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BRUSSELS—The European Union plans to hit Alphabet Inc.’s Google with a record antitrust fine of €4.34 billion ($5.06 billion) on Wednesday, according to an official familiar with the matter, a decision that could loosen the company’s grip on its biggest growth engine: mobile phones.

A formal decision—which would mark the EU’s sharpest rebuke yet to the power of a handful of tech giants—is set to be taken during Wednesday morning’s meeting of EU commissioners following a presentation by competition chief Margrethe Vestager, according to the person. No discussion of the decision is expected, the official said.

The EU’s antitrust regulator has been looking into whether Google had abused the dominance of its Android operating system, which runs more than 80% of the world’s smartphones, in order to promote and entrench its own mobile apps and services—particularly the company’s eponymous search engine.

Google, which can appeal, has rejected the EU’s case since the bloc issued formal charges over two years ago. Google says Android, which is free for manufacturers to use, has increased competition among smartphone makers, lowering the prices for consumers. Google also says the allegation that it stymied competing apps is false because manufacturers typically install many rival apps on Android devices—and consumers can download others.

The fine would top the EU’s €2.4 billion antitrust decision against Google just over a year ago.

Wednesday’s expected ruling would be the latest in a series of decisions in which the EU has cast itself in the vanguard of a backlash against U.S. tech superpowers, on issues ranging from competition to taxes to privacy. Ms. Vestager has become the face of that battle, arguing that regulators must do more to restore fairness to the digital market.

The EU’s executive announced Wednesday morning that Ms. Vestager would give a press conference at 7 a.m. ET.

Write to Laurence Norman at laurence.norman@wsj.com
Apple does not have a 
monopoly
 dominant position. In my country I think they are like 10% of the market. You can't abuse your dominant position if you don't have one.
Yeah stunning to see the proverbial elon ego take a back seat in this case, that dude is just too passionate about his ideas to admit fault when wrong in most cases, which I was half as passionate about my ideas.
apple doesn't have market dominance, thats the claim, anyway this fine is stupid, see my comment about how volkswagen only paid 1 billion to germany for its emissions scam, europe is just trying to siphone money from american tech companies.
Indeed, and it's a wonderful, useful feature. So useful to consumers, that a french ISP (Free) wasn't very happy with it and sued Netflix for it in june 2017.

I have no idea if this lawsuit is still ongoing, because Free seemed to have had a first peering with Netflix in April, and has been going up in the chart:

https://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/country/france/
Yeah, I'd like to see some examples of passing anything other than doubles, for example Arrays, and I'd like to know how GC works after the Array has been passed, and if the Array is passed by reference (instead of being copied), and things like that.
That’s carousel or whatever frontend guys name it spinning at the top. Slides with different height. Not a big deal, since it could open a popup, three floating bars and gdpr warning after you explicitly accepted their tracking cookies instead.
Haskell is my guilty pleasure language. I have no idea what I personally would ever use it for, but I admire it so much that learning it is higher up on my bucket list than many other (arguably more useful) things.
key word being /can/; it's a statement and a belief that IMO is very sensitive to confirmation bias.

One of the key points of the psychedelics / soft drugs legalisation effort is that it would allow for a lot less red tape to do medical research on.
Here is another compelling public account: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary
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> It's not supposed to render 6K 3D all day at full speed in the tropics

Hyperbole aside, their advertising shows it hooked up to a 5K external display running the Unity debugger. So it should at least be able to render 5K 3D for a typical work day.
To put that into context:

> Despite being a record fine, Alphabet generated about the same amount of money every 16 days in 2017, based on the company’s reported annual revenue of $110.9 billion for the year.
Doing god's work, thank you.
I think the consensus is psychedelics can trigger or exacerbate mental illness you're already predisposed to. If your family has a history of mental illness you should probably avoid psychedelics. Even if they don't it might be wise to wait until your late 20s to see if any signs of mental illness appear.

But that's not really any different than people predisposed to heart disease smoking or drinking alcohol or eating McDonalds.
I think the parent comment is saying that a person taking legal lsd would spend significantly less money than a person drinking. Lsd and alcohol would compete for recreational time. Lsd would reduce the tax income from alcohol sales, and not be able to replace it with new tax revenue. Governments have a fanical incentive to keep lsd illegal.
I think you're not considering that failed drives will be replaced and the data on them reconstructed from the other shards. This failure mode requires 4 of 20 drives to fail in such a short amount of time that reconstruction cannot be completed.
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I'm only comfortable doing that after I've got at least 3 years of value out of it. My current laptop is an aging Zenbook Pro where I've replaced the custom SSD with an adapter plus an m.2 board.

So maybe if you still want to use the laptop after a few years you can open it up and give it a bit of a facelift. Maybe applying a whole bunch of thermal paste will give it a slightly new lease of life?
What aggressor? As I understand it, the US and Russia are best pals now. We filthy Europeans are apparently the enemy nowadays.
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There's no correlation, it can be a trigger, like giving birth can be a trigger. Let's make breeding illegal?
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Is this a serious fine, or just a slap on the fingers?

Can Google just continue their practices after this?
Archive (non-paywall) copy:

http://archive.is/JpjEI
In my country, iOS are more than 50% of the market. I haven't been able to find any EU-wide numbers though, which are the important ones in this case.
Unbox Therapy, can't stand that guy
But IDB follows the same-origin policy, so you can't share the cached runtime between different apps.

At least not unless you can load it from the same public CDN.

Edit: Actully, I'm not sure you could do that even with the public CDN.
Apples and oranges. Different violations, different markets, different market shares and different revenues make for different fines.
You can apply a one way function to an IP to obtain an ID and then maintain a database of bad IDs. For example you could compute this ID by the SHA256(IP + secret salt). Since way one function don't allow you to recover the IP, the ID is not PII. If you detect an IP which has bad ID the connecting ban that IP from the game. I think this respect the GDPR, you don't maintain a list of IPs or any other PII.
Android does not have a monopoly either. You can buy an iPhone.
Let's talk about 'stupid' again once US tech giants start paying appropriate taxes on their profits generated in Europe without siphoning them off.
Isn't the operating temperature of a mac laptop max out at something like 35c ? That's woefully low for anywhere it gets hot, like Australia for example. It basically means that on a hot day in summer you cannot use your laptop unless you're indoors in air conditioned comfort.

EDIT: Yes, I checked, the MacBook Air has an operating temperature of 10-35c and a storage temperature of -25-45c, which means that it's technically unusable or out of warranty if you use it in a hot country on a hot day. Like in the tropics on a beach for example.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/finally-a-problem-that-only-q...
They should compare with profits, revenue has costs.
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This is unacceptable, sure, other Core i9 throttle (like the XPS 15), but not this aggressively. What is even the point of offering this if it can't keep it at even base clock?

Is this the fault of thinness, aluminium chassi or something else?
Can they come up to Belfast and paint over the horrible paramilitary murals? Cheers.
I used the wrong term, I meant "dominant position". Google has one with Android and they abuse it. That's why they are being fined.
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Don't you have to compare it with profits ? Also, most of the $$ comes from other places, no ?
> straightforward open source VPN servers compatible with Apple’s clients

I wish there were so that I can have one for iOS, but I've been using OpenVPN easily since long enough on macOS that the alternatives always seem terribly cumbersome and brittle.

I've been meaning to try tinc since forever, but it won't integrate with Apple clients either.
Beware of companies/VCs that want to fool you into thinking how "easy" it is to grow a business, if you just follow their advice and use their services.
I never have set anything.
A fine comes out of your profits, not your revenue. From a Routers[1] source they had $110.9 billion in revenue, but a profit of $12.6 billion. So this is somewhere between a third and half of their global profits.

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-results/alphabet...
Do you guys also allow drug advertisements? The only problem I see is our drug producers here using advertising to push people into buying and using drugs that they really shouldn't be using and inadvertently causing themselves a myriad of additional health problems. Im 100% for people being able to use whatever drug they wish, provided that they actually know what they are taking and what it does. Any half decent advertiser though would leave that as an open-ended as legally possibly interpretation in order to drive sales though.
http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe

It gets much worse depending on the country:

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/italy

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/spain
Volvo is a much smaller company with much less revenue serving a small market share of a smaller market. With fines based partly on revenue, this difference makes perfect sense. Unlike your comment.
More than the amount Netherlands contributes every year!
Well, the European Commission alleges that Android has an 80% market share in Europe:

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1492_en.htm (fifth paragraph)

But for this case, they are using a definition that makes Android even more dominant: they allege that Google restricts device manufacturers' freedoms. And from a device manufacturer point of view, Android has a 90+% market share of "licensable smart mobile operating systems", with "licensable" being key: as a device manufacturer, you cannot use iOS, so that doesn't count if you buy into this line of argument:

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-16-1484_en.htm
Might be better to look at profit? Their 18Q1 profits were $9.6B, which would make this a hit of roughly 1.5 months?
I have no idea, but I wouldn't count on it.

At the highly ethical, respectable company where I worked, this was going on:

Periodically, some actuarial would have a cow about how some benefit was costing too much. The policy would get sent to the legal department for review. Legal would find some defensible creative new interpretation for the language of the benefit in question. They would announce that we has been paying this benefit "wrong" the entire time the policy existed. They would retrain the entire claims department to "pay the benefit correctly."
how about correcting the tax laws then, this is a bad way to try and get the money from them...
A monopoly is not defined by the possiblity that there are other products available for purchase on the market, but rather how many products have been purchased and are in use.

Using your reasoning, Microsoft could never have had a monopoly on Windows because you always could have bought a Mac.
There is a correlation between people who develop serious mental illness and people who take LSD. The effect you are describing guarantees this (under very weak and sensible assumptions).
ur telling me u genuinely think volkswagen emissions scandal was less significant?
... because physician prescribing did so much to prevent that epidemic?

Not trying to be snarky--I understand the argument--just pointing out how absurd that seems to be to some.
I think it's a step in the wrong direction. The authority of approving drug use is moving from private citizens (doctors) to the government. A step in the right direction would be making more drugs otc.
> pretending that it isn't the culture of the aggressor

Pretending the USA isn't the main aggressor is delusional.
Seems like Go may become an interesting target-language for compilers.
Ajit Pai has 'concerns' with this?

I'm guessing his concerns are pure theatrics.
I wonder to what extend this was anticipated by the market.

The stock is down about 1%. Not much considering that $5B should be about 1/3 of Googles yearly earnings.

On the other hand, 1% of Googles stock is about $8B. From that viewpoint, one might think it has come unanticipated.

Then again, stocks rise and fall 1% all the time. So it's hard to read something into it.

Is this the same case as reported in January here?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-results/alphabet...

"Profit fell 35 percent to $12.6 billion because of the tax bill and a separate charge last summer for a $2.7 billion European Union antitrust fine, which is under appeal."
>There's NO laptops out there that wouldn't do that (and NO mobile devices either).

My 10 years old HP nc6400 doesn't do that. It requires occasional (once a year) cleaning of the fan assembly though (not that hard to access). The fan is loud, the laptop is bulky but it never ever throttles. The CPU has 34W TDP, I do not think that's on the low side.
Apple's A11 benchmarks twice as fast as the Snapdragon 835. And if Apple was going to put an ARM in a laptop, they would surely design a chip specific to that use case with even higher performance than one that has to go into a passively-cooled smartphone.

(not saying I'm convinced an Apple ARM would actually outperform the x86 but that waving around Snapdragon machine doesn't prove your point)
Variable fines are generally set based on revenue, rather than profits.
The link is about Volkswagen, not Volvo, even.
I'm not sure how much of our respective experiences is due to familiarity. For example, I have REPL power tools and a really good understanding of Ruby's object model to help me figure out what something's doing. So that almost never concerns me all that much.

Whenever I pull in a new gem, I usually budget a few minutes to wrap my head around the semantics of how the gem is expected to be used. Occasionally the documentation isn't good enough and I need to source dive.

What I never have to deal with is new syntax. No matter how Ruby is being used, the syntax is always the same comforting, pleasing-to-read near-prose. What changes when you use metaprogramming in Ruby is semantics. You can't add new syntax to the language unless you actually change the language.

Like you, I find people misusing metaprogramming. For me usually this is fairly easy to detect. If I look for the source of a method and it's dynamically generated, then showing the source will take me to where it was generated.

I won't pretend to have chosen Ruby over Lisp because I liked the language better. I chose it because I figured it would help me get a job better. But as time went on I found myself at home with Ruby.

I don't think it would take me all that long to get used to any given Lisp. But I don't believe it actually gives anyone superpowers, at least, not superpowers you can't have with Ruby. I have yet to hear a lisper actually articulate a solid advantage for code as data.

When there isn't any functional reason to choose between alternatives, all there's left is the aesthetic. Which is where all those parenthesis finally become important.
In China, you can't even buy loperamide. I think, they think that you can get high on it if you eat a bucket load of it
That is fair enough - though is there really any competition in that space? Even if Google did nothing, I imagine most manufacturers would continue using Android as there isn't much choice. I don't actually know any mobile OS other than iOS and Android variants. Blackberry, Nokia (?) and Windows for mobile are all pretty much dead at this point.
I started with a combative tone, so well - no apologies needed.

Well, still - current translation systems are data-driven, without exception, vide http://norvig.com/chomsky.html.

And LSTMs are awesome at picking grammar, even not one considered English grammar (line braking patterns, proper names, markup for links, etc). Vide http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

There are other issues like keeping track of the context, in which they suck (as of now). And right now it is like text-skimming quality, rather than "understanding" of text.

For understanding meaning, it seems that text is not enough, we need embodied cognition. Not necessarily walking robots (though, it might help) but being able to combine various senses. Some concepts are rarely communicated explicitly with words (hence - learning from an arbitrarily large text corpus may not suffice), but we have enough of experience from vision, touch etc.

Since I am mostly into DL for vision (though some interest in cognitive science), I got a lot of insight of the current SOTA (and its limitations) in NLP from http://www.abigailsee.com/2017/08/30/four-deep-learning-tren.... See also:

> while word embeddings capture certain conceptual features such as “is edible”, and “is a tool”, they do not tend to capture perceptual features such as “is chewy” and “is curved” – potentially because the latter are not easily inferred from distributional semantics alone.
A better source:

> The European Commission has accused Google of abusing its Android market dominance by bundling its search engine and Chrome apps into the operating system. Google has also allegedly blocked phone makers from creating devices that run forked versions of Android.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17580694/google-android-e...

> How is it any different

Apple doesn’t have a dominent search engine to push down the throat of device makers.

They also don’t have an iOS consortium nor do work with other makers, so there is no bullying makers into doing what they want “or else”.

As others pointed out Apple is not in a majority position in the first place, but this fine is mainly bound to how the search engine and google suitr services come in the picture, and not on android on its own.
If you're interested in open source hardware, you might find the WOSET workshop interesting. It is a new workshop on open source EDA, related to this DARPA project. See http://scale.engin.brown.edu/woset/
> since modern thermal pastes are non-conductive, there is no real downside to an enthusiastic application of paste except for making a mess

I recently re-applied thermal paste (an old Arctic MX-2 I had lying around) on a late 2013 MacBook Pro which has bare-die CPU and GPU. The first time I did it, I applied too much paste and it had an observable negative effect on thermal dissipation. Once I applied the correct amount, I got slightly better results than stock paste.
You couldn’t even bother to read enough of the headline to figure out it was Volkswagen and not Volvo?
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This method would be very unpleasant for Amazon.
There's some crossover point where synthetic fuels are cheaper than drilling.

If energy prices decline with solar, ICE may be in demand forever. I guess probably not for personal vehicles.
Anecdotally Japan but I don’t know how common it is.
That's not what a monopoly means, yeah you can buy an iPhone but Android has 75% market share in Europe, that's why it's a monopoly.
In the worst case McDonald's takes far longer to effectively render you a nonperson, for one. Tastes better too.
Recreational Cannabis has lots of regulations, and the only permission needed is a legal id and being an adult in several states.

My goal isn't to reduce friction for accessing medicine. A person would be a fool to not jump through the hoops required to gain access to life improving medications. The low cost of a quarterly doctor's visit for a continuous prescription is well worth the benefits a modern pharmaceutical can provide.

My goal is to have ownership of my body. It's a personal insult that I even have to ask permission.
Such fines are also recurring if the issue is not rectified. Of course no company that ever had to pay the fine tested this principle :).
I'm pretty sure they'll fight it just like Intel is doing.
I'm not sure what you mean with "not exactly alive", but with a monthly compiler release with 30+ different committers (https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/docs/announce/2...) and a weekly blog post (https://p6weekly.wordpress.com), it seems pretty much alive to me.
Coffee used to be regulated, until about 19th century in its countries, among them France, UK and Persia come to mind.
First two were to crack down on cafés which were sources of political opposition.

Likewise in Persia, the it was related to sultan not profiting and religious reasons.
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It would still be a valid way of doing development, if teams weren't cargo culting frameworks for tasks that really don't need them. I can't begin to tell you just how annoying React is for making a CMS.
It's also about giving the manufacturers more freedom in what "flavor" of Android they ship, e.g. currently Google forbids them from making both devices with Android with all the Google stuff and devices without it, or devices only using some of the package.
Ha yes, that sounds likely indeed.

I see they are used in quite a few games as well : https://www.battleye.com/ (including PUBG's main rival).

Interesting. Maybe my disappointment in PUBG got me to be a bit more biased than I should :).
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Some actually were evidence based, such as opium laws. There was a big public health problem with opium a few centuries back - complicated with politics and economics of opium trade.

Likewise how barbiturates, amphetamines, cocaine and benzodiazepines are scheduled in various schedules.
Many and high profile cases with deaths or major harm were linked to misuse of these drugs.
This won’t be a problem much longer: https://blog.emojipedia.org/all-major-vendors-commit-to-gun-...

Sometimes you gotta break a few eggs to make change …
It's not the same, IIRC that was for favoring their own services in search results.
They can but it would just invite further action from regulators. Which is why they will comply with the requests (not without a fight) even if just in name. I'm sure there are other ways they can get the same benefit as a monopoly without running afoul of the concrete requirements put in front of them by now.