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by sgift 8y ago
Probably with an invitation to Hohenschönhausen for whoever dared to bring it into GDR.
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by sgift 8y ago
This would work if China was a small country the west wouldn't depend on in various ways. But China is literally "too big to fail" .. the west depends on China in a myriad of ways, so they can do whatever they want.
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by sgift 8y ago
If you are above a certain size you don't go through that. The big ones all have more direct access. Also: Partner companies. They have more direct access too.
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by sgift 8y ago
EU GDP: 18.8 trillion -- India GDP: 2.5 trillion India has almost three times the population of the EU. If that is "failing" I think we can fail a bit more.
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by sgift 8y ago
> In the medieval days of villages, everybody knew everyone's face. There was little in the way of privacy. Yeah. And they were horrible places for anyone who didn't perfectly fit into them. The smallest deviation could lead
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by sgift 8y ago
> Tesla employs medical professionals to make that decision. Medical professionals that they "incentivize" to make a specific decision they like. > “It was bullying and pressuring to do things people didn’t believe were corr
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by sgift 8y ago
> (if you are willing to pay Microsoft for that) So ... same as with Oracle. The "if you are willing to pay" part is what people are crying about.
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by sgift 8y ago
It tastes good. And it is good for health (especially compared to everything with sugars).
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by sgift 8y ago
I wouldn't hold my breath. The discussions about developed/developing are probably as old as the distinction itself and (as evidently shown here) many people have to win or loose depending on the classification of a country.
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by sgift 8y ago
And where did they give a "smart-ass answer"? A question was asked, an answer was provided. Does the answer solve the problem? Yes. If you want to know more then ask. If you want to hear something else that's a failure of the
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by sgift 8y ago
Spoken like someone who never had to support some old feature because "maybe there is one user who still uses it". Features have a cost. Disabling features and removing them if they are no longer useful for the majority is a valid
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by sgift 8y ago
> Add in a smarmy attitude and poor social skills and only the most confident or skilled people will contribute; which isn't a bad thing to be honest. It is a bad thing, because the "most confident" and the "most skil
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by sgift 8y ago
> Second, do you really think that the solution that was given in the Balkans is good? Even today, many people are deeply unhappy about it. If all sides are a bit unhappy it probably was a very good compromise.
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by sgift 8y ago
The banks obviously. If someone here says we "helped" Greece they either don't know better or lie. Plus, the bailouts were all credits. We Germans get money from the markets for 1% (or whatever the rate is at the moment), giv
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by sgift 8y ago
Equating voting with begging is a serious false equivalency.
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by sgift 8y ago
Not that I disagree with the sentiment, but shouldn't you fix this at the source i.e. the government? If the American people don't want their government to spy on people .. vote for another government?
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by sgift 8y ago
There is a proposal to add fibers to Java: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.htm...
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by sgift 8y ago
> I don't get it. You could argue that the poor need food more than farmers need money. That same argument could be made to any business, though. Why are farmers more obligated to donate to the poor than anyone else? One of the argu
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by sgift 8y ago
Probably the moment the 'Great Satan' stops to control all flow of goods into and out of the Gaza. It's easy to say Israel has withdrawn when all they did was move a few kilometers further out.
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by sgift 8y ago
> Asking what's the point of having the Googels and Facebooks and Amazons is like asking 100 years ago "Why should Europe need a car industry" That equates Google and Facebook with the whole IT industry, which is maybe wha
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by sgift 8y ago
> It's a tiny industry here and no-one is looking to build the next facebook, they're just looking to do interesting work whilst also having a good life. This is something I miss in all the "Europe doesn't have the ne
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by sgift 8y ago
Last time I checked he was fully able to spit whatever nonsense he wanted out into the world without being send to any reeducation camps.
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by sgift 8y ago
> He can afford the fines and does not care That's the reason that a) fines should be a percentage of your net worth and b) escalating. I'm pretty sure if the first 50 million go down the gutter he'll start to notice.
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by sgift 8y ago
tl;dr for those who don't want to read devys link (though you should. Good article): > After a three-year battle in which he spent up to $1000 an hour on lawyers, Swildens ended up selling Speedera at a discount to Akamai for $130 m
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by sgift 8y ago
> Could you think of Google made in Europe? In Germany, in France, or in Italy? Some of the biggest companies in the world are from Europe. All of them started as small companies. So, yeah, Google made in Europe is possible. Tech is not
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by sgift 8y ago
https://outline.com/MxvDb6
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by sgift 8y ago
People think for some reason that their job is hard, so when all works perfect that's almost a miracle and others shouldn't be so grumpy when it doesn't. But the moment they are on the customer side they think "that&#x
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by sgift 8y ago
> And I would even be happy with just 3-5 projects that get many, many billions in the end. I mean lets be honest, if it costs $20 billion (and lets be honest it will be way more) to develop it will never be economical anyway. It's
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by sgift 8y ago
> The author comes out of this seeming slightly deranged. That you think so makes me think you seem "slight" deranged by Apples guideline process. That's some next level stupidity where that corporate line of "hey, we
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by sgift 8y ago
The people who suffer under the behavior called out in CoCs tend to disagree. Can you give a reason why they are wrong and you are right?

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