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by yyyfb 2y ago
I'd be mindful that having a NATO partner be able to spy is maybe better than having Huawei spy if you have to choose, but yes, I think it's a risk that EU countries should be aware of and probably are more aware of than with soci
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by yyyfb 2y ago
No. Unlike a newspaper, they host videos and photos of a third of (?) the US population, have detailed reader data on who reads what when, who is friends with whom, location history, etc. This data treasure trove may be stored in US, but it
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by yyyfb 2y ago
Not necessarily. China pursues many objectives when it comes to its national security, such as intimidation and coercion of dissidents or opponents of its regime living abroad. Assuming China's equivalent of the Patriot act lets it tre
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by yyyfb 2y ago
EU countries are asleep at the wheel on matters of national security and sovereignty. Spotify is not a matter of national security. TikTok, and social networking in general, has been one for some time now. Misinformation, conspiracy theorie
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by yyyfb 2y ago
Parent talks about Meta, you mention Microsoft. They are not in the same business. Meta is in the social networking domain, which the communist party in China has treated for years as a matter of national security. The "color revolutio
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by yyyfb 2y ago
As an EU resident your govt likely exerts far more control over media (both domestic and foreign owned) than the US
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by yyyfb 2y ago
TikTok's problem isn't with what they say openly, it's with the amount of invisible control exerted by a foreign government.
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by yyyfb 2y ago
Compare with China though. There is absolutely no way that a company like Bytedance would be allowed to operate inside China while under American control.
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by yyyfb 2y ago
The fact that this emerged instead of IPv6 is a true testament to the power of "good enough hackery"
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by yyyfb 2y ago
I feel that the future for Python people who want type safety will eventually be TypeScript on nodejs. Go was intended as an alternative to C++. It seems that in reaction to the ungodly complexity of C++, the creators wanted to avoid adding
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by yyyfb 2y ago
Couldn't it just be algorithmic? Go uphill in the summer, then downhill until you hit water, you'll probably end in the same pond?
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by yyyfb 2y ago
Musk in 2022: "Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic" In 2024:
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by yyyfb 2y ago
If the continental US can do it (and it looks like it might soon, with California voting for it) I'm not sure I buy that argument. Heck if China can survive on one timezone...
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by yyyfb 2y ago
Reminds me of "how did this ever work in the first place" bugs. Something that used to work stops working, you look into it, and it seems that the thing looked broken to begin with, but by some lucky miracle something was making i
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by yyyfb 2y ago
Boggles my mind that after more than 60 years of computer science, we still design tools (programming languages) where the simplest tasks are full of gotchas and footguns. This is a great example.
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by yyyfb 2y ago
What if having the resources to develop hardware are not the point? This is a physical business, and supply chain is the bottleneck at some point. Right now it seems that all the money in the world can't build fabs fast enough to manuf
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by yyyfb 2y ago
Let me put it this way. I don't think you and I are fundamentally disagreeing: money matters, to the extent that it allows to buy statistically better health outcomes and quality time with family. I don't personally think it matte
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by yyyfb 2y ago
Also for background playback on mobile
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by yyyfb 2y ago
It's not about them opposing each other, it's about priorities.
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by yyyfb 2y ago
I'm pretty sure it would've stayed a defcon thing
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by yyyfb 2y ago
Streisand effect strikes again Option A: let the dude have his talk. Nobody hears about it beyond the walls of defcon. Move along. Option B: uninvite and call security. Guy becomes instant personality on reddit and hn. I didn't know th
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by yyyfb 2y ago
Two things can be true. Money does buy comfort and care. Also, it does not make one immortal. We can choose what we take away from events. I could choose to feel unlucky that I haven't made as much money as someone else, and I would be
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by yyyfb 2y ago
Feeling cool for not going to burning man before it was the trend
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by yyyfb 2y ago
Next time you're thinking "I wish I was the one who had made a billion dollars with my startup idea", remember that only health and family matter, and to have fun while you're alive. RIP. Edit: some people misinterpreted
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by yyyfb 2y ago
It's fine to convey the importance of these things. It's another thing to do it with an implied assumption that OP doesn't know better themselves, which context doesn't really give a lot of clues about. Obviously in the
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by yyyfb 2y ago
Maybe chatgpt can assess!
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by yyyfb 2y ago
> Apologies if it came off as arrogance, that was not what I was going for. No need to apologize, just wanted to make you aware of how it came off to me. > my point was not necessarily “I know better”, but that it is incredibly diffic
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by yyyfb 2y ago
> The developers might be great, you might find you need to get rid of management dead wood. In my experience great developers do not stick with mediocre managers, because they quickly find better options. My experience with poor manager
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by yyyfb 2y ago
What's the use of buying a team that doesn't do management right? The only possible reason for wanting to buy a software provider and turn them into an in-house team would be if they were a stellar team, with stellar management.
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by yyyfb 2y ago
I think there's a big risk there of hiring a "CTO" who hasn't coded in 10 years and it's just a paper pusher. Ask to see the GitHub.

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