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by devcpp 13y ago
Nineteen billion dollars for that. What an amazing piece of software. Worth every penny. Each of the 1,900,000,000,000 of them.
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by devcpp 13y ago
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon hard at work. Corollary: Nominalism hard at work...
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by devcpp 13y ago
Jump ship? There is none on the horizon.
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by devcpp 13y ago
The only occurrences of the the word "Android" are in that paragraph: >More apps than Android: Apple's App Store has more than 425,000 apps. The Android Market has 200,000. In May, Google (GOOG) announced its 4.5 billionth
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by devcpp 13y ago
They have always been hypocritical enough to sell a proprietary product for open source software. Fishy practices, sounds like Apple. It checks out.
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by devcpp 13y ago
If it's "free" then you're the product (in this case, a promotion for Github). And I think I have the right to refuse to be sold if there are better alternatives. They'll either have to step up their game (with FOSS
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by devcpp 13y ago
The Republican party is far from broke, so I'd say "many". Example: the Koch brothers. They're not very much upvoted on Reddit or HN though, and generally don't use social networks a lot, so we don't hear about
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by devcpp 13y ago
You should build it yourself if you actually care about privacy. This is excellent practice, instead of encouraging you to trust some third-party website like their own.
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by devcpp 13y ago
It is released and 100% open source, unlike Hemlis, which is still under development behind closed doors and will be opened "as much as possible" (which tells us nothing about implementations, code quality, privacy features, openn
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by devcpp 13y ago
Not being able to verify the source code destroys the purpose of using TextSecure.
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by devcpp 13y ago
They should have solved that issue then, not just consider it.
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by devcpp 13y ago
Who's talking about getting the death rate up? What about lowering the birth rate? And don't get me started on Bill Gates' bullshit arguments. These are long-term trends, his recent "it's been getting better! (for t
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by devcpp 13y ago
Agreed, memes are generally don't "live" that long, and while Doge was funny for a few weeks, its longevity and spread in every unrelated setting (so random!) are getting irritating. Yet this gets upvoted. I suppose the peopl
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by devcpp 13y ago
>By that logic you should should really love the hospital you were born in. No, your family usually cares about and for you, unlike the hospital you were born in, which you cannot rely on for any favor. About the country issue, it is sim
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by devcpp 13y ago
Well, davexunit did say "Firefox is the only major browser that is free software". Chromium is arguably a very minor browser. Besides, if you would like take a tiny amount of market share from Google (thereby weakening their abi
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by devcpp 13y ago
Still not exactly ready for production environments. The lack of a decent and reliable word processor is a big argument against Linux in non-programming offices. That's too bad, because there's a lot of money and influence there a
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by devcpp 13y ago
Same goes for sitting toilets though. And we still don't have any arguments supporting either position. I do squat for a few minutes every day to facilitate my squat lifting workout but don't see an inherent benefit. I suppose one
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by devcpp 13y ago
As a French citizen who has visited UK and Germany, I prefer the pragmatic data-based discourse I see in European countries. It's still bullshit but at least it doesn't like it and all the promises are verifiable. I'm not par
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by devcpp 13y ago
No! We aren't talking about every property ever. Not your backyard, not your car and not your water bottles. Valuable properties. Nobody cares about @d7a8df74a98d or www.fe5461d77vvc.com. We're talking about crumbling building
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by devcpp 13y ago
Instead they played that same game and are now part of the big software patent companies. In a selfish perspective, it does make sense. I fear Google one day understands that they should join this mafia and start suing for their patents, un
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by devcpp 13y ago
In order to enable the enormous societal changes that you suggest Stallman should focus on (in what way? revolution?), you first have to secure freedom. With proprietary software, you never know what happens, whether you are being watched,
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by devcpp 13y ago
>I would argue that if you are not safe you are not free. Sounds like every politician who tries to justify the current methods of the wars against terrorism, against drugs, against pedophilia and the general move towards censorship and
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by devcpp 13y ago
The fallacy-pointing was just an explanation of why the poster above may be wrong. But if you look closely, there is a paragraph above the one with the fallacies. And, lo and behold, that paragraph contains arguments which are not of the &q
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by devcpp 13y ago
Indeed, with today's $940 Bitcoin, a $1 Dogecoin would that the Dogecoin market would be worth over 5 times the current Bitcoin market. I don't see it happening, and I don't even see the Dogecoin market cap even reaching the
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by devcpp 13y ago
Precisely. Keep proprietary software out of Linux. The main reason we can get people to switch to Linux is freedom. If it becomes as full of closed programs as Windows, we won't get anyone to switch because there's no reason to (a
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by devcpp 13y ago
Well, it seems to me like they have only been implementing closed mechanisms instead of standardizing stuff, using public resources and/or opening their code. I hope that I'm wrong and it's just my pessimism talking.
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by devcpp 13y ago
As a firm believer that overpopulation won't be solved by throwing money at it, and that the people who are having children are the ones who shouldn't, I see most of this as irrelevant. Of course money solves poverty in the short
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by devcpp 13y ago
Closed source, no thanks. I'm going to follow their approach of "trust no one" and not trust them and warmly recommend everyone to do the same. If you actually mind about security, use GPG.
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by devcpp 13y ago
Most people I know, including older persons, are annoyed by Google+. So, it's not just an HN thing. Google lost its image.
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by devcpp 13y ago
Well, the way I understand RMS's fomulation of the 4 basic freedoms is that the right to keep your code secret is a freedom of the individual, not of the software, because no one can enjoy software that they couldn't have had if t

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