bowlofpetunias

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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
It's not about the money, it's about not being able to care and survive as a business. Because then they would also have to care about the thousands of other VM's that may run all kinds of stuff that is illegal somewhere, q
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
The cliche "there is no country called Europe" very much applies in this case. Seed investment happens almost exclusively on the national level, with local investors and start-ups who's initial target is the local market, reg
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
So how come this doesn't work for me? I am not influenced by advertising in the least. I find it all equally annoying. I'm not being pretentious, but when I look at the stuff I buy (and I'm as materialistic as the next person
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Americans have swallowed second rate telecommunications services, extortionate prices and lack of competition for ages and will continue to do so, because the alternative is evil socialist government regulation.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Nothing to do with being introverts. The manipulative nature of artificial team building exercises is an insult to the intelligence of any smart person with an analytical mind.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
I don't understand why intelligent people that are capable of independent, critical thought don't stay the fuck away from a platform that enforces a narrow set of cultural, political and religious values that aren't theirs.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
My government doesn't have my fingerprint, but the US government does...
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
I don't think the Netherlands has any such law, and if we do no one cares. There's basically one simple law that the US should copy: if you hit a weaker road user, be it a cyclist, pedestrian or anything else, with your car, you a
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
I've had that sysadmin problem. Somewhere in the two six-storey buildings of a tv broadcaster. Additional fun: the system was running spam-filtering software that relayed all incoming mail and was failing. Still ping-able though. And
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Whatever may be wrong with Comcast (connectivity-wise I'm soooo glad I don't live in the US), this is absolutely exemplary damage control PR. Clear, accessible, no weasel words, no lawyer-speak, to the point and with a human touch
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
So, no apology?
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
The picture in the sidebar (Spiegel cover on the fall of the Berlin wall) is extremely painful in this context. Millions of Germans that honestly believed they wouldn't be spied on anymore once they were part of the "free" We
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
The foundation of good privacy regulation is the definition of ownership. All data about you belongs to you, no matter who collected it why and how. If you don't own your data, you don't have any privacy. Yes, that is very hard to
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Organizations deliberately breaking the law for profit is generally called "organized crime". Drug dealers provide something of value and personally I think we would be way better off if drugs were legalized. So we're going t
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Yes, we hate them for their freedom. Oh, wait, we're trying to protect our freedom. US tech companies are on a rampage attempting to destroy civil rights, consumer rights and labor rights in Europe. Often openly breaking laws that aren
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Which 80's are you talking about? What I remember is dark music, "no future" graffiti, riots, heroine junkies in the alley and the ever-present "reality" that some day soon they were gonna use the nukes and it would
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
For many people that is part of a lifestyle choice, and they tend to live in places where that shopping is easily accessible. Personally, I can do that whilst walking home from work. I don't believe it's coincidental that the deli
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Cut prices on a finite and polluting resource. No, not really less frighting. Also a reminder that the term "visionary" is very relative to your horizon.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
You're simplifying the term "talent". I know a company that does their tech in the Philippines (not cheap off-shoring, a real, well-funded part of the company). Yeah, plenty of CS majors but still quite hard to find actual t
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
That's what I'm seeing from the recruiters pissing in my inbox, but I'm also reading this: http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/careers/3543458/biggest-... £50k in London may be doable for 20-so
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Coincidentally, today both in the UK and the Netherlands reports were published about the rapidly increasing shortage of "IT workers". After digging a bit deeper into the actual numbers (when for fuck sake are they going stop grou
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
That 1% means nothing without knowing how much of that retail revenue currently goes through e-commerce. But I have sneaking suspicion that there's still a lot of room for growth. Also, outside of the US Amazon has just barely started
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
I'm surprised Tribler is still alive. Years ago it kicked up a storm of publicity when it was published as a research project by the Delft University.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
What Uber does has nothing to do with Silicon Valley and startups. It's the same exploitation through evading labor and safety laws dozens of shady companies have done for decades. If a transportation company exploits East-European tru
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Wait, what do you mean by "complicity"? Mass surveillance and the large scale violation of privacy is Google's core business model. I was assuming she was referring to that, and not any NSA-related conspiracy allegations. (An
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
> "Perhaps we can learn from the methodologies of other fields like Architecture and Industrial Design. This is a meta-problem we must address." Something about history and being doomed to repeat it springs to mind.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
In which Y is usually prefaced with "micro"...
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
It doesn't even have to be particularly special, just simple decent lunch. Just remove having lunch as problem to be solved by people who have other things on their minds.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
The site is called Hacker News , not Hacker Support broken business models that keep content off the open web but get traffic by faking it . For the majority of readers here there is no news at the end of that link, just and advert for th
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
I have a love-hate relationship with Calibre. As a way to manage my ebooks, and especially overcoming the insanity that is DRM, Calibre is a lifesaver. I wouldn't even be buying ebooks if it wasn't for Calibre. (I only bought a Ki

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