kingofhdds

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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Please, please, let me decide for myself what is information, and what is noise.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
While money weren't useless, being close to right people was absolutely necessary prerequisite. Also, one couldn't earn enough money simply by good engineering anyway. So the arguments stands.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
It's not the point. They lived better than others because of their loyalty (or sometimes, simply proximity) to "dear leaders", not because of their outstanding skills.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
So, one can't spend a single penny there without being monitored, but let's instead talk how web cookies are cruel privacy invasion.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
>And you're building a strawman with GDPR supporters, I don't think anybody said that nobody would ever try to abuse it. I don't think the accusation is fair. All discussions I saw here about GDPR contained the line where
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
One can get a lot of information from examples which otherwise require a lot of literary explanations. Some examples worth more than thousand words.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
>And yet we regulate swear words and nude imagery on broadcast television Maybe the reasonable answer is that you shouldn't, especially in the face of rapidly changing technology, which nowadays gives us huge choice of what to look
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
In practice, meanwhile, FS works well enough.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
>It is clear that the Western Democracies have at least as much freedom of speech as the US. In practical applications, EU countries do not place FoS to the same position of unalienable right as it is in the US. So, not "as much&quo
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
What part if it is the insult?
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Awesome. It's the first CoC for a FOSS project which sets the plank for good behaviour high enough!
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
because the US is better at marketing an idealized (and false) version of its culture to the world than other countries Of course, not. US became a top destination in a very simple fashion which doesn't involve neither culture, no ma
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
It's still an absolutely monocultural view. Indeed, in anglophone cultures "professional" = more formal, and restrained. In many other places it works like that: professional community means reduced social distance means LESS
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
It's easier than you think. Probably in all cultures there's an implicit quotient of seriousness applied to angry words (from 1 - "Literal meaning" to 0 - "Absolutely doesn't mean it"), depending on contex
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
I can relate to this, although for me it feels rather comical than offensive: I find the phrase "I am excited" used in almost every business announcement to be offensive, because it is not genuine, nor does it indicate what type
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Did you really read the text to the end? "Verbal assault" doesn't have a universal meaning, politeness is VERY culture-dependent, and in modern IT everybody is forced to accept US corporate standard which I'm not even su
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
So you are not a great poet then, and it's strawman argument.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
I agree, we can probably reduce tensions in society by some redistribution. But there's an important point to which too many people are blind: you cannot do it without limits. As more and more of the bone is taken away for "sharin
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Having no ability to read your mind, I cannot tell of you are trying to invent an alternative meaning of my comment to beat a strawman, or you are really a great poet.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Nothing, unless you force a dog which hunted its bone to share it with one who slept the whole day, and call it "equality".
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
In most countries where it exists "social housing" is a synonym of "depressive, unsafe space, continuously destroyed by its inhabitants". Probably, this approach solves some problems, but creates new ones at the same tim
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Whole "West" is full of cultural differences, despite the internet is not broken. Actually, there are more well-preserved cultural differences between TN, and NY in States than between most places in Russia (except maybe Tuva, and
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Perlmonks is surely alive.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
That's how democracy works everywhere. Majority within voting part of society decides who will rule, and it's ok because non-voting part doesn't care. Also, every election is a fair of promises. This gov't at least parti
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
And press doesn't call France illiberal. So, either burqa is not the evidence, or press is not that correct. Or both.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
This is weird statement. Majority doesn't care too much about political ideologies in Poland as in any other country. Meanwhile the ruling party still gets more voters than any other.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Those buildings are literally falling apart, no wonder "regular people" can afford to live there. You seem not to realize that your romantic feelings towards this backwardness is only possible because you come there as a rich (com
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
It's not true. Socialism can go well (and is going well) with many sorts of other *isms, simply by re-definition, or making compromises for "greater good". Soviet Union had some semi-hidden policies which broke its own pledge
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
German monarchy yielded a lot to socialist demands to avoid revolution. This concessions, of course, made German Empire more socialist country then many people believe.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
It's oversimplification. Socialists and communists also struggled with each other. Communists actually labelled social-democrats as "fascists" for some time. Nevertheless, they have a lot in common (used to have even more in

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