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I see their point, but this is exactly what I'm trying every day to prevent at work (at least to a certain degree). Way too many people use complex spreadsheets for business critical tasks where …

"Facebook's business is data collection in order to sell more effectively targeted advertisements. While massive data collection is not new or unique to Facebook—search engines such as Googl…

Wouldn't replacing the power plants be cheaper (and better) in the run rather than running jet engines to get rid of the pollution? Why isn't that an option in this case?

"But theoretically an Afghan citizen could move to Svalbard freely." This is the principle, but the local laws require visitors to be able to support themselves and not be burden to the soci…

Same here. The Norwegian site Finn.no has the closest thing I've found, adding released public aerial photos to their map service every now and then. For an example, go to http://kart.…

Although an interesting read, I can't help to think that this is just another person who sees new tech and it's direct impact. He seems to ignore the fact that computers and be used for othe…

This is quite an improvement from the olden days when a certain Microsoft executive described the GPL as a cancer, and open source in general as a thing to avoid

There's also a quite good and extensive book on the issue by Ben Macintyre.

This! If I could upvote it more than once, I would do it in a heartbeat!

...or it could simply be a short form of "binary".

This just can't end up being a positive thing for Europe...

Primarily because not _every_ worker will be moved when a company moves. A lot of the workforce will be local, hence the language requirements.