FreeCodeFreak

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by FreeCodeFreak 3y ago
20 years is outrageous and very unlikely given his probable experience and making sure no one would be hurt. There is a vast difference in crashing an airplane over a populated area, intentionally wanting to cause harm, and it being acciden
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by FreeCodeFreak 3y ago
Stuff like this should of course be open source, with the optional possibility of self-hosting. E.g. Nextcloud style. But, the bigger question is, for something shared here on hacker news where an abundance of developers dwell: why would we
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by FreeCodeFreak 3y ago
This is of course an entirely useless study, because participants know when they are wearing a mask. Logic dictates that very likely wearing the mask has no effect at all, and it is in fact other factors influencing quality of sleep. It wou
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by FreeCodeFreak 3y ago
China is known for imprisoning their own people in camps and persecuting minorities, so no, they are not very "people-oriented" at all. It is, entirely, a different ideological system. Perhaps you can compare it to a bee hive wher
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by FreeCodeFreak 3y ago
In practice that would only weaken the US infrastructure. E.g. If companies like Apple and Microsoft were to be broken up, then that would actually severely confine technological innovation, and potentially place the US at a competitive dis
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by FreeCodeFreak 3y ago
It contains a lot of copyrighted content, especially ebooks and software. This could be avoided if they would just follow the rules like everyone else.
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by FreeCodeFreak 4y ago
This can be very bad news even in the west, but in context of the Chinese totalitarian dictatorship (Btw. Also allied with Russia), this is just an expression of an authoritarian regime suppressing private freedom. It's nothing but ano