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by derriz 8y ago
Ok I'll look for Voss's blog. Because, here is the full text of the infamous article 13 and there is nothing in it that I can read as "makes the publishing infringing material the point of liability": 1.Information soci
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by derriz 8y ago
Like I said, I really dislike current copyright law as it exists in most countries, so you wont find me arguing in favour of extending copyright powers at all. But article 13 does not seem to represent an extension of copyright powers since
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by derriz 8y ago
I have to say (and I am not a fan of modern copyright law at all) that I'm undecided about this law. I guess the contrarian in me requires more analysis and reasoning than I've found in the top google search results or following s
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by derriz 8y ago
Oh no... reading these comments is making me nervous. I've just decided on the newest XPS 13 to replace my aging MBP. After unreasonable (IMO) shipping schedule (nearly 2 weeks to get from a depot in the Netherlands to another Europea
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by derriz 8y ago
Regarding "Instead of EPS, we should be talking about earnings per dollar of market cap", isn't that what the P/E ratio measures? Although, strictly speaking you are suggesting the reciprocal - an E/P ratio. I beli
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by derriz 8y ago
Sure, central banks can create money. I was addressing the idea that private banks “lend out more money than they have” thus “creating money out of nothing”.
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by derriz 8y ago
As a child I was fascinated by the idea that the cliffs of Moher ( https://www.cliffsofmoher.ie/about-the-cliffs/geology/ ) stood at the mouth of a massive ancient river but I've never found a picture of the ea
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by derriz 8y ago
Banks do not lend more money than they actually have at all. Banking is a simple business - you raise money by taking deposits, issuing bonds, borrowing from other banks, etc. then you keep a reserve (say 10%) and lend out the rest. That&#
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by derriz 8y ago
Hard to resist this - "Unlike the intersection, the Set Difference is a bit harder to scale up to more than two lists. It is concievable, and I may even have done it, but I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to develop that.&quot
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by derriz 8y ago
Frequently when I read a comment where Marx is quoted or referenced, I struggle to understand the point. The article discusses a trend that has lasted longer than 6 centuries. Are you claiming this is due to 600 years of runaway inequality
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by derriz 8y ago
I guess it's because the Napoleonic wars were so bloody relatively speaking. The proportion of the European population that died as a result of them is in the same ballpark* as the proportion that died as a result of WW2. The number
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by derriz 9y ago
I tried to ignore it but I cannot - this is a ugly comment. And for hackernews it's devoid of fact or even interesting opinion. It uses a familiar tactic commonly associated with bigots: don't agree that there's a global Zi
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by derriz 9y ago
That’s potentially dangerous advice. I’ve seen police go through a train asking people for papers passing between Schengen countries. Just because the chances of being caught are small doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to do something illegal
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by derriz 9y ago
I can see the attraction in a build system based on a proper full featured programming language but I've never been tempted to try gradle because I believe the approach has a fundamental flaw. I.e. that it's impossible for IDEs to
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by derriz 9y ago
Yes now that there's a name for it, I can see it everywhere. For example (thankfully the number of people that I know who are climate change skeptics has dwindled hugely in the last year or two): - the world isn't warming at all -
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by derriz 9y ago
JanSt it seems we are talking across each other so this will probably be my last post on the subject. The EC's determination is being challenged in court on the very basis that Vestager completely misunderstood or deliberately miscalcu
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by derriz 9y ago
Putting "sorry" at the start of a comment accusing me of misunderstand the situation doesn't really help here. I've contradicted your claimed sequence of events and of course I googled before writing the post to confir
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by derriz 9y ago
I guess he cares (he spent the time expressing it in writing) and I care (I took the time to respond) :) Also I'm not considering alternatives just because Java 9 broke stuff. There are lots of other reasons why Java irritates me but
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by derriz 9y ago
Same in Switzerland. If they don't want you working for someone else, they have to keep paying you. The only "non-compete" clauses that are even theoretically binding apply to stealing clients andn customers and the like so
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by derriz 9y ago
I'm not sure how you can confidently assert that "almost nothing" breaks with Java 9. Maybe we were just unlucky that the very first application (a simple less than 20KLoC JavaFX Gui) we used to test upgrading to Java 9 brok
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by derriz 9y ago
Linus may be occasionally obnoxious but I believe his "don't break user space" mantra is a significant reason why Linux is so popular. A similar attitude guided Windows development (until Vista) and it dominated the desktop
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by derriz 9y ago
The problem is that java.util.Optional has no special syntactic support compared to the way optionality is supported in Kotlin for example. And it is barely used in the standard libraries. And many/most 3rd parties libraries don'
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by derriz 9y ago
This is simply factually incorrect. Ireland and Apple lodged the appeal to the ECJ against the ruling in November 2016. Ireland was forced to collect the 13B pending the appeal in December 2017. The US is not the lowest tax destination -
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by derriz 9y ago
Eh no to the 0.1%. But I have to concede that the power of shocking but nonsense headline numbers is hard to argue against given how I'm burning through Karma here. The 0.1% is a number concocted by treating the value of European reta
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by derriz 9y ago
You’re implying that by moving international profits to a Caribbean country means Apple has avoided corporate tax? Like laundering money? This is not the case - they park their international profits in the Caribbean because US tax code all
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by derriz 9y ago
You’re contradicting yourself - they cannot simultaneously shift all profits to Ireland and to a non-Irish head office. They split the profits on their international sales channeled through Ireland between both. The non-Irish profits are
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by derriz 9y ago
That’s not a fair comparison. You don’t pay corporate tax based on a percentage of turnover so your rate has nothing to do with corporate tax rates. They pay Irish corporate tax on profits generated by their operations in Ireland which ar
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by derriz 9y ago
The commisioner has argued that Ireland agreed to a special deal for Apple. Ireland and Apple strongly deny that there was any favourable tax deal offered. The ECJ will decide the case and unless the EU wants to undermine the entire syste
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by derriz 9y ago
I agree that the tax is more like a duty or tariff despite being sold as an attempt to correct a corporate tax loophole. The reason it is not marketed as such is because it makes it obvious who will actually pay the tax - the consumers of t
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by derriz 9y ago
Sure every country can just impose duties on imports. But it's an impoverishing move for the planet. The last time every country believed this was a good idea was in the 1930s and it lead to economic devestation and arguably contribu

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