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by jcbrand 14y ago
You are confusing the European Union with the Eurozone (the EU countries that use the Euro). Withdrawal from the EU is a right of member states. However, withdrawal from the Eurozone wasn't envisioned or planned for and therefore there is n
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by jcbrand 14y ago
> 2. I want to ensure that the if the software is improved, then improvements are given back. If it's not happening, I prefer it not to be improved or used. This is false. You are free to use and improve it, even if you don't want to
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by jcbrand 15y ago
That's of course not true. Privacy is not binary. While most people have lost some privacy over the last years it's not a "all hope is lost, lets throw in the towel" situation. There are still many ways to safeguard one's privacy and it's i
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by jcbrand 15y ago
That's an incredibly naive and short sighted view to take. What if one day, some activity that you now openly partake in, is condemned or made illegal and all people who partake in it are rounded up? That might sound paranoid but history is
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by jcbrand 15y ago
Strangely enough, Finnish and Hungarian are related, even though they are relatively isolated geographically.
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by jcbrand 15y ago
I would be in favour of a gender neutral pronoun, but some of the things mentioned in the article just seem off to me. > One Swedish school got rid of its toy cars because boys "gender-coded" them and ascribed the cars higher status tha
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South Africa's hostile online communication(metathoughts.net)
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by jcbrand 15y ago
What people don't seem to get, is that with Free software you get paid for the work done, not some shrink wrapped product that you resell. This is especially relevant for highly customized software. Almost all the code I write is GPL licens
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You can't be good at everything, instead build your career on your strengths.(metathoughts.net)
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