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by hugi 5y ago
But he was a loon and a thief/tax cheat
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by hugi 5y ago
As an Icelander, we are very aware of our heritage and mythology and I'd really prefer that it not be copyrighted by greedy American corporations.
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by hugi 5y ago
As an Icelander raised on Lýsi (cod liver oil) I remember fishy burps all day long as a kid. I still take Lýsi every day but the burps are gone, it's probably a couple of decades now since they perfected purification of the oil to make
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by hugi 5y ago
If you pay average salary you get average work (or below). Good programmers in Germany do not work for €50.000. I'm based in Iceland and do contract work for German companies, and I assure you none of the people I work with are even cl
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by hugi 5y ago
I think it's absolutely great that Wikipedia is able to pay competitive salaries in a good location. It's probably one of the reasons why they can run such an amazing site. I consider my donations well spent.
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by hugi 5y ago
That's what some people want. They're horrified there's a free platform providing useful content, where they can't profit off people's work.
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by hugi 5y ago
Just for fun, Oracle has also started providing natively compiled EA builds of JDK 17: https://jdk.java.net/17/
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by hugi 5y ago
What an extremely typically HN comment.
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by hugi 5y ago
The number sounds about right to me. Why would I click a button that says "allow Mark Zuckerberg to gather my private data"? How is that not just a pure negative for me? I use the Facebook website from time to time, which I accept
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by hugi 5y ago
Are you seriously equating a legal warrant with the realtime harvesting of user data by applications (such as Google/Facebook and others)?
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by hugi 5y ago
Thanks. It's worked very well for us and really helped with contact tracing. But what democratic countries are mandating the use of covid apps?
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by hugi 5y ago
My country (Iceland) has an official contact tracing app listed there. It was developed by volunteers and contributed to the government and the source is open on github. Nothing you said applies to it.
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by hugi 5y ago
What countries were that?
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by hugi 5y ago
For me their actions speak volumes. But if you want sources, here's Craig Federighi, Senior VP of software, literally yesterday: "It [privacy] is a value that is so deep in us. Personal information can be used and abused and even
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by hugi 5y ago
How is that legal? Isn't that just incompetent government?
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by hugi 5y ago
Wat? No. I'd buy another phone. There's plenty of choices.
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by hugi 5y ago
How so?
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by hugi 5y ago
Did you even read the article you linked?
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by hugi 5y ago
Sounds like you don't want an iPhone. So buy a different phone that does what you want.
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by hugi 5y ago
Sure, they can flip. But currently Apple's business model is based on privacy, and they're going for it HARD. Like, really hard. And I like that. The moment they stop doing that, I won't support them. Meanwhile; have you you
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by hugi 5y ago
> It is naive to think that any company at that scale has your best interests at heart. They will do whatever it takes to make more money, period. Exactly. And Apple makes money of privacy. It's their thing. Google's business m
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by hugi 5y ago
I choose to spend my money on devices from a company that's explicitly and repeatedly stated that their mission is privacy. But if you choose to buy phones from ad companies, it's your decision.
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by hugi 5y ago
Google is an ad company. I do not understand why people would choose to use an operating system created by an ad company, designed to harvest their personal information. I'm happy to use an iPhone, knowing my personal information is sa
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by hugi 5y ago
Indeed. It's interesting to see how people like to label Apple a monopoly - a company with a 19% market share in smartphones and an 8% share on the desktop.
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by hugi 5y ago
I do all my work (java/postgres etc) on a 2012 i7 Mac Mini. It used to be my home media server but I started using it as a "temporary machine" last year after killing my 2018 15" MBP by spilling water over it. I was plan
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by hugi 5y ago
Blocking an app explicitly used by terrorists to organize a coup/assault on the Capitol might be considered justifiable by some.
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by hugi 6y ago
Haha, well… I'm born and raised in the East fjords where there's little geothermal activity and geothermal heating is thus rare. When I first went to Reykjavik as a kid I nearly vomited when I was introduced with a bathtub full of
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by hugi 6y ago
The flow is quite steady so magma isn't getting ejected very far. The more immediate danger it that the crater walls can collapse, spilling the ingredients in unexpected directions, or separate craters open up.
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by hugi 6y ago
The Met office just released a statement where they said the walls of the main crater are currently about 30 meters tall (~100 feet). It's of course gained some height since Saturday.
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by hugi 6y ago
Oh yes, you feel the warmth. The smell that immediately hit me was comforting, like you just lit a nice hardwood barbecue, probably from soil and plant material burning when coming into contact with the magma. The crater is loud and deeply

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