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It's a great city, especially if you are sick of industry monoculture. Lots of very well educated and open people from all around the world (lots of old-school hippie folks too: https:/…

Shame on anyone still for such an archaic form of "justice".

"Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite." – Joseph de Maistre Seen from a systemic perspective one could argue that "every country gets the government they deserve" and…

This reads like out of one of Hideo Kojima's computer games, war as a "business model"? "War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an …

It's not as clearcut as you make it out to be though. More often than not those old PCs effectively deny a whole bunch of people access to reliable and fast modern computing. In that sense an iPa…

Unfortunately I don't know much about Belgian politics but I do hope they won't go down the "Hollande" route. They should look up north, Norway is the shining beacon in terms of ho…

There is no such thing as 100% security, we probably are already at 99% security at this point.

Right, we need executive powers to be much more willing to embrace the fact that their job is and most importantly should be hard.

"Absolutist Reality Distortion Field" or "I Want to Believe"... Nothing new here, just another VC who apparently doesn't understand core concepts and repercussions of his favo…

Have you played "The Room"? I might just install it again right here on my smartphone after reading your comment - "fetishist" that I am :) With that statement of mine I was mostly…

Authorization by court order still works fine in physical space. We are talking about introducing back-doors to what essentially already is an extension to our brains . If you understand computers, y…

Yupp indeed, hubris is not a virtue! Even if maybe off-topic and too self-important - Joseph Tainter's writings might be interesting to anyone wary of the hidden complexities surrounding us: htt…

Yeah, I guess - but hey in my own defence, as somebody working with distributed systems I've seen too many a simplistic world-view blow up in my own face :) Even though I'm not a fan of it, …

Thanks for pointing to that, I'm always baffled at how few people fail to acknowledge the most "basic" complexities of meteorological reality. I have the suspicion that our inherent bia…

Perfect description of how we "just" need to see a return of "good-old police work" combined with modern high-level training. This stuff is hard and should be hard - apropos jobs a…

As the article ultimately is a critique of Microservices as the current architecture du jour, the title should probably contain the word "Microservice" - I would have gone for how the articl…