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by repolfx 8y ago
I didn't say all money, I said all government money. People who wanted the training from universities would have to get regular bank loans to afford it, not subsidised student loans. This would mean only those who are likely to be able
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by repolfx 8y ago
It's interesting to see such a high profile person refer to higher education this way. I've been thinking the same myself for a while and I recall a few comments on HN expressing the same sentiment ... do universities make people
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by repolfx 8y ago
Most SV employees don't have an engineering education, they have a computer science education - not quite the same thing.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Whilst true that under Theresa May the UK government is rather keen on controlling the internet, as the EU is demonstrating there's no real difference in terms of their desire for power. The relative disinterest by the EU in surveillan
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by repolfx 8y ago
The EU - as distinct from European countries themselves - has a pretty consistently authoritarian direction of travel. It is after all a project to massively centralise all power in an unelected bureaucracy in Brussels, removing it from the
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by repolfx 8y ago
politicians haven't successfully had their opponents arrested merely by declaring their opponents' speech to be hateful It happens in Europe quite frequently. Geert Wilders is a popular Dutch politician (popular with voters) and
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by repolfx 8y ago
They are IP based. There are several problems that make replicating FCM hard, which is one reason why Google tries to push you to using it (wordplay definitely intended). It all boils down to IPv4. IPv4 address space is exhausted, so carrie
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by repolfx 8y ago
Google didn't fork OpenJDK. They now use it though, after the lawsuit!
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by repolfx 8y ago
The Google / Oracle case didn't end up being about patents because they were all invalidated or deemed not to apply, iirc. It ended up being about copyrights and whether or not you can copyright APIs. It's unfortunate that Or
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by repolfx 8y ago
It's all GPL licensed. How is it not 'community owned'? What is your definition of 'community', exactly?
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by repolfx 8y ago
They're all open source licensed. Android even uses OpenJDK code these days. What you're looking for goes beyond any traditional notion of free software, in the Stallmanist sense.
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by repolfx 8y ago
That article doesn't seem to indicate it's "fake news". Snopes says there's no definitive answer as to why they left, and that different sources give conflicting information. I'm not sure that level of uncertai
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by repolfx 8y ago
Google didn't "expressly design" YouTube to manipulate people, come on, that's a wildly uncharitable view. Virtually all popular content hosting sites have some form of recommendation system - because people like them .
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by repolfx 8y ago
Seems everyone is tuning out but for different reasons. I still read a lot of news, but I don't like the dish I'm being served, exactly because it is not just straight reporting but rather is a non-stop stream of journalists&#x2
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by repolfx 8y ago
Picking a natural effect that is very widespread, defining the "badness" of it as being measured by money and power, and then only caring about the instances where there is money and power to be gained quite obviously opens up peo
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by repolfx 8y ago
Why is it ridiculous? Wikipedia really isn't that expensive to run and clearly they have no problem raising the money. Funding based on volunteer donations seems a very equitable and reasonable way to fund something like Wikipedia - if
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by repolfx 8y ago
Or - they could just make money off you, and ignore what the EU wants! Ultimately the EU's only recourse in things like this is to either convince the USA to act as its enforcer, or to set up a Great Firewall to stop you browsing to th
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by repolfx 8y ago
How does that follow? The US does regulate domestic internet firms from time to time like with COPPA. But my daily internet experience is by and large left alone by Congress. Whereas I have to dismiss annoying cookie popups every few hours
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by repolfx 8y ago
Whilst I agree internet firms are trying to have their cake and eat it with respect to content filtering, I don't believe this has anything to do with the EU's actions here. This sort of thing is just an extension of a very long r
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by repolfx 8y ago
I wouldn't define gender disparities as a problem to begin with, so arguments of the form "but the problem is big so it's OK if the actions are big" have no weight with me. What remains is that the word "diversity&q
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by repolfx 8y ago
You're changing the subject. The original poster's point was that there isn't any real advocacy towards the benefit of men - in other words, that "diversity" doesn't mean diversity, it means benefits for women.
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by repolfx 8y ago
That story seems to come up a lot in these discussions. IIRC it appeared in a prior HN discussion of the same thing. The bursary in question is only £3,000 which is nothing. And the total fund is only £30,000 - so enough for 10 nurses. This
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by repolfx 8y ago
I was surprised and encouraged to see that the Economist actually cited the papers they were discussing - this seems new, and progress. Way too often, news outlets refer to "studies" or "a study" without making it easy t
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by repolfx 8y ago
Is it? My experience of innovation is that it tends to be a singular affair. Not a result of group hangouts and all day brainstorming meetings but the result of a single unreasonable person who is seized by an idea that's either not ob
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by repolfx 8y ago
It sort of is, but it benefits a lot from the (virtually) unlimited number of characters you can use. It's possible to express complex and nuanced points on HN, which is impossible on Twitter by the nature of their decision to cap ever
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by repolfx 8y ago
And what is an interview if not a test? Or are you advocating written exams only - I don't see why this would be better than a well designed interview process.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Shadow banning doesn't work against any adversary that's more sophisticated than an annoying person on the internet. As you observe, email spam filters are basically just "shadow bans" and spammers aren't confused
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by repolfx 8y ago
For me it was simply that the shorts are a lot more comfortable than speedos. Speedos were never great.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Geez. I know loads of people who put photos of themselves as toddlers online deliberately, just because they thought it's cute. I really don't know what's supposed to be embarrassing about a picture of yourself as a toddler.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Yeah, but a well written profile and message can go a long way even if you look fairly average (for a man). The messages and profiles most men do on these sites are awful. You don't have to work that hard to stand out from the crowd. I

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