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I studied SPARQL in university, about 10 years ago. I checked on it recently and found out nothing has changed. Needless to say, I am not hopeful about its feature.

Oh yeah, the transcription is super good. I'm so sad it is crippled on iOS by requiring some weird app switching to work. Except for that part, it is super faster there too.

No, it is fair competition because in both cases you paid money for the product, as I am clearly stating in the original comment.

In one case it just also happens to be impossible to avoid being further monetized via ads and tracking.

This, to me, is unacceptable for paid software, as essentially amounts to license fee + adware model.

Siri is terrible, but have you tried Google Assistant? I find it very accurate at recognizing my speech and very fast. It feels like a vastly superior product and I definitely find myself using it on my Google devices.

It's pretty fair. You pay money - you get a product. In Windows, you pay money - you get ads and tracking.

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To make it clear to people not reading the comment carefully, I'm not saying MacOS is "free". I'm merely saying that once you pay for the computer, the OS is included in the price.

And there is no additional monetization under the form of ads or tracking. Unlike in the Windows world, where you pay for the license, yet you are still being tracked and served ads.

Nothing. There's no source code in the public domain and the API is locked down.

> Where could I, or any Internet user, trivially download these details on 533M Facebook users prior to this dump?

On Facebook. Literally. You can scrape any public profile info. It's against ToS, but it's not illegal (some caveats apply, see the hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn case for more info).

The only noteworthy thing is the phone number vuln. Except that's been known since 2019, so it's certainly not news.

There's not much to see here.

Someone scraped some public profiles. Someone then brute forced a poorly implemented "look up by phone number" feature. They linked the two datasets on the unique facebook user id.

Leaking data that is or was in the public domain is not much of a leak. The only noteworthy thing would be the leak of the non-public phone number, however that vulnerability has been widely known since 2019 (and has been resolved by Facebook), so there's nothing new here?

Highly unlikely to be related. It's not a password leak. It's also not really a leak, someone scraped some public profile info and then used the phone number lookup feature to match up the two.

Hah, you should see the comment threads in some of the European nation subreddits on Reddit, whenever an article mentioning FAANG / Big Tech comes up.

They really want to burn them.

conveyor belt accelerator

Because the European innovation ecosystem is terribly broken and our politicians think regulation is the solution to all problems.

He got 30% for $1.1M adjusted to today's money and became employee no. 3. Woz credits him as being more important than himself to Apple's success. So, you could make the argument he was closer to a co-founder than just an investor.

In contrast, YC wants 7% for $125k, and you get a few talks, some introductions and "office hours" meetings.

It's an apples to oranges comparison.

No, because founders that are truly as visionary and intelligent as Apple's co-founders are unlikely to be willing to give up a sizable amount of equity for a tiny amount of money and the promise of being able to meet a few people and call in a few favors.

Even more so in recent years, since YC has essentially turned into a conveyor belt incubator (in my opinion).

replace GDP with electricity and pasta with bitcoin and you'll be pretty close

It is not fixed yet. Twitter lets you decide if you want to appeal the block or delete the tweet. Many people will appeal.

Yeah, can confirm. It does work.

I don't suggest trying it, as unlocking your account requires phone no. and email verification... yikes.

I don't dispute the use case for urban commuters and short distances, however, these things should absolutely have airbags. You can be the safest and most responsible driver, but some crazy a*hole can still slam into you head on with a SUV. Airbags should not be a cost cutting option.

> A US senior software engineer making that much would live in a major tech center and would probably work for a very good company, so a lot of people are excluded because of location and others just because of selection. It's hard to say, but I can't imagine more than 30-50% of US senior software engineer making that much.

Well, in Germany, a software engineer making that much simply does not exist..

You can't honestly believe that, can you?

Germany - senior software engineer - 45k eur.

US - senior software engineer - 240k usd.

Do you or the average engineer, over the course of their lifetime, save or spend around 190k usd a year on healthcare?

As a European, my personal opinion is that it is because of an overfocus on regulation and underfocus on innovation.

Everybody that I know that has an idea or a business that might be worth something, is moving or trying to move to the US.

The mix of too much regulation, high taxes and difficult access to capital is just too much for most new businesses to handle. So, they are moving somewhere else.

I think, despite the talk about higher quality of life, etc., that is going to make us losers in the long run and actually erode our quality of live. Because we need a productive and innovative economy to keep our living standards.