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by gyulai 4y ago
The loophole I've successfully used in the past in Austria was to incorporate a Ltd in the UK and operate it in Austria (similarly to how, in the U.S. The free movement provision, which is one of the central pilhars of the E.U., exte
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by gyulai 4y ago
Thanks for the pointer. Good non-English TTS is hard to come by, and this one sounds truly amazing!
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by gyulai 4y ago
...haha, wow, I'm so glad I'm not alone in this.
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by gyulai 4y ago
> What missing elements do you see in free software that we should be trying to patch? I work with a lot of purists who run Linux on their desktops. I can totally relate, and I have a lot admiration for how they have their principles an
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Ask HN: Is retrocomputing the pragmatist power user's future of the desktop?
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by gyulai 5y ago
Turning a dump of wikipedia (the kind you get on dumps.wikimedia.org) into a running instance of wikipedia that you can browse is actually insanely hard. I put considerable effort into it a few years back and gave up. Don't know what
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by gyulai 5y ago
You seem to be looking at software as a dead artefact like a greek temple that was built hundreds of years ago and that still stands. But it is also an element of culture. In my mind, software only half-way exists on the disk. That's
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by gyulai 5y ago
Previous discussion of a similar tool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30024165 I'll reiterate what I said there: I think there's a legal angle here that should probably be sorted out by lawyers & forens
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by gyulai 5y ago
Yes, it may be genuinely true that a .COM engenders more trust. Just like it may also be genuinely true that a BMW engenders more trust than a VW. There's a lot of things you can do to try to game your way into trust: Your BMW could
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by gyulai 5y ago
Your first paragraph is vaguely reminiscent of a piece of folklore that I encounter a lot with small town wannabe entrepreneurs. It seems to roughly go like this: "One thing you need to do to make people trust you as a newly started
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by gyulai 5y ago
> current style of tech interviews has opened doors for [...] people who aren’t [...] born [...] into prestigious tech jobs. I really take issue with this line of reasoning. The same thing was recently argued in relation to MIT going ba
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by gyulai 5y ago
I'm looking to collaborate with a game developer. I have an idea for a special kind of EdTech game for a niche audience and would like to build a business out of bringing such games to market. I'm a software engineer in the data
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by gyulai 5y ago
But then the choice of early 2000s as a reference is just arbitrary. I mean: I have both ethernet and landline now, having never discontinued my use of them and not intending to do so in the foreseeable future. (The landline is VoIP-throu
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by gyulai 5y ago
> Landlines and Ethernet Cords [...] early 2000s technology 2000s? You'd expect better fact checking from the WSJ. I take it the author is young enough for all of this stuff to just blend into an amorphous chunk of history corresp
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by gyulai 5y ago
Do you actually have any first-hand experience with what cultures are like in Eastern Europe or China or India? Or do you just live in the Bay Area, assuming your culture is superior to everyone else's? And what makes you assume I hav
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by gyulai 5y ago
Actually, I don't think that search is winner-takes-all. Rather the piece that is winner-takes-all is monetization of search through advertising. Because advertising networks are winner-takes-all. ...so the path forward leads thro
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by gyulai 5y ago
...because antitrust authorities have been asleep at the wheel.
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by gyulai 5y ago
I don't understand where you're going with your "region / culture" thing. The rest of your comment makes it sound like your standards are just lower than mine. You describe your work as mostly tedium and say you d
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by gyulai 5y ago
> Essentially, most of open source is slave labor "slave labor" would imply a lack of freedom on behalf of the slave laborer. I think there's something quite remarkable going on that is quite the contrary of what you say:
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by gyulai 5y ago
One way I could see this going wrong is if it gets overrun by market researchers. "How much would you pay for a healthy softdrink?" makes for an insanely boring user experience. It would drive away people who could answer more i
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by gyulai 5y ago
Leasing is legally not the same thing at all as a subscription. I clicked through on the ad just now (it seems to be following me), and the landing page actually has a section, explaining the difference between this subscription that they&#
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by gyulai 5y ago
Whatever happened to "owning" stuff? Today, I saw some ads from Volvo trying to sell me a "subscription" to a vehicle. ...as if we (we = average Joe) weren't already sufficiently starved of all manner of agency in
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by gyulai 5y ago
I really like the spirit of "fighting back" here, by making this grievance public.
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by gyulai 5y ago
I quite agree with you that it would be highly unpractical to set up that kind of system around access logs. For that reason, the sensible thing to do is to not have IP addresses in your access log.
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by gyulai 5y ago
I just jumped in with a clarification to make sure others who read this don't think that.
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by gyulai 5y ago
> Could you explain? > Keeping the information for a reasonable amount of time for security or fraud- > detection purposes would definitely fall under legitimate interest. Yes, but not being allowed to collect the data at all is no
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by gyulai 5y ago
It's not true that you don't need to worry about GDPR if you're only going to use this information for a limited time to analyze attacks. It's a lot more complicated than that.
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by gyulai 5y ago
This is a very poor default, and I think it's a good thing that the legal environment challenges that default. It's not automatically non-compliant, of course, but you might have to clear some legal hurdles to make it so.
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by gyulai 5y ago
> How does a normal person decide what distro to even start with Distrowatch [1] is a good place to start. Read the short descriptions of the various distros, going down the ranking from top to bottom, and knowing that the further down
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by gyulai 5y ago
When software is developed in house in public administration, then open sourcing it, in my mind, is kind of a no brainer, because it was financed with the taxpayer's money. If they keep it as a "trade secret" it most surely

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