genericid | 7 years ago | on: You cant delete your netflix account. Doesnt this violate GDPR?
Netflix specifically targets EU users (e.g. by advertising in the EU and billing in Euros). HN does not.
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genericid | 7 years ago | on: What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power Lines (2017) [video]
That sounds like deadly accidents should be happening every week.
genericid | 7 years ago | on: PowerShell Remoting
Then what's the point of using HTTPS? Heating the room?
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Commons Clause
If something is not free, it is not open source. The difference between free software and open source is one of ideology and philosophy. In practice, they're the same.
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
How about "it's the fallback system working for the people"?
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Idempotence: What is it and why should I care?
This is basically client-side validation.
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Google updated its site to admit it still tracks you with Location History off
> Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN.
Sorry for that.
> More importantly, please stop using HN primarily for political battle. That's destructive of the intellectual curiosity this site exists for, and we ban accounts that do it.
Unless you assume that writing something political always means engaging in a battle, I don't think I'm doing that.
genericid | 7 years ago | on: The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text
Try right-clicking the back button. Or complain to your browser maker -- they're responsible for its behaviour.
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
What kind of answer do you expect? "No I do not mean what I say, I'm just a markov chain."?
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
Democracy is not a system, it's a principle. The principle that the people rules. Today's representative democracies apply that principle very imperfectly.
The rulers don't have to be particularily benevolent to promote the people's interests if their interests and the people's interests are the same.
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
Are you implying that the Soviet Union was, well, the Soviet Union because of too much democracy?
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
Democracy is not a solution looking for a problem, it's a basic right.
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
Nothing is a guarantee of competency. It's not a problem with monarchies, it's a problem with anything involving humans.
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
> The fact, right or wrong, is that the barrier of entry for menial labour does not command a high salary.
This is merely a description of the current state of affairs. It is not relevant in a debate about the desired state of affairs.
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
So you support a dictatorship as long as it permits emigration? Not that monarchies actually had anything to do with that, serfdom was abolished in most places long before them.
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
Democracies elect idiots "who wreck it all" all the time. That is not the problem with monarchies. The problem with monarchies is that a monarch will promote the interests of the monarch, the nobility will promote the interests of the nobility. Only a democracy will promote the interests of everybody. That is true whether we talk about a state or a company.
> In case of a failing business, an employee is free to vote with his feet at any moment, moreover if he is valuable specialist in a competitive market.
A non-democratic economy works for certain people under certain circumstances. That is simply not enough.
Equating democratic elections, the act of freely chosing how you run your society, to what amounts to fleeing a sinking ship is beyond ridiculous. So is calling the US a command economy.
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
Post-tax income is an irrelevant metric because higher taxes are compensated by the services they pay for. Our level of defense spending is not insignificant, yours is offensive. We don't need to outspend the rest of the world, we just need to convince Russia that invading the EU is not worth it.
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
I meant that Marx did not advocate codetermination, as in, leaving most control to the capitalists.
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
A life of comfort is very much an ideal we should aspire to. There will always be people who have the intrinsic motivation to accomplish grander things. People don't accomplish great things because they are forced to.
genericid | 7 years ago | on: Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
I don't think Germans are happier than Americans because we take more opiates. Your claim that productivity (or, for that matter anything else) is more important than happiness is plain absurd. I prefer a good life over one that ends with me jumping off a bridge I built.
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