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marticode··on Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry
The US rarely cares about antitrust action anymore. Otherwise a lot of American companies would be sweating bullets right now.

The US however slaps huge fines on foreign companies for breaching sanctions or bribery of foreign officials.

marticode··on Ask HN: Best alternate client to web-based Gmail? Now that it sucks
Setting up your own mail server is way more work than that. Setting up the software is the easy part, you are now gonna have to deal with spam blocklists as well as ISP that just blanket-block some hosting companies IP ranges.
marticode··on Netflix will now interrupt series binges with video ads for its other series
Another response would be to have a better sorted and navigable catalog. It boggles my mind that as a French viewer, all the French content is just stuffed together in "European".
marticode··on Microsoft To-Do for Android and iOS Updated with New Features
I'm always amazed that so very few todo apps support recurring task after completion (ie "repeat 7 days after last completion" rather than "repeat every Monday"). Almost all my repeated tasks fall into this category and I'm amazed other people can be productive without it.
marticode··on What cracking open a Sonos One tells us about the Sonos IPO
They still lack HDMI too on their two older sound bars.

I ended up going to Denon HEOS AVR which works great as a fully featured home theater amp (DD+ and DTS-HD) with wireless rears and similar casting abilities.

marticode··on European regulators reject latest proposal by ICANN over its Whois data service
In this case the cost of the service is close to zero, so it's virtually free. It was similar to phone operator charging for caller ID, an easy way to make a quick buck by flipping a bit somewhere.
marticode··on Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?
...and then you need to deal with all the blacklists. I once tried hosting an email server and found out at least one major American ISP was blacklisting everything from Digital Ocean. And when that happens, good luck reaching someone to get out of their list.
marticode··on Losing 100 pounds in 276 days
You are mistaken - all life forms including humans obey the laws of physics. If you eat at a caloric deficit you will lose weight no matter your age or if you do exercise.
marticode··on The end to a French cheese tradition?
The difference is pretty obvious actually. This isn't just a gimmick for hipsters.
marticode··on Beware the ‘Buyback Economy’
Sometimes the company can make better use of it's existing capital by using debt (especially when debt is cheap as it is now). This means it has more capital than needed - so it returns that capital to shareholders using buybacks and finances itself through issuing debt.
marticode··on How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team
I don't get this either. Especially when the box shows before I can read the article: why would I sign up it a site I haven't even started to read and find about?
marticode··on Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL
Android let's you install any app outside the store through sideloading. Imagine that, being able to install the software of your choice on the hardware you paid for!
marticode··on Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends
I don't believe there is much synergies between FB and Instead anyway, and even less so with WhatsApp which seemed to be have been bought out strictly to stop it from growing into its own social network.

But I don't see the US ever breaking up FB in the coming decade, as the agenda is clearly not to fight monopolies and trusts.

marticode··on Macron Vowed to Make France a ‘Startup Nation.’ Is It Getting There?
Corporate tax rate is at 33% and 16% for small business, that doesn't strike me as particularly high, especially considered what it used to be in the US. There are many taxes on employee's but they fund their benefits, so that's something you don't have to provide separately to your employees and you can basically see it as part of the salary.
marticode··on Getting Google to ban our entire company
These stories pop up on a regular basis. Someone from Google eventually reaches out and fixes it because of all the publicity. Meanwhile, the policy (which is insane, and compounded by the difficulty of reaching a human at Google support) never changes.
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