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vernie commented on Former officials say big tech monopoly power is vital to national security   greenwald.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/2a0c40
pessimizer · 3 years ago
Greenwald reply guys are probably the second vilest on the internet after Ilhan Omar reply guys.
vernie · 3 years ago
Must be cozy living in a bubble that small.

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vernie commented on Former officials say big tech monopoly power is vital to national security   greenwald.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/2a0c40
adventured · 3 years ago
> Times are tough after your golden goose dies.

Which golden goose has died or is going to? Tech profits are through the roof and have never been better, while growth continues unabated. The only thing big tech is facing are speeding fines and regional constraints on growth, which it can trivially afford (it has been a decade of the same talk while big tech has gotten massively bigger).

Operating income: Apple $117 billion, Microsoft $78b, Google $78b, Facebook $46b, Amazon $25b, Intel $22b, Cisco $14b, Oracle $11b, Qualcomm $11b, Nvidia $10b, Micron $10b, Broadcom $10b, Texas Instruments $9b, Applied Materials $8b, Adobe $6b, Netflix $6b

For reference ASML is at $7b and SAP is at $5b.

The US tech golden goose is going to get bigger and richer yet. It should only take you a few moments to estimate reasonably where eg Microsoft is going this decade (~$140+ billion in operating income, probably the size of all of Europe's tech companies op income combined in one company).

vernie · 3 years ago
I’m talking about Greenwald and Snowden.
vernie commented on Former officials say big tech monopoly power is vital to national security   greenwald.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/2a0c40
vernie · 3 years ago
Times are tough after your golden goose dies.

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vernie commented on California tech billionaire launches Senate campaign to take on Tesla   mcclatchydc.com/news/poli... · Posted by u/sbuttgereit
boznz · 3 years ago
Is it possible to be a billionaire and not be an arsehole too ?
vernie · 3 years ago
No.
vernie commented on Universal's Audible Watermark (2012)   mattmontag.com/music/univ... · Posted by u/crummy
kortilla · 3 years ago
The fraudulent part is this: “ imperceptible to human hearing”.

Lossy compression algorithms specifically compress out everything imperceptible to human hearing.

vernie · 3 years ago
Perhaps the more accurate term is "inconspicuous"
vernie commented on Nuclear weapons are not as destructive as you think   datasecretslox.com/index.... · Posted by u/mparramon
apple4ever · 3 years ago
Its not ridiculous. Its pretty factual. Can you actually disprove anything in the OP?
vernie · 3 years ago
It's not ridiculous, let's just go for it and see what happens :D

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