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by phyller 8y ago
My point around the healthcare was that, yes it's an issue, no it's not really an issue for the HN crowd. If you are some sort of programmer/engineer, and want good healthcare, you can get it. And you will avoid making foolis
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by phyller 8y ago
The healthcare issues in the US can be a little overblown. People in good careers get good healthcare insurance provided by the company. You often have to pay a copay to ensure you don't abuse the medical system, but seeing someone for
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by phyller 8y ago
It's really encouraging to see this comment. I wonder about this, not being a woman myself. In my workplace (east coast USA) there are plenty of women in technical roles, definitely a minority but still significant. I don't think
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by phyller 8y ago
I disagree. This entire line of thought is just ridiculous prejudice. If you think the US film industry is entirely represented by the 20 or so big blockbusters that come out each year, and that somehow the hundreds of smaller and independe
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by phyller 8y ago
The author of this article is a genius, able to express the problem so clearly. These types of regulation that have been coming through the EU are good for the biggest of businesses. Complex and difficult to follow regulation allows the big
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by phyller 8y ago
In the US, there are spanish streaming services available and Chinese streaming services available. You can find movies from every country. It's a free market, and services from other countries are allowed. If they did what you said, i
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by phyller 8y ago
Something to think about, if Netflix comes in with their brand recognition and cash and buys the digital rights (more money for exclusive rights of course) to the local movies, this regulation basically locks up the market for them. As long
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by phyller 8y ago
So? Walk onto a set and I bet you'll find people from every continent except Antarctica there. People born on those continents too, not just descendants.
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by phyller 8y ago
What is going to happen is reverse of what you say you want. The big Hollywood blockbusters will be just as available as before, what you are losing is the long tail of smaller independent films that may be more thought provoking or diverse
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by phyller 8y ago
The US is incredibly culturally diverse, it's a nation of immigrants from all over the world. It's just not delineated by state. There are geographic pockets of one culture or another, but frequently a single geographical area has
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by phyller 8y ago
> The proposals will require that streaming services give over at least 30% of their on-demand catalogues to original productions made in each EU country where a service is provided (individual EU Member States could choose to set the co
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Huawei and Honor caught cheating on cell phone benchmarks(anandtech.com)
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by phyller 8y ago
The flip side would be more money available for the institutions that actually create new medicines. I'm not saying it's a better tradeoff, just that it's not so single dimensional.
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by phyller 8y ago
Actual conservative sentiment would be, once you marry her, sleep with her. Worked for me! Here's my reasoning. If you are expecting someone else to make you happy, you're in for disappointment. It's just human nature, one or
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by phyller 8y ago
Ha, I didn't know about him before. Sounds really interesting. Reminds me a lot of Socrates. I have recently been reading the classics about Socrates and was surprised to realize that a) his main mission seemed to be to show people the
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by phyller 8y ago
This argument has been repeated so much, I'm going to try to explain. I'm not a lawyer, but this is what I learned in school in the US. There are numerous examples of voluntarily giving up your right to free speech. In the Unite
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by phyller 8y ago
Imad Sousou - "We have simplified the Intel license to make it easier to distribute CPU microcode updates and posted the new version here: http://bit.ly/2w9RjtM . As an active member of the open source community, we co
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Intel is updating the microcode license to remove questionable restrictions(01.org)
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by phyller 8y ago
That makes sense, and like I said, I don't have a problem with what they are doing. It's what they said and how it was presented and how it has been defended. Like evil BigCorp has been stealing from them. Just a "Hey what we
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by phyller 8y ago
Normally I'd give people the benefit of the doubt, but in this case I think Intel has already shown that they have no credibility in anything anymore. They only ever spin everything, the last time anyone said something truthful (former
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by phyller 8y ago
NDA's are legal right? This is like a permanent NDA. I wonder if people can refuse to download the microcode because of the license, and then sue Intel for the vulnerability. I'm thinking probably not. Might want to get your next
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by phyller 8y ago
The article goes out of its way to not describe certain parts of the context. My understanding is the SEALs left him for dead, and he wasn't dead. It seems there's a growing bitterness against SEALs in the military community, alwa
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by phyller 8y ago
> we all benefit from open-source more than we contribute to it. That’s not sustainable. This way of thinking is, in my opinion, destructively pessimistic. Everything is not always a zero sum gain. We can all benefit more than we contr
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by phyller 8y ago
> This is an ignorant response, because it places on the librarian’s shoulders the responsibility for solving a problem that concerns all of us - because we all benefit from open-source more than we contribute to it. That’s not sustaina
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by phyller 8y ago
I don't understand this entire argument. Someone developed open source, free to use software, then didn't understand why people should expect to use it without paying for it. It's totally fine to make proprietary software, ju
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by phyller 8y ago
Basically full stack web developer, probably a lot of these issues are particularly bad in this field
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by phyller 8y ago
I've seen it stated several times here on hacker news that the visas should be available for the highest salaries. And that's it. No lottery. If you want them, pay them. That makes tons of sense to me on a lot of levels, it is goi
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by phyller 8y ago
To be honest, it would have been better to explain how they do the spectroscopy than to just say "you don't understand" and downvote. I should have raised a question instead of making a statement, the response should have bee
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by phyller 8y ago
I applaud that your company promotes from within and encourages professional development. I think that is more likely to happen when a company can rely on most employees sticking around for a while, which they probably will because of the o
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by phyller 8y ago
I should apologize, I am probably, hopefully wrong. I'm still skeptical but clearly more work has been put into this than I realized and I shouldn't have been so quick to condemn it.

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