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by ric2b 6y ago
Is it even possible to have copyright over illegal content? Like can a child pornographer sue someone for pirating their content? Sounds absurd to me.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> As to this being his last purchase, well of course—why would he keep buying after his insider advantage had evaporated? So is your claim that they were constantly refreshing the Bloomberg website for weeks? A 5 minute gap is quite susp
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by ric2b 6y ago
> gamestop was the example of what happens in the limit - only the DTCC prevented a global financial crisis as a circuit breaker of last resort. Nonsense, a few private funds losing a lot of money is not a financial crisis, it's jus
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by ric2b 6y ago
> I don't think someone needs to have listened to every single minute to have an opinion on the guy. Agreed, but the least you could do is link to examples of him saying those things, since it's all recorded we don't need
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by ric2b 6y ago
But it's still a problem and if the recruitment landscape improves it will also help those who have their rent due.
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by ric2b 6y ago
I've been doing it for years, no issues. And on Android I use Keepass2Android, which also syncs to the same Dropbox folder, it works seamlessly.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Actually you probably do. People slow down and pay more attention when they're not comfortable driving.
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by ric2b 6y ago
In European cities you usually walk to church because it's not 6 miles away, there aren't massive 6 lane roads taking up valuable city space.
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by ric2b 6y ago
It also had no releases for over a year, even though the master branch was getting frequent updates and the performance of the last release was atrocious (and I'm not sure if it has improved much). I did like the emojis in the logs tho
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by ric2b 6y ago
> It's that the GDPR doesn't allow it. Source? Nothing prevents Facebook from making a public announcement that anyone that had an account on Facebook between dates X and Y might have been affected.
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by ric2b 6y ago
If they can't measure the scope of the breach they must notify all customers that they might have been affected.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> continuous finding and fining of ever more wrongdoings. How perverse indeed. > A specific branch of government, a select agency, to become a profit center So don't directly give them the money from the fines, simple.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Somehow that game theory doesn't seem to apply to most jobs, so maybe your model is overly simplistic to the point of being useless.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Should we apply that logic to the private sector as well? Make all employees have qualified immunity, can't be sued for things you did while working, what could go wrong?
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by ric2b 6y ago
SvelteJS has the same idea, see this great talk by the author: https://youtu.be/AdNJ3fydeao
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by ric2b 6y ago
Oh, so it's secretly proof of work.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> If someone has the level of processing power to get a majority of a project's tasks But you don't need a lot of processing power to do a sibyl attack, if you're actually not running the tasks.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> Do you want to suggest that people were unable to effectively write working software back then? On the first try? Yes, absolutely they weren't, and still aren't. > Unit tests are just one way to help make it more likely th
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by ric2b 6y ago
It's not just a word, it's a name. Names have a single correct pronunciation, they're not supposed to be translated.
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by ric2b 6y ago
It's not just a word, it's a name. Names have a single correct pronunciation, they're not supposed to be translated.
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by ric2b 6y ago
The article addresses this. The physical constraints that lead to those conventions don't apply to digital typography.
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by ric2b 6y ago
I agree, but with the option to keep whatever version you had when you stop paying the subscription. Maybe applying only after a N consecutive months with an active subscription, to prevent paying for a single month behaving as a lifetime p
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by ric2b 6y ago
Perhaps, but is it that different from sellers selling only on some specific websites/stores and not the ones you want to buy from?
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by ric2b 6y ago
> But historically, advances in wages and advantages tightly follow the economic curve: Employers increase wages when skills and economic development gets better. Except that hasn't been the case since the 70's
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by ric2b 6y ago
Why the id generator? Aren't GUID's enough? The chance of a collision is basically 0.
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by ric2b 6y ago
But for GitHub it was mostly a preventative measure, while for Ubiquity, regardless of how transparent they were, it would look really bad. Of course it looks even worse now that we know they didn't do anything to help customers.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Yup, it's almost a joke at this point, that the first post on a technical blog is usually about how they build their static blog.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Ebay or Visa could easily be a moderators on the platform. And they would be safer than they currently are, currently they can theoretically run away with your money and your best hope is to sue them.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> The US has the right idea with public domain, but that concept doesn't really exist anywhere else in the world It does in my country, Portugal, at least: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom%C3%ADnio_p%C3%BAblico
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by ric2b 6y ago
They are now, look at the linked commit.

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