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by HissingMachine 7y ago
It is very impressive, but when looking at a broader picture you come to see that electricity prices are fairly high, the temperate climate means mostly no heating or air conditioning needs, and there is very little energy-intensive heavy i
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by HissingMachine 7y ago
"The tech industry warns consumers could pay more." Oh no, a cost increase on a free service?
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by HissingMachine 7y ago
Maybe a fork of some wiki application can act as a digital townhall library? They usually publish meeting notes on their websites, so why not on a wiki platform, many of them have discussion pages and you could add open sections for public
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by HissingMachine 7y ago
Part of populism is also claiming to be neither left or right on the political spectrum because it can be both or neither, a good example of this is Five Star Movement from Italy. But what is mostly common with populist movements is the app
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by HissingMachine 7y ago
How so? Populism is by definition an ideologue of regular people against the elites. Or do you have your own definition of populism? Can I hear it?
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by HissingMachine 7y ago
There have been numerous articles and columns written about the dangers of rising populism in Europe, yet here is a respectable voice advocating populism as the solution for US. So which is it, the solution or a danger?
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by HissingMachine 7y ago
I'm a project manager and I am very relaxed about working hours and remote work. And it's because I have been monitoring my own programming habits for years and came to a conclusion that it is as much a creative process as it is t
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by HissingMachine 7y ago
But you really shouldn't try to pass it off as philanthropy demanding new taxes for yourself, when you, in fact, created the problem by evading current tax regime using loopholes. This would just create a new tax that would be circumve
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by HissingMachine 7y ago
I have never thought that it might be something windows does automatically. I have had this problem even back in XP since some programs that I use like photoshop use keyboard shortcuts with space involved so sometimes I accidentally press w
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by HissingMachine 7y ago
But it would be a start at least, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet started the Giving Pledge, at first it only meant that those two were going to give most of their wealth to charity, but now there are over 200 members. And like I said, it does
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by HissingMachine 7y ago
Why don't they just stop using tax deductions, tax planning and tax havens? It would bring even more tax revenues than a few percent wealth taxes yearly and they could do this today without any political lobbying. Moreso if they are mo
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by HissingMachine 7y ago
Looks great, and it's a bonus that this is written in go since our services are written in go. I have to try this out.
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by HissingMachine 7y ago
I have been looking for an SSO application to handle authentication for multiple microservices but haven't been able to find anything that fits the description. I was thinking about developing my own, but most of my time is spent on de
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by HissingMachine 7y ago
It's not hard to imagine that the practice is common. I know I'm cutting corners and don't know anything about construction, but if you make a little mental game out of it. If you have 20 men on site, dismantling crane probab
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by HissingMachine 7y ago
Before 2007 mobile gaming might have been pennies for AAA studios. A wise business move isn't about closing doors but peeking through them, the next stage might very well be gaming on the cloud and cloud rarely runs on windows. This is
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by HissingMachine 8y ago
I moved from general news to specific news a couple of decades ago, mainly because I was in an opportune position to see how the general news just tend to attack something they have really thin knowledge but hold as absolute truth. This was
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by HissingMachine 8y ago
Maybe you should screw your head right. What is so depressing about the news? Journalism has always been about sensationalism and clickbait, but for every depressing news, there are dozen little victories that the press ignores. We live in
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by HissingMachine 8y ago
Granted, the reasoning is fairly dubious, comparing the two emissions side by side would obviously render the reasoning that higher speeds create fewer greenhouse gases false. But having said that, the opposite isn't actually that &quo
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by HissingMachine 8y ago
Valve and gog.com usually don't release sales data, but Google surely knows.
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by HissingMachine 8y ago
This could be frugal practice to follow in other public institutions that run parts of their infrastructure on FOSS, many larger corporations that rely on FOSS sometimes do contribute to the projects or have bug bounties because they know t
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by HissingMachine 8y ago
I really can't be bothered to defend platforms like Reddit or Facebook from directives or laws, but what I do care and hold dear is the user experience that will suffer greatly if the directives pass as proposed. In the end, it's
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by HissingMachine 8y ago
After numerous sites will have to block access to them for users coming from Europe, even if it is for a short while to implement tools to comply with these regulations, people will not start to hate them, they won't start hating Googl
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by HissingMachine 8y ago
I understand it's just frustrating to hear dismissal of one platform or other from comments on EU copyright law when the fact is that it will govern everything that is going on the internet. It will affect everything as user interactio
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by HissingMachine 8y ago
You have seriously confused things, the EU copyright law isn't targetting YT, it's targetting all platforms that users are able to publish their own content, so you really aren't left with alternatives for content creators to
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by HissingMachine 8y ago
This opinion piece is really bizarre, how this kind of mentality turns from abhorrent to great when your target is supposed "rich techies"? The writer must understand the economic advantages of having productive and well-paid prof
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by HissingMachine 8y ago
In some cases these platforms are market response to regulations already in place, like in Finland where I live freelancers use a billing service which basically employs them for the duration of their freelance work, because it's easie
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by HissingMachine 8y ago
Saving for retirement is a wise move whoever you are. I live in Finland where we have mandatory retirement saving system, but more and more people have started to find out that it's not really that good for everyone. Just now there was
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by HissingMachine 8y ago
And regular people won't care thanks to years and years of "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry"-type bs.
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by HissingMachine 8y ago
Maybe this speaks more about how Wikipedia works than quality of Breitbart as a source. First, if you look how credible news organizations work, they need three confirmations from unrelated sources before calling it a fact. If Wikipedia has
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by HissingMachine 8y ago
Couple of things came to mind from reading this. First if your latest game doesn't sell despite past successes, you might have bungled your marketing, namely company branding. Most AAA game developers heavily invest in this, because if

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