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mniejiki

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    Comment #5035729

    Except you were talking about startups originally, don't change the scenario when someone points out flaws. Startups don't have the power or money to enforce a monopoly. More than …

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    Comment #5035657

    Wow, did a rasberry pi sleep with your mother or something? And who says that embedded hardware must run off a battery? You're sure one to talk about stupidity.

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    Comment #5032781

    You can get COBRA so it's not that you won't have insurance but rather that you will pay for it yourself. And have 18 months to find a longer term option if you can. It's what I di…

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    Comment #5031845

    In addition to the money back that was mentioned, in the US credit cards provide consumer protection. If you pay $500 for something and it's never deliver you can get a charge back…

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    Comment #5031413

    I've never had any issues with ec2 instances mysteriously restarting and I've dealt with a lot of them (personal and business). In fact I don't think I've ever seen amazon restart …

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    Comment #5031384

    >this describes but one example of an edge case that could be elegantly handled by informing the node that it must go down and come up again a while later, after which its swapped-…

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    Comment #5031365

    Point being, that's only if you stop the instance. Since VMs can be migrated live on some vm ecosystems, "changing underneath" is very misleading in this case since it strongly imp…

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    Comment #4963569

    Also, what you seem to not get is that this isn't a zero sum game. Google translate doesn't cater to the same people as traditional translators. Google translate basically sucks, i…

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    Comment #4963144

    >So why are they not simply buying the rights of the translations they are using? Why do you think they haven't done that? Or rather they paid the entity that owns the rights who a…

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    Comment #4962040

    Until you lose users because implementing that plugin infrastructure slows down your program or prevents certain features from being written easily (either directly due to trade of…

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    Comment #4961989

    > The way I understand that: If you don't pay the people who do the work, and people who make a collage out of their work get paid, you'll end up with much fewer new translations b…