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by awvcs 8y ago
Things like GDPR aren't supposed to be enforce in every instance. Similar to things like FCC or CE certification. That is just the better way to have such regulation. When someone complains or something happens, then these things will
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by awvcs 8y ago
There is no "obvious trend" in the way that you are suggesting. The copyright directive is bad because copyright legislation is bad. If you want to enforce copyright the directive isn't incorrect, it is just that many people
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by awvcs 8y ago
What makes you think this is a new development? When many of these large companies got started Europe was still recovering from World War II, even up until the '90s and continuing today. Europe isn't problem free, but in the grand
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by awvcs 8y ago
You can make those kind of numbers say anything. Saying that a country like Sweden is "receding" in "digital evolution" is pretty ridiculous when almost everything is more advanced than 99% of the world. And on top of th
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by awvcs 8y ago
I think what has happened is that post war we have defined success as having it better than our parents. Which isn't necessarily incorrect, though ways of measuring that can be. Starting in the '80s people have been making a lot o
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by awvcs 8y ago
I don't know. I think things like producthunt is the long tail. It is the people who don't have time in a good environment or access to talent so they do whatever they can instead. And I don't intend that to be an elitist sta
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by awvcs 8y ago
While I get what you are saying, I mostly disagree. You have to differentiate between if the problem exists and whether the solution is any good. When computing became really mainstream we were standing on the shoulder of giants. A lot thin
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by awvcs 8y ago
It generally doesn't matter that much. If you miss the cache you are going to hit Google's network, which will serve from their own data center over their own networks. That mostly isn't paid for by the ISP, but Google's
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by awvcs 8y ago
> Why do you think that is? I'm not sure what you're referring to exactly. There are a lot of stories of people falling into technology entrepreneurship by showing up. I guess you could say that it was less competitive (which i
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by awvcs 8y ago
I wish it wasn't so but I do think to the degree you can declare something dead the lean startup is. The problem is that lean startups requires a number of things that aren't accessible anymore. A) Maybe the most important is time
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by awvcs 8y ago
Generally you are going to connect to Netflix or Google and then it is up to them how they serve their traffic. Presumably only a small percentage of YouTube videos gets a lot of the traffic. They could even control that by which videos get
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by awvcs 8y ago
I have never understood how it is fair or open that a few providers are allowed to hold the rest of the Internet hostage because they are popular. Why should downloading a random file be throttled because people like to watch YouTube in 4k
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by awvcs 8y ago
I guess the promise of remote work is a lot about the promise of not having to pay premium for space. I can't help thinking though that once remote work become more common the same thing would happen to nice places in smaller towns as
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by awvcs 8y ago
I don't think "going well" is the same as not being dysfunctional. That someone can e.g. have decent life as a upper middle class American doesn't take away from the fact that the systems themselves are dysfunctional. Th
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by awvcs 8y ago
> I don't understand how can there be countries ignoring this. Any preventable scenario requires people ignoring it to happen. Which I guess in itself isn't very helpful. It is just that people tend to assume that dysfunction i
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by awvcs 8y ago
Female-dominated professions generally doesn't suffer from lack of diversity at the top. There are less male nurses, but plenty of male doctors. There are less male teachers, but plenty of male professors. Etc. That is specifically wha
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by awvcs 8y ago
And the performance isn't very good either from what I have heard. It is a good candidate if you want to try and make something cheap, but few (none?) of the offerings really are (olimex has one if anyone is interested). Personally I a
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by awvcs 8y ago
I don't think there is any complexity as such. It is mostly just that power centralizes. This is hard to argue though since so many people an incentive to believe otherwise. But ask yourself if there is any concrete indication that e.g