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by pluma 8y ago
> With the caveat of: in the work culture here in the US That's the point, though. The work culture in the US is actively hostile towards employees. Sick days usually seem to count towards your vacation days and expecting mothers an
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by pluma 8y ago
Correlation equals causation if you like the implications. Soft science is hard science if it helps you justify your biases. Same reason people flock to a failed "psychologist" who tells them to clean their room and live like lobs
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by pluma 8y ago
Seriously, mods? The name clearly indicates this as an intentional troll throwaway. EDIT: Funny, I wasn't able to flag the comment until it was already flagged and dead.
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by pluma 8y ago
There's a fairly simple explanation: in egalitarian societies femininity is socially acceptable even in "traditionally male" occupations. So women don't need to act "masculine" to make progress in those jobs. W
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by pluma 8y ago
No, the question is this: The US is doing certain things that seem outrageous. The US is supposedly an ally of my country. China is not explicitly an ally (just a trade partner). So if the US spies on us, that's scandalous but it signi
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by pluma 8y ago
I would think the kind of people interested in technical posts on HN should better be aware of at least the most basic i18n issues.
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by pluma 8y ago
Yes, it's bad. But I'm trying to figure out if this is "business as usual" or crossing a line. I'm not a US citizen so the US spying on me is already scandalous but if the US is doing it, I expect countries that are
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by pluma 8y ago
"Silly Europeans. Regulations for privacy and data ownership are government overreach and anti-market. "Oh no."
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by pluma 8y ago
So is this anything the US hasn't already done to others or is this actually a scandal?
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by pluma 8y ago
Ah, yes, the "fuck internationalisation, we're all living in America anyway" argument. EDIT: Data point of 1: I'm German and use a QWERTZ layout because it's a hassle to type umlauts on QWERTY even with a compose ke
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by pluma 8y ago
Publicly attacking the "data industrial complex" is in line with Apple's economical interests. Publicly attacking the military industrial complex would be opposed to Apple's economical interests (because it might upset a
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by pluma 8y ago
But non-stock Android still typically uses Google services and these integrations are built into the OS. So whether the Android devices are sold by Google or Samsung doesn't really make much of a difference, Google still gets the data
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by pluma 8y ago
Yes, as I said, sourcing from China doesn't mean you have to sell your products in the Chinese market. If the only way to be an iCloud user in China is to trick Apple into thinking you're not in China, Apple can't recognise C
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Emperor Akihito will abdicate in 2019 and Japan's computers aren’t ready(secondnexus.com)
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by pluma 8y ago
I read this as "military industrial complex" and was positively surprised to see such a strong sociopolitical statement coming from Tim Cook, then I noticed the article talks about "data industrial complex" and realised
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by pluma 8y ago
How does sourcing in China require you to sell to the Chinese market? I don't see how Apple could be compelled to open their iCloud to the Chinese government if they're not operating iCloud in China and don't directly have Ch
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by pluma 8y ago
Yeah, hence why I mentioned GEMA and its equivalents. But the dynamics are a fair bit different from the usual RIAA noise you hear about internationally.
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by pluma 8y ago
Well, at least "Personal Jesus" kinda works in a gospel context if you read it as aspirational (think "WWJD"). "Spirit in the sky" on the other hand is New Age at best and cynical parody at worst -- the entire
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by pluma 8y ago
The record and movie industry? No, Europe has a different industry lobbying these issues that Americans tend to be oblivious about: newspaper publishers. A lot of the regulation is lifted verbatim from laws newspaper publishers lobbied for
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by pluma 8y ago
I think this is the reason YouTube is complaining. Previously they just got away with Content ID and it was just how the service worked. Now the law is drawing attention to the concept and people might get the idea that maybe an automated d
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by pluma 8y ago
The problem isn't DMCA. The problem is Content ID, which allows rights holders to take down other creators' content automatically. YouTube goes out of its way to grant rights holders a level of control that wouldn't be possib
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by pluma 8y ago
I always have to smile when I hear "Spirit in the Sky" used in a religious context as if it's a genuine worship song.
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by pluma 8y ago
Wait, tax-free? Surely this is a for-profit business, not a "church".
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by pluma 8y ago
Sure, that's a cheap shot but I thought it's worth pointing out as an aside. Firstly 51.9% is a ridiculously low margin to begin with, especially if you consider that Northern Ireland and Scotland had a majority in the opposite di
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by pluma 8y ago
The article creates a false dichotomy. A startup is not necessarily a small company and a big company isn't necessarily not a startup (depending on your definition anyway). I understand the two categories are supposed to be generalisat
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by pluma 8y ago
To put it more bluntly, the obvious difference is that cats and dogs can lick their private parts. Cows and horses can't perform the same level of personal hygiene while also providing more surface area for insects to invade. I wonder
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by pluma 8y ago
Either the Brexit example is a simple mistake or you're confused about the mechanics behind it, so I'll elaborate to avoid people thinking it's a sound analogy: The Brexit referendum was non-binding, so at that point nothing
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by pluma 8y ago
I wonder if this means that hereditary red/green deficiency is correlated with hypothyroidism. As a severely green deficient individual however I'm glad there's still active research into this. Maybe some day I'll be abl
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by pluma 8y ago
> We need to focus on figuring out how to get people to operate and deliver their best work, because if they do that, the satisfaction will follow. That sounds like a shortcut to burnout. No, employee satisfaction is not based on "o
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by pluma 8y ago
As a user your contract is with the company you give the data to. That's simply how contracts work. If the contract says they can give that data to someone else, that's fine. If it doesn't, they can't. That shouldn'

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