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by pimmen 8y ago
> "In terms of providing stability and market integrity, both cash and cryptocurrencies have mechanisms to prevent counterfeiting - for cash, it is by incorporating features that are hard to duplicate, and for cryptocurrencies, it i
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by pimmen 8y ago
If you want a good deck, we're talking a lot more cash than 10 years ago.
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If there’s one argument against copyright I would bring up it’s patent trolls. If you can propose an IP law to me that makes sure creative individuals are not bullied and stifled by unscrupulous people hungry for a quick buck I would be mor
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That’s what I mean by ”to a degree”. If you get a few years of time with copyright and time to monetize it tgat’s not too stifling for creativity. If you however get two lifetimes that’s just silly.
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The debate around copyright today is just so weird I think; "I should be able to prevent anyone from producing anything too similar throughout my entire life, and my heirs should be able to stop them for another lifetime after I'm
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We don't pay for health care or higher education and we have good pension plans that are government subsidized, though. We pay a lot but get a lot.
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I don't think so, in Scandinavia we have a very low unemployment rate and Stockholm is one of the most vibrant tech hubs of Europe. We offer every employee some of the most generous paternal and maternal leaves in the world. You can ta
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She doesn't have to work from the hospital bed if she has paid maternal leave. Even better if the father has paid paternal leave and can help when she's recovering. Being a Swede, it's just so unreal when I hear about how it
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Because if she’s finding the money for a lawsuit she’s busy working.
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I think later marriages is a big contributor to stabilizing divorce rates. I got married at age 24 and after a very tumultuous time for us with economic hardships, a more hectic schedule (she was working two jobs at a time while I was doing
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They have not completed any audits, and that astronomical dollar value backing up Tether is an extraordinary claim lacking extraordinary evidence. So, I would say it rests on the assumption that Tether is lying and have something to hide, b
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And if we exclude the age group to the people who use cars the most, like people in middle age driving around their family? I would guess most of the people in that car are not that likely to die from 1, 2 or 3 anytime soon.
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Why is this trend going on with using js in domains where it previously was not a component? Is it to ease shipping new features? To make it easier for contributors once they make the application open source? Good PR?
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Ok, that was pretty awful. Do they want to break stuff on purpose or something?
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The money derives its value from something central (wether it's the gold holdings of the country or the printing press) rather than being decentralized.
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The exact day it passes, the Swiss banking stocks would likely crash because their ability to be in control and pass the risk to the central bank (as the lender of last resort) is a big portion of their value. But, what happens in the long
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Not thinking of proper archiving proceedures is also exactly what happened with movies (and TV, the Dr. Who missing season was an ebarassing case of this). I know that studios exists to make money, and that they do that by controlling the d
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Didn't the developers save copies of the game? I know we've lost a lot of big movies from the early days of cinema because Hollywood studios didn't think of archiving the films, or even the scripts, responsibly but I thought
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I sent an email to my MEPs saying exactly this; it's not technically feasible to implement this without having the media in question, so you are shifting this very steep requirement of proof from the accuser to the accused. The media c
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I'm an EU citizen. If I drive from Juarez to El Paso I assume I can contact the company the CBP is using to find out what they're doing with my data? Edit: I previously wrote the CBP, but I meant the company that owns the facial r
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As far as I understand it, Lightbend (the maintainers of Scala and Akka) is also a remote only workplace with developers working around the world.
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A lot of that growth comes from broadening their customer base outside the Western world (Apple's largest market is China, not the US) and through leverage (the interest rates are near 0%, in Sweden it's even negative, so it'
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What happened in Flint was a scandal because that's not supposed to happen in a rich country, that sort of water supply is an eye sore that someone should've done something about years ago. The sentiment that things like these can
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I believe this is because the domestic markets of most rich countries are saturated for stuff non-technical workers can supply. We have transportation, we have food, we have energy, we have sanitation, we have retail stores all within our g
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Yes, there is a difference between being reckless (which should absolutely be punishable, too) and knowing what you're doing but thinking you're above the law.
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Working on weapons is ok, working on AI controlled weapons however is very dangerous. There are many unsolved ethical questions around this as in, who is responsible for the civilian casualties? Soldiers, pilots, sailors and commanding offi
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by pimmen 8y ago
I don't have anything against tech companies helping the military, that's their choice. I wouldn't want to build that stuff, but others can make that choice. However, AI weapons is something I strongly condemn. They raise man
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The “Never Again Oath” for Programmers (2016)(neveragain.tech)
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No, but given enough generations with the new empire odds are culture, customs and language will probably change in the conquered area.
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Seeing all these empires and countries changing hands, unifying, expanding and breaking up again makes me think more about the concept of national identity tied to a geographic spot as very problematic. If I went back in time 200 years, 500

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