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johnpapdu··on You Can't Use the Live UK Train Data Without Accepting a Gagging Clause
There's no legal obligation to do that, so why should they? Because of morals? Are your morals demonstrably more correct than theirs? Why should your morals have anything to do with their morals? If you want a company to do something, you either need to go through your representative in our democratic process to suggest a change to the law, withdraw your custom, or shut up. Hoping that they follow your arbitrary morals is bizarre.
johnpapdu··on Amdahl's law in reverse: the wimpy core advantage
That's not Amdahl's law in reverse, that's just Amdahl's law as applied to mulitcore. This was all worked out over a decade ago [1].

[1] M. Hill and M. Marty. Amdahl’s law in the multicore era. Computer, 1998.