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by rickmb 14y ago
Google's core business is advertising. Google likes to do stuff with the data that passes through its systems. Google has explicitly and pro-actively taken sides in fight against copyright violations instead of remaining a neutral party. An
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by rickmb 14y ago
Fortunately, we live in a democracy first and the free market is just a tool, not our form of government. In a democracy, the people hold the power through their votes, not consumers through their (very unevenly distributed) wallets. Those
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by rickmb 14y ago
Sounds healthy. I'm certainly not alone in being a city person who wouldn't want to live anywhere that doesn't have everything in walking/cycling distance, good public transport and all the other features of a dense urban setting. I wondere
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by rickmb 14y ago
It all depends on what your standards are. The working conditions at Amazon warehouses as reported repeatedly by the press would be completely illegal in most Western countries outside the US.
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by rickmb 14y ago
If people accept it without complaining, it works exactly as intended. Let's not assume the people implementing these measures are complete morons. There's power to be gained and money to be made from a submissive, unquestioning people.
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by rickmb 14y ago
Setting up a huge collection of straw men (all geeks are fanboyz), and then beating your own chest at not being one of them. Seriously?
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by rickmb 14y ago
Every time when people get to rule their own kingdom and get to decide what's Right(TM) and Wrong(TM) this is what happens. It doesn't matter if it's informative, useful or, oh horror of horrors, entertaining , all that matters is that it
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by rickmb 14y ago
The primary target audience for hacker-to-hacker Postgres evangelism is MySQL users. Because let's face it, the choice for DBs like Oracle is usually made upstairs, and for very different reasons. So why do Postgres advocates insist on diss
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by rickmb 14y ago
Wuala, http://www.wuala.com (by LaCie) deliberately keeps it's storage out of the US and inside Europe.
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by rickmb 14y ago
I find this kind of odd. I wouldn't store anything valuable on my own systems either unless I held the encryption key. When it comes to accidental data loss, I trust cloud services a lot more than my own little server. Ditto as far as secur
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by rickmb 14y ago
Some copywriter at Apple is going to have lot of fun with this. Expect the quotes from the judge to appear prominently. I wouldn't be to happy about this part of the verdict if I were Samsung.
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by rickmb 14y ago
So Microsoft is peeking into private folders, and judging the contents based on political and religious values not inscribed in any law? And completely terminates all Microsoft service to anyone found wanting to obey by these fundamentalist
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by rickmb 14y ago
If you are shocked by the "blatant manipulation of the mob", the advertising you see all around you every day, everywhere must put you in a permanent state of catatonia. How come the combination of internet and activism is suddenly "dangero
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by rickmb 14y ago
So why are pro-copyright judges never expected to keep their bias a secret? Are in fact allowed to not just voice an opinion, but to actually be activists and or paid lobbyist for the copyright industry, and still preside over copyright rel
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by rickmb 14y ago
Every time someone comes up it with a "cool" way to deploy via Git, it turns out their definition of "deployment" is nothing more than dumping something on a server. It completely ignores every aspect of deployment other than putting the fi
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by rickmb 14y ago
Sure. I have a Google+ account, two even, because they are both attached to my private and business Google accounts. Same goes for almost everyone I know, they all have at least one Google+ account. Only nobody I know, ever, ever uses Googl
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by rickmb 14y ago
After the whole IPv6 story, I'm surprised the author ignores the political dimension of designing a new protocol. As Mitch Kapor said "Architecture is Politics". It's not just about what solution is best from a technological perspective, it
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by rickmb 14y ago
Although I agree with you on principle, most Moroccans in Europe identify as Moroccan first and French/Dutch/Belgian second. Also, since they are not "allowed" to disavow their Moroccan nationality, virtually all Moroccans remain Moroccan,
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by rickmb 14y ago
I have a problem with the constant "blaming the tools" in this article. Blindly relying on the framework is one of the major causes of security issues. Exploits will always be one step ahead of the frameworks, blaming the tools breeds the w
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by rickmb 14y ago
Yeah, it's really annoying that those foreigners don't clearly state that something doesn't take place in the US. Or isn't that what you actually meant?
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by rickmb 14y ago
Funny enough, I came here to argue more or less the opposite . In many countries, the standard payment problems have been largely solved locally, at least for the local markets. In the Netherlands, a wide selection of payment providers wil
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by rickmb 14y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that even though it made for a nice source of anecdotes and mystique, this part of Jobs' influence on Apple was actually not particularly relevant to Apple's success? Not everything he did was perfect. I know so
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by rickmb 14y ago
Nobody killed Digg. Digg committed suicide by telling it's original, loyal user base to go fuck themselves in it's quest for more money and a broader audience. Digg became too greedy. But it was pretty obvious much earlier on that Digg had
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by rickmb 14y ago
One hour still beats same day delivery on every front except having to put on pants and leave the house. People for whom that isn't a barrier form a considerable market (albeit that they may be underrepresented on HN...) But also, same day
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by rickmb 14y ago
I suspect it's partially in American thing. In most European cities, the shops are around the corner. There's little effort involved, so Amazon doesn't sufficiently offset the advantages of instant gratification and being able to physically
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by rickmb 14y ago
I think most people get that reference (and I don't know shit about poetry). It just makes it all the more confusing and misplaced, so I'm guessing the one person that doesn't get it was the author...
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by rickmb 14y ago
Methinks there's a big difference between private crime and public corruption. Besides, Britain is not falling apart because of the Barclays scandal, and unlike Greece, it isn't the entire country that is in on the scam.
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by rickmb 14y ago
Well, that's more or less how it works. The vacation bonus of 8% percent of your salary is reserved each month, it's just common to pay out at the start of the summer. But paying out once a year is the legal minimum, you can agree otherwise
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by rickmb 14y ago
It's a cheap challenge, because he knows it will never be answered. He'll be lucky if the DOJ gives some generic statement about the quality of justice in the US, but most likely it will be ignored completely. Even acknowledging this challe
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by rickmb 14y ago
Funny enough this suggest that the judge understands the subtleties of design better than the tech-heads at Engadget, who like so many others regularly claim competing products match the design quality of Apple products. It always irks me w

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