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by wsy 6y ago
Also not a lawyer. To be covered by Germany's consumer protection law, you need show that you are end consumer of a commercial product or service. I don't see how that would apply to YC/HN. If you could pull that part off, I
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by wsy 7y ago
The situation becomes clearer if you take a look at the traffic today with a human operator in each car. Also in this model, engineering and human failures happen. Engines break, tires get punctured, brakes fail, and humans make errors. We
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by wsy 7y ago
So which of those approaches is the one all rational humans would agree on, so that we can base the notion of truth on it from now on?
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by wsy 7y ago
It seems that falsifying would provide an escape route. Unfortunately it doesn't, because you would first have to establish - without a doubt - the truth of the contradicting statement. That works ok-ish for collapsing bridges, but it
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by wsy 7y ago
After the postmodernist wave, analytic philosophers have attempted to rescue the notion of truth. All those attempts, including the ones you listed, change the meaning of 'truth' significantly, compared to how non-philosophers use
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by wsy 7y ago
There is no dilemma. We agree that people can be manipulated to some degree. We also agree that - if they don't suffer from an illness - that manipulation only goes so far. Finally, we agree that we shouldn't force a lifestyle on
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by wsy 7y ago
Now, by moving the goalposts, you lost your initial argument. Sure it might be the case that Swedish companies, at some stage of their growth, tend to incorporate in another country. Still the benefits Swedish employees experience don'
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by wsy 7y ago
Of course, everybody can interpret history as they like. The fine handed out by EU to Microsoft was of course also a deterrent against further similar attempts, and Microsoft afterwards changed their tactics not only in EU, but world-wide.
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by wsy 7y ago
Even without psychedelics, persons suffering from psychological issues can have breakdowns in therapeutic sessions. Professional therapists are very careful to not unlock 'dangerous' memories and insights prematurely, they wait un
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by wsy 7y ago
> We have neural circuits that receive sense data, place attention, and record attentional memories. From there, you can either go into the direction where we are just machines, and everything we do is predicted by how we are programmed.
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by wsy 7y ago
Windows was lock-in in late 90s and early 2000s. That was not only a fear. EU forced Microsoft to open Windows during that time. And that was a good thing. I don't want to wait decades until that stuff is sorted out by obsolescence. Wh
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by wsy 7y ago
I think we have to agree to disagree. I assume that you are not living in the EU. Our experiences here with governmental regulation are not so bad. Companies are complaining, but consumers are not. Making things a little more convenient for
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by wsy 7y ago
I have a hard time understanding the question. If something is overwhelmingly beneficial for everyone, I don't mind at all if market or government make it happen. I just want it to happen. Again, to not be misunderstood, I'm not s
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by wsy 7y ago
Again, you need to show specifically that a uniform charger is less beneficial to consumers than letting Apple keep their proprietary patent-protected charger. I want my iPhone and my Android phone and my tablet and my notebook to share the
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by wsy 7y ago
Everything where high interoperability is more beneficial for consumers than proprietary solutions by individual companies. As a rule of thumb, everything where standardization brings more benefits to consumers than innovation. Note that as
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by wsy 7y ago
Please make yourself familiar with a bit more modern economic theories. The belief that the unregulated market moves things to an optimum for all participants has been proven to be wrong by modern game theory. Not all economic games have th
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by wsy 7y ago
Which protection in particular is present in US and missing in Germany?
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by wsy 7y ago
It was usually a typist's job, and you paid for the newspaper, instead of watching the interview for free on Youtube.
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by wsy 7y ago
> I guess, as an artist, he assumed more people had his impulses? I think this is part of the sixties zeitgeist: if people would be freed from capitalistic consumerism, there would be some kind of awakening, leading to a better society.
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by wsy 7y ago
Superdeterminism looks like metaphysics to me. It seems an attempt to postulate a fundamental truth about the world, but without empirical foundation. Which experiment would falsify the superdeterminism hypothesis?
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by wsy 7y ago
Psychology talks about 'agreeable' in the same way as Physics talks about 'hot'. In our everyday context, 'hot' is quite vague, and people will have widely varying opinions about something being hot, depending
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by wsy 7y ago
They hired you because they already believe you will be a valuable contributor. So don't try to impress your colleagues, but rather try to collaborate with them. For example, instead of asking this question here at HN, approach your pe
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by wsy 7y ago
As long as Google cares, it is a net win for humanity. Even the worst-case scenario that Google is later bought by an immoral company is a better outcome for humanity than Google immediately becoming immoral. I also find your argument about
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by wsy 7y ago
[1] and [2] are not studies. [2] isn't even peer reviewed. [3] is behind a paywall. It appeared in the "2006 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance", which is a pretty good indicator that this is not work
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by wsy 7y ago
I would hope that every single person - including shareholders, managers, and employees - holds our fundamental values like peace, freedom, or justice higher than their desire to maximise profits. The top question is not: will it hurt the c
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by wsy 7y ago
Your examples are not related to software engineering. Please name software engineering related biological differences between men and women, backed by solid scientific studies.
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by wsy 7y ago
No, because then US would stop doing business with Saudi-Arabia.
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by wsy 7y ago
The impact on China's mass surveillance capabilities is negligible, because RISC-V work is open source already. What the foundation avoids by moving to Switzerland is fragmentation of their ecosystem due to US foreign policy decisions.
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by wsy 7y ago
I like a lot how G. B. Shaw phrased this insight: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." How
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by wsy 7y ago
I agree with the assessment of interface{}. However, the proverb you cite does not exist. It is: "A little copying is better than a little dependency.", which does not apply here.

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