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by pathy 13y ago
Back to a bartering system? I don't know about you but I much rather have a currency than having to trade my homegrown tomatoes for my neighbor's wheat. I mean, currency is a lot more efficient than bartering, I thought hackers li
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by pathy 13y ago
Just a slight country point: The US is actually quite low in number of articles published per million citizens.[1] Now that doesn't say anything about the quality or distribution of research areas of course. Switzerland is in a clear l
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by pathy 13y ago
Exactly this. There is no way it is easier for US to extradite him from Sweden than UK, even ignoring the law about requiring the approval of both UK and Sweden. I sympathise with Assange and his original Wikileaks goals but I do feel he is
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by pathy 13y ago
Well, not strictly work but wrote on my thesis on the flight from Amsterdam to Stockholm. Was quite productive to my great surprise. New knowledge is quite hard to generate in the enterprise system/ERP implementation space. So much hav
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by pathy 13y ago
That may or may not be doable depending on your company however. If you are a software shop, you are likely going to want to recruit locally. Outsourcing is has its own drawbacks. It is simply asking yourself, as a business, will my busines
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by pathy 13y ago
Considering the average salary for a competent software dev in SV-area is what? 120k? + social costs, insurance etc. That adds up very quickly. Not to mention once you earn a certain size you do need to employ support staff, accounting, mar
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by pathy 13y ago
For the sake of completion: http://pastebin.com/zwHYzCZe This is a statement on the matter by the author, linked in the original Reddit thread.
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by pathy 13y ago
As far as I can tell the agency responsible for the campaign is Mortierbrigade [1]. I haven't been able to confirm it for sure but the original source [2] I found it for seems to be quite knowledge about the Belgian advertising scene.
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by pathy 13y ago
Perhaps Adecco/PR firm reached out to the author, to solve the matter. Or that is what we can hope at least. The site appears to be password protected now so something definitely happened. Or the site just got overloaded and the author
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by pathy 13y ago
In general I already assumed that all my data was being captured, either by my country's spying or USA. PRISM is hardly surprising, in terms of the data that is (probably) collected. What I may consider is switching from Dropbox to som
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by pathy 13y ago
You may be right, it was perhaps unnecessary. However, once you've read a few threads on anything TPB related (though this one is rather tame), it is striking how extremely paranoid comments are. Everything is somehow politically motiv
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by pathy 13y ago
I see you didn't read the article. The basis for the article is a NYT interview with a SVP at Google, claiming that the brainteasers are not useful (among other things). Surely that is good source? I haven't got a clue if Google a
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by pathy 13y ago
Drop the tinfoil hat. He was found guilty of hacking and spreading personal information. It has nothing to do with TPB case. He hacked into Logica and later leaked protected personal information. After the PRISM scandal I thought HN would b
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by pathy 13y ago
As far as I can tell the only connection to the TPB trial is that he used the credentials of one of the lawyers involved in TPB case. Mongols comment from earlier in the thread (read it as well! Contains more info): >One / some of t
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by pathy 13y ago
If I recall that wasn't clear. The IRC logs were quite the jumbled mess of Meth and hacking discussion. "For the lulz" though I don't believe they used that term. I do encourage you to check out the investigation protoco
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by pathy 13y ago
He leaked (or someone else with access) some 10k personal identification numbers of people with hidden identities (cops, domestic abuse victims etc). As far as I can remember form the investigation protocol, he hacked the company/ies
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by pathy 13y ago
I presume he means studying Mathematics at University of Edinburgh. A quick googling sessions confirms this, inopinatus studied maths in Edinburgh according to his Linkedin.
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Pirate Bay co-founder jailed for two years(thelocal.se)
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by pathy 13y ago
As far as I can tell it is an addition to the normal monitoring? I can download the plugins via their standard dashboard.
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by pathy 13y ago
Why is that? I don't see how expanding their service offering is a bad thing? Surely that expensive contract would have yielded more value than before, given that you use any of the supported applications. If not, you would not be wors
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by pathy 13y ago
> How did things get so bad ? I would probably say that it is better than it has ever been. Looking back in history, child labour was very high until the early/mid 20th century. According to Wikipedia [0]: The incidence of child lab
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by pathy 13y ago
Hmm, yes you are right. Spideroak's functionality seems closer to Dropbox. Spideroak does seem more practical to use.
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by pathy 13y ago
https://www.tarsnap.com/ usually comes up when talking about Dropbox alternatives, I have not used Tarsnap myself but I've seen many who have been pleased with it. I am not sure if there are any big Dropbox competitors
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by pathy 13y ago
They probably wouldn't have looked the page unless they were auditing him. He found their decision unfair and appealed it but lost in court, so at least one instance considers Skatteverket's claims legitimate. Now I have less fait
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by pathy 13y ago
Your argument is a fair point, cherry picking privileges is quite ridiculous. That said, it makes absolutely zero sense to compare corporation taxes and personal taxes. The dynamics are just totally different. I can see nothing good in equa
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by pathy 13y ago
Swedish article on the matter: http://www.aftonbladet.se/minekonomi/article16839634.ab I have no idea if Skatteverket (IRS equivalent) were right in their decision but the guy did lose in the first court instance. Also
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by pathy 13y ago
No it doesn't. Corporate tax legislation is not the same as personal tax legislation, therefore a comparison is irrelevant. Even if corporations would be treated as people, as long as the legislation is different it does not make sense
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by pathy 13y ago
Yes, as are all company annual reports (true for Norway as well). There are several sites publishing financials, where the 'overview' is free while the actual annual reports costs a few bucks. You can of course just request the da
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by pathy 13y ago
Agreed, I find it unprofessional to work for free and you do yourself and everyone else a disfavor. With two exceptions; internships via universities (where it is part of your education) and certain kinds of work for non-profits. And even t
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by pathy 13y ago
Best of luck! If you can 'prove' that you can create more value for a SaaS startup than the traditional BMC then you should be able to sell your product without too much problem. $20 is not much if it can generate a lot of value for the buy

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