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by piokoch 7y ago
Not really, sometimes you search for some information (camera review, headphones review, medical information, toys, whatever) and instead of landing on some site that has good information you end up on some crap site with crap content and t
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by piokoch 7y ago
I am not sure we can ignore wealth creators, surely they want to have an impact on wealth distribution, I can't imagine sane model that would just ignore this factor.
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by piokoch 7y ago
Yeah, they were meant. Yet wherever I go on the web I am being asked to opt-out from tracking since default I am opted-in - this is clear violation of GDPR, however is seems nobody is trying to enforce this. Opt-out is typically covered by
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by piokoch 7y ago
Where exactly ayatollahs talk about people rights and free speech? Comparing J.S. Mill to a bunch of religious maniacs is a bit far-fetched. The fact that Mill wrote those words 200 years ago does not mean they are incorrect. We stick to th
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by piokoch 7y ago
Truth. Yes. Problem is that sometimes the truth is very, very inconvenient for someone (important), then it is forbidden, called lies or conspiracy theory or hate speech. Before Snowden we had some conspiracy theories that NSA is spying on
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by piokoch 7y ago
Frankly I can understand that ads selling company like Google wants to track its users. Their core business depends on that. Why Gitlab wanted to do this I have no idea, sounds like some marketing people came up with such idea "because
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by piokoch 7y ago
Here I am surprised, I've started paying for IntelliJ because I couldn't open huge project in Eclipse.
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by piokoch 7y ago
Is that so much different from FED? In theory there is some dependency on US President, but that just a theory, practice shows that private banks owners are much more influential. Not that I like or trust Facebook or its owner, but maybe Li
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by piokoch 7y ago
Yup, and they can afford that because they sell oil and gas to others.
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by piokoch 7y ago
When it comes to renewable energy it is worth to look at one (sad) statistics: if Germany and California, one of the largest CO2 emitters (Germany is on the 6th place, despite a lot of (failed [2]) efforts and even more PR) would spend thos
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by piokoch 7y ago
Yes, this is horrible and more and more toys, games are like this. That's why such products should get the same license as gambling companies. They should pay for license, they should have proper responsible gaming policy, ability to s
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by piokoch 7y ago
Opensourcing sounds good. The problem is the right license choice. If they use something like Apache/LGPL "business friendly" license then soon or later Amazon will take the product, pack it into its cloud offering and Datomi
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by piokoch 7y ago
I would say that kid's parents will notice that a given game is addictive and costs a lot and will just forbid children to play it? Side note. Free market (as imagined by Adam Smith, Hayek and others) does not mean that greed and incom
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by piokoch 7y ago
"[...] casino security, who were constantly on the lookout for card counting". Why this is something "forbidden", this isn't cheating, am I missing something? Anyway, how security can detect that someone counts card
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by piokoch 7y ago
Frankly, I can't believe what I am reading. The idea that some "AI" grades essays automatically is idiotic and has nothing to do with education. Where is the place for discussions? Where is the place for ideas confrontation?
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by piokoch 7y ago
There is a huge graveyard of projects that companies "donated" to the community. Think of Solaris operating system, Google Wave. Typically, I am not saying that this is IBM case, but typically it means that a given product does no
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by piokoch 7y ago
Soviets didn't have megacorps, they (that is soviet government) were just forcing Eastern Block countries to provide food, clothes and whatever they could produce paying for that with fake currency called "transfer ruble" tha
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by piokoch 7y ago
Exactly. At that time I worked for a large educational institution that was introducing online learning (hot topic those days). When I read about Google Wave I said to myself - it looks great, we are ideal usecase for it. I asked for invita
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by piokoch 7y ago
I would not say it is net-good. Spreading misinformation, pseudoscience is really, really harmful for the society (global warming is being questioned on the base of various "healing crystals"-like arguments, similarly nuclear ener
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by piokoch 7y ago
It seems that the Ohio gunman claimed to be rather left leaning and wanted sen. Warren to be next president. Probably he hasn't read 8chan but still started shooting. He also claimed to be pro-Satan leftist, whatever it can possibly me
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by piokoch 7y ago
The question is: if Flutter will not get traction that Google expects, what will happen with the project? The space of multi-platform mobile apps toolkit is already occupied by several well established players (React Native, Qt, Xamarin and
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by piokoch 7y ago
In case someone missed that, this quote says a lot "Crew members scour EBay for discontinued replacement parts."
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by piokoch 7y ago
That what worries me is "He fed a group of mice a high-fat diet around the clock for 18 weeks...". I fail to see any trace of scientific experiment run on people. There is some anecdotal evidence "I’ve employed what’s called
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by piokoch 7y ago
While I agree with most points, I don't understand bashing bailout for nuclear energy plants. Putting them into the same basket with coal-based energy plants is rather unfair. Nuclear energy is the only practical and CO neutral way of
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by piokoch 7y ago
I don't think concierge could refuse booking - This guy had lifetime ticket. What should concierge say? I will not book a flight for you since you cancelled the one yesterday and the day before yesterday?
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by piokoch 7y ago
Google Glass is a great idea, but was sold to the wrong market. I believe there is a lot of niche markets that would really benefit from this - the police, augmented reality tool for museums/historical sites visitors, people with physi
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by piokoch 7y ago
We'll see I guess. "Big news" is often about China collapse. I like to look for "small news" that not many people pay attention but they show a bit different picture. Picture of China moving slowly and patiently in
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by piokoch 7y ago
I can't believe my eyes. Am I just too old? Some random persons shows herself in 5 different shirts or shows herself sitting all day on the balcony? Why is that interesting and so many people want to watch this?
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by piokoch 7y ago
This is not directly related to issues you see, but might shed some light: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev... (plus this is one of the funnies Joel Spolsky's text and an amaz
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by piokoch 7y ago
I guess you mean this: "Police who react to a random black male behaving suspiciously who might be in the critical age range as though he is an near-imminent lethal threat, are being rational, not racist." I don't think that

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