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Actually, LA Times will be happy to collect money from anyone linking to them. The GDPR is a law to protect user data. Article 13 is there to automate the creation and execution of copyright claims taking over freedom of speech and self-exp
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> Ah, the developer who's 10x because their work slows down everyone else 10 times. You are right. People that think of themselves as 10x developers are the ones that do that and will slow down everybody else. Really productive deve
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> Could it be you have some unconscious bias against the person who took that action, leading you to see them as a rogue cowboy instead of a wise leader? The rest of the team was pissed off. A leader is followed, a rogue cowboy leaves e
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> a) Arguments don’t work because team doesn’t listen and/or doesn’t want to change because they wish to stay in their comfort zone. It is a problem if there is no communication. To bypass all formality only hides the real problem i
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I have seen this abused. A team member does whatever she thinks is best, and the rest now have to tag along because to communicate to all stakeholders that it was not a team decision and needs to be revisited is too costly. That can be seen
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> It seems like a bit of class warfare on the part of the Koch's. You can get richer by increasing your wealth or by decreasing everybody else's wealth. People that think that life is a zero-sum game think that both are the sam
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> The Article stipulates that platforms should “prevent the availability” of protected works, suggesting these ISSPs will need to adopt technology that can recognise and filter work created by someone other than the person uploading it.
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> Unskilled investors losing a lot of money is, in fact, a very good thing for the Silicon Valley ecosystem. This is blaming the victims. The article says that Theranos lied to investors. How can you invest in anything if lying is allowe
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> the need for a system of sound, programmable money remains I understand that the original goal was to have the value of the currency to be not controlled by a central bank. Is there any other benefit to it? What does it mean that the
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I lived in a one-room (plus bathroom) apartment for half a year. It was an awful experience. The apartment was very well designed with nice furniture and very very centric. But it felt claustrophobic. I have lived since then in similar apar
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This is not my personal experience. Lemmings are fearless creatures that will scream to any animal, including humans, that cross their path. I have seen a Lemmings confronting a crow. The crow sends the lemmings flying on three different oc
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> "knowingly engage[] in a repeated course of cyberbullying of a minor." How does it work for normal bullying? Why do we need a special law for "when things happen online"? It seems that the online world needs separat
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Nat is being really smart here. It should not backfire unless he acts pedantic or insults Redditors intelligence. I think that both are unlikely. Maybe Nat is trying to counteract any PR damage to GitHub, or maybe he just wants to see how m
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> If not, I don't see what use that number could be. There is still value in the comparison. Products like mobile phones are going to have similar prices around the globe. Also, it affects the capability to travel. With my European
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> I think a more plausible reason for sales numbers falling is that people don't need or want tablets as much as they thought they did That probably is part of the explanation. For me, I bought a "New iPad" on 2012. Some m
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> You could structure social security as a tax on capital, but that isn't how it currently works. Yes. 100% true. I just mean that it can be changed. It is not an economic constraint, but it is the current situation.
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> One man owning 10 robots will pay less SS than 10 workers. That can be changed. The difficulty is more related to corruption and lobbying than any economical constrain. But, you are right. If nothing changes on how taxes are collected,
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> There is a theory that the root cause of these problems is the continued dismantling of traditional gender roles. Except that Japan has kept traditional gender roles, where the woman leaves her job when marries, and they have one of th
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But nowadays people can choose if they want to have children. In the past, that was not so easy, at least if you wanted to have sex. Once people can choose to not children, factors like the economy affect population growth.
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> (Not saying Social Security is bad in concept, but it only works in times of sharp population growth, and even then, banking on the youth to carry you just because seems squicky to many ). Social Security works with economic growth. It
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Java virtual machine could have had better integration into OSs and browsers, but it's licensing model made it impossible. I worked with Applets on the browser and had a lot of potential, but probably it was too soon for them as comput
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JavaScript was running in the browser until Ryan Dahl decided to create Node.js. Nowadays it is a big platform, and it can run also WebAssembly. This is just another step in that direction where is the OS the one running that code. Does it
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This is what the Java Virtual Machine could have been but never was. Most applications are so lightweight for today's computer capabilities that running them over a virtualization layer is not a problem at all. As a developer I want my
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> So Facebook's ad algorithm's are going to target younger people because it's more cost effective Because there is a technical explanation doesn't means that it is not discrimination. Actually discrimination had a lo
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Banks needed to be bailed out, bankers didn't. I don't know how it was in the UK, but in Spain bankers where bailed out. Citizens paid the excess of bankers. Taxes where redirected from health care, education, and other services t
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> [...] come up with all kinds of BS to patent [...] I guess that that is the point. I worked for a similar company. They were not interested in groundbreaking one-of-a-kind patent. They were looking for something to use as a countermeas
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Antitrust laws may affect monopolies and oligopolies. oligopoly: a state of limited competition, in which a market is shared by a small number of producers or sellers.
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Business don't comply with regulations because it is easy, but because it's needed to do business. If a service didn't had a big user base in Europe, most countries don't speak English, it may be cheaper to remove the se
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Yes. I got my configuration reset and needed to set up some features again. This is an example of what you get on startup, and cannot be skipped: https://twitter.com/baekdal/status/996391978957987845
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http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Violent... Position ... Murder rate per million 74 Romania 19.6 2009 102 Spain 8.69 2009 Your numbers are not in contradiction with my reasoning. More pret

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