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> I suspect they deal with this in the form of some sort of caching outside of MySQL, but I haven't read into it.

It is handled by TAO, https://engineering.fb.com/2013/06/25/core-data/tao-the-powe...

> Don't use vulnerable software

Is there any widely used software that doesn't have any vulnerabilities?

> Third, a lot of Pichai's big bets have failed: Google Glass, Google Plus, Google Wave, Project Loon

> He's been responsible for a lot of Google products.

He might have been responsible but i wouldn't call those projects as Pichai's big bets.

> Why is she bullish on potentially winning the case? Is there a law in India that she is counting on? Or as I suspect she is counting on a sympathetic judge who might rule in her favor by finding some precedent from around the world.

Yes. Indian courts have ruled that photocopying books isn’t copyright violation, i assume we can expect a similar judgement for copying research papers.

from https://www.indialegallive.com/cover-story-articles/il-featu...

"Copyright, specially in literary works, is thus not an inevitable, divine, or natural right that confers on authors the absolute ownership of their creations. It is designed rather to stimulate activity and progress in the arts for the intellectual enrichment of the public. Copyright is intended to increase and not to impede the harvest of knowledge. It is intended to motivate the creative activity of authors and inventors in order to benefit the public."

> I had one time a talk to a director from an important online shop (top 3 in the country in that specific field) and "this sort of things" was exactly the reason why they chose to use MS Azure instead of AWS. Imagine how deep it can go

This seems to be very common. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/07/18/walmart-ci...

No. "Apple blocked Facebook from informing users that Apple would collect 30 percent of in-app purchases made through a planned new feature, Facebook tells Reuters. Apple said the update violated an App Store rule that doesn’t let developers show “irrelevant” information to users"

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/28/21405140/apple-rejects-fa...

> You also don’t have to buy a subscription in the app, do you? You can pay on the web directly to Spotify and use the subscription in the app.

Apple doesn't allow App developers to Inform users about Alternate payment options.

> Apple has been pretty transparent about the rules

I disagree. Apple doesn't let App developers to inform users about the 30% tax. How is that transparent?

They are using the CPU. This (https://github.com/Bhargav1912/test_1/pull/2/files) is one the PRs abusing the GitHub actions. It looks like they are mining turtlecoin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY5Vrc5G0lk -> Debris, winner of the demo competition at Breakpoint 2007 in Bingen, Germany.

>Except as soon as it becomes a remotely feasible action (with simple instructions) for the general consumer, a bunch of businesses will start requiring their users to disable "default Grandma mode".

Android already allows side-loading and i don't think any popular app out there is asking users to enable side-loading to install their app. Why do you think the situation would be any different with iOS app store?

>Epic demands Apple do a thing = bad for Apple, bad for customers (good for Epic)

not bad for all customers. I would like to side-load third party apps on my Iphone. Remember when app store banned a hn reader app because it showed Covid-related submissions[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24410652

> There was plenty of evidence, but it's apparently a thought crime to say so.

Can you please share some credible evidence?

You mean the same Glenn Greenwald who said Authoritarianism in US has nothing do with Trump? [1]

[1] https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarian...

>>> None of this is hidden though

are you sure about this? "Apple blocks Facebook update that called out 30-percent App Store ‘tax’" [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301332]

disclaimer: I work for fb

No single app can dominate the market because National Payments Corporation of India has decided to impose a cap on transactions that a single payment application can process.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/npci-imposes-cap-on-...

>>>They are known to blackout journalists, assassinate lawyer, conduct media trials and put anyone speaking against them in jail.

Can you please share some citation for the assassination part. I don't think the Bar Council of India would be happy if a lawyer is assassinated by government.

"if people choose to pay their way into a walled garden, why should they still care about hardware ownership/repairabilty, etc.?"

I don't like the walled garden but i still brought a iPhone because iPhones get updates for really long time(3 years minimum). Iphone SE(1st gen) released in 2016 got the iOS14 update.

some useful links for more context:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/07/21/indias-ngo-backlash/ https://www.firstpost.com/india/kudankulam-protests-3-ngos-l...

>>>When the US wants something, they'll bend over backwards to give it to them.

You mean like this? "A special clearing house designed to allow European companies that trade with Iran to bypass newly reimposed US sanctions will be set up in Europe within months, possibly in France or Germany." [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/06/european-clear...

blocking chinese apps is not emulating chinsese government, emulating would be blocking all apps that are not made in US. Right now China is abusing the free trade and US is well with-in its rights to block these apps

Does Chinese law also allow the government to hack into companies when they don't cooperate with government?

" In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google."

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...

you forgot to mention that china has hacked google. "In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google" [1]

[1] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...

" However, as I understand, this is before adjustment for inflation, which also is high in India" . No , India’s Consumer Price Inflation Falls to Record Low of 2.18 Percent ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-12/india-s-m...)

link to OSS-Fuzz project https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz

articles are often the work of The Economist's hive mind, rather than of a single author[1] . [1]http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/ec...

interesting answer from a japanese teen ( https://www.quora.com/Ive-heard-that-Japan-recently-is-facin...)