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by 0815test 8y ago
The "free" in free software is about freedom, not getting stuff free-of-charge.
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by 0815test 8y ago
>See also instrumental variables See also causal inference, a subfield of statistics that generalizes instrumental variables and other "controlling" constructs in a very simple and effective way.
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by 0815test 8y ago
> What is the best laptop to run Linux in 2019? The one that you own already and that's sitting in a closet because it won't run well using a "current" version of its stock OS. Chances are that it will work very well
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by 0815test 8y ago
Do you still need "unofficial" kernel patches to make it work properly under Linux? That's not what good support looks like. And the "no hardware support for ACPI suspend" thing is common to a lot of newer mobile ha
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by 0815test 8y ago
> Why can't United Nations do anything about Uyghur concentration camps? Because there's only one part of the UN that has real teeth, even in the case of human rights abuses - the Security Council. Guess who holds a permanent
876.
by 0815test 8y ago
OK, so we're talking about users who have unlocked the system themselves and enrolled a user key onto it, but aren't going to notice if it changes unexpectedly? Suuure.
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by 0815test 8y ago
This is trivially avoided by adding a setup password. Additionally, the system could display a hash of the keystore at boot - AIUI, Purism has worked on something like that.
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by 0815test 8y ago
Sex is not a human right, but a reasonable pursuit of sex, relationships, marriage etc. very much is. Entitlement has no legitimate place in such a pursuit, simply because it incredibly counterproductive. There's a very real dynami
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by 0815test 8y ago
Yup, you need to word it the right way! It's not device-generated data, it's "telemetry". And why call it a C&C server when you can sell it as a "centralized device management solution"?
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by 0815test 8y ago
Or sandbox the program so that it sees a "safe" version of that information.
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by 0815test 8y ago
It gives elements one and two. That's one to three, non-inclusive. If we wanted elements one thru three, that's a different matter.
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by 0815test 8y ago
The example flashcards in this post are a bit confusing, and not really aligned with spaced-repetition best practices. First of all, you really want the "answer" side of a flashcard to be as simple as possible so that it's un
883.
by 0815test 8y ago
Wow, this totally explains why Torvalds has taken care to become so polite lately, almost to excess. We used to just blame the usual sort of SV-driven "woke" politics, but really-- who would ever want to be mistaken for one of t
884.
by 0815test 8y ago
It used to be scary on debian, but there's now a non-scary one starting from the etch release (Debian 4.0). The new UI is quite clear and comfortable to use, even in the "expert" mode.
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by 0815test 8y ago
> Because what that scarf yells at all those who do not wear it, through the voice of all the "believers" is "harlet, wrench, slut". That's a problem with that religion-dominated subculture, not with the symbolis
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by 0815test 8y ago
> "Society will be better off in the future your honor." Is only gonna go so far. Investment funds are usually well-diversified anyway - so when society is better off, they are better off too. It's really, really uncommo
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by 0815test 8y ago
> Getting a high-level language driver upstreamed in Linux is of course unrealistic, so user space drivers it is. There's work being done on source-level translation from Rust code to C (mrustc is part of this of course, but nowhere
888.
by 0815test 8y ago
If comprehensive static proofs are in the picture, there's little benefit to running trusted code in user mode. It's just adding a protection boundary to something that could already be proven as safe via static analysis. IO-MMU
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by 0815test 8y ago
> Rubio, a Republican, wants to decrease the power of employers by curtailing non-compete agreements? Look, let's dispel with this fiction that Rubio doesn't know what he's doing...
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by 0815test 8y ago
Possibly relevant? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19513727
891.
by 0815test 8y ago
I'm not going to get into the whole issue of whether the image is anti-Semitic or not, but it just looks really grotesque to me, something that was clearly intended to bait clueless, vulnerable people and push their tribal and FUD-base
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by 0815test 8y ago
> you'd miss the conversational aspect of Twitter, and be ignored if you tried to have conversations on Buzz. This comes with the territory of having a fledging social network - it's not "terrible" if it's good e
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by 0815test 8y ago
> It was being used just as a republishing tool So, like Google Plus. Except that an "open" publishing tool is at least more useful than an entirely proprietary one! Let's face it, Google dropped the ball here.
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by 0815test 8y ago
Wait, I thought the way this whole "shares and CEO's" thing was supposed to work is that Moldbug would get to decide that, and everything would work just fine afterwards.
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by 0815test 8y ago
> ... We should consistently urge better use of frequentist approaches. Many "frequentist" methods can be rephrased as heavily-simplified special cases of the Bayesian approach. Most easily, by assuming a flat prior distributi
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by 0815test 8y ago
> elect a business person so they can run government like a business I mean, didn't we try that already , and quite recently for that matter? It doesn't seem to be working very well. What makes you think that Yang can do bett
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by 0815test 8y ago
I'm disappointed and concerned by this. The Wikimedia Foundation has long had a policy of ensuring that their projects use free and DRM-unencumbered formats to make their content available to the broadest possible audience, whereas W3C
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by 0815test 8y ago
"Being able to hire H1Bs helps hiring managers" for sure, but H1B need to be sponsored by the firm they're working for, with the implied threat of losing their residency right if they can't keep that job. It's blat
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by 0815test 8y ago
They should just fund it out of general revenues, and dispense with the "license fee" entirely. Treat it as a marketing expense for the country as a whole, basically. The argument that they need an exclusive tax base in order to
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by 0815test 8y ago
AIUI Ada is case-insensitive so there's nothing preventing you from using snake_case instead, even when referencing external identifiers. Pascal_Case is purely a matter of visual style.

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