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No, it's specifically labor of superintendence which has control - as distinguished from both capital and "wage" labor. Equity owners often get screwed just as badly because of these control issues, which is one reason why
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by 0815test 8y ago
The problem is that we're not just talking about a relatively-benign violation of things like copyrights, patents or trade secrets ("IP"): Chinese hacking is a severe violation of privacy; and their practice of forcing IP rel
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Stealing and violating privacy via industrial espionage is not "open source". You're free to make your own research public, or to pay a company for full IP rights on their research and then release the results openly. But
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> It’s important to think of IPFS as a way to share using content hashes - essentially file fingerprints - as URLs. That's not at all unique to IPFS though - in fact, this is what the ni:// (Named Information) schema is su
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by 0815test 8y ago
> (or Chelsea Manning) as a blameless hero like Edward Snowden. Well, let's see, one of them went to Russia, the other didn't. Who is closer to being "blameless"? And I thought that collusion with Russia is something
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by 0815test 8y ago
Atlassian and Zoho are B2B enterprise shops. Not unicorns, and not facing the same bad incentives as consumer-facing companies.
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by 0815test 8y ago
Dissenters is a commercial platform, Mozilla are simply under no obligation to promote it or give it a spotlight under addons.mozilla.org. Unless you can point to a similar addon from some alt-left site that they have approved, there'
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by 0815test 8y ago
Steve Klabnik's comment has already mentioned async-await, "const" generics (much like template parameters in C++, expected to be especially useful for numerics-like code), generic associated types/GAT (related to higher
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Context: this is about an opera by George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porgy_and_Bess . Apparently, Gershwin's heirs request that "an African-American cast" be used in perfor
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by 0815test 8y ago
First of all, Manning was trying to crack a system, which has nothing to do with hacking, properly understood. Secondly, they obviously mean "special" in that she was not expected to use Linux in connection with her duties - mu
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Yes, "role models" are a good indication of how weak or strong our social capital is. Our society is increasingly fraying apart, so much so that people are now unwilling to view others as fundamentally sharing the same humanity a
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They could . But if they commit to relinquishing control of their enterprise to outside VC investors (as practically all SV companies do; there's no such thing as a self-bootstrapped unicorn!) they won't.
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Granted, advertising in the early 2000s was vastly different though. It was served organically, with none of the tracking or embedded-scripting nonsense that's ubiquitous today (whether from Google or other actors). The very notion o
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by 0815test 8y ago
It's about control of preloaded content, specifically. If you don't care about your content being easily preloaded from the SERP page, then sure, no need to use AMP. And if, as a user, you don't care about quick access to pr
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by 0815test 8y ago
Because IE6, Outlook-Web/Hotmail and Windows Mobile were so much better, right? I understand your POV, but this has nothing to do with Google specifically. Nothing has changed structurally since 10 years ago, the game is the same as it
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by 0815test 8y ago
The article title isn't clear - is it saying that the state of the person's memories was 'restored' to what it was when they were 20 years old? Intuitively, that's just about what I would expect "electrical
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by 0815test 8y ago
> Funny enough, this is my PhD research. Really, you type in codes/programs from paper printouts for your PhD? I knew that some programming communities in academia still clung to old habits and way of doing things, but not like tha
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by 0815test 8y ago
The 6502 processor itself also has very poor "stack" support, the hardware-supported stack is limited to 256 bytes at a fixed location. It's one of the things that make it hard to compile a modern language like C for the arch
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by 0815test 8y ago
Looks like SV is exporting techbro ageism to China, this will surely help with the trade deficit!
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> What's the reasoning behind this? Lack of multi-column text support on the Web. Optimal readability is around 64 characters per line - more than that hurts quite a bit, especially for long-form text where accurate scanning is mor
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Let's be fair, the Wikimedia Foundation does many other worthwhile things besides keeping the English Wikipedia running. By way of example their latest full-project, Wikidata, was only started in 2012 and is already getting more edi
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> Many, perhaps most people don't want to think about software. It should just work and you shouldn't have to mess with it. If something is broken, they will ask for help. Somewhat cumbersome procedures are okay as long as they
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Musicbrainz provides that. Doesn't help with service migration, though - that's on tne service providers to establish the needed cross-licensing agreements.
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Food for thought: slavery is illegal in the U.S. except if it occurs as part of punishment for a crime!
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Teaching ethics doesn't really make people more ethical. Rather, ethics flows from self-actualization as a responsible human being (what used to be called dignity ) and self-training (whether intentional or not) in making ethically-me
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¿Por qué no los dos?
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I guess there is some irony involved, as part of what this article's doing is pointing out how small even the biggest "Big Media" is: compared to the average SV unicorn all of Big Media is basically a lifestyle business.
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The index only has to be on "low latency storage" if low-latency results to any query are required. While that's definitely true of the modal "Google Search", most of these queries for "long-tail, old content&
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We're actually at a point where the supposed middle-men are clearly acting against the creators' best interest, in many ways. Which means we're mot even dealing with middle-men anymore, just pure copyright trolls.
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It seems quite unwise of the OP to write-unprotect the diskette and run an "in-place salvage" software on it. With rare, old media like that, the best chance to preserving them is reading the raw magnetic flux data with specializ

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