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by oytis 9mo ago
Most importantly, Europe needs more trading partners after having lost Russia and now losing the United States. Second, I am happy about German (I suspect it's similar in other EU countries) farmers largely supporting the far-right get
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by oytis 9mo ago
I'm surprised Trump didn't threaten involved parties with tariffs or military action over that yet. As a European, very happy about that happening, for multiple reasons. It's a shame it took so long
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by oytis 9mo ago
If the choice is between Wikipedia vs random information accross the web, then Wikipedia is undoubtedly better. But it doesn't have to be that, on many topics there are reputable sources to consult first.
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by oytis 9mo ago
> Employing someone doesn't let you pass off their achievements as your own. Doesn't it? That's basically how tech companies work. You can tell he's written an initial version of Wikipedia, but founder is emphatically
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by oytis 9mo ago
Reading what someone has written under their own name for everyone to read is not stalking. Also not sure what code of conduct you have in mind, but most specify that you should treat others with respect regardless of <list of protected
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by oytis 9mo ago
Wikipedia itself says Larry Sanger "co-founded" Wikipedia, but I don't quite understand why. If you get into the details, he was Wales' employee at the time, and made initial version of Wikipedia while being paid as such
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by oytis 9mo ago
Cause he decided to let the world know
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by oytis 9mo ago
That's demanding too much from minorities IMO. OK, you should tolerate a racist colleague, what about a racist boss? Like, you know he'd like to see fewer people like you, and also gets to decide about your promotion or layoff.
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by oytis 9mo ago
I mean, that probably depends on how extreme are the views? If you write a blog post about there being too many colored people in London, how are non-white developers supposed to collaborate with you?
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by oytis 9mo ago
I am not a fan of governments controlling the internet and of Australia in this regard in particular, but Feature 4 makes it all acceptable to me. We shouldn't ban all of web 2.0, people, including children, have right to talk to each
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by oytis 9mo ago
Ok, ok, I exaggerated. But still, communuty is small, and the industry is big, and drama seems to be handled very differently in both
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by oytis 9mo ago
I need to see the photoshops!
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by oytis 9mo ago
Why there is often so much drama whenever something open source or community is involved? The best we've got from the industry so far was Astronomer affair.
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by oytis 9mo ago
So UX is art, not programming? Don't know enough about it to have an opinion. My code almost never interacted with people
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by oytis 9mo ago
> People simply don't respect programming as a creative, human endeavour. Because it's not? Programmers' ethos is having low attachment to code. People work on code together, often with complete strangers, see it modified,
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by oytis 10mo ago
As I understand, a lot of mathematics, at least the part about solving problems, is basically back and forth between exploration (which involves pattern matching) and formalising. We've basically solved formalising a while ago, and now
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by oytis 10mo ago
It would be nice if we had an international agreement on how to apply sovereignity on the internet without infinging on sovereignity of other countries. US would be in a great position to initiate this if the current administration had any
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by oytis 10mo ago
CLOUD act is overreaching and impacting people in the EU. What EU governments are doing is avoiding US-based cloud services for critical applications, because it's an US law, not a European one
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by oytis 10mo ago
Transport museum in Dresden is really nice, especially for kids. Computer game museum in Berlin is kind of disappointing IMO - it's mostly non-interactive, which is a huge missed opportunity given the subject
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by oytis 10mo ago
I mean, that's an argument for making them respect your country's laws or banning them from your country if they don't want to.
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by oytis 10mo ago
Executive branch is supposed to deal with other countries' laws and courts? Does it also hold for European executive branches and American laws? I don't want to even imagine a world that works like this.
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by oytis 10mo ago
OK, sure, antisemitism is a different topic, and Germany might have a bit of an overreaching definition of it. Which IMO is understandable given German history, but I agree that this is one topic where Germany's freedom of speech is en
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by oytis 10mo ago
Noone is being jailed for speech in EU, you are misinformed by your antidemocratic elites. Incarceration rate in Germany is almost 10 times lower than in the US, and prison time is used for really severe cases, not for being mean on Twitter
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by oytis 10mo ago
I'll have to check. I assume they are not immune to decisions of European courts either?
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by oytis 10mo ago
No? We've never had such an absolutist view on the freedom of speech as American Constitution holds. We still have enough of it to keep the political debate open to all points of view though (with a reservation for the paradox of toler
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by oytis 10mo ago
Who is locked up for criticizing the government in Germany? You can be fined for insulting a government official, and I think it's a bad law and should be retracted, but a) insulting is not the same as criticizing and b) I've neve
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by oytis 10mo ago
Western Europe is not an authoritarian dystopia by any measure. Economic growth or lack of thereof is absolutely irrelevant here
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by oytis 10mo ago
I am very pro-piracy, but calling to Trumpist elite reads like he thinks that European instututions have no right to censor Internet, because they are European, while controlling the Internet is an exlusive American right. I really think Eu
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by oytis 10mo ago
Not sure you can call it censorship if it's the author of the book who doesn't want you to access it for free. I know there are a few levels of indirection here, but with a few notable exceptions authors are normally against their
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by oytis 10mo ago
I'm not sure, does US not block websites by DNS? Wrt Anna's Archive they've gone as far as revoking its main domain

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