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prablenhaon Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States

The internet was fine before adtech and data hoarders. I don't know why you think this is the fault of the government. New things pop up and we need regulations to protect citizens.

prablenhaon Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees

If he accepted the name then that means he found it funny at least.

prablenhaon CERN suspends physicist after his science-and-gender talk

Okay, don't worry then. I'm sure some people will come around with high quality counter arguments.

prablenhaon CERN suspends physicist after his science-and-gender talk

If they can't come up with counter arguments, then certainly that person is right.

prablenhaon CERN suspends physicist after his science-and-gender talk

Guess this is what they mean when they say we are in a "post truth world".

prablenhaon Insufficient Sleep Associated with Risky Teen Behavior

Personal experience as a high school attendant back in the day.

prablenhaon Introducing Dav1d: a new AV1 decoder

The upside is us getting the iPhone or the PS4, for example.

prablenhaon Introducing Dav1d: a new AV1 decoder

I think it's a good licence for an OS or for any software because it gets more products pushed out there which all in all gives society more stuff to play with, which is kind of the point of writing free software, at least for me.

prablenhaon Insufficient Sleep Associated with Risky Teen Behavior

I'm sure the teens that use weed or carry guns are not the same ones that get swamped with homework and tests.

prablenhaon Introducing Dav1d: a new AV1 decoder

They probably wanted to use an official logo with text, which Apple doesn't seem to have.

prablenhaon Introducing Dav1d: a new AV1 decoder

I don't understand how can someone argue "your licence is too free, you should make it more restrictive so fewer people can use your software", but what do I know

prablenhaon Introducing Dav1d: a new AV1 decoder

>BSD is not copyleft, why?

Really? People are going to complain because a licence is too free? ...

prablenhaon California state law mandates female board directors by 2019

This is virtue-signalling. It's easy to ham-fistedly fix issues that give them publicity while ignoring stuff that needs real work to fix.

prablenhaon California state law mandates female board directors by 2019

>and i live in europe

What do you mean by this? Because I live in Europe too and it's rare to see a homeless person, even in the bigger cities.

prablenhaon Hajnal line

In their effort of calling it a line they made it complicated to see. They should've just highlighted the zone or something.

prablenhaon World’s Oldest Surviving Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years

And the magnet link... magnet:?xt=urn:btih:72C83366E95DD44CC85F26198ECC55F0F4576AD4 ;-)

prablenhaon Germans don’t do tech startups – more access to capital might change that

I haven't. Where are you from? I live in Southern Europe and I have never heard of them. I looked at their website and everything is stupidly expensive.

prablenhaon Germans don’t do tech startups – more access to capital might change that

I'm European and I have never heard of any of those.

prablenhaon Germans don’t do tech startups – more access to capital might change that

As a southern European I'm very happy about this situation. I don't want my country to be like the Scandinavian countries, the GP summed it up pretty well. Everybody knows English and American culture is literally swallowing the local culture. I'm happy with my language and my culture, thank you.