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by calcifer 9y ago
Just to add a little bit to this: I also live in NL and the cycling infrastructure is not limited to central locations; there are well maintained, separated, safe cycling roads between cities as well. It helps that it's a small count
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by calcifer 9y ago
I would put Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind slightly above Laputa, but agreed otherwise :)
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by calcifer 9y ago
How is that a strawman? You said "it's a matter of survival" to "defend yourself" and I'm saying that's not really a valid argument for the country in the article.
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by calcifer 9y ago
> It's a simple matter of survival to equip yourself as best you can to defend yourself. And when was the last time the US actually defended its own territory instead of invading somone elses?
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by calcifer 9y ago
Ah yes, the " I have to do evil things because if I didn't, someone else would " argument... Just think about what you wrote: "our enemies". Why do you (whichever country you are from) have enemies in the first plac
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by calcifer 9y ago
> Does that make us complicit if those technologies are ever used in malicious ways? Yes. If you choose to work for an entity you help further their work. Militaries are made for war and by contributing to a military, you directly help t
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by calcifer 9y ago
GDPR applies to all EU residents, not just citizens.
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by calcifer 9y ago
Nitpick, but Spotify isn't an Electron app, it uses CEF [1]. [1] https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef
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by calcifer 9y ago
> TRR ?
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by calcifer 9y ago
> documented process with the community, in public You mean exactly like it's happenning in the mailing list right now? Even when the discussion is public, it seems some people prefer to rant on social media instead of contributing
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by calcifer 9y ago
> totalitarian surveillance > got offended > Bullies > soul-destroying shithole It's funny how these sort of comments always come from recently created throwaway accounts.
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EU wants to require platforms to filter uploaded content, including code(blog.github.com)
681 points by calcifer 9y ago|345 comments
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by calcifer 9y ago
I'm trying really hard to see how the title is in any way gatekeeping. If I say "if you just look at the exhaust, instead of using proper equipment, you probably aren't testing emissions thoroughly" , am I gatekeeping a
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by calcifer 9y ago
> Compensation isn't a comfort Sure it is. If you can "be fine" with $X, but are looking for a job that pays $Y (where $Y>$X), then that's seeking comfort.
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by calcifer 9y ago
Slack is an in-company chat product (their slogan is literally “where work happens” [1]) and it was never intended for public groups, which is why all invite automation tools for Slack are third-party. Slack doesn’t want you to use their pr
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by calcifer 9y ago
When you do, any plans to offer migrations? I'd love to move my B2 buckets (~5TB) to a much closer EU server for a reasonable one time fee.
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by calcifer 9y ago
From a cursory reading, it doesn't sound anything like that at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_resonant_cavity_thruster
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by calcifer 9y ago
What do you mean one-offs? Pretty much every company with an engineer on staff is collecting as much data as they can with zero regard to the user's expectations of privacy. The regulation exists to stop an epidemic, not to act on a fe
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by calcifer 9y ago
Sorry if this sounds snarky, but you have written 3 whole paragraphs without saying what exactly the problem is .
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by calcifer 9y ago
> The problem is you are required to prove that you follow the rules Yes, because the "just don't do creepy shit" approach to privacy didn't go so well. If the carrot doesn't work, the stick comes out.
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by calcifer 9y ago
> if the status quo completely changes tomorrow, I still won’t care … and would implicitly be supporting the new status quo.
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by calcifer 9y ago
> Staying silent isn’t an endorsement of the status quo. If you stay silent, supporters of the status quo can simply say “see? people are happy with it; if they weren’t more would complain” . So once again, neutrality is a myth and the
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by calcifer 9y ago
That’s just a fancy way of saying “I’m fine with the status quo”.
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by calcifer 9y ago
Sure, but that doesn’t invalidate my point. Even with multiple opposition choices, everyone chooses something .
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by calcifer 9y ago
Neutrality is a myth. On every issue, one either sides with the status quo (explicitly, or implicitly by staying silent) or the opposition. For Google specifically, they were never neutral in the first place. You are already getting resul
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by calcifer 9y ago
With 10 times the features, it’s not at all unreasonable.
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by calcifer 9y ago
On my laptop running Slack Linux 3.0.5 with 3 workspaces & several dozen channels, it idles at 0% CPU and ~550MB RAM (see screenshot [1]). [1] https://i.imgur.com/juQbGW7.png
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by calcifer 9y ago
I understand, but the implication is that somehow all the other languages out there with collectively decades of experience in dependency management somehow all made the wrong tradeoff and Go is rightfully correcting their mistake. Basica
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by calcifer 9y ago
From the "Avoiding Singleton Problems" section: > Another problem would be if there were two HTTP stacks in the program. Clearly only one HTTP stack can listen on port 80; we wouldn't want half the program registering hand
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by calcifer 9y ago
> There are plenty of people who are saying implicitly I understand you think they are saying all men , but unless you can read minds over the Internet, that’s just your opinion. But more than that, saying “men are sexist” does NOT im

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