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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Are you being sarcastic?
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Why it is not a good option to boycott them? I'd say this is a great option to putting pressure on a corporation.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Is it a human right to approve torture, work towards starting a war and helping installing mass surveillance? I might have missed the U.N. meeting protecting those "rights".
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Soooo, putting public pressure on a company that is employing a very controversial politician who is linked to war deaths, mass surveillance and torture is left-wing totalitarianism. Care to explain yourself?
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Do you even know who the stakeholders are? Anyone who finished Entrepreneurship 101 will tell you the stakeholders include users, general public and various advocate groups. So yeah, stakeholders are making their voice heard.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
As soon as Drew is ready to shake hands with a person, directly or indirectly linked to mass war deaths, he ceases to be one of our own. For me, at least, this is the case.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Yeah, approving torture is a "good faith decision", right.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
No, you should not help software per se. You should help software to change the world for the better, that's what matters.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Yes, I am limiting my use of Google consumer and business services for ethical reasons. Anything else?
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Rice is much more evil then Eich, that's one reason for you. I just cant trust people running Dropbox anymore. Will they go in the board meeting, shake their hands with Rice and discuss business matters? That's not a kind of peopl
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
I would really like Guido to quit dropbox. I can't imagine meeting the person responsible for numerous atrocities near the cooler and having a small talk about the weather, then returning to my workplace to continue business as usual.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Really, isn't this the case that a lot of people are constantly outraged about goldman sachs, current state of affairs in the valley and perverted incentives of the start-up ecosystem?
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Oh, another round of what-aboutism. No, Obama is bad and Rice is bad and Bush is bad and anyone serving on the board of a tech startup is a reason to stop using it.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
I am not an American, so I am not really acquainted with transgressions of Hillary Clinton but if the tech community would provide the reasons to do so, I would definitely quit using the service.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
So were they uninformed about torture and widespread spying on general population, too?
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
I think there is no drop-in solution. Truecrypt paired with owncloud.org hosted on DO may work. Spideroak seems good too.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Literally nobody in this thread called her dumb, so this is a classic red herring. Everyone is concerned about her ethics, not her cognitive capacity.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
WTF? She is not a "normal person" by a long shot. She is arguably a war criminal, a proponent of dragnet surveillance and was partial to implementation of torture, oh sorry, "enhanced interrogation".
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
I will be looking into personal open-source clouds, like http://owncloud.org/ hosted at DO Amsterdam location.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Yeah, that may be their calculation. I don't think this will sit well with german users or french users, for example though. Could really hurt their international b2c business.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Oh, right, forgot about that. What the fuck is going at Dropbox? How did they even come to the conclusion that this is a good idea? I don't understand the business rationale anymore for Dropbox anymore.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Sooo, will we be seeing a repeat of the Eich-like public outcry? Though I may understand the business rationale for this hire, I certainly wont trust founders, board or anyone else at Dropbox who is OK working with a person that is partiall
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Well, programming and coding education is already gamified (codeschool, treehouse) so if gamification works for that target audience it will work at the education stage, too.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
As soon as high-school dropouts learn marketable skills that do not require credentials or formal education, sure they have a chance. Some of those skills are: coding, design, copywriting, UX/UI design, etc.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Really? I've seen metadata scrubbed for privacy reasons, but never for size reduction. And realistically how much is saved in proportion to the image size?
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
When did US intervened in Ukraine?
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Could you please provide facts and citations that support your claim that "those who scream the loudest... are the most intolerant in practice"?
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
You constantly speak of "propaganda" in this thread but do not provide any reliable data or citations to support your POV.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
Evolution of ideas doesnt follow your notion of "thoughtfulness". And remixing content, apps and ideas is great way to add value with relative small investment of time/money.
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by vdaniuk 13y ago
> I don't buy it...not even close. I get where you are coming from and I agree that the current track record doesn't allow for such predictions. However, I am linking the advent of post-scarcity to the widespread adoption of so

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