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by gonvaled 10y ago
Actually, Norway itself mentioned that their deal is worse that EU membership: the politicians would prefer to join the EU, but this is not an easy sell to the electorate, so they do not bother.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Apple should pay what is due, not what you or Apple think is fair. The core of the issue is that the EC has deemed the tax rate applied by Ireland to Apple is in conflict with the Agreements that Ireland has with the EU, and that has been s
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by gonvaled 10y ago
And even more interesting: what have been the consequences, to employment and otherwise, of Apple avoiding to pay billions in taxes?
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Surely nobody can be tricked onto supporting positions contrary to his interests. That would be impossible, since people are rational, educated and perfectly informed. There is a minority of people who are actually completely out of touch w
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Well, that was a practical joke for over 5 years with USB 2, and I do not find it so funny when plugging in my phone to the charger half sleep at 3 o'clock in the morning.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
And then one of the biggest selling points of USB type C is moot - namely its longitudinal symmetry, which allows to plug it in without caring about orientation.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
That's actually a bug-feature: whatsapp is supposed to be tied to a phonenumber. For example, take this use case: you have whatsapp with a german number. You go to italy. You get an italian sim. You get a new phone. Result: you can not
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by gonvaled 10y ago
The West has withdrawn, but not before wreaking havoc in the region, leaving complete chaos behind. Chaos that was predicted while the US was drumming up the wars in Afganistan and Irak.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
China is certainly doing its share, but much less than the west, simply because of the inertia of a system working for decades. Correcting for population, China's inference is much less than the West's. Correcting for cumulative h
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by gonvaled 10y ago
The rich nations have exploited the world for hundreds of years. It is becoming increasingly difficult to exploit resources, since low hanging fruits are already gone and there is much more concurrence in exploiting; even a reverse movement
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by gonvaled 10y ago
While I mostly agree with you, I do think that once we have moved to a non-GPL world, nobody (or very few) will care or know about the alternative. People get just used to the current state of affairs, even if that means not having rights t
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Yes, if it makes the system in its whole more free. According to you, a society with the freedom to kill is more free than one without that freedom.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Users definitely care about not being tied to a certain provider.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Sure it is! In one society, killing is legal. In the other it is not. That's the only difference. In this construct there are less differences than between GPL and BSD.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Unfortunately he can ring this bell for the next 100 years and people will not get it.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
What is freer, a society where it is legal to kill each other, or a society where killing is illegal?
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Sure: when the area is not paying top salaries anymore, or anyhow not offering a good life quality, those adaptable startup-ers will move somewhere else.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
How do you know? How does post-boom Bay Area look like? Empty houses? Deteriorating streets? Rising criminality? What makes you so sure?
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by gonvaled 10y ago
> The modern Catholic church is fundamentally different from what it was even a century ago And can change very quickly again. The goal of religions is to achieve total control. The current strategy of the Catholic church is to show a lo
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Sure, but since driving is faster, and sitting consumes less calories than moving, the additional calories will be little.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Modern food is packaged oil.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Arguably not only IPs from Palestine, but IPs from any other State recognizing the State of Palestine.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
[1] > As of 14 September 2015, 136 (70.5%) of the 193 member states of the United Nations and two non-member states have recognised the State of Palestine. Many of the countries that do not recognise the State of Palestine nevertheless r
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Hiding a wallet is much easier. You can even have several copies of it, so that you can hide it so well that you do not even care if you lose it.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
I meant potential zealotry: Catholics seem to be quite peaceful nowadays, but my opinion is that this is a temporary state of affairs. Religions are totalitarian, since they are the holders of the One Truth.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Stalin was probably undervaluing religious zealotry.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
The power vacuum comes from topping Saddam Hussein for geopolitical reasons. Opportunistic use of the September 11 attacks to open up a new era of wild-wild-west politics, where the world is up for grabs. And we wonder that Russia feels emb
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by gonvaled 10y ago
It has also a much louder and powerful media empire, so its opinions are over represented in the world stage. The media is not objective, and is mostly pro-US.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
You meant "Trump" in your last sentence?
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by gonvaled 10y ago
But is this Trump? I would argue that the current escalation is inherent to how policy has been conducted particularly in the recent time with Russia, alienating it instead of continuing the fruitful period which started after the fall of t

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