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by sobkas 4y ago
> The important thing about a "limited company" is precisely that the CEO and all of the other staff aren't legally equivalent to the company. That would be a partnership. This is a very useful technology in de-risking run
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by sobkas 4y ago
Only one question, does it produce more CO2 than it captures?
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by sobkas 4y ago
For some reason Fantastic 4 came to my mind, I wonder why...
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by sobkas 4y ago
> The computer viruses that were the worst in those days were the boot sector viruses. Stoned Empire Monkey and the like. They were so hard to remove from machines and spread like wildfire in computer labs. Someone left disk in floppy dr
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by sobkas 4y ago
> "The United Kingdom wants to become the safest place for children to grow up online" is the first line of this article. Not presented as a quote, or a claim made by a source in the article. Just a fact. > From that point i
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by sobkas 4y ago
> If the federal government should be reduced in power, then why should state or local governments have any more power over individuals? Because the smaller government is (federal>state>local) the resources needed to hollow it out
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by sobkas 4y ago
> After reading Edward Snowden's autobiography (Permanent Record, great read), I feel like Tor, end-to-end encryption and similar solutions/products are basically a dagger through the heart of intelligence services. As such, I
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by sobkas 4y ago
> I disagree quite strongly. It's an inherently collectivist point of view. It enslaves the individual and post-hoc justifies the theft of their property with terms that they never agreed to and which were imposed on them as a child
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by sobkas 4y ago
First of all when you are unemployed you get free healthcare, "urząd pracy" have some ways to help you, for example getting job experience like paid internships, some education about jobs/getting them, unemployment benefits.
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by sobkas 4y ago
Best thing you can do to prepare for coming fake recession is to start hiking prices and force salaries down, so you will continue to have record breaking profits. And when real recession will finally hit, you can tell "Didn't I s
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by sobkas 4y ago
> >Coinbase is a weird company, because it's got such an obvious comparable: CME Group. CME Group has about 3500 employees, [...] Firstly, I don't see how Coinbase needs as many people as CME. > Coinbase isn't a dire
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by sobkas 4y ago
I somehow don't see it as anything more than AI that learned on dataset of unknown quality/origin, making shit up, while users pretending that because computer did it it couldn't be wrong.
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by sobkas 4y ago
> I wonder what would happen if US farmers protested like Dutch or French farmer do. Granted, geography makes those protests easier in individual European countries than the US. It depends on political affiliation of farmers. If rightwin
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Sure, but that's just an estoppel argument, which is exactly the kind of "common sense" thing I'm talking about. You don't get to walk around for two decades with one understanding of a license and then suddenl
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by sobkas 4y ago
> > Well, they explicitely state, that they are ready to change a bit, if the shitstorm is big enough. > Yes and there already was a massive shitstorm that they attempted to address before these additional details were leaked. That
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by sobkas 4y ago
> My local rite aid keeps the ice cream fridge and soaps (among other things) locked. There's no way this actually helps them. It might make more sense to just not carry these products if they're being stolen so much. An you ha
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by sobkas 4y ago
I don't think WTO will be very happy with this action. How fast they will revert this action before they will get thrown out...
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Why it's always that when I see some good indie gamedev, it's from Poland? Pozdrawiam Free high quality schools, robust safety net, many technology companies, eastern angst that doesn't allow soul to settle, etc.
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by sobkas 4y ago
Don't go into gaming, especially if you really want to. Your enthusiasm will be used against you. Long hours, mobbing, low pay, harassment, just naming few. And if you complain, the only answer you will get is "There are ten peopl
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Who is held responsible if a company gets fined or sued? Does someone get fired? In the past shareholders were loosing money because their shares lost some value. Then they could fire CEO/take actions to put some pain on people re
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Depending on your bank, Anbox or Waydroid may help you run your bank's app on your Linux device. Probably a no-go for most banks, but worth a shot to see if it'll work. You can just try it out on a Linux computer/VM firs
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by sobkas 4y ago
> If you don't mind reflashing a player's firmware and sometimes a bit of hacking, Rockbox supports many (mostly old, unfortunately) players, but by being Open Source and not tied to any proprietary cloud or similar service, it
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by sobkas 4y ago
Surface to volume ratio so brains wouldn't boil in hot(African savannah) climate?
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by sobkas 4y ago
Blackmail is a wonderful thing if you know how to use it. For example if would be assassin doesn't fullfil his duty a little bird can whisper his name to people who would very violently frown at would be assassin. Or have things that f
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by sobkas 4y ago
Problem with maintaining status quo is that for example someones pay may be the same or can grow a little while economy grows around them, they end up having relatively less and they can afford less. So status quo may squeeze people dry, wh
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by sobkas 4y ago
Only if you use a very generous definition of it ...
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by sobkas 4y ago
For me empire is a country that can easily project their ideology, political/economic will and military streanght outside of its boarders. And does it. For example selling cheap clothes or taxing tea and when people disagree they find
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by sobkas 4y ago
Better don't read why evangelicals support Israel so much. Or what evangelicals think will happen to Israel after their interest are meet. This interests are deranged and will never happen but people believe in them and act to fulfill
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by sobkas 4y ago
> > But for future interplanetary colonization, the rule would become one light month. Not very far. But imagine any form of communication taking years to bounce back and forth. That could not be centrally governed. It might not just
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Absolutely. We must be very, very cautious as a society when automating anything that can violate civil rights and individual liberties. The government must pass a very high bar indeed for that kind of thing. I completely agree, we sho

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