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by mseebach 9y ago
It's merely [citation needed], it's not [who?]. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/23/china-must-res...
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by mseebach 9y ago
Wild guess: the Catalonian government had that idea and challenged the view of the courts that the vote is illegal.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Google aren't making arguments as to what is legal or not, a Spanish court is.
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by mseebach 9y ago
No, because neither China or Venezuela are considered to be under the rule of law. Spain is, and it's constitution is pretty unambiguous on the matter: Section 2. The Constitution is based on the indissoluble unity of the Spanish Nati
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by mseebach 9y ago
Careers are fraught in any organisation that systematically allows individuals to take credit/blame for team efforts. That said, I've met quite a few implementers that seem to believe that because it's their hands on the keyb
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by mseebach 9y ago
Hmm, not obviously, IMO. At least the "OMG You will NEVER believe what random insignificant strangers said on Twitter about some shitstorm that we're doing all we can to whip up that an editor would never have allowed anywhere nea
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by mseebach 9y ago
"There is a risk" isn't really a fair standard. What moral, digestible in a children's show (or any form to any audience, really) doesn't have a risk of being applied in a way that isn't beneficial? I haven&#x2
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by mseebach 9y ago
You could adopt Umberto Ecos attitude to his library. Once, when asked if he'd read all the books in his library, he said no, but why then have such a large library? It's to remind him of all the things he doesn't know.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I hope they don't end up reveling in the dystopia rather than accepting that it's the backdrop, not the story. I think The Man in the High Castle rather overdid the dystopia-part and suffered for it.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I suspect that the reason for this is the behaviour of most OS's around USB audio devices: switch over the default inputs and outputs to the new device -- which would mean that when you plug in your modem, suddenly your Skype would con
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by mseebach 9y ago
That answer seems to be exactly what the article is describing: > Instead, what some modem vendors have implemented as an ugly hack is the transport of 8kHz 16bit PCM samples over one of the UARTs.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I think you're underestimating just how reliant all but the most trivial firms are on reliable communications for even basic operations, and just how many of those communications touch the internet at some level. Sibling comment mentio
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's nothing about an SPA that inherently prevents you from having a button that force-refreshes the internal state from the server. This is what happens when you kill the app and re-open it -- it gets it's state from somewhere
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by mseebach 9y ago
No. > Since it totally refuses to sync, I have to switch to the Android “recents” screen and kill it. When I re-open the app, it’s OK.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Not the OP, but: don't. You can't. Never mind that it's not practical, it's also simply not moral. Rich people in the west probably could and should use less energy, but something like 3/5ths of the world are enteri
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by mseebach 9y ago
Perhaps, but it's an orders of magnitude smaller problem than climate change promises to be.
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by mseebach 9y ago
There are many arrows in the quiver that an enterprising politician can use to hold an errant organization to account (it's very difficult to be against holding powerful organizations to account, regardless of the actual merits of the
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by mseebach 9y ago
It was superceded by LTE/4G mobile broadband to which it is very similar, but seemingly slightly inferior.
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by mseebach 9y ago
That study is about whether thin, cheap foam mattresses (not hi-tech space memory anything) are worse than cotton mattresses. Also, "need" is a poor measure. Very little we consider fundamental in rich, developed countries is abo
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by mseebach 9y ago
The argument is that they are turning a profit on the average ride in mature markets, and losing money on the average ride in emerging ones. Right now, because they are trying to grow quickly, they have a lot more emerging market rides t
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by mseebach 9y ago
No, it's as silly as suggesting that a single voter has any say what so ever in the policies of republican institutions.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The lawyers who would actually have to put their neck on the line says no. Eben Moglen is a campaigner, not anyone's lawyer (in the matter of defending a software product including GNU licensed components). The license actually isn&#x2
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by mseebach 9y ago
Just download a mining program and run it on your computer. Voilà, you now have "a say" that is exactly equivalent to your say in the policy of republican institutions.
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by mseebach 9y ago
But he's not "marching to a $400m valuation", that's what he believes he can grow the company to. If you get a 20x multiple on 14M for 400M, you have grown less than 50%, and raised a ton of money. You're not magica
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by mseebach 9y ago
How do you get to those dilution numbers? The OP is already at 14M, apparently with no significant outside funding. If you assume they'll be at 5-20% ownership at 400M, practically all the "growth" will have been cash from eq
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by mseebach 9y ago
You'll have gone through some pretty insane fundraising rounds and extreme growth then near-collapse to pull those numbers off. Raising 2M at 14M puts the OP's stake at 87.5%. Long long way to 10%.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Me too. Literally a one line complaint and a refund in a few hours.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I can only answer for myself: I have a decent amount of faith in Googles ability to effectively advertise to me in a non-obtrusive manner, while treating my data responsibly. Taking it one level of abstraction up, I don't see a future
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's better than just trusting the SSN, but I'd still prefer a system that can't be beat with a stick and some chewing gum. (Yes, I had an ID theft near-miss that involved a locked mail box in a locked stairwell. To me, the m
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by mseebach 9y ago
So the patriarchy is something you imagine. Interesting, although it does confirm a couple of longstanding suspicions in the area.

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