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Re:Uber Knowingly Leased Unsafe Cars to Drivers on Thursday August 03, 2017 @04:49PM (#14923740)
Of course. Anything or anybody else you want us to get rid of, Mr. Chris?
Re:Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture on Thursday August 03, 2017 @02:58PM (#14922618)
I'm not a fan of the alt-right but the fact is that it's here to stay.
Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:24PM (#14921607)
Who trusts digital money?
Maybe that person looked you up on LinkedIn.
Re:Larry Page Deposition in Uber vs. Waymo on Thursday August 03, 2017 @03:52AM (#14917740)
>If you read page 24, he said it's not unusual for people to be paid $100M. Do you expect him to remember all the people and amounts paid?

That's a lie. Do you really think Google would be paying someone $100M or something close to that and the CEO wouldn't hear of it?

Re:Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:43PM (#14912148)
$9/month for what essentially is a preinstalled pi-hole is a rip-off.
Re:Malicious crossenv package on npm on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @01:55AM (#14908229)
Don't understand the downvotes. Cloudflare doesn't seem to have a problem hosting stuff like this, or even carders, and then ignoring abuse emails :')
They can't but if they catch you they can throw you in jail regardless of whether they can decrypt what you've transmitted or not.

So you have the choice of either getting thrown in jail or to give up the keys.

Re:Krita Foundation in Trouble on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @08:13AM (#14899838)
Do you think it is acceptable to not pay VAT just because you know you'll get the money back? It is not legal, at least. Who are you to judge that? The government must know, because they are the ones to judge.
Re:Krita Foundation in Trouble on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @07:54AM (#14899724)
Of course I know what VAT is. I am a freelancer based in Europe. And I know if I'm paying SOMEONE for his services I also have to pay VAT, regardless of whether I'll get it back later or not. Why? Because I have to prove that VAT was spent in something related to my business (I can't have the VAT from my food returned, for example). It does not only apply to goods, it also applies to services.
Re:Krita Foundation in Trouble on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @07:39AM (#14899634)
That's exactly what I'm saying. They have busted them cold so they're going to be more careful about their fraud in the future by splitting the company in half.
Re:Krita Foundation in Trouble on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @06:45AM (#14899345)
Splitting a company in two so you can avoid paying taxes is not an attempt to deceive? Is it horrible when Apple uses Ireland to avoid taxes, but OK if KDE does it?
Re:Krita Foundation in Trouble on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @06:34AM (#14899296)
Say what you will but this is simply fraud. If they were selling stuff, they should've collected and paid the VAT for Dmitry. You are NOT a non-profit if you sell stuff.

There is absolutely no complexity about this. Didn't they see anything wrong with selling stuff without collecting the VAT from every transaction?

And the best part: they are now separating the sales from the foundation so they can avoid paying taxes. This is the kind of stuff HN abhors... ooops it's not Amazon, it's Krita! Then let's allow it!!!

Re:Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @02:20AM (#14898318)
But that was a rewrite of the backend which was very needed. The design didn't change.

Although I agree, Reddit desperately needs a rewrite of its backend.

Re:Can QML become the next standard for web UI? on Monday July 31, 2017 @03:46PM (#14895285)
Nobody remembers Wt. :(
Re:Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation on Monday July 31, 2017 @03:29PM (#14895156)
If you click here (no need to be logged in) you get the HTML layout of the rewrite.

https://www.reddit.com/profile-beta-confirmation

https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing

Seems to be JS-heavy.

Where do we draw the line? If homosexuality, why not zoophilia? If marijuana, why not cocaine?
Imgur profitable since day 1? Give me a break.

I mean now that they've created a social network and are redirecting all image links to their shitty webpage with the cat paw, ok, I believe it, but since day 1 when they were just hosting images? There's no way they were making money off that

>and way under performance targets.

Well... It's AMD. Did you really believe what they promised? How many times have they lied and played the hype game just to deliver garbage?

>AMD is keeping nvidia on their toes, and for nothing other than that, we should support them.

It's cheaper. Yep. But worse. Worse than Intel, worse than nVidia. And what's even worse is that, for example in GPUs, you can see they sell not-so-bad hardware coupled with horrible, abhorrent drivers. It's really pathetic. AMD never again, at least for me.

And what makes you think you are universally and undeniably right if you support homosexuality and marijuana?
I don't know man. It bothers me that he feels like that about his project. Making people happy always means making some sacrifice.
Thanks to mangos I've played for years for free. I've made dozens of friends along the way. It's been a big part of my life and I'm very happy about it. Your project has made me and thousands of people very happy. So don't talk such rot.
Re:The Worst Internet in America on Sunday July 30, 2017 @05:15AM (#14885139)
HSPA+ is far, far from 2 Mbit.

Also, I'm sure the Facebook app works wonderfully with 2 Mbit, because they've spent years optimising for that.

Re:The Worst Internet in America on Sunday July 30, 2017 @04:49AM (#14885056)
You don't need fibre for that. 3G is more than enough to browse Facebook, find a job, and buy toilet paper off Amazon.
Re:The confusing way Mexicans tell time on Sunday July 30, 2017 @04:23AM (#14884988)
Then that article is wrong, because "ahorita" in Spanish is just the diminutive form of "ahora" which means "now". "Ahora" is an adverb and therefore has no imperative form, unlike verbs.

You'd never hear "ahorita" in Spain, unless someone is trying to mock Mexicans.

Re:The Worst Internet in America on Sunday July 30, 2017 @04:20AM (#14884981)
Looking at the photos, I'm surprised there's Internet connectivity at all in those places, other than 3G or maybe WiMAX.

I think it's not realistic to complain about this. The costs of bringing infrastructure to a place like this are simply too high.

Re:SoundCloud's Collapse on Sunday July 30, 2017 @04:17AM (#14884973)
Without reading a word of it, I imagine where it leans.
Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Spotify lossless on Saturday July 29, 2017 @11:04AM (#14881541)
That's not lossless.
Re:Apple to discontinue iPod Nano and Shuffle on Friday July 28, 2017 @01:21PM (#14875874)
To those answering "because the iPod is cheaper", understand that the alternative to buying an iPhone is buying an iPod + a smartphone.

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