the general idea of a fine is to discourage future infractions, not to destroy the company. fines don’t need to be existential in order to be effective.
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with just 20% of the market. pretty incredibile imo.
isn't apple in the same position when it comes to the OS, being forced to have one version in the EU and one for the rest of the world? and isn't this problem more costly than keeping two separate browsers?
from heavily taxed sales.
companies pay for everything, it's just that they pay it indirectly. income tax, corporation tax, vat, the taxes just keep on piling.
the issue is murky for certain use cases. take payments for example. fingerprinting is used at scale in that field, and for good measure. you want to be able to know the risk associated with a user (chargebacks, fraud, etc).
the collision rate of their ids is stated to be 0.05%
what they do is basically collect a lot of signals from the browser (audio processing stuff being only a part of it) and then compute an id on the server.
that’s one take. i got a different one:
the ship has already sailed almost two decades ago. that’s when these kinds of solutions should have been implemented.
today euro politicians decided to micromanage US tech companies because they don’t have any themselves. they’ll use the fine money to promote truly innovative companies such as France Telecom.
meanwhile in the real world i just got an email from one of my european clients to not use anything other than safari and to not install any 3rd party app stores or apps due to security concerns.
but to get back to the general point, that list looks kind of bleak to me. bags, makeup and oil. at least there's ASML in there (i hope they won't have a reason to move their listing to NYC).
when was "making music" a money maker? or for that matter, when was creating any art form a money maker? i think making money out of art is an anomaly, not a rule. and i think that's good, as money corrupts art.
the problem as i see it is that lots of us live in a capitalist world. and in that case it's very hard to hold my beliefs and still lead a fulfilling life.
i don't have the answer to this issue. but i think there was a similar issue a few decades ago, when making money from art was considered "selling out".
https://www.ft.com/content/cc6bd66c-6341-4367-85cc-86d274102...
> Game over? Industry suffers slowdown after decades-long winning streak
> Sales growth in consoles and mobile apps hit as a darkening mood spreads across $200bn video games sector
> The $200bn video games industry is reckoning with its biggest slowdown in 30 years, as the huge growth driven by smartphone gaming and the latest generation of consoles reaches its limits.
> Hardware sales are slowing, with Sony cutting its forecast for PlayStation 5 sales this week. Consumer spending on mobile gaming declined last year, down 2 per cent to $107.3bn according to Data.ai, which forecasts low single-digit growth in 2024.
if we're discussing an individual company, it depends.
what i do know from some companies that i work with is this:
- some have massively over-hired during covid and now they're trimming
- some have been greatly affected by inflation/interest rates
- some have seen sales nosedive for various reasons
- some have simply replaced roles with AI
i used ubigi in japan in singapore and it was really cheap and very good connectivity.
i find impossible to believe that people that are currently working in the music/film industries will not take advantage of these new technologies (see designers that went from pen and paper to software).
i think a decent analogy is music. software has completely taken over music production. but musicians are still making great music, analogue or otherwise.
these new technologies might even open up these industries to a lot more people since creation will no longer be hindered by learning different types of software.
yes, i'm an optimist :)
from i've read cannabis is not a money making product for "dealers". cannabis is used to introduce customers to other much more profitable drugs.
countless hours spent on optimising video delivery, live broadcasts (using flash back in the day, and webrtc today), web page sizes... the works.
you can compare norway to sweden and finland. or the US to canada.
singapore. low-ish taxes, excellent public services.
there are others.
i think the EU will continue to split the internet for people like yourself. while the rest of world will continue doing what they do.
i wish you and your data all the best.
totally different problems/solutions. there is no equivalence, there is almost nothing in common between the two.
norway should be compared to it’s geo and cultural neighbours, sweden and finland.
i don’t know what case you’re making, but “sore losers” isn’t a winning one.
> Those mega-corporations are solely coming from non-free regions.
all of them come from a place that is a lot more free than any country in the EU: the US.
> The EU are doing this because they wish to protect the basic rights of their citizens.
this is naive.
after receiving the same services for no or minimal tax i also find it very disturbing that people still think high taxation is necessary.
this isn’t correct.
UMC, SMIC and TI have more than 10 fabs each.
Nanya 3 fabs.
Micron > 10 fabs.
Intel > 10 fabs.
Tower Semiconductor 7 fabs.
Rohm > 10 fabs.
Fuji 4 fabs.
Fujitsu 5 fabs.
Kioxia 10 fabs.
Renesas 9 fabs.
and the list goes on and on.
security. browsers are famous for escaping their sandbox.
this is from November 2023: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/30/23982296/google-chrome-b...
other services (Youtube, Netflix etc) have a feature where you can log other devices out. hulu doesn't have this?
in case anyone else wonders what’s a “supervisor”:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Board_of_Super...