throwaway4719

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by throwaway4719 8y ago
That's the beauty of it all. Do you really think YCombinator has no EU exposure? It's a multi-billion dollar company.
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by throwaway4719 8y ago
Is the website available on any known platform, including any selectric-based platforms?
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by throwaway4719 8y ago
How were you able to read anything?
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by throwaway4719 8y ago
This is comically bad.
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by throwaway4719 8y ago
> I think gutting the value of a forum so that people can remove all their content at will on a whim can readily go bad places. Thankfully, there's a really easy solution that HN today will not consider/is not taking seriously
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by throwaway4719 8y ago
To be able to post at all. I've given up on the vgf handle. And on HN as well, to be honest.
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by throwaway4719 8y ago
I posted that (I'm vgf). My account was rate-limited and the post was very clearly artificially pushed to the second page, then the third. Just minutes before that it had started to climb up the front page relatively quickly.
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by throwaway4719 8y ago
I assume you were being sarcastic, but in this aspect, I actually think the GDPR is great. At least for Europeans. (The fact that people will find a way of disagreeing about pretty much anything online is a whole other matter.)
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by throwaway4719 8y ago
Alphabet Inc. break their revenue down into: EMEA, APAC, Other Americas, US Out of this, in 2017, EMEA was 32.5% of total revenue, based on numbers from page 33 of https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/20171231_alphabet_10K
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by throwaway4719 8y ago
That's one part of the negotiation puzzle. EU would want it's citizens to retain access to their google-hosted emails. Legally speaking, I'm sure there's plenty of ways the EU can force Google to do things it currently d
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by throwaway4719 8y ago
Google is however nowadays staffed by activists.
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by throwaway4719 9y ago
Note: Docker is a YC company (S10). Note 2: This kind of comment from a moderator feels a bit out of place, given this. At least without a disclaimer explaining the relationship between the topic and the moderator's employer.
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by throwaway4719 12y ago
It is illegal to use a monopoly in one market to create a monopoly in another market.
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by throwaway4719 12y ago
They kept the fact that they were going to deploy this on the search service that has a monopoly on search in EU secret until it was launched in Chrome. Before this, this link prefetching has seen very little use in the wild.
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by throwaway4719 12y ago
Posting from a throwaway account since I work on a competing browser. I think Google needs to check its steps quite carefully when doing things like these. For quite some time they have leveraged their search monopoly (think about their EU