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The last fine google got was 10% of their income, last year. This year they aren't playing by the rules again. What is the EU supposed to do? Give another 10% fine that will be ignored? Also the fine is not 40% of googles income. The corrected income this year is $22.4 billion USD. $5 billion is less than a quarter of that. Going from 10% to 20-25% seems totally okay, if google does not try to follow european law.

(The 2017 income of google is lower because they decided to use the new US tax law in order to move a lot of money to the USA which cost them $9.8 billion. But you can't say your income is low just because you spend it all on ice cream. This is why I use the adjusted number of $22.4 billion)
False. Windows isn't open source and they got quite the same reacction with the accusation of using their monopoly to manipulate users into using internet explorer, thus resulting in a windows version with an initial browser choice when starting first. I don't know how much they were fined though...
I wrote yesterday a polite comment on Gates' blog about the fantastic work of Dr Dale Bredesen reversing Alzheimer, but the comment has not appeared on the blog....

Here is a testimony of Bredesen's patients: http://abc7news.com/health/heres-how-patients-say-they-rever...
If there is, then a good meta analysis should be possible or already done.
I think that would be 5% of gross revenue, not profits. I think it's an appropriately large number.
Google CEO on $5B EU antitrust fine: ‘Android has created more choice, not less’
Their Education division is low single digit percentage points of TI's business. While it almost certainly has huge margins it's up in the air as to whether it's more bullet point on a slide internally.
Google warns Android might not remain free because of EU decision
That sucks, but it seems almost inevitable with these new funding/purchasing models: the risk necessarily shifts from the developer and onto the consumer. This is a big reason why I'm a "patient gamer:" why should I be the one exposed to uncertainty when there are plenty of other complete and patched games out there vying for my attention?
True, but Lemaître actually calculated the Hubble constant[1], partly using data published by Hubble (but before him).

[1]: http://home.fnal.gov/~skent/blunder.html
This is 100% doable, hell 100% easy, within QMK (the current open source firmware of choice for custom MK builders)
If you really want to check bandwidth between two devices, LAN or WAN, you should use iperf.

https://iperf.fr/
They’re both female, and that’s about where the similarity ends.

There is far too much interplay between genes, plenty of which are still unmapped, for us to even begin to hazard a guess at something as complex as facial structure.

I mean, according to my genome, I’m short, black, unable to smell asparagus in my pee, don’t have the photic sneeze reflex, have cystic fibrosis, and am bald - and I’m none of those things. Were it not for the fact that I’m definitely my mother’s son according to the same services (23andme -> promethease) I would have thought they’d mixed up my sample.

Until we actually understand gene expression, we’re just looking at a limited set of inputs and using pretty woolly cluster analysis to correlate with outputs.
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It may very well be trillions. After all Google has above 90 percent share of search in Europe. But it doesn't mean they shouldn't follow the rules.
> They're a part of the same suite of apps that provide the "Android experience". They manifestly have a profound connection with each other.

Fire OS and my personal phone which is running a Google-free version of LineageOS would like to have a word.

> And if we just go around clubbing everything coarsely, why does my BMW have a BMW entertainment system?

BMW doesn't have a dominant market position it could abuse. Neither does Apple or any other company that Google is commonly compared to in these discussions.

Somehow these false-equivalences seem to be most common among people trying to push the "unfair fine" narrative.

On top of that you claim that because there are other companies/products that are in breach of the law - at least according to your misreading of it - this somehow makes the word of the law less clear cut in this case. Which just doesn't make any sense.

Let me throw your own words back at you: "you are not really thinking about it [your arguments] much."
Visited Waterford a couple weeks ago - really liked it! Shame it took me 5 years to visit; my friends here in Dublin (including a Waterford lad) said there wasn't much reason.

TBH the greenway alone is worth a visit. Wife and I are contemplating moving there. Next time we go I'll check out more street art.
A different part of the full story:

http://home.fnal.gov/~skent/blunder.html
And most of the time it DOES warn you, google "haskell" + "If you enjoy sharing an address space with a malevolent agent of chaos" to find why unsafeCoerce and unsafePerformIO are only for FFI writers who know-what-they-do
I feel like this is generally fair, but things that get pushed back from one patch to the next shouldn't count as broken promises. It seems disingenuous to count "3.2 didn't have mining, it's been pushed to 3.3" on the same level as "we said you'd be able to run your own server with mods, but now you can't". Maybe you need another category for Delayed
I use iperf3 to test the connection speed between nodes I control.
> Instrumentalness

Dafuq? You either have vocals, or not.
Yes, the fact that Google Chrome is written in C++ is nothing short of total disaster. It is bad for humanity. Just count all those "use after free" vulnerabilities.
I'm pretty sure users will just learn to interpret it as a pistol, rather than water gun. Same like how the eggplant emoji means "penis" now.
But Apple does pre-install iTunes/Apple Music, and make money when users use the default music app rather than downloading alternatives. You gotta pay for the OS somehow, but people aren't willing to pay for OSes. So instead, Apple makes money through the bundled hardware (to use iOS, you must buy an iPhone) and Google through the bundled software (if you want to use some Google apps like the Play Store, you must also use other Google apps like Chrome and Search).
It was also disputed on the other side for the same reasons, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle :

> He found the idea that the universe had a beginning to be pseudoscience, resembling arguments for a creator, "for it's an irrational process, and can't be described in scientific terms"

Pope Pius XII at least had the excuse of trying to speak about a field in which he wasn't an expert.
This is one of the oldest companies in existence. It is hardly on its last legs.

Also, patents are a huge revenue stream at IBM. Always have been. However, that merely makes them the original patent troll. :)
All I can think of is Nokia and possibly Vodafone if those count as technology. What other big tech companies are there? Not trying to be rude, just generally curious as I don't know much about the European technology scene
The irony being that it's basically what SC promised in their KS.
This reminds me of the "Ascension" premise behind Ian M. Banks' last book in the culture series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hydrogen_Sonata
The best scenario is full contact between the CPU/GPU/whatever makes the heat and the heatsink. No product that is put between those elements will make heat dissipation get any better, as it won't change the composition of the heatsink or of the CPU/GPU surface.

Now, in real life, CPU, GPU and heatsink don't have the perfect, more-than-mirror finished surface. There are small gaps and small peaks that prevent a full contact. And those gaps are filled with air. Air is a bad heat conductor. So, to reduce this bad, bad air effect, you fill the gaps with thermal paste.

Thermal paste will be better than air pockets. Thermal paste will be worst than metal/metal (CPU/GPU/heatsink) contact. So, put as little as thermal paste as needed, just to fill the gaps.

But put too few paste, or don't cover everything, and you'll end up with more gaps: the paste will prevent those metal/metal peaks contacts and if not spread evenly it will leave bigger gaps.

If you can't know the ideal, it's better to have a little more paste (but covering everything) than to few or badly spread (leaving bigger gaps).
Why does a gendered preference make sense in this case?
I pledge money on the condition that I get a game.

See, what I do is I don't pay for a game until it's released and some reviews start coming in. That way you know what you're getting.
> I've been doing hours-long CPU+GPU intensive tasks (compiling ghc, number crunching, playing games like Bioshock Infinite and StarCraft II on a HD4000) on a bunch of pre-retina MBP and rMBP 13" and they never throttled.

I find that hard to believe. I have been gaming a lot on MacBook Pro unibodies and retinas with and without an external GPUs. Especially when the internal GPU is active, the thermal load is just too high for many games and applications.

Throttling normally starts in a very subtle way by disabling clock boost and is hard to notice. Throttling below the base clock is rare and this is where it becomes really noticeable.
looking at go-gc it seems to be really successful. like for a lot of apps people are running people are more concerned over high pause times and reducing tail latencies than having the best throughput. like maybe crappy allocation speed and fragmentation is adding 1ms to every request an app is doing but avoiding random 20ms pauses is worth it. this is the same tradeoff the next generation of 'pauseless' java collectors are taking. basically have mutator threads do a lot more work in exchange for lower pause times.

the weird thing is java doesn't seem to offer this an option because it seems like it would be something simple to add. basically CMS + jemalloc. maybe the performance is actually that bad that it would not be usable on java where there is a lot more heap allocation going on.

the design of go seems generally to use simple solutions where other people use complex solutions. like for interface dispatch go has fat pointers which has middling performance. while java uses JIT to remove the dynamic dispatch where it can which has great performance or falls back to looping through the class to find the correct interface vtable to dispatch the method call which has terrible performance.
Oh man.

[Enterprise PTSD intensifies]
I think the most egregious one I've seen was "To opt-out of tracking cookies, click here to learn how to turn off cookies in your browser".
Do the lasers create light pollution problems for the telescopes?
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Wow, amazing - I worked for Micropro back in the early 80s - ask him about the Barnaby monitor throwing incident sometime...
I'll preface with the fact I've not kept up with SC development at all. But haven't they released multiple "modules" as they've been going?
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That does seem like a better model. I might have to check that game out.

Games should produce the base game they promised, and then just add expansion packs or additional levels (free to initial backers) to try and get everything else in until the money runs out.

Maybe even the old shareware style route of releasing Episode 1, 2 and 3 (although in the shareware days, Ep1 was free and 2/3 were commercial .. like 1 was a really long game demo).
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You'll find a lot of the songwriters are the same people, and the producers - who literally birth the entire song - are also the same people again and again.
Finally we reached $1100 in revenue in 26 days of launch
It's 5% of turnover, not profit. It is a lot of money for the shareholders.
The Ergodox would be really easy to reprogram this way. The Infinity is two independent one-hand keyboards, so that's probably the one you want.
I'm also a golden ticket holder and my patience is evaporating.

I can't believe the single player campaign has not been released yet! Also the published roadmap doesn't seem to end anywhere that is satisfactory.

They need to kick out a whole bunch of features (perhaps temporarily) to get the game in a state that it's somewhat complete and playable.
That's definitely an incentive to stop once you were caught. But not really an incentive to not even do it in the first place.

Easier to say sorry than to ask permission, right?
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This is part of the power/money struggle between huge corporations and governments.

Big corporations often succeed in avoiding taxes [1][2], and regularly pit states or countries against each other to get the highest tax benefit [3]. Governments really don't like that, but often there's not a lot they can do.

Except for banding up in something like the EU, and using that combined power to strike back.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-02/google-s-...

[2] https://itep.org/amazon-inc-paid-zero-in-federal-taxes-in-20...

[3] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/09/07/could-your-st...
Given his position as CEO, there aren't any employees he could "fraternize" with, if "fraternizing" implies no hierarchical reporting relationship. I think in this context that is the significance of the word, which like "fraternal" is connected to the concept of brotherhood and connotes at least nominal equality between the participants.
> Meanwhile, all the local staff got was a bar of made-in-China chocolate

I can understand why they revolted.
I’d like to see someone develop a chorded keyboard with some sort of gesture based feedback. An advanced sign language for computer input.

Cameras, etc could be used to read our gestures:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/16/ctrl-labss-neural-tech-lets-...

https://atap.google.com/soli/
Cruise control has been doing this since forever as well.

As someone who heavily uses cruise control, and lives in an area with curves, it makes for unjoyed driving with patrons with adaptive cruise control, or non-cruisers.
What makes you think this? Lots of laptops have severe throttling issues and the thin-and-light trend of the last few years has not really helped the situation but there are certainly laptops out there that have adequate cooling systems and do not thermally throttle. I was kind of shocked when I got the original Thinkpad X1C (14" screen and weighs 3lb) that it maintained 100% boost clock with no throttling over the entire span of hours-long video encoding workloads.
The point was that those commands used muscle-memory and were conceived so that the majority of editing tasks could be executed with leaving the "home" position
Too lazy to read the article, but this was a thing in Russia for a long time. The USSR falling apart in the 90s correlated with a bunch of special forces coming back from Afghanistan and then Chechnya. They had no jobs and crime rates were high, so naturally private security companies popped up. Naturally, body guard schools popped up.

I didn't read the article, but I watched a documentary on the Chinese companies, and it seems like they are far closer to the security guard than the "any threat, anywhere" type deal.

Regarding Blackwater and its equivalents, there is a merc company called "Wagner Group" in Russia that recently attacked an oil field in Syria held by pro-US rebels. The US hit them with artillery from a MEC position, and then fixed-wing and AH-64 CAS ran train on them for four hours. The US and Russia initially denied any direct US on Russia contact. So, it seems like Russian "military" PMCs are more expendable, deniable spam when compared to BlackWater/Academi/whatever they are calling themselves these days.

That's not to say Russsia doesn't have the capability, but they prefer to keep their "PMCs" as black units directly under FSB control, a la "rebels" running around Ukraine with radar-controlled machine guns, taking out helicopters on take off, etc.

To tie this all back to China - they haven't shown themselves on that level yet to the best of my knowledge.
Reminds me of the AlphaGrip[0] somewhat. Of the problems of using it, I mean. I bought it like 10 years ago, and sold it a couple of years later, it's good to see that they're still in business.

On the AG, instead of a combination of buttons to produce a keypress, you have 8 keys (buttons?) that can rock in two directions, plus thumb buttons, including red and green "shifts" that work as Fn keys. Normally you type text, pressing red shift you input numbers and arithmetic symbols, with green shift the rest of the symbols. It was great for games and got past my regular QWERTY speed writing English text after a couple of months.

Now, if you write in more than one language, you're screwed. Using other layouts would make the already difficult task for developing muscle memory even more annoying. I tried it with US-Intl layout (as I was used to it on QWERTY) to have a unique layout for multiple languages, but it quickly becomes unusable: to produce an "À", I don't remember exactly, but required 2+2 or 3+2 simultaneous keypresses, plus US-Intl is implemented different in different OS, so sometimes you have to take into account dead keys, sticky keys, sometimes not. And don't get me started on shortcuts and programming...

[0] http://www.alphagrip.com/
I am also interested in this, but I'm concerned about the accessibility aspects. Native Qt can be accessible. Web apps can be accessible.

Can Native Qt on web assembly be accessible? How would that work cross-platform?
And this is the unfortunate problem with the agile “release an MVP and iterate” approach when talking about a game. Unlike a SaaS product that might initially solve a problem, a game needs to be compelling, make a good first impression, and be fun, all out of the gate, to retain player interest. The Early Access model has continued to fail because people try the early version, dislike it (because it isn’t finished), then leave bad reviews and never return to see the game’s progress.

Elite continues to get better all the time and will likely eventually be a pretty good game, but it’ll never have the audience it would have if they had the budget to release a full and finished product on day 1.
I feel like computers are such an important part of our lives now that it's surprising so many people settle for the entrenched option of 'standard QWERTY computer keyboard'.

I realised a while ago that since I spend so much of my life interacting with a computer, I should really invest significant effort into improving, even marginally, the ergonomics and bandwidth of the IO channel between my brain and the computer I am interacting with. This realisation and the ensuing quest for a better option led me to adopt the Ergodox EZ keyboard. This has been the most significant improvement to my day-to-day interactions with computers since learning Vim. It did take several months to adjust and a significant amount of effort went into designing the optimal layout to suit my needs, but the results have been incredible.

- I never need to look at the keyboard

- My WPM rate is sufficient that I can type almost as fast as I can think

- The palms of my hands never move (zero wrist flexion)

My keyboard layout can be found here https://github.com/Ganon-M/ergodox-vim-ubuntu

If any of you out there are heavy Vim users and want to take your ergonomic experience to the next level, I suggest taking a look at the above layout.
Man, some of these could be Corp-explained away by some savvy PR person but why the heck would you buy a URL that is like your competitor and point it to you, other than to deliberately stifle competition? I would like to hear the response from Google on that one.
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On the bright side many decisions the EU takes also benefit the rest of the world by virtue of being a big enough market.

Of course you can expect any government to be a little easier on local businesses but as far as correctness goes the EU has always done a pretty good job.
Exactly. In other tech this is called headroom.

It’s just a pragmatic approach to a physical limitation. The right choice given the clientele— debatable. But just the same it’s not unique to computer manufacturers.
I'd like to notice an important thing: with this keyboard, one does not move the fingertips at all. The only motion required is press / release.

This is a great quality when hands are busy with something else, like holding a bike's handlebar, or an aircraft control rod.

It's also likely a good setup for some smart glove type of input device, where there are no keys to press but finger motions are detected.

If fingertips are allowed to change the position, a few more keys allow for easier chords and much more characters, all using the same 5 fingers. They can be touch-typed even easier than a normal keyboard.
I love your idea, but what's simple about CHO digestion half-life? Certainly not finding more information. Can you link to any resources?
One thing that helps is to remember is that by the standards of the industry, you do not have a condition unless it is materially adversely affecting your life. The mental health industry is not concerned about whether you are a perfectionist; they are concerned about whether you are having a material negative impact on your life because of your perfectionism. This is obviously a subset of people who have perfectionist tendencies.

Another topical example is "internet addiction"; they're not pathologizing "being on the internet a lot", they're pathologizing "being on the internet so much it materially adversely affects your life". I know plenty of people in 2018 who are on the Internet in one form or another "a lot", but at the moment don't know anybody for whom it is materially adversely affecting their life. But I knew someone circa 1997 in college for whom that would be true. (Arguably at one point I came close, but I never quite crossed the threshold of playing Quake II online to the exclusion of the things I needed to do. I perhaps did not do them as well as I should have, but I did them well enough.)

Of course there's a lot of give in that boundary, and there are people who cross it. But at least conceptually, the proliferation of pathologies is less bad than it looks. Nominally they're not creating new ones, but merely recognizing more ways in which you can be materially negatively impacted that already existed.
In my experience, perfectionism is a reaction to a lack of actual progress or success. Kind of similar to forms of idealism or religious feelings that arise as a result of being powerless in the face of circumstances.
But you said it was illegal, which it clearly isn't.
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Those ISPs can only fight this “burden” by taking advantage of their unfair monopoly. If there was an actual free market competition there would be no need for net neutrality in the first place.

BOB could just switch to using DAVE’s ISP service, who would be happy to connect him with CAROL’s AN without any throttling.
> Google being seriously attacked on here for have an open source path as well

It's not because Google has open sourced Android (which they _had_ to because of the GPL used by Linux). The fine is for protecting their own marker by blocking others from using that open source software.