drrotmos

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by drrotmos 13y ago
A non-profit organization. And yes, that's totally fine.
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by drrotmos 13y ago
To you, yes, but to the law and perhaps more importantly – to the relevant tax agency, a business is meant for turning a profit. If the founders aren't interested in turning a profit, a charity will serve them better.
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by drrotmos 13y ago
Do people actually say that "A startup's purpose should be to change the world for the better in a meaningful way"? That's ridiculous, and symbolizes what's wrong with the current startup culture. Fine, go ahead and
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by drrotmos 13y ago
It would be very bad if they do, since that would open the existing exFAT projects up to legal action. Anyone who has read the Samsung code is "tainted" with the knowledge of Samsung's proprietary techniques which may be copy
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by drrotmos 13y ago
It's only for now.
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by drrotmos 13y ago
Yes, you're in great company there, with well-respected allies like Iran, Uganda and Afghanistan. Congratulations.
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by drrotmos 13y ago
While not exception tracking per se, we use New Relic and we also log exceptions to a special Graylog2 stream. It's working very well actually.
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by drrotmos 13y ago
> Well, no actually. I'm not willing to spend a dollar on those services until I know those getting more value out of them (i.e. the rich) are paying their fair share. In reality, they'll probably be paying nothing so I will jo
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by drrotmos 13y ago
> So you want the gold standard again? Hasn't being in the EU shown you the dangers of having a currency you can't adjust to respond to international conditions? Being in the EU has shown me the dangers of government meddling i
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by drrotmos 13y ago
> You think taxes are unethical? Then how does the government pay for itself? Would you rather they just printed the money they need? That would also be a tax; a flat tax. > And if you don't believe the government should exist th
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by drrotmos 13y ago
> Then you should abstain from voting in the present US system because that's not how it works nor how it was designed to work. It's a combative system where compromise is achieved by basically averaging the desires of the inte
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by drrotmos 13y ago
I strongly disagree. In my mind, the only way to vote is to vote your conscience, not what happens to give me the greatest personal gain. "The God Delusion" by Dawkins includes a great (and somewhat Rawlsian) rule, 'Always de
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by drrotmos 13y ago
HK has nothing to fear with regards to economic sanctions. One can be reasonably sure that even under "One country, two systems", China wouldn't take kindly to economic sanctions against HK, and in the end, the US needs China
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by drrotmos 13y ago
Because one is a greek letter, and the other is a unit of resistance. The fact that they're represented by the same symbol is irrelevant.
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by drrotmos 13y ago
Hence the classification "TOP SECRET STRAP 1" at the bottom of the slide.
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by drrotmos 13y ago
I know this isn't an opinion shared by the current US administration, but having a fair trial for one's crimes is a human right. It's a right guaranteed by articles 10 and 11 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. P
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by drrotmos 13y ago
Quite a few of us probably DO have an active NDA with Apple (e.g. from being a Registered Apple Developer). Though IANAL ,from my reading of the terms viewing the materials shouldn't constitute a breach of the NDA either.
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by drrotmos 14y ago
'What have we come to where I can't sit with a friend and shoot the shit about dongles?' Well, it sounds to me like you've come to a professional environment, such as a workplace, or a technical conference.
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by drrotmos 14y ago
I don't know. I took a random pick of one of the US Patents and took a look at it. Take US6735249 as an example. "Apparatus, and associated method, for forming a compressed motion vector field utilizing predictive motion coding". I'm by no
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by drrotmos 14y ago
I'm a bit intrigued. As the main developer of a Git library[1] myself (in pure PHP, not depending on the git binary or esoteric extensions), I have no doubt that the actual parsing of the git objects and packfiles will be very much possib
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by drrotmos 14y ago
As a Swede, I concur.
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by drrotmos 14y ago
While this incident is terrible, there's one thing Dr. Mann doesn't make entirely clear in the article. The contact information for McDonald's France is quite easily found at http://www.mcdonalds.fr/contacts . It's not an e-mail address, b
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Show HN: Gittern, a PHP Git repo library, no git binary required(github.com)
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by drrotmos 15y ago
Sure, but it's uncommon and traceable, which means that if it becomes widely used by dissidents, that would be an excellent way of tracking them.