gonvaled

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by gonvaled 7y ago
It's called a mistake. People do things by mistake. I carry my phone in my back pocket all the time, specialy in the office where I spend most of my non-home time. It's far more comfortable than cramming it into my front pocket. M
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by gonvaled 7y ago
That"s the dream being sold, which everybody buys. In practical terms, social mobility is very low.
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by gonvaled 7y ago
> Verified app stores, for example, are about providing security to the end user, not about disrespecting the end user. Everything a company does is for the bottom line. App stores are there for lock-in, and for taking a percent of the s
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by gonvaled 7y ago
If Google trade secrets are relevant for national security, non US governments shouldn't allow Google to operate without revealing those trade secrets to their intelligence agencies.
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by gonvaled 7y ago
I would like to remind international users that making use of American technology makes you a pawn in the current trade war. The US is a counterparty risk.
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by gonvaled 7y ago
Any meddling by any other country would have not had the same effect. What you are saying is that, because of the pervasiveness of US tech, all organizations having US a companies as members are at risk. Time for the world to route around t
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by gonvaled 7y ago
You should probably relay this information to those spending huge amounts in advertising.
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by gonvaled 7y ago
Android is, as all US technology, a counterparty risk.
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by gonvaled 7y ago
Your solution is (was?) to use your own email address (with your own domain) with email forwarding to your gmail address. This way you do not make your gmail address public, and can move frontends easily. This does not solve the fact that y
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by gonvaled 7y ago
The situation is unbearable. We can not continue like this. US technology companies have accumulated too much power. The EU should start requiring contractual assurances by technology companies for customers of US products, guaranteeing tha
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by gonvaled 7y ago
I do not care what happens in the US. I am not in the US. I am not a US citizen. But I am affected by the decisions of what I consider an adversary, that is removing me the option of buying a perfectly functioning product. I understand why
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by gonvaled 7y ago
That could very well be the case. But I don't care: Huawei has no power over me. Neither has the Chinese Government. The US is equally eager (or more) to tamper with the free market, with the small difference that they are in a positio
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by gonvaled 7y ago
The point is that we have allowed US companies to have absolute control of the technology stack. There is no competition (at most between US companies). There are several ways to mitigate this: - Open Source. Android itself falls into this
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by gonvaled 7y ago
Security considerations have absolutely nothing to do with the Huawei ban. The US has provided no evidence, and has refused the offer by Huawei to collaborate in any investigation. This is part of the trade war, and the fact that the US is
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by gonvaled 7y ago
Perfectly on point. US companies have now been shown for what they really are: an extension of the US government. As such those companies can and will be used to make political points and advance US interests. Caveat emptor: using US techno
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by gonvaled 7y ago
The US has pretty much withdrawn from all international organizations (or is simply ignoring them, see WTO). The US is not abiding by any international order. The US is economically terrorizing the world by aggressively pushing the dominanc
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Ask HN: Alternative to Google Services?
12 points by gonvaled 7y ago|17 comments
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by gonvaled 7y ago
> The fundamental issues surrounding China 2025 What are those issues? Why is the goal of advancing your local industries frown upon? Why is the US in the business of telling sovereign countries what they should produce, buy or sell?
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by gonvaled 7y ago
Are you saying that: A) all Huawei phones (old or currently being sold) with Google services will keep access to the services, even in the long term? B) the only effect fo the ban on current Huawei phones (old or currently being sold) will
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by gonvaled 7y ago
Does this apply to phones being currently sold? If I buy today the Huawei P30 Pro, in amazon.de, will I have (and keep) access to Google services?
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by gonvaled 7y ago
The mere fact that this is possible, highlights the risk that international trade has become, specially regarding technology. Any country holding a considerable share of the technology market should be considered a single point of failure,
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by gonvaled 7y ago
Why does the US not go to the WTO then? That's the standard process for conflict resolution. Those are the rules set up by the US.
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by gonvaled 7y ago
Behing the EU's back? The project is public since years. The former German chancellor is publicly involved in it. The project is very much European: lots of countries involved. Why can't the EU buy gas from wherever we want? Who i
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by gonvaled 7y ago
> These rules don't make US companies "another arm of the US government". US companies can (and do!) push back against the US government, through the courts, political parties, and ultimately elections. Show me the push ba
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by gonvaled 7y ago
Not sure why. As non-American (and non-Chinese I assume), the Chinese do not care about you, but the Americans very much do.
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by gonvaled 7y ago
Not really if you are not a citizen of said country. Or to put it in numbers: - 80% of the world population is not Chinese, and are not affected by China. - 95% of the world population is not American, and are very much affected by the US.
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by gonvaled 7y ago
How is this going to work exactly? The world supply chains are supposed to avoid Huawei in the coming months / years, local politicians will be painfully explaining their citizens that Huawei is a security risk (we will need to take th
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by gonvaled 7y ago
The "independent' American justice going after European companies.
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by gonvaled 7y ago
Why is Huawei equipement more dangerous than American equipement? Why should Europe follow American policy? (I am European)
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by gonvaled 7y ago
The US is simply out of control.

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