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by pikzen 10y ago
>healthcare and food, (food especially) are heavily subsidized by the government already. While I personally believe that distorts the market and should probably stop If you want to see riots in the streets because people literally can&#
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by pikzen 10y ago
Because it doesn't happen. Employees are not going to be paid more. Shareholders are going to get more money, except that's it's going to be negligible if you're a small shareholder. Consumers are still going to pay the
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by pikzen 10y ago
What I mean is that the subreddit doesn't belong to bradfitz, or Google, or the golang creators. It has never started as official because the creator was /u/uriel. The Google guys may have joined after, but the fact is that i
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by pikzen 10y ago
So the only thing holding you back from deleting a subreddit with tons of information, 25.000 subscribed users and what looks like a rather active and healthy discussion isn't that it would be a dick move to both golang in general and
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by pikzen 10y ago
No, what would happen in a free market is that the "big evil companies" would hire muscle to shut what.cd by other means. Like, let's say, seizing their servers. And justifying it by saying that they are the only ones allowed
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by pikzen 10y ago
In every thread about US elections, there is going to be the same "muh founding fathers, carefully crafted system, so perfect". The truth is, the US system is pretty damn awful. The good news is, everything else is also pretty dam
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by pikzen 10y ago
Are we still using that godawful argument? * Not contributing and complaining about issues * Not voting and complaining about the candidate elected * Not making movies and complaining about the special effects * Not writing books and compla
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by pikzen 10y ago
As an outsider...what the hell did you guys just do? There are many, many reasons for Trump's election. Maybe it's time to rethink a bit about how you guys do politics?[0] Distrust of the establishment (of which HRC was the perfec
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by pikzen 10y ago
It pegged the server with... 2000 comments? Does HN run on a raspberry Pi or something?
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by pikzen 10y ago
When you're storing small sums of money (less than 10k €/$), the amount you lose from inflation from stuffing money in a mattress over a year is negligible.
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by pikzen 10y ago
I wouldn't exactly put "efficient" and "Slack" in the same sentence when it's a terrible memory and CPU hog. Actually Slack is the perfect example of Electron done absolutely wrong.
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by pikzen 10y ago
Mhm, they have been. Then they rewrote everything from scratch because as it turns out, javascript on the server side is still pretty damn awful performance wise.
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by pikzen 10y ago
...Are you seriously advocating to cause financial ruin to many persons for buying a device they didn't know was vulnerable and being attacked by someone? I don't even know what to say. Aside that you're clearly not targeting
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by pikzen 10y ago
Maybe you would care if that website was yours. These attacks do not discriminate. If your Wifi connected lightbulb (just writing that makes my eyes roll back) is part of a botnet, one day, it might just take down something that you actuall
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by pikzen 10y ago
Start a shitstorm on HN, r/programming, eventually slashdot and hope it gets picked up by tech media to raise an even bigger shitstorm. Ad companies like Google and Facebook are much more afraid of bad PR than angry developers, and sad
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by pikzen 10y ago
Assange has publicly stated that he doesn't want HRC to become president. He hasn't officially supported Trump, considering the choice between Clinton & Trump the same as choosing between cholera and gonhorrea. https:/&
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by pikzen 10y ago
Edit: @martijn_himself, in all fairness, my limited-sleep-friday-morning messages may be a bit unclear too. Cheers and have a good day. I believe we're saying the same thing. Regulations are needed, and we cannot expect companies or th
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by pikzen 10y ago
As an aside, this website is a direct copy of the content from https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted and I know the guys over there have a bit of an issue with how libhunt licence things on their website. (See
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by pikzen 10y ago
That is the ideal world of some people, the invisible hand of the market regulating it blah blah. However there's never been a single instance where this has actually happened, markets have to be regulated by an outside power (namely,
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by pikzen 10y ago
Because I won't die if they're paying their players ten times market rates. They're merely entertainers. That's private money, mostly. Making a public service overpay by factors of almost 10 when it's quite literall
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by pikzen 10y ago
Unfortunately, voting with your wallet when it's a matter of life and death is not an option.
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by pikzen 10y ago
dragonwriter tells you that the current version of Visual Studi CE (i.e., 2015) is not time limited unlike 2013's, and you come back with a link about Visual Studio 2013 community. I feel like you've missed something.
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by pikzen 10y ago
>Believing that it's work 1-5 trillion dollars by 2050 to reduce 2100 temperatures by 0.05C? Don't worry, the exodus coming from rising ocean levels is going to cost way more than 5 trillion dollars. And not distributed over 35
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by pikzen 10y ago
If a scientific article has been funded by at least 50% by the state, public establishments, local collectivities or the european union and is published in a review coming out at least once a year, the author (or authors, provided they all
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by pikzen 10y ago
Because coming out of a prestigious school doesn't make you good by default. It just means you were able to pass their tests well enough, whether it is from actual skill or playing the tests.
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by pikzen 10y ago
Except for that small "access to the common market" thing, as well as the numerous advantages the UK has compared to any other EU member. Getting those back will cost more than staying in, and already has.
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by pikzen 10y ago
Because unless you never use government built infrastructure, contributing back to society is kind of your duty. I live in France, my employer pays my raw salary in taxes, and approximately 30% of this raw salary that I get is paid in taxes
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by pikzen 10y ago
>(companies with access to top lawyers pay less, small companies pay more). That is a problem of the law being easier to circumvent if you've got resources to do so. From abusing how complicated the tax code is, to actively lobbying
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by pikzen 10y ago
Because, in the case of FOSS, that is making good software available to all of humanity. From the $200k SF developer who can afford Paw easily, to the lowly paid eastern European developer, to the broke student. That is of course assuming t
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by pikzen 10y ago
>Paw is an extremely high quality, native Mac app, made by a small team trying to provide for their families by building software for other software engineers like all of us. It's a paid tool but it's probably the most sophisti

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