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The thing is that capitalism[1] can work reasonably well for almost everyone if capitalists weren't so shortsighted (and petty). Many Nordic countries get this right and their populations are the better for it.

He does seem very confused and somewhat innocent in his way to look at the world and capitalism in particular.

> I've been looking for a country, to move to, which is more dedicated to classical liberal/capitalist ideals, and who's young people know and understand the value of hardwork, sobriety and dedication.

Actually, you're looking for Ayn Rand novels.

In my case I think I avoid HN video links because I know in advance that they will ask me to commit an exact amount of time to it without knowing whether it will be worth it in the end. With text on the other hand, I can easily start to read an article and begin to skim it once I see that it isn't as interesting as I thought it'd be.

Man, times sure have changed. Right now people would kill for that extra shift.

It also reminds me of this: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/business/dealbook/china-fa...

When people realize that it has been "truly compromised" it will be too late. The whole thing is a huge mess from a security stand-point.

The amount the employee gets may be generous but seems to be arbitrary while the CEO's contract specifies clearly how much he or she will be owed. It certainly beats just getting the boot with no money.

> While I'm sure Netflix would claim the same, I doubt McCord was expecting the axe to fall...

Exactly. How likely is Hastings to adopt that standard if he knew that it would apply to him too?

I love the ncase but they sure are expensive. The Cougar QBX is a nice and cheaper alternative. It doesn't come in silver though.

A bit much, maybe?

They also have "job security" for the duration of the contract and if they are "fired" as we traditionally understand it usually they have to be compensated in some form (although it depends on the contract).

> And I wouldn't bet on that since Microsoft surely sent a big team of their brightest cookies to make a valuation of the company.

By that simplistic reasoning no big company would ever make a mistake.

I doubt anyone can make you leave the States or Canada to work on a third world country for that paltry amount of money.

> I just wish Uber would either pay the drivers more

You can leave it at that. Tipping is an odious practice that needs to go away. Actually, I would like to extend that wish to all the employees of the service industry if it means getting rid of tipping and yes, I would gladly accept the resulting higher prices, we are all (inefficiently) paying the supposed difference anyways.

A lot of those seem to be pretty universal... http://finnishnightmares.blogspot.com/2016/01/just-browsing....

It really does. The article also offers a nice perspective on how to balance native vs webview UX design.

> Anyone who is serious about cross platform mobile development, whether it be Xamarin or React, needs to be well versed in Cocoa and the Android SDK.

Then why would I go the Xamarin route in the first place? The whole point is to avoid having to learn both platforms. Personally, I'd rather struggle with two native codebases than to struggle learning an imperfect abstraction that still requires me to learn both platforms.

The second-hand FB thing is the one I'm having the most trouble with lately. I just casually try to avoid being in any group photos because I know they'll end up on instagram/facebook but I still appear on some. The whole thing must be kind of pointless by now :(

What kind of authentication is performed? What's stopping anyone on your network from performing the procedure described on any given machine? This is a worrisome development.

> I think Facebook is trying to do the Google thing and have a bunch of discrete services under their umbrella, though they don't seem to have a clue how to do that.

I think they're doing fine, by their metric. People are not going to abandon their services anytime soon. Me and other HN users may complain but the rest of the world doesn't care.

> I thought we were meant to be progressing towards a truly open web accessible to all, regardless of device.

Not at all. It's the other way around actually. I think Silicon Valley, out of sheer pettiness, has betrayed the principles that were supposed to guide the WWW.

Taking a page out of the nonprofit university playbook.

A violation of the "Coursera ToS" doesn't imply that something illegal was done. But even if it did I doubt that it would carry any weight outside of the US.

The same goes for "hacker".

I can make anything look cheap if I compare it with something substantially more expensive but that isn't the point. I think it is expensive because after shelling that amount I end up without a copy of the software that I can call my own.

It's expensive if after shelling out that amount I still don't own the software. I wouldn't complain if I could pay a onetime $500-$600 if in the end I at least owned a copy.

> More importantly, subscriptions are immoral because the end result is robbing users of any sense of ownership.

I don't know why people allowed this transition from software ownership to subscription to happen (although they really weren't given the choice). It's ridiculous that the customer is giving away his MS Office ownership in exchange for the marginal improvements that MS has been doing in the last couple of releases.

Most people here on HN (me included) would benefit from this development but I agree with you: subscriptions are immoral.

PS: IntelliJ IDEA it's great but it is ridiculously expensive imho.

Wow. Is Google so homogeneous that you both can be so sure about your respective affirmations?

AMP always was such an obvious way to end run adblockers. How are carpet ads less annoying than a popup? On mobile I dread accidentally tapping almost anything so this is a troubling development.