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by aragot 12y ago
> The real question is WHY is Putin cracking down on threat to his power? Sounds like a rhetorical question but I don't guess the answer. Do you mean Putin is doing it because of the civilian unrest? > Demonizing Putin is what yo
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Yes it made me realize the rise of retirement-aged persons who don't retire. "Can't" retire? What a shift, in only 14 years!
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Consequently, it should be understood that bytes can't be stopped from being copied. I wish it wasn't just a point of view. What we're seeing with copyright is governments trying to prevent bits from being copied, which is a
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Do we have figures about how many people have been tortured? Even if 1 is too much for me, many people think in terms of "It's ok because it's a remote risk".
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Devices need to be approved for prison use. 3G but no autoupgrades, or appstore but no external communication, sometimes the cover must be transparent. Probably no competition in that sector, therefore they can charge whatever they decide.
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by aragot 12y ago
Yes, Apple's customers are typically ones who cross boarders and have international careers.
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by aragot 12y ago
Knowing Amazon, will we see something like $0.0013 per thousand non-ASCII character, "because this is what it costs them after compression".
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by aragot 12y ago
GitHub is priced by repo, BitBucket is priced by user, and both non-negligible. I'm looking forward to knowing Amazon's pricing and web UI.
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by aragot 12y ago
"Zug" means "train", "-ig" makes it an adverb like "train-ly". Can a German speaker confirm please? In English, I'd say a train has a fast & steady speed, therefore I propose the translation
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by aragot 12y ago
Or that the group learnt a new skill, which involves both new physical and mental agility. For example would learning to dance for an introverted person produce the same changes in the brain?
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And being deaf doesn't seem to protect from other drawbacks: Some deaf people are very sensitive to vibrations, therefore when they want to sleep they need their relatives to shut doors very quietly.
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> In my opinion, there's zero chance of Google being broken up In 2004 when the European commission fined Microsoft €497m, I thought the company had good enough lawyers and lobbies to overturn it. This case and the next one in 2008
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by aragot 12y ago
It says differences in average IQ gender gap are either small or biased by the methodology, unless I'm mistaken.
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by aragot 12y ago
Bias, what about bias? I've always wondered if my software license should contain a thrid-party arbitration, and I've always chosen not to, because I have no control on the arbitration's neutrality. They could charge customer
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by aragot 12y ago
> since women tend to be smarter than men on average Ok, we need to stop with sexist insults right now, and it's valid for men too. Define "smarter".
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by aragot 12y ago
What I find funny is, people mostly turn to Stack Overflow to find workarounds or answers "in the context of x and y". It is a very organic way to do support. And IE, up to IE8, used to require a lot of workarounds, so pretty much
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by aragot 12y ago
In Australia, if you apply for a 457 visa as a software developer, you must show 3-5-10 years of experience in software development, "or a closely related field". It's much easier to be in the first situation than having to d
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by aragot 12y ago
With GPL, you only must distribute the source to those whom you distributed the binaries. Which means, Amazon isn't required to give back. Besides, I don't remember examples of Amazon being nice - not that it doesn't happen b
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by aragot 12y ago
Yes it's totally allowed to sell a product under GPL, for example to give it only to the real customers who paid for it. Those are then free to share, but since they know how much it cost them, they may choose not to.
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Aside from the debate of whether he's a good exec, the argument about "lying" is perceived differently from country to country. In US, lying sounds like the worst thing eva. In France it's allowed to lie for your defense
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> so the customers are paying. Yeah. Kindof. NAB has the debit card account free of charge, unlimited ATM withdrawals, transfers across banks free and attractive savings rates. CBA's fee is $5/mo unless you get a salary per mon
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Why I say we have 70% of round-trip tax in France(adrien-ragot.me)
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by aragot 12y ago
> so relaxed, to the point that it's a running joke "One month"! The article says Sweden has proof of intrusion "in October". If they had gathered enough information a month ago, why didn't they issue a dipl
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by aragot 12y ago
Correct, how can we confident the gag orders don't require AmaGooSoft to pretend they received fewer NSLs than they did?
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by aragot 12y ago
kefka said: > Scribd is "Hacker News" quality. They're one of the HN venture capital funded companies. I agree with @nsomaru that it would be great to submit PDFs rather that Scribd links, especially since the HN guideline
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by aragot 12y ago
Imposter syndrome was felt by 50% of my colleagues when I left an awesome startup who insisted on the programmer-hero culture. Not gender-related.
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You see, this is saying "women are more social". You didn't say it, but the next step is "Women are equally good to men about programming, plus they have the advantage of being social". Which makes me wonder: - As a
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> about the prison not respecting Sunde's vegan (...) The other half of his complaints are about boredom, which is equally non-exceptionnal in prison. And he's been there only 5 months, that's very moderate for someone who
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by aragot 12y ago
Have a colour scheme for the 15 most recent comments of the thread. That way we can reload the page and see what's new.
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Would you think most of torrents are private? So you need to be introduced to be part of them? So if you're introduced, a police investigator could be introduced too, right?

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