming discrete GPUs. Apple has not announced them but they pretty much have to be released this year. The release of Apple discre…
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tedz98 said: ... 4. Tesla should have outsourced physical production to a manufacturer who has been building cars for decades. Design the car, build and integrate the software but leave manufacturing to others. Even Elon Musk admits “producti…
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macplusplus said: zimmie said: sflocal said: dysamoria said: This crap just never ends. It's amazing how things can go wrong, and it's irritating how there's zero accountability. In fact, there are armies of geeks out the…
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sflocal said: dysamoria said: This crap just never ends. It's amazing how things can go wrong, and it's irritating how there's zero accountability. In fact, there are armies of geeks out there to defend their pet tech from reasonable c…