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>> "Even if these immigrants end up to be net tax payers after all the costs of feeding, housing, integrating these people"

So, I don't know how immigration works on your planet, but here in the real world immigrants do not get free "feeding, housing" or free anything-else. In fact a key condition in even the most open/lenient countries is that you must show proof that you can provide for yourself. Any other way would simply not make any sense, and I am always in awe at the level of confabulation needed to believe these nativist fairy tales.

Or maybe you're one of these people who mistake immigrants for refugees?

To be fair, "SV culture" != "SV location".

As much as I would like to see more competition in that space, on the topic of search Google is still head and shoulders above the rest as soon as you leave mainstream queries. I regularly try out DDG or Bing to see if they are closer to fitting the bill, but after a few days or weeks it's back to House Google. Maybe it will be simple to drop them at some point in the future. But in 2018? Not so much.

And there's also that one thing, that's kinda hard to avoid because there is no direct equivalent, what's it called, ho yes: Android.

Based on observed uprising or civil wars [1], to have one of those you need (1) stark mass poverty that borders on famine, i.e. people really scrapping by, and (2) Youth! It's much much easier for a younger population to revolt.

And, no offense, but relative to the rest of the world Americans are kind of old and kind of fat.

So: probably not.

[1] Sources:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jerrybowyer/2013/07/18/youth-in...

https://www.fragilestates.org/2012/11/25/causes-of-revolutio...

Can you tell us where in the linked article the author shows "how much they hate their country"?

Please provide actual examples.

"Read This Before You Spend $19 On Bulletproof Coffee Beans":

https://www.fastcompany.com/3041352/read-this-before-you-spe...

Unrelated to tech or entrepreneurship, but the great Russian filmmaker Tarkovsky published a book with that kind of title before his untimely death.

Tarkovsky may or may not be your cup of tea, but he is remembered for his unique and intricate cinematography. The book's title? Sculpting In Time. When I came across it, I thought "well, that explains a few things".

Random remarks:

* You have no moral obligation to release something as open source.

* Open sourcing a project is not free. It's work. You have to manage maintenance/releases/contributions/etc, in a way that will match your audience's expectation (much more than for a closed source app). If you fail to do so someone will fork it and de facto take over your project. In general, do not open source your project if you're not ready to put in the extra work.

* Typically when you open-source you don't sell licenses, you sell support contracts. If it's cheaper for enterprise customers to pay for maintenance than to update the software by themselves, they'll pay. If your software requires your expertise (i.e. it's complex and/or specialized enough) this might be a valid option.

* If you're still on the fence, consider releasing a 'lite/free' edition, i.e. closed source with some hard limits, so that individuals and small teams can use it at no cost, and then see where it goes regarding that particular edition.

On a side note: if you're in the EU, have you checked Vox News' GDPR notification? If you click 'No' it brings you to a choose-your-own-adventure style 'info' page where, once you reach the 'correct' section, it points you to a 3rd party Web site telling you how to manually search for and delete cookies from your browser (that Vox page also show they will share your info with basically everyone and their mom). For Vox News, the opt-out is no opt-out. What a bunch of douchebags.

Reminds me of Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained, where he also tears down the common perception of 'subconscious' thoughts. Not the most easy/didactic book (and certainly not the most humble of titles) but worth a read.

If you're into Historical novels, there are two books that take place during the Avignon papacy: The Dream of Scipio (Iain Pears) and the series The Accursed Kings (Maurice Druon). The first one is quite well written (being a Iain Pears novel), and both are fairly accurate with regard to the period, being written by historians.

>> That's why Ada is slowly dying and I'm not sure the good folks at AdaCore really get it.

I made the same complaint in a previous "someone just rediscovered Ada" quarterly thread, and an Adacore dev replied that most of their lib are now GPL + linking exception (well, he didn't say "now", but on their former Web site it's pretty clear no exception was mentioned anywhere regarding their OSS code, so I assume there was a change recently).

I agree with your sentiment in that, Adacore being into high end consulting, I don't see what they'd be losing by relaxing their licencing. This would bring in new people (I mean, if there's a new "hey I just found out about that Ada thing" thread popping up every few months here or on Reddit, clearly the language has something going for itself), which is clearly something they want to see happen.

Ha, I had the same problem on a Lenovo phone, except I knew it was not a VLC issue because the process-kill would happen with any app I would leave running in the background. The most annoying part was that even after tweaking the battery/power settings this would still happen. Lesson learnt, don't buy Lenovo.

Huawei have a rep for being IP thieves. They once were sued by Cisco for having software so "accidentally" similar, it had the same bugs...

https://www.cnet.com/news/huawei-admits-to-a-little-copying/

"Then again, sometimes ideas simply stick with you and resurface unknowingly. I have no doubt that every author has inadvertently thought of an idea that was actually something they read about years ago"

This. Especially on topics where the work is based predominently on a concise/small core idea, such a tune in music. I once had musician friends psyched that they were writing a song based on a really cool riff, only to discover later that said riff was in a track they had heard a decade ago, and that had stuck in a corner of someone's head. They had copied by accident. And they found that out by accident, too, and might very well have ended up pushing a track that would have had them getting called plagiarists.

Fun fact: Picasso never said that.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/

>> You will never see Western journalists go after their own surveillance state

The Guardian and The Intercept both did exactly that (which is why you know about the Cisco/NSA thing by the way). I believe French and German newspapers also did something similar.

As @jacquesm noted, you kind of picked the wrong target there.

But to get to the root of your argument: accepting copying as normal does not mean "no innovation", but "different innovation". Does that mean ground-breaking stuff would pop up noticeably less often? Possibly. But it's also likely that once released these products would iteratively reach a higher level of quality than what we have now (I cannot equate "learning from the masters" with the existence of Windows 8 or Gnome 3, for example). Different paths, but headed the same way.

It should be noted that the concept of originality and its associated "mighty pioneer Vs lowly copiers" mindset is mainly a Western cultural artifact. For example in China during most of its history if you wanted to become, say, a renowned painter, you were expected to spend your formative years copying the masters, because in that culture mastering your craft is (much) more important than being original.

I don't hold originality in that much high regard for two reasons: first, it tends to downplay the part that's not original, and most of the time that's most of the product. Everything Is A Remix [1]. And second, I would have more respect for distinct products if they didn't result in endless copyright/patent extensions -- it becomes a bit too easy to say it was "your idea" if it applies to stuff created 60 years ago. At some point it should become part of the baseline, instead of undue revenue for rent-seekers.

[1] https://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/

> Because we don't have a national healthcare system. Why? Because people vote against it.

Most Americans have supported some form of public healthcare for most (but not all) years for about two decades (scroll to end of article for stat): http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/23/public-suppo...

So in fact you want the same thing as Europeans, you just don't live up to your own standards.

As for your comment on "favelas after a nuke" in Europe, I'll just remind you you're not on Reddit, you're supposed to come up with real arguments.

Except not that long ago the Iranians DID revolt, following a sham election where the reformists/progressives should have won. They got into the streets. And then they got shot.

You seem to be living in a phantasy world where subjects of a dictature are just "asking for it", and a 50%-or-more majority should magically change everything. That's not how power works. Money and bullets, you see, matter more than ballots.

>> [T]he greatest country the world has ever seen

Something tells me you have not seen (let alone lived in) that many countries.

If you had, you'd know different societies have different ups and downs. Some countries have more taxes, they also have more perks (e.g. schools and healthcare are not a lottery); some have less money, but also less problems (lower crime rate, low pollution). "Greatest" is meaningless.

ZTE objectively got punished with a lot less than what was meant. They got away with a lot, while the US chickened out. And EU companies will lose a lot more than a billion (caused by the US breaking an international treaty).

Exactly this. It's insane that the US is threatening EU companies for (currently, legally) doing business in Iran, while at the same time letting ZTE get away with, well, having done the same thing (except illegally, when the sanctions were still in place). And all of that to save "many jobs"... in China.

"Elaborate" is putting it kindly. It's just soulless, blunt PR copywriting.

I'm surprised they got to the front-page with this tripe?

> It's a fucking space cowboy western

I agree with Red Letter Media's take on this: SW is fundamentally a small universe (yes the universe IN SW is vast, but the universe OF SW is not: it's just rebels+jedis fighting stormtroopers+darth-lords. The only attempt at expanding the universe, the prequels, was a disaster). With that in mind, it's not surprising the movies are so unimaginative and Disney keep repeating themselves.

I stand corrected. It was my impression from multiple articles that fines would not be an immediate enforcement.

However, as much as I would like them to get slapped around, I believe the likes of Facebook are too smart/nefarious to act the way they do without having some sort of plan or escape hatch that would have them dodge said fines.

I doubt they will get anything near the max penalty, if they get fined anything at all, since we're now in the 1-year grace period.

One more prestigious date to add to the 14-years long (and counting) "Zuckerberg Magic Apology Tour". Quite the show.

(For reference: https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-t...)

If you google "Logitech mouse coil whine" you will see that this has affected multiple Logitech models for many, many years. They apparently have no interest in fixing this issue.