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by piokoch 9y ago
"Regulation is bad for the open market" - that's the root of the problem here. If it weren't for various "licences", "concessions", "permits" to become mobile operator or be allowed to insta
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by piokoch 9y ago
"This web is still alive and well, nobody stops you from grabbing a domain name and launch anything you wish" True, you'll be able to do that, but if most of people will have "free internet package" that will allow
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by piokoch 9y ago
Yes, and that explains why rich people are often leftists and support complicated tax system - for them it does not matter, they will not pay a penny, but if someone tries to build competing business from scratch and cannot afford "tax
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by piokoch 9y ago
I am always surprised that well educated people who are definitely not "creationists" but consider evolution as a way human kind developed are ready to ignore evolution when it comes to gender. Clearly man and woman are different
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by piokoch 9y ago
I am not Linux admin, but I've been using Linux managed by others on servers for many, many years and I have a question: Is that 'systemd' thing is so crucial and important to devote so much effort to create brand new Linux d
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by piokoch 9y ago
I am so surprised why people buy into some SAAS software that does simple things instead of hiring 2 programmers from cheap location (somewhere between India and Poland western border), getting Hetzner VPS or dedicates server (even the seco
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by piokoch 10y ago
If you have a mobile application, you can use that + beacon based location, so the code can be used only inside a store.
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by piokoch 10y ago
Probably it dependes on what is going to happen with those money. If they will be reinvested in UK into something equally succesful as ARM chips, then this could be a big win for UK. UK released from EU sometimes absurdal regulations with c
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by piokoch 11y ago
I wonder how this is possible. Do these birds have enough neurons to store such amount of information? Maybe they use some kind of super compression that we are not aware of.
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by piokoch 11y ago
The question is who will pay that tax? In Musk vision governments should lower other taxes (which one?) and introduce carbon tax. I am afraid that the devil is in the details and it may turn out that this tax will be paid mostly by car owne
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by piokoch 11y ago
That's going to be terribly off-topic, sorry for that, but I have to: I hoped the article was about "Pip pan" from amazing kids book "Kastrullresan" ("The Saucepan Journey" in English) by Edith Unnerstad.
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by piokoch 11y ago
I am curious to what extent Paul Phillips lecture [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jh94gowim0 ] is just a rant or in-depth Scala criticism. If he's right then seems that we should not expect bright future for Scala. I
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by piokoch 11y ago
Basic income idea always resambles me a lot Lex Frumentaria introduced in ancient Rome by Gaius Gracchus. The idea was exactly the same - give people "basic income", that is alomost free grain. Was Gracchus successful? Not really,
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by piokoch 11y ago
"Thomas Ormerod’s team of security officers faced a seemingly impossible task. At airports across Europe, they were asked to interview passengers on their history and travel plans" It is so sad that nowdays it is not seen as absur
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by piokoch 11y ago
Greek crisis has two faces. It is true that Greeks introduced crazy socialistic ideas like having written down in the constitution the law that civil servant cannot be made redundant. It ended up with huge number of employed officials doing
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by piokoch 11y ago
This surprises me a bit: "All requests should be made via the POST method, and all parameters should be passed in the POST request-body and not in the query-string." So even typical GET are sent as POST (/api/1/book
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by piokoch 11y ago
When I see that discussion about basic income I am always wandering, who is going to pay for that? I assume the money will not be printed (this would not help, as inflation would make that income very small). So the country that applies suc
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by piokoch 11y ago
Uber seems the problem everywhere Taxi market is highly regulated. Uber operates also in Warsaw, this was a news for a day or two, but later nothing really happened. In Poland Taxi market is almost non-regulated. Taxi driver must pass medic
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by piokoch 11y ago
Recently I've noticed a kind of a strange fashion in the way of advertising new software projects on HN. The most important information is not what cool things given project does, or what unique features it has but what programming lan
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by piokoch 12y ago
That's a very interesting story. Radium was a huge hit in its times. That what was happening was even called "Radium fever". Radium was everywhere including toothpastes, shampoons (cure against hair loss). Fortunately only a
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by piokoch 12y ago
Now Rust needs some killer app. Maybe a message broker, something like Apache Kafka, maybe even with Java Messaging Service compatybility as an option. Rust with its low level I/O and efficient memory management should enable creating
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by piokoch 12y ago
I could not belive my eyes when I have learned about GS Collections library for Java [ https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections ]. Very nice piece of open source code with a very good documentation. I had to double
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by piokoch 12y ago
Frankly speaking when it comes to corruption, MS cannot beat HP and IBM here. The IBM case is a big one, investigated currently by most elitary anticorruption Police unit in Poland. See articles below. https://translate.google.co
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by piokoch 12y ago
Probably this is because tropical diseases are rather rare in Poland (not a big surprise). As far as I know the only place in Poland where you can find someone with practice and expertiese is Gdansk (big port in Poland) - they need to treat
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by piokoch 12y ago
The courts questioned the fact that browser was delivered as a part of operating system, not that it was blocking innovation. Speaking of innovation it is true that IE was terrible in adopting standards (this was pain for long, long years a
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by piokoch 12y ago
Good idea, I am surprised Google Plus is not working that way. As far as I know Youtube is doing similar thing to Tsu: those who upload movies get part of the ads revenue.
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by piokoch 12y ago
As far as I can see, Uber is the problem in countries, where taxi industry is heavily regularized. Recently Uber started its operation in Poland, in Warsaw. For 2 days that was a news, but later nobody paid much attention on it. In Poland i
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by piokoch 12y ago
That's strange. Google will have to go into bussines of security services. Why they just don't negotiate with the contracted security company better terms for the employees working for Google?
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by piokoch 12y ago
Hmm, how about journalists who write articles about companies that buy advertisments in newspapers they work for? Are journalists allowed to write bad things about advertaisers? There are other topics they can choose or switch job... I can&
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by piokoch 12y ago
That's very interesting indeed. In the old days Microsoft was creating an icon and everybody used that, otherwise people would not understand what a given button is doing. Web and mobile devices with multiple os changed all that. Anoth

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