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by vladms 11mo ago
Many people want to do many things, problem is do we agree as society it is ok, considering all the implications. I personally find the commercial targeting extremely poor. I look for things to buy and I get stupid ads which don't fit,
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You don't give any reference that we can look up regarding the problems you mention (ref: "if you're using any service touching data in any part of your business even remotely connected to the US or any non-EU country (so, al
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by vladms 11mo ago
I'm afraid the solution is to learn from mistakes. Which can be painful, takes effort, and at which some people will fail. Society must be aware we are balancing "protection" and "responsibility". If you want some f
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by vladms 11mo ago
Sure, my point was that even if iPhone ecosystem is more secure than Windows 95, I do not think this is due mostly to the "walled garden", but because (as you mention) Windows 95 just did not care about security at all. By the tim
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by vladms 11mo ago
Windows 95 was fundamentally broken as if I recall correctly there was much less security features (accounts, file permissions, etc.). Nowadays there are less problems with it.
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by vladms 11mo ago
Indeed, the good old days when "optimizing for the user" got us... Windows 3.1 (release date April 6, 1992 , ref https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_vers... ) or the first version of Linux
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by vladms 11mo ago
For me it's more like "people used to make free tools so that nobody owns them, no everybody complains they don't come for free without effort". Think of gcc, linux, and many others. There was a huge effort invested in t
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by vladms 11mo ago
Over large, historical periods of time no empire resisted. So, the fact that UK was a great empire is an argument that they will decline in the next immediate period. That being said, "success" stories appear as much as "fail
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by vladms 11mo ago
For me the usage argument sounds like an argument to kill the other standards rather than to keep this one. Browsers should try things. But if after many years there is no adoption they should also retire them. This would be no different if
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by vladms 1y ago
What is your threshold of what you consider advertisement? In the same way, speaking with a friend (or anybody) can be seen as "advertising your ideas". For me, HN is more of an open discussion forum, where you can find lots of cr
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by vladms 1y ago
From across an ocean (in Europe) the USA justice systems seems definitely "weird" and hard to understand between news, movies and what probably actually happens in real life. Me, as an engineer, I always look for most impactful is
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by vladms 1y ago
Wonder how it would sound if we would use the same paragraph about "deregulation". > Deregulation always seems simple, but there are inevitable unintended consequences. Sadly, those who see deregulation as the only or best tool
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by vladms 1y ago
> Where would my word be heard? You do realize that we are on a platform without ads where your word is heard, so it still is possible. And before "social media" there were plenty of free forums (each with a certain main topic,
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by vladms 1y ago
> We need to start paying for ad-free services. Wake up. You make it sound like there are no people that pay for ad-free services they find valuable. Or that there are no free ad-free services (ex: WhatsApp). My feeling is that people kn
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by vladms 1y ago
I can choose not to use a social medial platform, it is kind of hard to choose not to drink water/wash/etc. I do not use much social media platforms, while I try to stay social, like posting one picture a month and sending a messa
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by vladms 1y ago
ICC is not a government organization, is an intergovernmental organization. This will make it much harder to convince all the stakeholders and to reuse any work done somewhere else. Many governments employ millions of people ( https:/&
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by vladms 1y ago
How much do you think they should spend on IT to be independent from Microsoft (serious question) ? Wikipedia mentions they employ 800 persons working in several buildings and a detention center for a budget of 141 million USD. Microsoft O
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by vladms 1y ago
Did Microsoft say that OpenOffice/Libreoffice's interface was directly copyright infringement? I know people that could not make a distinction 10 years ago (now with the ribbons is simpler to distinguish). Ofc Microsoft tried to l
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by vladms 1y ago
> Its a skill you build over your whole life, taking the shortcut because Doesn't this apply to the printing press? For me the core issue is not that OpenAI can generate some copies if the art, the issue is that some artists can not
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by vladms 1y ago
I mean, we’re already six years past COVID—something that placed a heavy mental burden even on older generations. I can only imagine how much worse it was for younger people. I’d argue we’ll need another 20 years before most of the effects
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by vladms 1y ago
> The problem is identifying _untrustworthy_ authors. Is it though? Should we care about authors or about the work? Yes, many experiments are hard to reproduce, but isn't that something we should work towards, rather than just &quot
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by vladms 1y ago
> Should content creators get paid? Everybody "creates content" (like me when I take a picture of beautiful sunset). There is no such thing as "quality". There is quality for me and quality for you. That is part of th
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by vladms 1y ago
Don't have a clear opinion, but you have to factor in all the issues that can be due to different versions of software. Think of unexposed bugs in the whole stack (that can include compiler bugs but also software bugs related to numeri
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by vladms 1y ago
> Nothing wrong with Mac OS X In fact, when I had a similar experience I ended up making a short list (which I since lost) of things that seemed terribly wrong UI wise. True, overall Mac is just different. The issue that I have with that
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by vladms 1y ago
Some technical solutions could be implemented, but I wonder if it is worth it? My claim is that probably 80-90% of the people that can pay, already do, because they get things they want in return (as mentioned with the online services conne
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by vladms 1y ago
Most of the software I use depend on centralized functionality. Example: convenient online invitation, sharing of resources and integrations (for productivity), accomplishments, ladders and updates (for games). For music media, there are a
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by vladms 1y ago
Pirating is more of a problem of mismanaged price versus revenues. In the '90 in East Europe everybody was pirating because we couldn't afford any software not because "we wanted to steal". As soon as I got a decent sala
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by vladms 1y ago
I think the idea of financial transparency should be more discussed at any level. Yes, there will be loopholes, but now the default is "money is secret, how dare you!". I would claim that democracy was an ideal at any point in tim
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by vladms 1y ago
True that most people don't care about who rules, but people do care of not living "much worse" than "before". That triggered a lot of revolutions before. It does not look great, but I find risks mostly economical (
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Regulators could ensure that detailed financial data of companies is public. If everybody understands how much profit and opportunities are in a certain thing that will encourage other people to do the same thing. I always think that in thi

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