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by iso1210 5y ago
If you sell a program which works now, you're not making any claims it will continue to work in the future, that's the model software sales ran for years. There's no reason, legal or ethical, for you to continue to give free
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A better analogy would be if I were to give a walking tour to people who pay me $50 to do said tour, but someone uses a parabolic microphone to unknowingly listen in to the tour
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> it's like saying to someone who just got their bike stolen while they were trying to sell it "the thief would have probably never bought it" No it's not. If a thief takes your bike, you no longer have it, you can&#x
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by iso1210 5y ago
You'd care if you were plugging up 1kW lightbulbs instead of 100W bulbs.
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HN has some of the most pro-putin comments I see anywhere. These are established accounts with years of history talking about tech, so not Russian bots or whatever.
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Median savings account in the US is less than 1/10th of a years salary. Normal people would not be impacted by a law like this
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by iso1210 5y ago
I was assuming Belarus is part of Russia. It's over 200 miles from the Belarus border to the Ukraine-Hungary and Ukraine-Romania border. Air superiority doesn't seem to be clear cut currently, and that's before you factor in
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by iso1210 5y ago
Ukraine has a long western border with the EU for supplies to enter, Poland, Slovakia, Hunary and Romania. It would be extremely hard for Russia to close that entire border.
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by iso1210 5y ago
The Brits romanticize the blitz. Russia certainly has views on Stanlingrad.
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Media in Kyiv and other places have plenty of satellite communication and in normal wars more protection from shelling (the IDF for example will blow Gaza to hell, but they won't say hit the building Reuters are in) Whether Russia care
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by iso1210 5y ago
All software goes back. Until recently I used apple maps on carplay, I could press the big direction button in the corner to toggle the audio announcement on and off Recently this updated, that function went away, it's now press the sc
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by iso1210 5y ago
news.ycombinator.com reliably works in China, sometimes it feels like the only https site that does :D
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by iso1210 5y ago
One of my 2 routers in Kyiv is on AS16007 'UKRAINIAN-AMERICAN-SWISS LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP "KANCOM"' Tracerouting to it from London shows traffic going from London onto AS8359 MTS (Russian ISP), seemingly to Frank
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by iso1210 5y ago
> scared of an informed populace So why block twitter?
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I have two ISPs in Moscow, loading https://twitter.com/ times out on one, and gets an RST on another. https://news.ycombinator.com/ is fine on both. nitter.net works fine for now.
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In the UK the only people backing Russia publiclly were obviously Nigel 'Oswald' Farage, but also Corbyn and co. Corbyn (who led the main opposition party from 2015-2019, nearly becoming PM in 2017, and then falling to a massive w
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by iso1210 5y ago
Dunno about OP, but the BBC has an interview with a Scottish man in Kharkov, who was unable to leave with his wife and stepson because of "Ukranian bureaucracy" on this ridiculously long URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/n
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My first place in London in 2003 was £520 a month, about £875 today. It was a 10 square metre room with a shower in one corner, bed in one corner, small kitchen sink in one corner, and a door in the fourth corner. There was a shared toilet.
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That's the paradox isn't it. Mob rule ends up being tyranny.
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I'd certainly prefer touchID to faceID on my 12 mini, I'd prefer a headphone socket too, sadly these options aren't available
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The 12 mini received a lot of hate, both on HN and in the wider press, and a lot of predictions about how awful it was and how nobody was buying it. "Sorry, small-phone lovers: The iPhone 12 mini was Apple’s 2020 sales flop" [0] &
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> Third, the point of taxes is not to change people’s income to better match the magnitude of their contribution to society. The point of taxes is to provide a society where the guillotine doesn't come out. When it does it won'
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The top 1% don't work for income. They aren't going to do an extra 10 hours this week because they need to save for a new boiler, so why would restoring tax rates to Reagan era rates result in less work being done?
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> Considering that the BBC was mainly finances by quasi-public money it's a shame that it was opted for a license with an unnecessary special case (NC). Unfortunatly this is why it has to be licensed in that way. Having the BBC rele
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So no EU regulation then
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This is about a French court upholding a rulung under EU law. I'm not sure what Germany has to do with it.
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There isn't one There's a German law which says all commercial webpages have to say who runs it.
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I believe that's a German law, nothing to do with the EU
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No, in 2010 it was £145.50, which is just under £200 in today's money However the number of subscribers has not remained static, also unreflected is the free subscription for over 75s which the government did fund but no longer go, nor
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In 2010 the TV license was £198.79[0]. Today it's £159, that's a 20% cut, with no real change in output. Over the next 2 years it's coming down another 10% (or more) [1] [0] https://www.in2013dollars.com/uk&#x

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