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You have time for that. After the draft is published. People are saying that this is NEGOTIATED in private. Which is how negotiations work. What will be proposed as a draft depends on many variables. Accepting the draft and making it into laws takes many steps, the final one being approval from every member's parliament.

Complain is a very mild word. Proposals will be shred to pieces by local politicians looking for quick score and media always on the look for a sensation. Nothing will ever get signed if proposals are made public.

Yeah. Make them public. Every populist party in every member state would have a wonderful time catering to tin foil hats and making everyone with half a clue miserable.

This is not how negotiations work. You don't make preliminary talks public. Many of the things in those talks are outrageous and no one believes they will be in the final draft. It's how you negotiate. You ask for X, then the opposing side tells you no, BUT if you manage to do Y, then we can do a scaled back version of X. You tell them no, BUT if they do X and Z, you will make Y happen. All sides make concessions and sh... stuff gets done.

Making the above process public will tie the negotiators hands.

>Total "PC" units are shrinking

Yeah? Care to back this up with some data? Because I'm looking at a very expensive market research report which disagrees. Sales of new PCs are down, because people don't need a new computer every 2 years. This doesn't mean total PCs in usage are down.

Not to mention SQL Server.

You can get a few months free to dev esssentials right now.

How is the PC market shrinking? Do you mean that new shipments are declining? Because this is not the same thing AT ALL.

Perhaps it is not as easy as you think.

Yeah, I would want my next laptop to be oval. Much better ergonomics IMO.

It is not in the spirit of the law. I don't see why Singapore is relevant. According to wikipedia, Google and its parent company are headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States

Why? The said company made much more than that in profit. There is a social contract and companies avoiding taxes are not holding up their end of the bargain.

That is what ads are for. They activate the electorate with appropriate messaging.

China has 300 million people middle class? Do you stop for a moment to listen to yourself? Middle class where? In China, earning $500/month?

Oh god, if you want concrete numbers, buy a report from a market research firm. Believing the official numbers for their growth is like believing in Santa Claus. The consensus among professionals is that they haven't hit their 7% target since the beginning of this century.

Believing China's GDP growth rate blows all the credibility out of your argument.

We did an evaluation recently. Not even close.

Except that you miss a very important point - nobody cares about the stuff you listed. I build models and use shiny to create a front end for clients to interact with them. They are very happy and pay me very handsomely. I can assure you that this is the case across the board. R is for analysts, not for programmers. It seems like programmers feel intimidated, because analysts now code their solutions themselves.

The push for R is enormous. It's not getting replaced.

In my experience a lot of the claims that R is slow are greatly exaggerated and made by people who don't actually use it. Kind of an echo chamber. Every time I see someone say chose Python instead because of speed, I roll my eyes.

Many people believe that the prices will stay the same for at least the next 2 to 3 years. Some of those people think they will go down to about $20 for a while.

Lifetime values, customer segmentation, lead scoring, customer life cycles, customer attrition and also quite a bit of reporting. Some text analysis. I use R because it offers superb speed of development, extensive documentation, commercial support and many partner opportunities with the likes of Oracle, Microsoft, Alteryx, Tableau, Tibco and pretty much every analytics vendor. In my experience, R's slowness has been greatly exaggerated.

The questions is why would I do that? Because Julia is new?

Oh, you've been using it less? It must be the case for everyone else then.

My RSS feed.

That was exactly how I felt. It is a matter of pay grade, I think.

Except it lacks 99% of the readily available tools in R.

That is cherry picking. Did you try to comprehend the post you are replying to? Take into account all of the estimations, not just one failed estimation.

Except Google is literary printing money for everybody else in the group. Amazon is cashflow-from-operations positive, but nowhere near Google. More importantly, Amazon attempts to enter HUGE, developed markets, not the non-existent markets (at the time) of internet retail, cloud computing or public information retrieval. The only way for Amazon to enter in those markets is if they make a serious commitment. It is my opinion that if they commit themselves to the new markets they have been eyeing in the past couple of years (b2b commerce AND logistics), investors will become very bearish, leading to a disaster for Amazon, probably even a buyout.

If there is a too big to fail chart, DB will be at the very top of it.