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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Constantly have to adapt and change or build services because commercial incentives will turn each and every successful service to shit feels like a problem to me. It doesn't feel sustainable, and a backlash seems to me to only be a ma
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
To be fair, to take the YouTube comment section, which in the days before G+ was known as the second greatest online cesspool after 4chan, and actually make it worse is an achievement of epic proportions.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Somewhat off-topic: Amsterdam's city center has recently seen a huge explosion of ice cream parlors, to the point where the center district now wants to ban any new ones. Ice cream parlors, not "coffee shops" or "massage
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
> there's no real negative social stigma attached to it We live in world of bubbles, and apparently mine ends where yours begins.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Even at traditional companies software engineering salaries are not particularly high. That's why most CS students choose to go towards consultancy job, and never write a line of code in the rest of their careers. (Those who want to do
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Unfortunately, a lot of software development jobs in the Netherlands pay less than that.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
> At least he is honest. He's been caught lying on multiple occasions, most recently only two days ago about already having new proposals from the eurogroup. And it's still remains to be seen how truthful the arguments with whi
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
> the whole point of the EU project was to make us all "Europeans" Constantly repeating the lie doesn't suddenly make it true. Also, trying to force people who prefer to remain sovereign and independent (and maybe most of
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Does the term "sovereign nation" mean anything to you? Do you feel an obligation to pay for the debts of Greece? No? Then why would a German, or me as a Dutchman feel such an obligation?
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
You're not starving yet. You wouldn't be starving if Greece had accepted the deal. You may however start to feel very hungry soon holding a pile of worthless Drachma...
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
You omitted the part where Greece repeatedly lied about the fact that it wasn't meeting its obligations. And now our TV's are showing images of Greeks celebrating that they've told us to f-off with our euros. That's go
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
It does help that the space between Delft and The Hague is literally the size of a golf course. As a kid I used to bike from the South West of The Hague to the center of Rotterdam. It's basically just one big urban area with some big p
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
In other words, they put themselves in a boring industrial terrain in a boring suburb, just like any other boring company, and then try to recreate the creative impulses you get if you would live and work in a lively city. What they cite is
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
> is starting to be adopted by some big names Citation needed. All I hear about Atom is that people are giving up on it.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
BS. There's no "reasonably strong" Net Neutrality, just like there isn't "a little bit pregnant". This is not net neutrality, this is a sham. It's full of deliberate vagaries and loopholes, and is specific
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Spending quality time with family doing outdoors activities, ensuring good and safe care and education for your children, eating quality food at fine restaurant, buying quality electronics, etcetera are actually the complete opposite of &qu
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Yes. And not limited to the EU. In the vast majority of Western countries the notion of at will employment is considered an ancient, socially unacceptable practice.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
All the things you've mentioned apply to pretty much every European nation. The US is the outlier in the civilized world when it comes to labour protection. Also, funny how every time people start to bitch in general terms about entrep
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
> The standoff reflects larger tensions in France over how to regulate fast-moving technology and stay globally competitive while ensuring labour protections. This kind of biased journalism just pisses me off. Uber has nothing to do with
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
He's not a representative, he's an administrator. Representing the people is the job of parliament, his job is to lead . He cannot just switch sides whenever it suits him. We have all of these safeguards in place to ensure our le
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Yes, because theft and extortion are covered by consumer protection laws. Oh, wait... You do realize that the only difference Uber here makes is that it makes it easier for the criminal in question, since doesn't even have to bother
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Have you actually read the article? None of that applied. It was extremely factual and well constructed with a mildly left of center bias. Nothing compared to the extreme libertarian bias of half the non-technical articles on HN. This is ju
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
The same happens in the Netherlands. However, that doesn't mean that it's legal. It's just that it's so convenient for both parties and IT contractors are so well paid that nobody challenges it. I assume this is the same
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
The local taxi company I usually use in Amsterdam had an app before Uber was even a thing. That's a lame excuse. The only itch Uber is scratching is the libertarian itch to circumvent consumer protection, environmental protection and l
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Yes, illegal, unregulated services tend to be cheaper. What a groundbreaking discovery.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Not even that. It's core competence is to publicly break the law on an unprecedented scale for mainstream company and get away with it.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Why go to the Netherlands in the first place. We're the #1 in the world for wiretapping our own citizens. (Except of course when those wiretaps involve prominent members of the government talking to fellow politicians suspected of corr
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
ad supported <> free I wish people would stop echoing that. It would make it so much more possible to have a meaningful discourse about ad supported business models. We don't call anything else that requires something in return &
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Tesla and Google's self driving cars are recent development. In Europe, there is a much bigger culture around car engineering, innovation, racing etcetera. There's a reason why, unlike in the US, millions are poured into all forms
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Their success lies in undercutting existing market prices by circumventing regulation. Circumventing regulation not just by using soon-to-be-closed loopholes, but by encouraging people to break the law. Airbnb and Uber have more to do with

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