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IT departments are often (not always) unfortunately full of intellectually weak people who have based their entire careers around knowing their way around Windows and not much else…

"Wirecutter, A New York Times Company" As proudly and very visibly proclaimed in the masthead of every page on thewirecutter.com. This was the part that made me trust this site ear…

Thanks!

Like when the CEO randomly feels like it because he woke up being annoyed. But otherwise, totally not.

https://twitter.com/boztank "VP AR/VR at Facebook. VP of Ads before that. Co-Invented News Feed, Messenger, Groups, and more." (Those are UI features/sub-products. Not inventions. …

> Long rant on why the GDPR is bad > I am not a lawyer. I have not read the GDPR. You sound like you would enjoy hanging out with Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak. :)

That's the beauty of it all. Do you really think YCombinator has no EU exposure? It's a multi-billion dollar company.

Is the website available on any known platform, including any selectric-based platforms?

How were you able to read anything?

This is comically bad.

> 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 t…

To be able to post at all. I've given up on the vgf handle. And on HN as well, to be honest.

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 t…

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…

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/…

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 …

Google is however nowadays staffed by activists.

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 be…

It is illegal to use a monopoly in one market to create a monopoly in another market.

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 pref…

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…