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It's sad because it basically gives a huge drawback to picking a copyleft license that has little to do with the actual contents of the license but mostly with market share of the …

Cheat mitigation needs to be server-side. Anything coming from the client has to be fair game. No matter what you do, this is inevitable in the light of reverse engineering and AI …

This is pretty sad. I believe there needs to be a critical mass. If, say, 90% of all FOSS projects were copyleft, then it would be much easier to introduce copyleft-licensed FOSS i…

> I see very little reason in cancelling profitable projects. Happens all the time everywhere. Money wants to maximize profits. If company A brings you 2% return and company B 5%, …

> Unless Sennheiser can prove that the 555s are being sold at a loss, there is no "cross-subsidizing" happening here. Nope. That's part of the misconception here. It suffices that …

> What’s “evil” is that the folks who’ve spent their life designing, optimizing, investing in, and producing these products aren't doing it purely out of the goodness of their hear…

The alternative to the "'expensive headphones' vs 'less expensive headphones'" choice is not "less expensive headphones". Best case scenario, it's "slightly less expensive headphon…

Everybody arguing like this in the thread seems to be missing that the company is offering cross-subsidized headphones for $150. If you actually make them stop the two-tier system,…

No, sounds like "maximizing profits". Nobody is suffering here, so I don't really see how this should be illegal.

> That's not "re-use design and manufacturing processes for multiple segments", it's intentionally breaking half the product line to sell at a lower price. Sure, you can call it li…

> rip-off This term demonstrates a lack of understanding of market dynamics. As a company you aim for a certain profit when developing and later manufacturing and selling a product…

There are enough companies out there without such managers. Drawing a comparison to slavery is quite shocking, tbh.

I suppose there is a difference between companies that are tech to the core (where everybody in the management chain up to CEO is actually a sw eng) or a company where software eng…

> Guess Problem is that a lot of managers also don't know, and have same understanding as your Grandma. Well, nobody forces you to work for a company with managers like that. I per…

My experience with sw eng job interviews is very different and I've been interrogated quite intensely about data structures, design patterns, computer architecture internals, and h…

You probably can. But the criticism was that the job ad was not requiring knowledge of how to write code, and I was pointing out that the degree requirement (strict or not) indicat…

You kidding? A German university CS M.Sc. degree is very different from a Cisco certification.

> Finished studies in Computer Science or software engineering (Bachelor, Master) That typically entails programming experience, especially in Germany.

> And if someone then responds with "ooh, so you're in IT", I immediately go to another corner of the party and avoid them like the intolerable bores they are .. No need to be arro…

And it will be really hard to look at the database entries that all changed in bulk to distinguish them from legit entries. /s

Relevant: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZpDnRCeef2CLEFeKM/money-the-... (Also discussed recently on HN.)

And that's why buying cheap is often really not the best choice. If I have the option to choose between two gadgets, the acquiring prince of one may be far less (assuming lower qua…

Isn't that part of the "usage" cost? The time I spend reading that book I can't spend going surfing. But that's already the cost of "using" the book.

I'd call $0.18 for a Covid-19 vaccine dose a "near zero cost".

Is your friend Nathan Anderson? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Anderson