So sad not to be there this year. Love to the scene from Ninjadev!

We can't run a society based on companies being moral. We need laws regulating it and in this case, it seems like the EU is actually enforcing them.

there are plenty of immoral yet legal industries, for example porn and gun manufacture. morality is just a conservative-goodness.

Actually, that’s pretty much the point of the civil law system the EU uses, that the spirit of the law stands above the letter of the law, and if you violate the spirit of the law – even while abiding the letter of the law – you can be punished.

It's a bit simplistic a view the more complex reality is that the code civil(unlike the common law) doctrine have a "bonus pater"(or informed citizen) standard that puts an obligation on especially large(and supposedly competent) companies to proactively make sure they follow the law as it is not as they think it is.

I.E. apple's "but this guy down at the pub told us it was legal"* defence fails the bonus pater standard as apple highly paid legal council should have known better then accept it as a indication of actual law.

*In reality there was a unpublished letter from some politician, who did not actually have the authority to speak on irish tax law, to apple stating that Irish revenue would not challenge apple's claims about not owing Irish taxes on money in transit. though all evidence point to apple knowing full well that was not an indication that their tax sceme was legal.

Performance per $ isn't great, but the hardware is good. If you want to crunch data like a champion you need to spend the same $ on a desktop with a big fat GPU suited for GPGPU tasks and with proper cooling. The rest of the system doesn't really need to be insane, but you have to be able to keep up with the GPU.

I doubt the iMac can keep running with a high load over time without thermal throttling.

The other crux is that it is a Radeon GPU and not a Nvidia GPU, so you cannot (effectively) use any Deep Learning library that targets CUDA/cuDNN.

The bribe was for a rich and powerful family in Uzbekistan. The US and Dutch authorities didn't like that.

> If I want to use the torch or flash then I’ll decide if there’s enough battery left

Lithium batteries are worn a lot by high amperage when they are already close to empty. They are protecting the battery from wearing out too fast.

If I am in the dark, and really need to use that torch, the batteries are the least of my worries.

"Enabling the flash below 15% charge may cause additional wear on your battery and should only be used in emergencies. Proceed?"

Not well known in the west, but Mitsubishi has been and is active in an insane number of business sectors:

Shipping, motor vehicles, home electronics, bank and finance (UFJ holdings), nuclear power, cameras and optics (Nikon), industrial chemistry, beer brewing (Kirin) and real estate.

That's just the zaibatsu/keiretsu/chaebol system. Samsung also does everything from shopping malls to credit cards to heavy industry.

True, but when making investments like this you shouldn't invest money you can't afford to lose.

It's what you get if you walk into a gas station determined to mix everything they have on their shelves and hope this results in a drug. It's a very cheap and easy drug to create, but its ability to destroy the user's body far surpasses more conventional drugs like heroin.

The life expectancy of a user is 1-2 years as their tissue starts to die.

Microsoft has been pushing adware through Windows Update. It is natural that this will cause users to disable the feature, and Microsoft knew this. They chose ad revenue over robust security on their platform.

adware, malware and spyware.

Their algorithm is the very core of the Zestimate product. The value of the IP is incredibly important for the company, and they would be very stupid to reveal any details of its inner workings.