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Then I guess it's wrong.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=years+in+(2%5E64)%2F2+...

A more accurate conclusion would be that London's bad hotels are a popular option.

During my tour around Europe, I quickly realized that all the hotels in the City of London (other than extremely expensive ones) are very cheap but also awful.

Promotion websites and server-side engines are nice (even though we know Reddit Inc runs a slightly modified version), but malicious client-side apps can be significantly more harmful by abusing permissions.

That's why I'm very careful what I install on my phone: unlike Reddit posts, I have virtually no control over what the software does.

No offense, but did you even read the parent post? The person above clearly points out that a sudden shock may cause more genetic changes through selection than slow deaths.

Such a case has never happened in the past, unless I didn't learn about an antibiotics crisis in ancient Egypt.

I can relate, I just dropped from medschool to pursue an MSc in CS without thesis. The reason? Everyone convinced me that I'll have a better life as an engineer. I gave up my dreams for personal comfort and I'm probably not the only one.

Or you could use free software, and stop hoping for people around you to be honest.

Secret courts.

That was an inclusive "and". I think that by "slow and methodical", the author was going for the tank approach rather than just slow like a slug, which doesn't do much good.

That's the thing. the public actually believes that the hood welded shut is a good thing because they don't get these things, and immediately forgets that their "mechanic" won't be able to repair their stuff anymore.

It's more of an offer-and-demand thing. If you don't treat veterans well (and, I mean, get your expectations a lot lower, not look at their actions too hard, and so on), no one will do that job. I know I wouldn't.

But going the other way hinders progress in the name of very few people (if any) who may benefit from this kind of measures in very early stages. When the company gets a broad audience, then it becomes a concern.

And since the founders have growth in mind anyway, they'll be sure to make it possible to implement the measures later on (or they'll pay the price in court, either way all is well).

Apple "I-want-all-your-data" and AT&T "you-have-to-opt-out-of-tracking". Of all companies. We have to count on our enemies to protect us because we are powerless. Let's just hope they start privacy wars.

The first part is rather pertinent. Android is precisely bad because it contains very little of GNU, which allows Google to develop the OS on an Apache license, and is the root of our closed-source Android problem. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.htm...

The second part is also problematic, first because it's inaccurate (MIT- and BSD-licensed software is also open source but not free software i.e copyleft, which is bad), and second because it misses the point of free software: allowing others to use your work without contributing back is is very comparable to the right to enslave. So free software says that software being free is more important than people being free to do what they want with it. Much like we generally think that people being free is more important than others being free to do what they want to their neighbors.

So it's only petty if you're not accustomed to these ideas, which you are supposed to be anyway if you go through the effort of reading these rules. That's why this label exists after all: so you don't have to give it as much thought as these people did.

Really? I'm getting serial number 0X043f60 (instead of 0x1599c5), validity starting on May 7 2015. Might that have to do with using Firefox or anything client-related? Or he switched it?

>Who would want to compete in this space if you have to disclose trade secrets to do so?

Someone who wants money. It's the same argument that Big Pharma presents against those who want to make the patent system lighter, or any company that protests against IP freedom. They just don't want fair competition.

If you take people who feel so strongly against libertarianism, the country won't remain libertarian for long. Of course, it means the person is charge is shaping his society, which is non-libertarian, but it's a sort of trade off.

Free for educational and personal use only. I doubt your use would include that.

Free for business would kill Microsoft, as much as they bet on their hardware locked in devices these days. They're not Apple just yet.

Welcome to the free market. If the price decreases, it means the offer is too large and it should happen.

I'm very afraid the government would one day impose a minimum price for everything, and poor families will never have a shot at any productive activity and will just stay poor forever.

In my country, they voted a law that bans free newspapers and imposes a minimum cost of about 50 cents. Why limit access to knowledge and the effects of a free market? This is the whole "job creator" logic all over again.

Linux developers are generally very smart people in my experience. It's consensus of many experienced and smart people that makes it significant.

Explain to me why this is wrong: the last mile is what costs a ton to ISPs (much less than what Comcast charges though) to build and maintain. So why would you make it more expensive for people to use their personal pipe, which just stands there anyway?

You know what, let's do that usage-based billing, the difference between 5GB and 300GB would be about 1%, because of the small cost of the shared pipe. This is just more bullshit from Comcast, unheard of anywhere else on this planet.

Maybe I'm biased, but I can't see where I went wrong.

What if Popcorn Time made the user click a button 100 times before granting full access? Is that enough effort? Or if a link was proposed 2 clicks away from the homepage of a major browser? Is that too little effort? Where do we draw the line? I guess we don't, since the DMCA's scope is so large.

It does has a bearing on the ability to migrate to an alternative if it turns out to become awful, because someone will probably write an export script in that case.

It's one of the big advantages of FOSS: no vendor lock-in.

>wouldn't you

No I wouldn't. I've hoped too many times that this kind of monopolist-but-beneficial scheme would work for the best, only to be consistently disappointed that the company behind it will use it only for its own interests when it's in a bad situation. And then everyone wonders "why did we let this happen?" Yeah...

All it takes is replacing the actual phone dialer app (which AFAIK can only be done in AOSP-based distributions) to make it work transparently.

You'd also have to add a phone number broadcasting service to make it work with phone numbers though, but I can see the potential. I'm much more skeptical about range, battery or security concerns.

Let's face it: besides its high price and average specs, Blackphone is a normal phone with a proprietary AOSP-based ROM. That's it. No hardware mic/wireless switch whatsoever, no open hardware, no open baseband, not even open software! This is appallingly bad, and if they make bank, it means very bad things for all of us.

That's wierd, I can't notice FF being any slower than Chrome.

You shouldn't have to already be a monopoly to have your acts qualified as anti-trust. Just like the law should punish you for trying to scam people even though your scam didn't work.

Otherwise, everyone would at least try to scam everyone else and would at least try to become a monopoly, since it costs nothing unless you win. And if you do win, the fine won't reach the amount you put in the bank (at least in the case of monopolies, e.g Microsoft).

Yeah, I don't use Spotify for that reason. But that guy was just answering a question.

Threes wasn't FOSS so it's legally easier to say "2048 clone".

Yup welcome to the slow hours in the weekend on HN. Personally, I like the change.