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by sgift 7y ago
> That's something you can get better at, but it requires discipline and effort. Programmers who have no intention of getting better at it think the comments will save them. Yeah. And people who make memory errors in C are just bad
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by sgift 7y ago
Using a common language in the EU makes the EU a US colony ..? Because we share the same language as the US then?
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by sgift 7y ago
The British position was special for at least three reasons: - British state doctrine has always been: We are the empire, the natural rulers of the world. We only live by chance near the rest of Europe, so we have to interact with the conti
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by sgift 7y ago
With Hollywood accounting there is no way to proof this and well .. with all the shady things the movie industry and their cronies did over the years they kind of lost the "but you should trust us on this" position. Maybe if we fi
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by sgift 7y ago
"Brave extorts sites to participate in their program by blocking their current funding method" is an interesting rephrasing of "Brave has a build-in adblocker."
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by sgift 7y ago
If I read it correctly the patents aren't the main problem, more that no one from ARM is allowed to work with Huawei anymore. No support with problems, no influence on the design of future ARM products, no custom modifications. These t
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by sgift 7y ago
The given example was send to jail until the end of his life. Looks like standards enforced to me. It's also the whole point of licensing: You have a standard you can enforce and if people fail to fulfill it there are consequences.
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by sgift 7y ago
> Java has made a U-turn in adding streams and related functional features on top of a language that used to be strongly for OOP (actually defining the meaning of OOP for a generation of developers.) So, by adding a feature which works e
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by sgift 7y ago
Or the guy who was good at convincing others that it is foolproof got to live another day if it wasn't while they died. Survival by bullshitting.
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by sgift 7y ago
> Occupational licensing only serves to raise barriers to entry and crowd out competition without raising quality. To put my opinion bluntly, Bernie Madoff had a license. Almost every country in the world established at one point or anot
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by sgift 7y ago
> But what U.S. government crimes did he expose? Google, "Collateral Murder" You're welcome.
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by sgift 7y ago
They follow the narrative that the reason for Assange being handed over to GB is not cleaning up after his cat. This was brought up by Ecuador. You can decide for yourself which of these explanations you think is most likely: - Ecuador want
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by sgift 7y ago
The Securitate (The secret service of Romania) would be another equally terrifying example.
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by sgift 7y ago
People are easily manipulated. You only need the right incentives and tricks. As long as they are convinced or can be convinced that only bad people will be prosecuted (they are good people after all, right?) many people will welcome this.
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by sgift 7y ago
That must have been what people thought in 1994/1995 at the final presentation of PROMETHEUS: "The first was the final presentation of the PROMETHEUS project in October 1994 on Autoroute 1 near the airport Charles-de-Gaulle in Par
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by sgift 7y ago
> but that's a legal issue, not inherent to the concept of GMOs. So, not an issue in theory, but in practice.
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by sgift 7y ago
The quality of Aldi products - at least here in Germany - has been assessed time and time again and the result is usually: Same quality, different packaging. That's the whole point. Aldi cuts everything that's not needed, but they
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by sgift 7y ago
> The law can't handle willful lawbreakers that way; otherwise criminals would develop strong ethical reservations about all sorts of stupid things. The law or rather the judges make judgement calls all the time. Does someone get ba
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by sgift 7y ago
> But also there is largely no equality of opportunity, because you never had a chance to change your genetics in the first place. We are probably hundreds of years away from solving all other factors besides genetics, which have an infl
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by sgift 7y ago
> However, the person who wins should be the more qualified person based on merit This has never been the case and will never be the case as long as some people are rich and other are poor. A "standard of suffering" tries to sh
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by sgift 7y ago
> The US itself rose thanks to its protectionist policies. Britain too -- as did all others major powers when it served them well. Same with copying from others. Germany was famous for cheap, bad knock-offs of British products in the 19t
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by sgift 7y ago
The US has many problems, but there's a big difference between people being unhappy with you and being send into "reeducation camps" if the government doesn't like what you say.
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by sgift 7y ago
If the EU has problems we can discuss those left and right. The difference between having problems and making them up is relevant here.
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by sgift 7y ago
> The ruling is strange, because in my opinion part of a modern working environment would be driven by some form of mutual trust. That's a nice theory which in most cases is abused by employers left and right. If you really have a m
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by sgift 7y ago
Both of these sentences are factually wrong. There is no government news in Germany. And the Öffentlich-rechtlich (which program is, again, not controlled by the government) are not really expensive (The price is 17,50 for everything togeth
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by sgift 7y ago
There's also the Guardians way: Ask, but don't block. Despite all the cries that this could never work Guardian had a positive revenue in their last yearly report. It depends on people doing the right thing, if they can afford it
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by sgift 7y ago
That's one of the most important jobs of a politician. Make the hard decisions and convince people that they are needed, even if they don't see it right now. Politicians who don't do that don't do their job. And yes, tha
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by sgift 7y ago
Yeah. The grandparent post is such a cliche in an age when the competition authorities stopped doing their job.
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by sgift 7y ago
> You're in public, you have no expectation of privacy That's wrong from the start and leads to people not using their rights (e.g. not going to a demonstration, because they have to fear long-term repression). > whether the
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by sgift 7y ago
> The initial pre-Fukushima plan to exit nuclear was solid. What ruined it was the blind actionism post-Fukushima. I have a feeling even with the pre-Fukushima plan we would have the same situation now. The thing was that the CDU never c

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