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by mdekkers 9y ago
Transferwise or Payoneer
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Which is interesting, and thanks for the links, but this isn't what the Economist is talking about. The Economist is talking about the mis-allocation of labor - not a problem for the producer, not a problem for the consumer, a problem
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What is the point of this, other then scaremongering?
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That isn't what the article said though, that is your own spin - the article doesn't talk about privacy violations at all in this context.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
The whole article is essentially a long moan about how things have changed, and how the beancounters would like things to go back to normal because right now they no longer understand how to add stuff up. Example: "tiny payments for d
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by mdekkers 9y ago
A badly written, badly argued, and boringly long article that boils down to "I don't like VR, I lack the imagination to come up with any use-case besides (western) consumer entertainment, so it is useless and therefore dead."
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by mdekkers 9y ago
This cookies notice and agreement probably falls right into this category. ....The cookie notice is mandated by EU Law...
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the article won't say how much though. Did you read TFA? "However, the average improvement was three times larger after pink-noise stimulation."
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by mdekkers 9y ago
What is it about this community that seems to attract this kind of behavior? I don't know about Node.js specifically, but I found when it is a project with a very high code-to-comms ration, this doesn't happen often. When there
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by mdekkers 9y ago
it just comes off as awful This is why have stopped contributing to OSS in a public fashion over 20 years ago. Nasty backstabbing politics (and in my case, there was actually a business purpose behind it, unlike most of this drama) People
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done
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These seem to be the best on the market [...] But they haven't yet launched How can they be "the best on the market" without having launched?
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The mechanism for closing the site is what interests me. There are certain laws in place to prevent exactly this kind of thing from happening. Authorities worked around this by classifying the site as a "club" instead of a publica
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...authorities were treating linksunten.indymedia.org as an "association" rather than a news outlet, which would help officials get around constitutional protections on freedom of expression. [...] The anonymous threat to polic
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German Interior Ministry shuts down Linksunten.indymedia.org(dw.com)
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I have family in Slovakia How was life for them before the EU? How will it be for them when they have the "greater autonomy" the populist parties strive for? When I hear politicians blabber about "greater autonomy" and
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Call it the uncanny valley of automation safety. I am not disputing your assessment, but please don't discount liability. Planes can pretty much fly themselves today - there are no significant technology issues with the idea of &quot
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Linking in a non-triggering way Is this a thing? How can I avoid linking in a triggering way? What does it mean?
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An aging Richard Stallman throwing his towel into the ring That's when I realised this article was Fake News!
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even though there remain problems with it as a commercial technology Such as...?
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why does the volume of their countributions matter Because at the end of the day, working code makes a software project relevant. Nobody can deploy "Correct social and political attitude" to a server or system.
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Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE
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People shouldn't be harassed online, but they should be open to having their ideas, thoughts and beliefs challenged in a respectful way. My point was based on sarcasm :) Reading all the noise on GH yesterday, those most vocal in havi
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by mdekkers 9y ago
emphasize community over tech ...speechless. client: Why is there only clear text and flashing ads on my screen? developer: Oh, yes - we implemented the new ayo libraries! client: This looks like shit. Give me my site back! develop
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ooh, are you saying that random people don't have a right to feel safe when voluntarily interacting with others online? Get ready for the angry hordes....
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Indeed. I had a look at all the brouhaha on the node.js github yesterday (I love me some open-source soap-opera drama, especially when it involves non or barely-coding SJW's - it's my guilty pleasure) and had a quick look at the c
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by mdekkers 9y ago
What are some of the problems keeping that from happening? Here's one: Money. A service will cost me (more) money. A library I can deploy on already-existing infrastructure. Keeping in mind that "Cloud" is 3x to 6x more exp
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Wouldn't it already help if apt-key printed the list of keys it imported instead of the absolutely superfluous "OK"? What would really help: Publishers providing the key in a clear text copy-paste format, and providing in
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On piping anything from the Internet directly to your system for execution: Don't be lazy. Don't be an ass. When I am working in a persona that responsible for managing a server or a service, I insist on knowing everything I need
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by mdekkers 9y ago
There's always going to be a competitor who is willing to work 5 hours. Great, and as long as they will work 5 hours, and I will work 4, I know I will have the fresher, better ideas in the long run.

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