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  1. Re: Yey Free Speech Great Britain on Online Pornography Age Checks To Be Mandatory in UK From 15 July (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In France the relevant laws are called "incitation à la haine" which is pretty close to a literal translation if hate speech.
    It's not an anglophile thing at all.

  2. Re: If they're smart, they should on Are Silicon Valley Workers Abandoning Libertarianism For Socialism? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have useful skills, companies will compete to hire you.

    There is no potential for collusion if people actively want to hire you. Those things only make sense for people who are replaceable.

  3. Re: If they're smart, they should on Are Silicon Valley Workers Abandoning Libertarianism For Socialism? (salon.com) · · Score: 0

    If you're smart, you can work anywhere you like and just leave if you're unhappy about your current place of work.

    You have no need for a union which is just about enabling mediocrity.

  4. Re: Good luck with that on Microsoft Drops 'Safe Removal' of USB Drives As Default In Windows 10 1809 (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    Internet access has been cheap, fast and unlimited everywhere in the world for a good ten years.

  5. People don't know what computers are for anymore on The Most Powerful iMac Pro Now Costs $15,927 (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Underutilizing computers has apparently become so commonplace the general people doesn't even know what computers are used for anymore.

    No, computers are not devices just to browse Facebook or play video games.
    Some people actually use them to run real programs on them.

    256GB is also pretty mundane, pretty much any half-decent machine has that. RAM is cheap.
    As a developer, I can easily use up more than 16GB just by starting an IDE or a compilation. And I'm not even doing hardware synthesis.

  6. Re:Good precedent. on Facebook's WhatsApp Explores Using Google To Fight Misinformation (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The USA, the leader of the World?
    Thanks for the laugh.

    Maybe you should focus on basic education in your country before trying to teach others what to do.
    Only in the USA are there people who believe that the Earth is flat, that vaccines are harmful or that climate change is not real. And the reason they do is because them because dumb is in the interest of your corporations.

  7. Re: What do you expect from an American company on Spotify Files Complaint Against Apple With the European Commission Over 30% Tax and Restrictive Rules (spotify.com) · · Score: 1

    Nokia, former biggest phone maker, is European.
    Then they shot themselves in the foot by cancelling all their good projects and focusing on Microsoft Phone.

  8. Re: What about the other way on YouTube Struggles To Fight Mobs Weaponizing Their 'Dislike' Button (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I was specifically talking about democracry/constitution/law here. The fanboyism of Americans for their constitution is widely known, but in effect it is not a very fair system and is very backwards in a lot of things, so usually other governments are seen as more democratic.

    As a side note, there are plenty of bad things the US did (and are still doing) that are quite harmful to culture, society, humanity and the planet as a whole.

  9. Are you implying a random mechanic who dropped out of high school is a smarter and more balanced person that a software professional with an engineering degree?

  10. Re: What about the other way on YouTube Struggles To Fight Mobs Weaponizing Their 'Dislike' Button (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Hate speech is not illegal in the USA, and there is certainly no law that forces people taking down that content.

    Hate speech is a European thing, because unfortunately we didn't manage to have freedom of speech there. The one thing the USA did better.

  11. Re: Overall speed on Tokyo Wants People To Stand on Both Sides of the Escalator (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    The correct terms are bandwidth and latency.
    Making people stand on both sides increases bandwidth but increases latency.

    Since what people want is low latency, this is a problem.

    Optimizing for bandwidth at the cost of latency is a frequent annoyance that people in charge of transport and infrastructure do. That's also how they justify that lowering speed limits make travel "faster", when clearly it doesn't.

  12. I only write UIs for myself and I still use JavaScript for them. I don't care about using a web browser for ease of access.
    It has become the lingua franca of UI design. UIs are so fucking messy only a messy language can deal with them.

  13. There is no good use of Java for anything.

  14. Serious people use C++.

  15. Capitalism is implicitly negative on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe if they didn't ask things with inappropriate terminology they'd get better answers.

    Capitalism is seen as bad everywhere in the world (I'm surprised 45% of the US actually likes it) because of its association with capital accumulation and the classification of people as either wealthy capital owners or poor wage slaves.

    Call it free market economy, and suddenly everyone likes it.

  16. Re: At least they did something not evil on this on Google Categorically Refuses To Remove the Pirate Bay's Homepage (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    you managed to misspell Metallica twice.

  17. That probably only applies to the base salary.
    There is still the potential to get 1 to 2 times as much in bonus.

  18. I left the PHP community in 2002 on Ask Slashdot: Should I Ditch PHP? · · Score: 2, Informative

    And you should have done the same.
    It's just full of bad programmers and the only applications people build in PHP are crappy websites.

    Moved to a real programming language with a niche that values skill, and I easily multiplied my salary by 10.

  19. Re:It's great.... on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Do it once properly in C, or hack something together in Python and spend the rest of your life debugging the corner cases.

  20. are pasta a kind of bread?

  21. what the hell do you put in guacamole if it doesn't have avocado?

  22. Re: Judenberg is a subhuman JUDEN on Mark Zuckerberg Becomes World's Third-Richest Person (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Google Franklin prophecy, it's false.

  23. the USA are the laughing stock of the Internet on Comcast Will Limit Xfinity Mobile Video Streaming Resolution (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Even in Africa they have unlimited 2Mbps connections

  24. Blocking is so low on Facebook Apologizes For Bug That Unblocked 800,000 People (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you even block someone, that's so lame.

  25. Re:More Coffee - Less Sugary Soda on Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    People that actually like coffee drink espressos, and if they go the milk route, they get a flat white at worst.