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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
"Elaborate" is putting it kindly. It's just soulless, blunt PR copywriting. I'm surprised they got to the front-page with this tripe?
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
> It's a fucking space cowboy western I agree with Red Letter Media's take on this: SW is fundamentally a small universe (yes the universe IN SW is vast, but the universe OF SW is not: it's just rebels+jedis fighting stor
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
I stand corrected. It was my impression from multiple articles that fines would not be an immediate enforcement. However, as much as I would like them to get slapped around, I believe the likes of Facebook are too smart/nefarious to ac
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
I doubt they will get anything near the max penalty, if they get fined anything at all, since we're now in the 1-year grace period.
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
One more prestigious date to add to the 14-years long (and counting) "Zuckerberg Magic Apology Tour". Quite the show. (For reference: https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-t... )
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
If you google "Logitech mouse coil whine" you will see that this has affected multiple Logitech models for many, many years. They apparently have no interest in fixing this issue.
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
You are correct about HK (in fact I think the higher crime rate was much older that just the 80s and dated back to the 50s and mass emigration caused by the successive troubles in the mainland). I do think it's a great story, as it dem
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
It's not violent like countries caught in the drug wars, but a single number fails to give the whole picture: in India a lot of the violence is targeting lower castes and religious minorities (Muslims, Christians, Sikhs)[1], sometimes
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
There's no correlation: Singapore and HK have some of the highest population density in the world, and have a low crime rate. Checking the list of countries by density[1] and then by violent crimes[2] will confirm that. India is quite
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
I agree with the article but I can only note, once more, that it is from The Guardian, who did run multiple articles in support of no-platforming in universities. But look who comes crying about freedom of inquiry now, once said "erosi
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
Come on, The Guardian is not some Medium blog hoster. You can't say this being in their opinion section means it doesn't count. If you discounted everything tagged as opinion, their front page would have a whole lot of empty space
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
This is a flawed view based on the premise that elected officials would somehow be incapable of grasping the concept of "having special advisers". You might be interested to know that Hong Kong has a system similar to what you&#x2
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16642594
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
I can see that Bloomberg is still bloomberging: First paragraph: >> "Poland: reasonable strategy roiled by leftist impulses." The current government is a far right Catholic party that has just enacted a law partly denying th
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
I would argue it's not about the extra characters, it's about enforcing explicit mutability. In Scala, where var/val both exist, each time you declare a variable you are forced to think about its mutability. But if you only h
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
Since this article is only a rehash of the original one, wouldn't it be better if this thread pointed to it directly? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/12/tim-be...
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
The problem is that said GNU support (which AFAIK is the one everyone interested in the language uses) is contributed by ... Adacore. They can decide to stop doing that should they wish to do so. I might be out of date, but their Ada compil
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
You are correct, but I was speaking in terms of general-purpose programming, with an OSS/free implementation available, and to my knowledge all the other vendors only target the embedded and high-integrity spaces. And they cost money.
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
Ada is in practice almost completely maintained by one single (consulting) company, Adacore, who, except for the GNAT compiler, release all of their OSS contributions under GPLv3 "to limit your freedom [of use/reuse]" (it&#x2
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
Correct, but the points in my second comment below also apply if you are Chinese. If you do business in China, even if you're a local, you're on a leash.
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
You are missing the point. Yes there is protectionism in the EU, but the claim was: China is very capitalistic compared to the EU. That is just false. In the EU you can start your business wherever you are a legal resident, the regulations
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
> China is a very capitalist country compared with, say, EU. That is patently false. In China it is impossible for foreign companies to compete on a level playing field. There is a huge amount of protectionism and anti-competitive practi
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
Namibia has a "if you sell land, the government has the option of being the first buyer [to redistribute it afterward]". Not ideal, but way better than Zimbabwe. They probably looked at Mugabe's results and thought "than
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
David Berreby's book "Us and Them: The Science of Identity"[1] pretty much agrees with you, and makes the case that the less rich/diverse someone's identity is (in essence: the more "single-issue" they are
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
It started in 1998. Related leaks continued until 2004 it seems. Beside these, MS have been dragged to court multiple times for unethical business practices, on both side of the Atlantic, and were found guilty, again on both sides (so it&#x
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
> "The real problem isn’t fake news; it’s that people have given up on that search for truth" I disagree. Most people have neither the time, inclination, or often the tools to "seek the truth" by themselves, and there
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
> "Thankfully, running a System Restore worked and the next update didn't have these problems, but since then I stopped allowing automatic updates" It is now possible to disable automatic updates in Windows 10? (Asking bec
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
It's pretty good that this kind of open secret gets coverage in the mainstream media, but it's disappointing that this article contents itself with a bit of celebrity shaming and only hammering on Twitter, probably because they&#x
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
The irony of seeing this pop up in The Guardian.
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by Hasknewbie 9y ago
I was lucky enough to get my hands on the first edition of City Of Darkness before it became pricey, I heartily recommend that book. The "no laws and/or regulations in KWC" is a bit of a myth though, HK police began patrollin

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