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by beojan 9y ago
That makes it useless for copyleft. My suggestion is that if the copyright holder fails to pay the tax, it is automatically considered to be licensed under the latest version of the GPL.
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by beojan 9y ago
That article is literally about 60% of their revenue being from subscriptions.
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by beojan 9y ago
> Maybe they could make actually some use of crypto currencies but there would have to be strong player like apple to press for consensus. I doubt it. Cryptocurrencies seem to be terrible for micropayments.
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by beojan 9y ago
> I'm exposed to English when I'm ~4 yo, and started to learn it at 7. It's not. He didn't even use the right tense in the first clause. It should be: I've been exposed to English since I was 4 years old, and sta
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by beojan 9y ago
Perhaps in the past, or for local media, but the big newspapers (e.g NY Times) are primarily subscription funded now. Anyhow, newspaper advertising isn't personally targeted by tracking readers, so it's a lot more palatable.
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by beojan 9y ago
You do have some very reputable newspapers though (NY Times, WSJ), which are subscription funded and hence losing out to the free ad funded stuff.
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by beojan 9y ago
That's my point. Get rid of the free “news" sites and people will start paying for print media (and digital subscriptions) again.
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by beojan 9y ago
Absolutely, and they would benefit from the end of ad supported, low quality but free online news. All three are subscription funded.
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by beojan 9y ago
Why would you only have state sponsored media? You also have private media that you pay for (newspapers).
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by beojan 9y ago
> No, it will basically make a newsmedia site unprofitable. I think it is the EU that has not fully thought this through. Most of the news industry is already sickly, financially, and they mostly have no model other than advertising (wit
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by beojan 9y ago
> People may not pronounce croissant like the French do It's pretty close, well within the range of regional variation in English pronunciation.
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by beojan 9y ago
That's an oversimplification. You can collect it, but you have to be very careful about securing it and not misusing it. In the real world, those collecting this data are in fact generally misusing it or storing it insecurely.
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by beojan 9y ago
No, there the house is collateral. In this case, instead of the lender simply taking over the acquired company, the acquired company declares bankruptcy and is liquidated.
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by beojan 9y ago
The difference here is that it's the acquired company that owes the debt, as opposed to the acquiring company owing a debt with the acquired company as collateral.
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by beojan 9y ago
Outlook is pretty close. What I really want, though, is GMail style conversation view that works with traditional inline replies.
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by beojan 9y ago
> KMail are best-in-class. As someone who uses KMail every day, no, it really isn't. KMail is in need of some polish.
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by beojan 9y ago
> I for one am grateful that these services target me with relevant adds. Is that something we want undo? What is the strategy here? Is the objective to be less informed and be directed to information that is non-relevant to our interest
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by beojan 9y ago
Spinoza's God couldn't have a book of anything. Then again, the Abrahamic God (being omniscient) wouldn't need a book either, but would simply know the perfect proof (and every imperfect proof) for every theorem.
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by beojan 9y ago
Google should have used Amazon's cloud? Really? They have one of their own.
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by beojan 9y ago
I think he meant US law enforcement can be brutal against violators.
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by beojan 9y ago
You could even have an automatic valve on every line.
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by beojan 9y ago
Not if the valves were automatic.
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by beojan 9y ago
I don't think they had tobacco in the 1050s.
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by beojan 9y ago
> Such a system would be excellent for bringing trains to a halt, but that's pretty much it. You could also cut off gas and water lines, so it would probably prevent a lot of damage due fire or flooding.
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by beojan 9y ago
Yes, that's why solitary confinement is considered torture.
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by beojan 9y ago
The sponsorships are part of the video. They are targeted only by video.
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by beojan 9y ago
Unfortunately it's increasingly the case that people learn to code to get a well-paying job rather than because they're interested in it (with the employment opportunities being a side benefit). This is probably what's lead t
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by beojan 9y ago
I would just target the platform I already knew first, then port to the other if it turns out to be worth it.
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by beojan 9y ago
Only if you are a web developer. If you already know other languages, Obj C / Swift for iOS and Java for Android would be easier (even if there is duplicated work). Alternatively, you could use C++ and Qt for both.
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by beojan 9y ago
CERN is one of the rare cases this makes sense, since it's otherwise an international organisation with a domain under a ccTLD of a specific country (Switzerland).

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