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by 0815test 8y ago
> Rights holders only do the absolute minimum to preserve the culture they own ... I mean, this is not just true, but even more clearly so when you look at things beyond the (fairly niche and not legally sanctioned) 'piracy' sc
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by 0815test 8y ago
> Because, empirically, it's a significant contributor to disutility Evidence? Once one's basic needs are taken care of, by far the biggest contributor to disutility and deviance/conflict is social exclusion. Now, it is
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by 0815test 8y ago
Unfortunately, most workers won't actually want anything like this - especially the lowest-income/wealth workers. "Skin in the game" at the firm you're already working for (thus involving quite a bit of relations
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by 0815test 8y ago
> they've never been cheaper But that's the thing. They're not "cheaper" when you account for the fact that you're basically renting them from an unreliable platform that may go down at any time or perhaps d
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by 0815test 8y ago
Because they don't care about providing valuable services for the benefit of the customer. They're a monopoly that can easily get away with minimum effort and then price it as high as the market will bear.
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by 0815test 8y ago
> The main problem with the humanities is that they have been consumed by the political far left. That's overstated. There's plenty of good scholarship being done, in the humanities and especially in the social sciences, that i
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by 0815test 8y ago
Crime driven by inequality? It's very plausibly driven by poverty, poor educational system and extreme social marginalisation (i.e. lack of good social capital), but these are not the same thing as "inequality".
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by 0815test 8y ago
They could solve both issues by federating with Mastodon instead. No, they wouldn't be on Reddit specifically, but they'd be interacting with a fairly sizeable userbase nonetheless.
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by 0815test 8y ago
Except that Firefox is phasing out Gecko and replacing it with Servo (we're not yet there but some components have been replaced already - this is what the Firefox Quantum thing was all about). So this KaiOS thing is basically picking
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by 0815test 8y ago
> This is the thing that gets missed is renuables are competing with peaking power The other thing that gets missed is that they aren't competing at all, because renewables are unreliable and non-dispatchable. So, more renewables
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by 0815test 8y ago
So what? All the decisions at Google that affect users are made by AIs of some sort. That's why they ask you all the time if you are a robot-- and why they don't give you any human support: that notion literally makes no sense to
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by 0815test 8y ago
> OOP is great if all you are doing is OO and if your solution to a problem is running a simulation (what OOP was invented for). And even for simulation-like code (or really any other case of "very-high-level" code featuring &q
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by 0815test 8y ago
Yeah, they tried exactly that in Zimbabwe some time ago, and now they're giving it another try in Venezuela. Didn't seem to work all that well though, go figure. (inb4: "Do you want Hitler and Nazis? Because that's lite
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by 0815test 8y ago
Good thing that the NYTimes is finally raising awareness about this issue. There are so many alternative sectors that these highly-skilled workers could pivot to, not just the developers/coders but other roles as well, e.g. graphician
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by 0815test 8y ago
> why are you biting your lip over a freakin' backup tape system, woman? Backup tape systems are sexy , man. That woman is a real geek!
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by 0815test 8y ago
> For "gig-economy" startups this screws the workers because their jobs evaporate with the market. Except that it doesn't. Those "jobs" were never sustainable in the first place, and in the meantime the workers m
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by 0815test 8y ago
You could have a trait similar to Copy that forces Drop to be a no-op, and require live values that don't conform to it to be moved into any `become`.
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by 0815test 8y ago
> I like monads in Haskell, but I'm unconvinced that the additional complexity is worth it in Rust. Haskell and Rust are different enough that this is definitely a concern. Lazy evaluation and GC used throughout, vs. eager evaluati
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by 0815test 8y ago
Rust supports proc macros, you know-- you can do literally anything with your code. So what you describe is already possible! Make a good proof of concept and submit a proper RFC for it, and it might even be adopted as part of Stable Ru
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by 0815test 8y ago
> Linus Torvalds Says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Are 'A Disease' Well, didn't someone at Microsoft call Linux "a cancer" once? I suppose turnabout is fair play... well not exactly, but close enough! More l
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by 0815test 8y ago
> Global Foundries have stopped further investment beyond 14nm. That's an interesting approach since they'll be able to refine the 14nm step itself much like Intel has been doing for some time. That leaves them in a pretty goo
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by 0815test 8y ago
These aren't visual watermarks like what you'd get on physical paper. They just alter the digital copy so that it can be traced back to the buyer, and people are deterred from sharing it on the web. It's a very elegant solu
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by 0815test 8y ago
Generally extracting oil slowly is a good thing, it increases the total amount you're able to pull out of the ground. Increasing immediate flow means having to do things like pumping water into the field to increase pressure, and gett
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by 0815test 8y ago
The speculation on whether Ghawar can yield a lot less oil than most people think has been around for more than a decade. People used to worry about this stuff a lot more, back when it wasn't clear whether heavy oil and shale would be
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by 0815test 8y ago
> Inconvenience? It's really not that complicated. You're joking, right? DRM-stripping is inherently unreliable, by definition. It's a last resort only , and we shouldn't be expected to deal with it.
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by 0815test 8y ago
But this relies on associativity - without associativity, you just don't have a consistent definition of e.g. (a + b + c + d) but only, e.g. + + + / \ / \ / \ + + a +
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by 0815test 8y ago
> I for one despise the political correctness that has occurred/is occurring in the current online communities. ... I'm sorry that you feel offended! But clearly Linus thought that his behavior towards other project participant
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by 0815test 8y ago
> using the tool on the page you can prove that 1. the while-loop terminates Not quite. Proving that a while loop terminates is usually done by establishing a loop variant - intuitively, a claim that the inputs to the loop become &quot
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by 0815test 8y ago
Loop invariants are a lot more intuitive if you convert your loops into while() form and then further into tail recursion - they turn into a proof by induction. For the first example, consider: go (n, i, sum): given sum = 1 + 2 + ... +
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by 0815test 8y ago
Seasonal storage is a pretty huge issue which means some baseline capacity will most likely be kept, though not nearly at the same scale as today. Keep in mind that sometimes it's overcast/dark and the wind doesn't blow, and

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