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by bighi 9y ago
The title should be "a scam startup is stealing money from fool people".
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by bighi 9y ago
But if for some reason some court rules the GPL invalid, doesn't it mean that the companies using the GPL'ed software are violating copyright? Because the GPL license is the only thing granting them the rights to use that intellec
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by bighi 9y ago
As other people already said, intellectual property laws restrict not only the work itself, but also derivative works. A patch is a derivative work, no matter how you try to dodge that part of the law. So it would still be violation of copy
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by bighi 9y ago
I work in a big retail company here in Brazil. If you enter most of our stores with a phone in your pocket, you're being tracked. They track where you went, in front of what shelves you stopped and for how long, if you went to the cash
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by bighi 9y ago
You might not remember a lot of the specifics. But I am sure you remember that you did a lot of sitting and a lot of listening (2 of the 3 surprising findings of the article).
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by bighi 9y ago
I expected some new realizations here, but all I could find was a list of the 3 most obvious things about students. Do we really need to follow students to learn that they sit a lot and listen a lot?
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by bighi 9y ago
You're not only using Android, but you're using an Android phone from a smaller company. While this is bad, it's not really unexpected.
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by bighi 10y ago
You are always alone.
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by bighi 10y ago
I would guess that something close to 97% of the available jobs for developers in my country are NOT remote. So where you live counts A LOT for your career.
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by bighi 10y ago
Because it's not their symbol. It was a symbol with many positive meanings that existed for a long time before Nazis.
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by bighi 10y ago
Linux and others are indeed new operating systems. They just decided to follow some of the standards used in Unix.
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by bighi 10y ago
> I refuse to own a smartphone. That is your loss. You're blaming the tool instead of the people. And then you renounce said tool, when it could be used (as the tool it is) to improve your life and your work. To create greater thing
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by bighi 10y ago
What is this "fuck sea" you're talking about and how do I sail in it?
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by bighi 10y ago
> This is how democracy ends If we're talking about actual democracy, we might even say it never started.
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by bighi 10y ago
And here I am, again and again being reminded how the US can be so backwards in some issues here and there. Not making THEIR OWN LAWS in its entirety available for free for every citizen? What the hell is this?
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by bighi 10y ago
It makes sense. Poor people can't pay for privacy, now that it became a feature instead of a right.
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by bighi 10y ago
Of course they know. They expect their victims to not know.
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by bighi 10y ago
I'm 31, and I dislike my job as a software engineer. I had many jobs on my 10-year long career. I disliked all of them. I settled into a job that doesn't make me work that much, so I can just do other stuff and be less sad.
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by bighi 10y ago
Imaginary countries don't count. ;)
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by bighi 10y ago
> Suddenly, what does that mean when your team only ships 5 arbitrary points? In my experience, it means some developers failed to game the system that particular time. But you can be sure there were many other problematic moments in pre
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by bighi 11y ago
It seems a case of "I didn't understand this engine's documentation, so I'm making my own engine to do this exact same thing".
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by bighi 11y ago
Which one is better? 1) A culture of segregation in the minds of part of the population AND segregative laws. or 2) A culture of segregation in the minds of part of the population. I would say 2 is better than 1. They already fixed part of
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by bighi 11y ago
It's the opposite. You can be together whoever you want. What they mean, in this case, is the government recognition of your union. As the government need defined laws to operate... And why do the government need to recognize the union
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by bighi 11y ago
But marriage is not a religious thing. Before most popular religions were created, marriage was already old. For cultural reasons, it's popular to do a RELIGIOUS CEREMONY along the marriage. What's religious there is the ceremony,
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by bighi 11y ago
But every unbiased research I've seen shows that eating "organic" food makes absolutely no difference to your health or general well being. It's mostly a marketing label, as was "Web 2.0" or "The cloud&quo
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by bighi 11y ago
If we ignore the pieces of plastic I ate when I was a small child, everything I eat is organic.
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by bighi 12y ago
Seems legit.
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by bighi 12y ago
But it's not that over the top. There are A LOT of people that would say the "I'm white" comment and MEAN IT. It's not obviously over the top. Once I saw a T-Shirt in tshirthell.com that said something like "ar
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by bighi 12y ago
Looking at English dictionaries I found two main meanings of spying: 1) Observing a target with hostile intents. 2) Acquiring and tracking information. Google has never been hostile towards me. I've never lost money because of Google,
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by bighi 12y ago
Oh no, not the spying argument again...

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