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by kartan 10y ago
> It is about as independent as a contracting relationship could possibly be I completely agree that is really independent. And that is what leaves one of the sides completely unprotected. At one side you have Uber that has a big busines
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> It's objectively better to have Uber and not regulate it than to regulate it and not have it How is that "objectively better"? What's the limit on regulations that, in your opinion, should be removed if they threat
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> which showed a hollow interior (similar to that seen in overhead shots of BCN) That was the original design. The idea was to have a park inside all blocks. But you know... greet happened. This is the result from the original idea to th
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> Why should Europe feel responsible for these people? Because they are human beings. I think than that's more than enough. BTW Europe has a lot of really big problems with Banks. And that has a lot bigger impact that anything else
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"Ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a logical fallacy in which an argument is rebutted by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person ma
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It is hard to understand the hard situation that this people has, and is still, living. But when I read about how this guy says "As a child, I used to watch a cartoon on TV. The show featured the main character Nils and his friend Mårt
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Government jobs like the people that takes care of mental illness, policemen trained to act in a thoughtful way, teachers, etc. I'm happy to live in a country with high taxes and a good level of services for every one. To be in San Fra
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> Detroit doesn’t place burdensome regulations on automobile manufacturers I think that San Francisco is trying to avert the Detroit outcome. Instead of being completely dependent on a single industry they are trying to regulate the grow
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When you see how our visual system works with so much heuristics and hacks the surprising part is that we are able to get things right the major part of the time. http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/ But that is not so scary
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> how could you possibly need more evidence than proof of visits to a website that distributes child pornography? That question is misleading. What people is worried about is "How much power has the FBI to spy on ordinary citizens?&
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"I worked on a project with Hector Garcia-Molina involving automated detection of copyright violations. Together with James Davis (another Ph.D. student here), we developed COPS , the COpyright Protection System." Sergey Brin.- h
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> the USA was busy being the largest economy in the world The article is about energy consumption and how to save the worlds natural resources. What has your comment to do with that? It is having more money worth damaging our planet, ris
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> And oddly it gets a disproportional amount of media coverage It fits the narrative that if you have the right idea you will be rich with help of the already rich people. It is the American dream were some one bets on you and you get to
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> HTML/CSS/JS is considered 'hackable' because it's widely understood by today's semi-power-user audience I think that's related to the high fault-tolerance in Javascript. A good developer is good in an
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by kartan 10y ago
> Uber is directly in the fray Do you mean Tesla? Is quite pointless for Uber to have a car that almost drives itself. They are not car makers trying to sell a better product, they need to get rid of the driver to get any money out of it
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by kartan 10y ago
How much is this connected to not having a real id card? For me is always weird when you see things like "no flight lists" and it is just a list of names. In Spain or Sweden your ID will be listed and the rest of people named like
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I don't think that Zuckerberg/Facebook is to blame. The system that allows so much power in so few hands is to blame and should be improved. The good thing about capitalist democracies used to be that the decision making was distr
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> They are a private enterprise and can do what they want No. Private enterprises have to obey the rule of law. If they don't accept an app, for example, because its developer is Muslim it will be discrimination. They can, however,
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That will mean that the money Facebook makes around the world is just taxed at whatever country Mark Zuckerberg lives. It doesn't look like it can work in such a globalized world.
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> I'm clearly not an expert in expertise - just look at the hubris and overconfidence dripping from this article! The article meta-invalidates itself. :D
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http://www.extremetech.com/computing/186576-verizon-caught-t...
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> If there is 'a lot of competition' - it makes cartel-like or colluding behaviour among carriers difficult, thereby facilitating de-facto net-neutrality. I don't see the point. If Google decides to pay to providers to spe
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by kartan 10y ago
The argument doesn't makes sense. When a normal citizen is choosing her internet provider they are not going to expend a lot of time looking at the implications of their decision. If the services is cheap enough and has the thing that
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Maybe government is not as efficient providing citizens with firefighters, teachers, and other services. Maybe that companies are extremely efficient giving money to their shareholders. But I don't see your point.
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Ireland though that it was legal. It was not. If Ireland now fails to get that money, then it will be fined (like Greece http://www.dw.com/en/fine-frenzy-in-greece-over-illegal-stat... ) The down side of this approach i
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There is people that oppose GMOs business model. "...Monsanto originally sold the soybeans to farmers under a limited use license that prohibited the farmer-buyer from using the seeds for more than a single season or from saving any se
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> I cannot avoid the comparison to Ingress, the first popular game of this kind. Interesting comment as Ingress and Pokemon Go are both developed by Niantic, Inc. So maybe what is a "bad" game design decision that makes it less
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> I think it will be very hard to implement/enforce this regulation. The regulation is quite simple and easy to enforce. If they can't explain then it is illegal. What your example implies is that there are business that doesn
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> Without assholeswe wouldn’t have relational databases, iPhones, or any other manner of innovations that have improved our daily lives. Wrong. Without assholes we wouldn't have people taking all the credit for the hard work of enti
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King hired in Barcelona a lot of highly senior developers, people that were leading protects, being architects, etc in other companies. How? Better pay, better conditions and it gives more autonomy to the developers. A fraction of them are

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