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by pergadad 7y ago
I completely agree and at the same time see the other side: think of the typical drug kingpin or monster still directing 'business' and hits from prison. And you can't give phones to some and not to others because prisoners o
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by pergadad 7y ago
I think the aim is not to claim that other pieces violate this collection's copyright, but rather to invalidate the frivolous claims that such melody sequences are copyrighted to begin with. Either the courts decide they are not, in wh
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by pergadad 7y ago
But they make money anyway, it's the customers (pension funds) that lose...
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by pergadad 7y ago
No matter your personal views (ad hominem?) regarding the author, the article makes a number of relevant points. The issue was raised last year in parliament but disappeared intentionally or accidentally in the Brexit maelstrom.
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by pergadad 7y ago
But it is connected. Dropping EU standards means the UK has to decide afresh on many such issues.
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by pergadad 7y ago
I doubt the guy citing random Wikipedia articles is an expert on the issue, but there are some references at the bottom of the Wikipedia page.
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Is Europe over (Central)Banked?(ft.com)
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by pergadad 7y ago
I'm not convinced they are fully useless. Eg even an anti-vax person will understand that academic publishing has some solidness, even if they think it's'the establishment'. Explaining to a layman what arxiv does and how
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by pergadad 7y ago
What do you mean by this?
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by pergadad 7y ago
See eg the various initiatives against Elsevier's pricing practices with all/most German universities and a number of American universities refusing to pay Elsevier's fee/ransom. Similarly the whole 'open access&#x2
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by pergadad 7y ago
It's not for official or internal communications, just to replace any use case currently covered by the likes of WhatsApp.
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by pergadad 7y ago
This is for external communications for any case people would most likely be using WhatsApp. It's not for official, internal or classified stuff.
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by pergadad 7y ago
Main argument is that it's also open source.
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by pergadad 7y ago
What's the alternative? Private closed-source apps like Threema? This also is not for official communication , it's just for any case where staff would currently use WhatsApp or similar spyware.
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by pergadad 7y ago
I've read it requires a phone number so that it does not need to collect or store any (other) data on users.
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by pergadad 7y ago
That's a pretty selfish view. On the other hand such a serious backer means political clout and attention in case there are attempts to compromise it. E.g. Whispers Systems could quickly relocate to Estonia or Germany if US law becomes
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by pergadad 7y ago
How many school graduates will end up studying quantum mechanics?
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by pergadad 7y ago
Nuclear is subsidised by billions of dollars, starting from the ongoing research to buying land to construction to security to the massive grid investments needed for any new power plant, to security and contingency measures to finally the
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by pergadad 7y ago
Sounds like the main data sources were previous drug trials and possibly the kind of lists of similar compounds that drug companies generate and patent when they hope one of them might turn out to treat a particular disease well. So with so
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by pergadad 7y ago
In the crypto space fraud and actual business are hard to distinguish (and one can quickly become the other).
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by pergadad 7y ago
Bingo! We're seeing a case of survivorship bias as we only hear about the cases companies are unable to hide any longer.
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by pergadad 7y ago
While not perfect Sweden is probably one of the most judicially sound countries on earth. I doubt that the Swedish police would intentionally falsify reports/statements to please US interests. This is just absurd.
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by pergadad 7y ago
You seem to have preconceptions that you defend without evidence. There's no 'medical establishment' that purposefully gives bad advice. There are pieces of advice that are later found to turn out wrong, but on average you&#x
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by pergadad 7y ago
Anecdote is not data and data is not annecdote. But you have one experience and I have the opposite: I am 100% pro tech, showing the kids how to use smartphones constructively, etx. We were controlling what our kids watch to avoid in partic
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by pergadad 7y ago
Phone number is convenient to find people and uniquely identify them with a standard info that you have anyway for most friends. If not for the phone-based account I'd have missed that many friends do already have signal.
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by pergadad 7y ago
Signal works great. The one big barrier to more uptake is a feature that many non-nerdy users seem to use: group video chat. You can one-on-one video chat, but not with a group. The moment that's there I imagine huge amount of people w
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by pergadad 7y ago
Have been looking through the course catalogue just a few days ago (corporate subscription) and everything looks only very basic and selection does not seem large/varied. Really disappointing and definitely not what Lynda used to offer
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by pergadad 7y ago
Please be aware that there's many countries for which $9 is not a negligible sum. Essentially what you're saying is that anyone not willing or ABLE to pay more should be squeezed out.
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by pergadad 7y ago
Weird end to the article. Seems Microsoft is paying some social media shills?
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by pergadad 7y ago
The site summarises accounts of individual researchers, most of which are based on interviews with individuals that are by now dead (as is the researcher). You can doubt as much as you want but I don't see the benefit in this - especia

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