jlg23

116 ms·

931.
by jlg23 10y ago
Except for being the origin of physics, astronomy, medicine and other fields? "Philosophy" is a wide spectrum of which only a very small part is concerned with problems so abstract that we cannot expect a solution to them.
932.
by jlg23 10y ago
I work remotely for a non-profit. So neither too much time nor too much money but I still do live like this. Except for that 70F is way too cold for me, I like it above 85F. Try it, makes one less grumpy ;)
933.
by jlg23 10y ago
This belongs into every statistics class: * Use guesstimated data from a time when the basis for the data was not even established ("money" in 1820, when lots of people where still exchanging goods or labor). * Just go back far en
934.
by jlg23 10y ago
> IF we all switch to bitcoin and government can't keep track of the money, big criminals, bit corps will never pay any taxes [...] The biggest companies do not pay much taxes already; while I get your point, I consider it invalid u
935.
by jlg23 10y ago
Because my government does not need to know that I bought Mao's Little Red Book, Hitler's Mein Kampf and a few Marvel comics. Because police does not need to know that I pay for and run an anonymizer. Because my bank does not need
936.
by jlg23 10y ago
> Imagine if the entire world spoke a single language. Would we ever want to invent new languages [...]? First: Very few languages are invented but a lot of individual languages fragment over time - the more widespread they are, the more
937.
by jlg23 10y ago
A "[2011]" in the title would be appropriate.
938.
by jlg23 10y ago
I applaud the OP for pursuing this so far. I'd probably just have returned the device, demanded my money back and bought something else.
939.
by jlg23 10y ago
> I'm glad someone makes money off of my old clothes rather than they go in the trash. I don't have a problem with that per se, only that it happens under the pretense of charity and that the model exploits economic inequality
940.
by jlg23 10y ago
Questions unfortunately not answered by the article: a) Who profits from this recycling program? How many people get a western salary to coordinate all this? b) Following from (a), how many optometrists and lens makers could make a living i
941.
by jlg23 10y ago
What I am missing in the article and in all discussions here is: Why not pro-actively train people? Looking 2 months for someone with some kind of certification for "agile" is already a fourth of the time required to train someone
942.
by jlg23 10y ago
Her blog shows her as a very curious young person who is not only meddling in programming but also in history, politics and 3d-printing :) I had to laugh hard when reading "Pour construire sur 3DSlash, il suffit de savoir jouer à Minec
943.
by jlg23 10y ago
It's not like it's a choice, in almost every field in which one can do an apprenticeship, one has to do it to be allowed to work professionally. In combination with an age limit of 30 for most governmental support during appre
944.
by jlg23 10y ago
I honestly don't get why this is coming up now. TOR's funding never was a secret. Serious infosec people didn't need Snowden to be suspicious about the actual anonymity provided. If one was not concerned back then, what does
945.
by jlg23 10y ago
> “I remain devoted to the idea of longform documentary linear film as well, so I see this as an important experiment and expansion, but not replacing documentary film as we know it,” I fear that this will be lost on most journalists and
946.
by jlg23 10y ago
I don't understand your comment. I've been part of various privacy and drug policy groups and we regularly share comments/annotations on sites in private databases. I can imagine that others want the same - let it be hackers,
947.
by jlg23 10y ago
This looks amazing (concept, not UI/site which I could not test due to signup requirements) - I had this idea for years but, of course, never got around to implement this. Now give me this as a self-hosted solution that is not phoning
948.
by jlg23 10y ago
> To put it in simple terms, you get what you pay for. If you invest in someone's startups, they'll deliver a startup (or fail); if you invest in someone's lifestyle, they'll deliver a lifestyle (or fail). Whether thi
949.
by jlg23 10y ago
So basically you are one who would benefit from a basic income. Why is a "living stipend to work on [your] own projects" better than a basic income which too would allow you to work on your own projects?
950.
by jlg23 10y ago
I'm not from the UK and I don't have any problems with the Limeys but I still thinks this is awesome: For way too long national governments in the EU have passed legislation on the EU level when they could not get it through natio
951.
by jlg23 10y ago
No, only time will tell. There was way too much biased reporting/prognoses upfront. I personally think it will sort itself out just fine - even IFF (and that is a very big IF) the UK parliament follows the non-binding vote...
952.
by jlg23 10y ago
* The technology for a lot of things is there (e.g. diaspora instead of facebook, etherpad instead of google docs) but hosting these costs money. And people don't want to pay and they don't understand they currently pay with their
953.
by jlg23 10y ago
Your first two points are also met by optionally typed languages.
954.
by jlg23 10y ago
Indeed. But the weather sucks. It is the reason I left my home country Germany. To quote a Californian friend: "The coldest winter I experienced was a summer in Germany!" ;)
955.
by jlg23 10y ago
3rd attempt at a response: This is neither an article nor a coherent text and it fails to deliver on the "basic income" aspect beyond of post-colonialism tendencies: This is just a perfect example of what is wrong with the "d
956.
by jlg23 10y ago
I would love to see the actual numbers and how Frontex arrived at them - Frontex' job is NOT to decide on or even investigate in asylum applications at all. They have to refer applicants to relevant national authorities; one becomes an
957.
by jlg23 10y ago
I'm not trying to justify terrorism but highlight motivations for it.
958.
by jlg23 10y ago
Austrian and Danish people may freely enter Germany under the Schengen Agreement. If you are referring to refugees who enter through those two countries, you are ignoring that these countries are also not initial ports of entry into the S
959.
by jlg23 10y ago
France also has a very bad track record in the Maghreb and lots of people who lived under French rule or lost people in their parents' generation are still alive. Given that France did not do much to make up for that, it is understanda
960.
by jlg23 10y ago
>> Most people coming to Europe are economic migrantw [sic] Source for that statement? > The reasonable thing to do would've been to differentiate refugees from others This is exactly what we are doing, but this requires actua

More ›