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by kbart 9y ago
I don't deny that, but saying "PCs are totally libre" is vast overstretch. PCs are getting more and more complex, include high number or sub-systems, that are actually mini-computers themselves, so by installing an open-sourc
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by kbart 9y ago
"why can we have a top of the line desktop PC which is totally libre, but not a smartphone?" "totally libre PC"? All major CPU manufacturers implement hardware level backdoor we can't disable. The newest version o
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by kbart 9y ago
"One is white text on black for dev work, the other is white text on red." Cool. Sorry, but I'm going to steal this idea from now on.
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by kbart 9y ago
In most European countries your children would be taken away by the responsible institutions if you tried to raise them in a trailer.
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by kbart 9y ago
"Our patent covers the ability to communicate from wearable to wearable using BLE" What?? So you took an open standard (BLE) others have made available for you that is designed for such applications in mind, stuffed it into ge
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by kbart 9y ago
It's not only Mac OS, that can be said about pretty much all software. As a developer, I always try to avoid fresh software and wait some time while it settles, unless it's a security update.
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by kbart 9y ago
I don't know many cases where you would be given 30-50% raise, unless you were junior or intern. Though such raise is common when switching jobs in early-mid career.
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by kbart 9y ago
"those responsible for current policy, and those that vote for them, want to return to those times." I bet those responsible all have big, nice houses in beautiful places where factories and mines and far far away and big coal&#
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by kbart 9y ago
Where I live - yes. I was told so by a police detective, who ran a gun safety course. It's very silent, easily available, but still has enough power to make a mess inside a skull if shot from the back or side of the head. Sure, in USA
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by kbart 9y ago
Same with Russia. Both cases just prove that connivance for authoritarian regimes only strengthens them.
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by kbart 9y ago
Wow, what a BS article with so many flawed logic, I don't even know where to begin.. So, the author says gun ban in Australia and Britain show no clear effect on mass shootings and murders, because they were not as widespread as in USA
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by kbart 9y ago
The point that this will be only used to improve services was denied in the article itself: "What they told people at the time was we're going to use this data to improve services. But now thanks to [Sky News] investigative rep
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by kbart 9y ago
Then you are not immigrant.
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by kbart 9y ago
"you can't ban people entry for that." Who said so? Border controls have right to turn non-citizens away on border if they suspect you are lying or not disclosing all information to them.
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by kbart 9y ago
Exactly. This is a step (or more likely - leap) towards the bizarre future portrayed in Black Mirror episode "Nosedive". 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive
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by kbart 9y ago
Call me a cynic, but I doubt anyone really cares. What this really will be useful is as a database of people of selected race, origin and views to help appear for certain agencies to be working and generate headlines like: "50 suspec
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by kbart 9y ago
Previous discussion few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15337961
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by kbart 9y ago
Of course, just as you need to sell it to make any money. I was talking about "marketing" and "sales" as in department sense, so what I want to say that you can run a company with just engineering department, but you can
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by kbart 9y ago
Oh, come one, you don't need to be a marketing genius to create a product webpage, create social network presence, buy some Google ads or even start a Kickstarter campaign etc. so people can find you themselves . Being "invisible
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by kbart 9y ago
If you make a product that nobody needs, that's another problem entirely.
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by kbart 9y ago
I've found the opposite to be true. In a big company you usually have a strict role and responsibilities, know what and when to do, there are established procedures for basically everything and if something unexpected happens, you know
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by kbart 9y ago
"The distinction is that product development, sales and marketing can act as multipliers in a way that engineering seldom does." If you don't have a product, you can multiply zero as much as you want, it's still zero.
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by kbart 9y ago
Wow, they look straight from some dystopian sci-fi movie. All it's missing are few turrets on top.
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by kbart 9y ago
Nobody believed Trump will become president either, never underestimate idiots' abilities.
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by kbart 9y ago
"Given that Crimea is now part of Russia" Only according to Russia and its friends. In the eyes of international community it's disputed territory at best or occupied part of Ukraine for most.
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by kbart 9y ago
Yeah, so CEO just single-handedly drove company from $100M business to $4B and the rest of company workers had nothing to do with it? Or did they all received multi-million compensation for that? Nobody denies that CEOs have huge impact o
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by kbart 9y ago
I didn't say it has happened overnight. The idea doesn't change.
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by kbart 9y ago
I'm not much into US politics, but as far as I understand, Trump was personally involved in many recent bans/regulations. Furthermore, isn't that "head" appointed by president, senate or other elected governmental b
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by kbart 9y ago
As US citizens you (collectively) knowingly voted for government that implemented such laws and it is up to you to vote for government that doesn't pass such insane laws. So sorry, you are not a bystander here; I'd say equally dem
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by kbart 9y ago
"Crypto mining literally pays you for wasting power, so the more electricity you can burn, the more money you get." Well, you (or somebody else) still has to pay for power consumption used for mining, so it just converts money y

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