loginalready

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by loginalready 13y ago
I suppose the big empty space on the right is where "Respects users' privacy in their own business practices" should be. But of course this is only about the Big Bad Government. It's an interesting cultural difference
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by loginalready 13y ago
"They abandon their principle that code is free speech by suggesting that some code needs to be regulated." Typical false dichotomy of libertarian extremist. Speech is regulated all the time, based on intent or effect (yelling &qu
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by loginalready 13y ago
Although Merkel is just being opportunistic, I'm optimistic that, like with ACTA, we are slowly seeing that the complete sell-out of European civil rights to US interests is no longer politically sustainable. Whether they mean it or no
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by loginalready 13y ago
If that's eyeroll-inducing, you haven't been paying attention the past decade. Or even the past few weeks. Virtually every negative effect the likes of RMS and the FSF have predicted when it comes to not using free software has co
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by loginalready 13y ago
I'm surprised that on HN people cannot distinguish between Netflix business need to use DRM in their content delivery system (which is undesirable but defensible), and Netflix nefarious scheming to break the open web in order to make t
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by loginalready 13y ago
It's really really sad that once again denial is the top comment on HN with the truth starting us in the face. How on earth is this kind of discrimination not conscious , when the only difference in a written resume is the assumption
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by loginalready 13y ago
As far as I know, the US is the only country where sugar-free soda is referred to as "diet". The notion that it would help lose weight is totally new to me, I'm presuming that is because most countries outside the US would ne
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by loginalready 13y ago
It's not Russia that doesn't let him leave the airport, it's the US by revoking his passport in a clear violation of human rights. No country on the planet can just let him pass the border without violating it's own laws
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by loginalready 13y ago
The fact that people are not prepared to stand alone doesn't mean they don't care about privacy. Very few people are in a position to make a difference alone, and even fewer dare to act. There's only one Snowden. The rest of
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by loginalready 13y ago
The headline is surprisingly understated, where usually the opposite is the case. After reading the article, the headline might as well have been "Microsoft handed the NSA the keys to friggin' everything." The tin-foil hat
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by loginalready 13y ago
Protest. Lobby. Seek publicity. Take the government to court. Put up a fight. Note that when the EU data retention directive (which is often used here under the header "see, others are doing it to", even though it doesn't eve
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by loginalready 13y ago
Although personally I tend to agree with you, this isn't evidence that they did know something else was going on. A good lawyer would always insist on such phrasing, only addressing the absolute minimum necessary, even if there is noth
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by loginalready 13y ago
You can reduce this argument all the way to writing your own OS and building your own hardware. And no, that is not ad absurdum, there are valid real world business cases for both. It all depends an a simple cost/benefit calculation. T
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by loginalready 13y ago
You just answered your own question. Their customers are developers, i.e., a scarce and expensive resource who's time is most effectively spent developing rather than configuring, tuning, monitoring and otherwise maintaining server p
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by loginalready 13y ago
Note to self: never use Redis Cloud or any service offered by Garantia (oh, the irony of that name...). This is not hypothetical, I'm seriously considering using a Redis cloud service instead of running our own.
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by loginalready 13y ago
Methinks this is not about morality or (the lack of) compassion, but being more aware of your environment, i.e. mindfulness . I would suggests the other people simply weren't consciously aware enough to notice, but would have gladly g
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by loginalready 13y ago
Just a side note: certain countries in Europe have much more military style uniformed police force, including police living in barracks. None of them have the track record of armed violence the police in the US have. I'm just saying, t
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by loginalready 13y ago
It used to be understood that in principle intelligence agencies would generally respect the law of friendly nations, and quietly and discretely brake the law in case national security was at stake. It is and always will be a gray area. But
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by loginalready 13y ago
The EU is not a country. The EU has no single healthcare system. Every country has it's own system, which range from anything between 100% government provided to mostly privatized. No system is the same. And it's not just the EU,