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rand0mthought··on Uber lays off 435 people
If they raise prices the ridership will drop. It is not clear if they will be able to increase revenue by raising prices.
rand0mthought··on Girl’s $143k bill for snakebite treatment reveals antivenin price gouging
This can be tax deductible if you use HSA (Health Savings Account)
rand0mthought··on Calling a real estate robocaller back
You are probably banned in Google, so there is link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing
rand0mthought··on Can Uber ever make money?
Do you plan to short UBER on amount of your house cost?
rand0mthought··on U.S. Supreme Court to hear Apple App Store antitrust dispute
I just downloaded Firefox and Chrome from App Store. Do I miss something?
rand0mthought··on MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable
That takes some level of hypocrisy - you are not making your Atlas as opensource, but you require others to do so. This clearly indicates that you are using an opensource license as an extortion schema against competitors.
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This is an Oracle propaganda that coincides with Oracle OpenWorld and their push against AWS https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/24/oracles-larry-ellison-keep...
rand0mthought··on MongoDB switches up its open source license
> IANAL but I don't see how it satisfies part 9 of the OSI Definition, or the DFSG. As DannyBee already mentioned, it's also incompatible with other existing open-source licenses. Why do they want to continue calling it "open source"? It sounds like they really just want to be a proprietary database.

They want to charge money and have control as a proprietary database. But they want to keep a label "open source" purely for marketing purposes.

rand0mthought··on MongoDB switches up its open source license
The trick question here is - "Open Source the service" - under what license? Does it also have to be SSPL, or it can be any OpenSource license?
rand0mthought··on Google and Facebook are watching our every move online
Funny, but Privacy Badger blocked 10 trackers in this article
rand0mthought··on Meltdown and Spectre Linux kernel status
So, there is NO kernel update available for Ubuntu 16.04 at this time.
rand0mthought··on New Project: ZGC – “Z Garbage Collector” for Java
Run Apache Spark on the box with 256+ GB of RAM. The GC stalls by 60 or more seconds are quite typical for heavy queries. I hope new GC will bring improvements.
rand0mthought··on Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility
Amazon is a real parasite on open source projects, it never gives back.