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by tajen 9y ago
Microsoft vs EU yielded €2bn fines. I had made the calculations myself in 2013, I can't find the source, but here's most of the details: https://www.neowin.net/news/since-2004-the-eu-has-fined-micr...
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by tajen 9y ago
The IT community should launch a campaign against the stupidity of banks' security procedures, which discredit our jobs...
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by tajen 9y ago
So those abusive prices per-MB only apply to... small operators who don't have international presence?
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by tajen 9y ago
Said "hacker" could even take Ethereum to a civil court and win a trial for changing the DAO's code: Ethereum long claimed that transactions were unrevokable and only contracts had value, causing tort to the hacker when rules
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by tajen 9y ago
I'd like to thank HN for that. HN gave me a bunch of information/reflex/frameworks to understand how to create a company and how to understand various signals, and my first solopreneurship has been successful for 4 years.
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by tajen 9y ago
and fewer censorship ? Problem is, if you want to advertise ideas (such as: "Democrats are good!") and influence public opinion, is Mastodon a good place?
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by tajen 9y ago
That means a city is in uncertainty if it tries to buy 3 or 4 Tesla to serve as paid minibuses on local territory – neither can a company for a campus, TV channels for a huge studio range, entertainment park to drive their agents around or
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by tajen 9y ago
> It'd be like replacing Google. You're basically talking market chaos and massive supply chain disruption, probably to the point of extensive loss of life What? Granted an overnight transition could cause disruption, but in
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by tajen 9y ago
...because that wasn't true enough. Sure addiction isn't cool, but moderate amounts of light drugs (canabis) make a great party, unfortunately.
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by tajen 9y ago
Since you seem to be the right audience, I'll advertise it to you ;) ...especially since I'm rather a candidate to leave this country! > You need network effects of smart people We definitely have this, especially in the heart
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by tajen 9y ago
What do you think about France? It looks like a good, first approximation of your proposal, many people defend worker-owned businesses here, "service public citoyen" (public benefit corporations), it's difficult to amass weal
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by tajen 9y ago
All of this is possible in the current economy – Many companies are founded by employees. However, I'm personally comvinced they are not efficient, neither in decision-making nor in usage of the workforce. So what happens to them, and
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by tajen 9y ago
The interrogation period is 23 days. The conviction rate after interrogation is 99.98%. It's not a made-up number: Only 15 people walked away free in 2015 after interrogation. Assuming that the police arrests the correct persons with 9
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by tajen 9y ago
Seriously, how much work goes into Gimp nowadays? I seem to have the same version today as 5 years ago. I'd love to help kickstart a new beginning (run a kickstarter with a specific proposal?) but I'm afraid they're stuck wit
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by tajen 9y ago
Do you actually want to be x-rayed by a machine running "just fine" on WinXP and not ever air gapped?
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by tajen 9y ago
His backup HDD is airgapped, I assumed. Maybe rather he wipes and reinstalls, making it relatively impossible for malware to stay.
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by tajen 9y ago
s/criminals/whistleblowers (governments don't nearly pursue violent crime as much as they pursue dissidents).
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by tajen 9y ago
I wonder whether people whould have enjoyed different kinds of male / androgynous voices. Soft voice? Energetic coffee-powered male voice to make us feel like businessmen during an MBA? Effeminate male voice because it would trigger sy
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by tajen 9y ago
You're right - Bing can't. Google knows a website's pageviews because it can cleverly cross information between the search engine, Google Analytics and Google Map's by-foot frequentation of shops (for shops and customers
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by tajen 9y ago
Plus pageviews are done on Google's servers, so Bing doesn't know which website has many views and which doesn't.
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by tajen 9y ago
What about proving the felony in court and make him pay for hurting shareholder value? The upside of following courts and presumption of innocence is, you can tell your next CEO, "This won't happen to you because you'll respe
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by tajen 9y ago
When it's for the matter of compatibility , are patent laws applicable?
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by tajen 9y ago
Skyrocketing acquisitions by big companies also justify half VC economy (the other half being AirBnb-style dominance over a sector). It would be interesting to know, if the exit events were smaller, whether the seed/VC capital eould re
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by tajen 9y ago
Honest question: Are Ansible + peer reviews enough to secure sysadmin work? Of course they can log on the machine to open a backdoor, but they are supposed to be regularly destroyed and rebuilt regularly, so we're theoretically safe, a
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by tajen 9y ago
...but I'd be 20x more keen to take a job at a company who doesn't fire on suspicion. E.g. a company who stands their ground and says: "We know we're subject of a PR campaign against us, but we respect the presumption of
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by tajen 9y ago
I strongly believe it would be good. A few friends already run their DNS, so DNS censorship is limited too. Not even mentioning .onion routing.
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by tajen 9y ago
Use electron. It's what powers Slack for desktop: Youbuild an HTML app and it shows in a desktop window.
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by tajen 9y ago
Sorry to be that guy, but isn't there a huge legal issue? In France, the CNIL requires a declaration of any file, especially if you keep information about people in it, whether it's a spreadsheet or in good old punch cards. Such f
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by tajen 9y ago
Most of the European terrorists were even born locally. I really don't get why getting our Fb accounts is so important, given they already have it (or should, if NSA/CIA did the job they were assigned to).
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by tajen 9y ago
Especially our HN accounts where we say the NSA/TSA/FBI are threats to our safety (depending on context) and we use false names with burner phone-based authentication on Facebook. Honest question, I still wonder what is so bad tha

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