Volpe

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by Volpe 15y ago
Which year (in your view) did China stop being communist? China is as much a communist state, as the US is a democracy... I think that probably describes it best.
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by Volpe 15y ago
China uses a lot of it's power to try and stop things just like this. What evidence do you have that they haven't tried? Are you seriously going to try and argue the US doesn't exploit "American" workers? Or are you defining "American work
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by Volpe 15y ago
> This is the norm in China because the Chinese government itself encourages, supports and even demands this kind of labor conditions. No it's not the norm, and the government doesn't encourage and definitely doesn't demand these condit
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by Volpe 15y ago
It has more dimensions than is presented by Mike Daisey. I really is heart breaking, similar to the stores of child labour in Nike factories. But on the flip side, you pull the industry out, and those 'poor workers' become just 'poor peopl
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by Volpe 15y ago
good and evil are not religious concepts. Ethics is related to all things, including economics.
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by Volpe 15y ago
why the downvotes? its a link from mainstream news on something unrelated to tech... can someone explain?
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by Volpe 15y ago
Why is this on HN?
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by Volpe 15y ago
So there is a logical jump in your reasoning. - Some brain visualisation skills are innate - Programming (probably?) requires some of those traits. - JUMP - "either you are born with the ability to be a programmer or you're not." What you h
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by Volpe 15y ago
january 1984 vs november 1985... you going to get pissy about 3 months? My point is still valid.
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by Volpe 15y ago
You somehow expect a world where governments lie to it's own people to function? (Not only that, you seem to accept that governments lying is fine, but exposing those lies is a violation of free speech...???)
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by Volpe 15y ago
I'm curious how this 'born programmer' thing works. So you are basically saying there is a gene (or sequence of genes) that predisposes you to programming. Could you elaborate on how that might work? Twin studies have shown a lot about per
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by Volpe 15y ago
Could it be the reverse? That is you didn't have a natural gift, she had a problem learning the way everyone else was?
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by Volpe 15y ago
> Windows was a "worse is better" MacOS Bad example, MacOS was out years before windows. Microsoft just got a massive market hack. It had nothing to do with solving a problem directly and then iterating...
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by Volpe 15y ago
> Easily testable tends to mean that the class knows to little. No it doesn't. You've got a pretty big job proving that ALL TDD does that. Have you ever read python doctests? They are a perfect example of tests that describe both func
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by Volpe 15y ago
> It's a nice principal, but unworkable in the real world. Reference? Why is it unworkable?
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by Volpe 15y ago
Thats my point... you have a special brand of "free speech". That has caveats on the free part. If you don't like the bradley manning example, then just move further up the chain to Wikileaks. The point is still valid. It isn't Free Spe
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by Volpe 15y ago
Because US propaganda has got it into peoples heads that "Free-Speech"* = "Freedom"+ Glasshouses, stones, kettles and pots are all coming to mind :P * Where free speech, is "Free" by US law. And not anything that is critical of the US govt
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by Volpe 15y ago
Yes, but it is worse off because of it. Also it was already getting trounced by competition (Baidu). Google in china was like Bing is in the west. The search engine you know, but never use. :P
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by Volpe 15y ago
"In addition, Defendants often implemented their express agreements so that they operated as de facto "no-hire" or "no-poach" agreements, whereby Defendants did not recruit an employee of another company, even if that employee affirmatively
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by Volpe 15y ago
So are you agreeing with not teaching reading to people (such as yourself) who struggle with reading, because they don't show an interest/aptitude? If that's the case, which subjects are the "essentials" that should be 'required' and which
621.
by Volpe 15y ago
A little naive to think that's the only form of bribery. Campaign contributions are probably one of the biggest forms of bribery in the US. Regardless of whether you "ask for direct action" it is implicit that if the Tobacco industry gives
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by Volpe 15y ago
I thought you might be referring to that. That ruling isn't really a precedent for "Public works being re-copyrighted". It was a little more complex and related to a treaty the U.S had agreed to. The works in question were still under cop
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by Volpe 15y ago
Now now, everyone bribes politicians you can't single out one industry ;)
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by Volpe 15y ago
Which ruling was that? do you have a link?
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by Volpe 15y ago
Not sure I buy that arguement. You wouldn't accept that if we said: Well not everyone has a "natural ability" to read, so we'll only teach the people that are show some "talent". (Quotes because I don't actually believe those things exist,
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by Volpe 15y ago
If you are at the border (i.e not in the US) Do those rights still hold? I thought that was the point of guantanemo? Because the US doesn't want the prisoners there to have any rights.
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by Volpe 15y ago
Oh right, but mass transit has hardly withered. There are probably similar numbers on the mass transit systems as there are in cars (in most cities).
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by Volpe 15y ago
What were the more efficient ways (of getting around)?
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by Volpe 15y ago
We do all of those things to Humans too, it's not that we don't show empathy to animals, we don't show it to anything. Rat 1, Human 0 ?
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by Volpe 15y ago
Have you been to a bookstore recently? I think you need to look up the printing press and it's relation to the copyright law debate. The internet (on that front) is not as new and amazing as you think. btw 1/2 the people on the planet are n

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