Love Spotify myself. They've done what none of the competitors have managed in my opinion.
Good free-tier, amazing premium service and price, an unbelievably large collection of artists and music, strong privacy protection without the need to provide credit card details (for free tier) or mobile phone numbers, in a super-polished and easy to use package, without all the terrible data-collection.
They really have become the kings of music streaming.
I disagree, an important difference is this: The U.S. has been proven definitely guilty of all accusations of espionage, sabotage, backdoors etc., while there have never been any clear proof presented for the Chinese counterparts -- only accusations, and overwhelmingly from the very country that has committed all the wrongs itself.
Take whatever side you want, but at least keep to the truth.
Good read, and it hints at just how absolutely nuts the situation is be today with almost everyone in the world having cellphones, tablets, laptops and what else running predominantly American-designed software and hardware.
I trust anything made by European companies, NXP, Philips, ST, Siemens etc., anything from Japan, South Korea, and most of the Taiwanese and Chinese companies.
Unfortunately, with some rare exception, they're not allowed to make x86-compatible chips, because the U.S. has worked long and hard to forbid the ISA, and everything used so far to implement it, from being standardised and thus kept under an unbelievable weight of patents.
Hopefully the build-up of more European fabs, and realisation that the EU has to make its own chips, will eventually remedy some of this.
It's getting increasingly difficult to trust American-designed chips and systems for me at this point... and I can't help but feeling that people paid way, way too little attention to everything we learned from the NSA and CIA leaks a few years back.
What I'm getting at is that Jeff Bezos didn't plan for the bridge to be dismantled, he was probably not even aware of it, and him buying a big boat is besides Amazon's exploitation of workers, tax-avoidance and sucking money out of countries.
Aligned branch and jump targets are just for the sake of maximising instruction cache hit-rate. It will always remain a micro-optimisation and will not make a difference in this and most other cases.
There are reasons to hate Jeff Bezos and the super-rich, but him buying a big boat from a Dutch company isn't really one of them.
Would you rather he bought the boat from a company in another country? Remember, buying luxury yacths is not the same as taking precious resources out of a country, and he doesn't decide the salaries of the ship builders.
Good free-tier, amazing premium service and price, an unbelievably large collection of artists and music, strong privacy protection without the need to provide credit card details (for free tier) or mobile phone numbers, in a super-polished and easy to use package, without all the terrible data-collection.
They really have become the kings of music streaming.