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by aragot 12y ago
I don't see why the good old model of "Someone deposits a complaint against a website at a police station, then the server/website is investigated upon, then the fine is raised against the renter/owner of the server&quot
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by aragot 12y ago
Sorry for my ignorance, but why would someone take the risk of hosting a torrent seedbox?
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by aragot 12y ago
True, you can select for example "Ubuntu 14.04 LTS" and not be protected against Shellshock nor Heartbleed by default.
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by aragot 12y ago
Correct, I meant "can't".
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by aragot 12y ago
> copyright the laws That's an excellent point. If you run a service, you can use someone else's TOS and apply it to your customers. It is the outcome of intellectual work, for instance a lawyer's work, and it is under cop
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by aragot 12y ago
They quote: - The political reform started 4 years earlier by Mikail Gorbatchev, which was designed to reinforce the party's strength in exchange for softening very few things. - The disorganization of the Party and the lack of trust w
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by aragot 12y ago
> No, really, the most formidable Japanese low-touch SaaS entrepreneur I know figured out how to sell SaaS door-to-door in Tokyo.” Seriously, from all the inefficiencies pointed out in this article, how is the economy of Japan not in the
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by aragot 12y ago
Given what you described, I was admirative that you succeded to avoid the "cynical" tone. Good skills.
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by aragot 12y ago
> Eiffel tower (...) southern France (...) Italy You have an excellent comment, but you fail at ponting at how this info may be used against you and providing usecases. Should sound like: "On Feb 1st your car is recorded on the left
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by aragot 12y ago
At no point in the article do they mention how long is the sentence Sunde has to serve. It's important because a few months in prison (less than a year according to the article) is ridiculous compared to most prison sentences. Of cours
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by aragot 12y ago
I too though this "boyish wonder" face was phony. And yet the "boyish wonder" face will change the fate of the whole video when I show it to my 7yo. The rest is concrete and iron, not really appealing to kids, despite th
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by aragot 12y ago
> Hardware tokens cost money All your excellent examples will dwarf mine, but I'll still tell it as a very cheap medium: When I was at Fortis Luxembourg, the bank gave me a passive token: A card with a few dozen digits on it. At eac
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by aragot 12y ago
In Europe we don't really believe in "it is your choice you make" (on other topics) because there are so many factors which prevent you from making this choice freely. For example the choice of accepting Samsung's TOS co
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by aragot 12y ago
> Same sex sexual activity is not what has been outlawed in Singapore Besides that I generally approve your comment, let's quote the section that was judged by the Court of Appeal 3 days ago as conform to the constitution: "&qu
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by aragot 12y ago
> Hey, how awesome of you to drag stereotypes into this ... Is it criticism? Because if it is, it's misplaced. I did read the article. I am myself gay. According to the other answers, it seems it was known "in the scene".
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by aragot 12y ago
You see, I'm upset when someone uses some law to forbid what seems normal to me, but this would be subjective. And I agree with you for the major trait of your discourse: To each country, their customs and laws, provided it was legally
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by aragot 12y ago
Tim Cook faces 2 years in jail in Singapore if he has activity even in a private room. Three days ago, the Court of Appeal has just judged the law was conform to the constitution, because everyone is guaranteed equal rights no matter their
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by aragot 12y ago
How did everyone know? Or even, guess? I assume there are a few factors which generally correlate with being gay, such as never being seen dating a girl or trying to stick with gay fashions?
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by aragot 12y ago
I like your reasoning. Worth mentioning the Apple Watch starts at $349. > feel that it's designed for fitness nuts This product is quite a leap for Microsoft already. The watch market is young and probably led by fitness nuts. It&#x
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by aragot 12y ago
I almost thought "Wow, someone finally starts building Apple-level PCs". But the machine still only runs Windows. To a certain crowd of IT profrssionals, Apple has raised the standard to "I need both quality gear and the unix
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by aragot 12y ago
I entered an engineering school 5 years after Ariane V. Each single professor explained us why their subject was the reason for Ariane V to explode. The physics one went about how the imperial/metric discrepancy was the cause, the mech
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by aragot 12y ago
How do you fund an investigation when you've just lost some essential assets of your business, both material and immaterial?
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by aragot 12y ago
Is there a reason why we have fewer of those problems with Mac OS X? I can see that the Windows audience often isn't tech-savvy enough to understand that Ask isn't part of Windows, and that's probably also because Chrome&#x2F
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by aragot 12y ago
I don't see why you're being downvoted. What about the accumulation of nanoparticles among cells, do they traverse the cell membrane? Can they cause cell withering or dysfunction, alter gene expression, hormonal balance or cause m
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by aragot 12y ago
This kind of mindset ("Let's check I have the least negative impact on the community") has to come from the HN crowd. Would it be relevant to adapt it to Reddit?
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Refreshing, isn't it? It give us a semi-sensible insight on how others may perceive our comments. One of the biggest things I learnt in Australia is never to use irony when you're a foreigner. People either wonder whether you sa
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by aragot 12y ago
Great wrtie-up. Thanks. Europe wasn't so lenient. Microsoft paid more than $2bn in fines for Windows Media Player and for not giving the choice of web browser in some versions of the OS. Nellie Kroes was the leader here. Including €561
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by aragot 12y ago
Thank you for this valuable background. So as I understand, Bill Gates' deposition is legally correct but so terribly unpopular that it's the wrong thing to do, am I right? Besides, what was the outcome of the trial? If I understa
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by aragot 12y ago
Sure it is. The influence of HN is unavoidable, like any media, especially since it is a leader in the sector. It is even publically said that content will be edited according to YCombinator's choices. - If you've spent more tha
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by aragot 12y ago
I always wonder why we tax things that we otherwise want to encourage. It's a human bias, we tax what everyone does because we think it's "fair", in the sense that everyone supports it. If you've studied micro-econo

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