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by 4bpp 7y ago
Define "you own it". (I take it you also agree that if the architect of 432 Park Ave said so, you shouldn't be allowed to post pictures including the NYC skyline anymore, right?) Are you trying to argue that Switzerland and m
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by 4bpp 7y ago
What is the notion of something being someone's property, though, if not an entitlement? The problem with this analysis is that it's completely dependent on what entitlements you are willing to acknowledge. There is no such thing
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by 4bpp 7y ago
The standard counterargument is that not allowing mobility is what enabled us to have any nice places to begin with, in an "ant and grasshopper" way. Building a "nice" and affluent country is generally a multigenerationa
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by 4bpp 7y ago
> Using computers is essential to the jobs and social lives of huge swaths of people, and providing safe tools to accomplish those goals is a very valuable social good. In particular, most people who use a computer don't have the ti
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by 4bpp 7y ago
> some users blindly do whatever anyone tells them, or even just flip every switch the opposite way around to see what happens So... let them? It's not like they typically wind up harming anyone other than themselves in the process.
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by 4bpp 7y ago
One of the less speculative ones is that a lot of the NYT's glossy front-page publicism would be rendered much more difficult and expensive if government goodwill were withdrawn from it (and so it could no longer embed its staff with U
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by 4bpp 7y ago
GIMP: My understanding is that at some point the UI design brahmins at GNOME decided that GTK+ must not support MDI (as in the UI paradigm where you have a container window with subwindows floating around inside it), and moreover the same k
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by 4bpp 7y ago
As far as I understand, viewed from Earth's reference frame , a spaceship accelerating by constant force will get heavier and heavier as it gets faster, and thus get less and less speed out of it, asymptotically approaching the speed
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by 4bpp 7y ago
Right, but it's not like nothing would grow on it if you took good Canadian topsoil into the tropics, is it? I assume that even if there is a substantial difference that renders soil that is conducive to plant growth in one climate les
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by 4bpp 7y ago
It seems to me that most of the recent wave of climate change alarmist articles take it for granted that a mean temperature increase of +4°C or more would result in a collapse of the functioning of Earth's ecosystems/render the pl
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by 4bpp 7y ago
I always was under the impression that a good portion of the news outlets that cite his name in the native order do so because they are fundamentally confused about what part of it is the first name and what part is the family name, which m
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by 4bpp 7y ago
Good point about the coordinate system; you'd run into one sort of trouble or another if you want to go with anything that's approximately "cubes" (i.e. say each voxel is a "cube" of fixed height × fixed #degre
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by 4bpp 7y ago
From the looks of the promotional video (glassy boxes displayed around every object), it seems like the implementation of this is closer to "geotagged Minecraft objects, which are NPCs or finite-sized voxel volumes" than "Min
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by 4bpp 7y ago
How does Rust handle these problems in the context of file I/O? I'm sure there is an axiomatically idiomatic (official) implementation of it as part of the language distribution, and at the same time file handles seem conceptually
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by 4bpp 8y ago
rofi ( https://github.com/davatorium/rofi ). I use it as my primary window switcher.
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by 4bpp 8y ago
> …and then they’ll go on to explain something that one might easily mistake for a rule, or a request, or the enforcement of a social norm, but which is actually (as far as I can tell) just a statement about the version of the world they
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by 4bpp 8y ago
Lots of posts in here with the usual complaints about how this is an immoral waste of money on a toy for rich people, but does the amount of money that went into this project even come close in order of magnitude to the cash consumed by the
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by 4bpp 8y ago
From the point of view of their critics, the fight for safe spaces always has been employing motte-and-bailey tactics [1], where the defensible and reasonable position is that people want some space where they can relax, but the indefensi
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by 4bpp 8y ago
I mean, if your thesis is something like "the embarrassing truth is that the vast majority of Scotsmen is actually people born and raised in Kazakhstan", then yes, you will get the response that Kazakhs are not true Scotsmen and t
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by 4bpp 8y ago
Yes, as far as I am concerned. There has been a nontrivial number of instances of the payment processor oligopoly wielding its power against things that I care about (by preventing certain companies/institutions/organisations from
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by 4bpp 8y ago
In what way does this address the parent post's argument that to the extent Bitcoin produces more negative externalities than positive effects, it is because the price of electricity is not set correctly by governments?
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by 4bpp 8y ago
Half of what came out of the C++ standard bodies in the past five years makes me only half-jokingly wonder if the committees haven't been infiltrated by deep-cover Rustaceans trying to run the language into the ground in a plausibly de
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by 4bpp 8y ago
I'm just never quite sure the gain in productivity and happy developers outweighs the cost of shipping a software product that requires hardware that costs 4-digit US$ figures to run smoothly (which seems to be the case for most everyt
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by 4bpp 8y ago
As far as I know, several court cases in Germany have confirmed[1] that the mapping of dynamically assigned IP to customer identity may only be stored for 7 days. I imagine the same upper bound, or an even tighter one, applies to the record
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by 4bpp 8y ago
Well, my assumption was always that in a scenario such as: ISP makes me share my public-facing IP with 15 randos -> I get on a torrent for Sony Corporate Secrets [full pack] [2018].zip -> Sony's legal department connects a hone
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by 4bpp 8y ago
Oh, I see where the misunderstanding is. In cases like the one addressed in Belgium, the ISP actually assigns the same outward-facing IP address to multiple unrelated customers, and NAT is performed on the ISP side. Somebody who has merely
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by 4bpp 8y ago
> - If you go around memorising addresses then you are doing IT wrong in general. So many things depend on DNS (not just A records) that punching in IPs by default is a bad habit. Browsers will keep on enforcing SSL/TLS more and mor
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by 4bpp 8y ago
Huh, are you implying that with IPv6, the ISP can place multiple unrelated people in the same subnet but not coordinate with them regarding what address from the subnet they use? How does this work from a routing perspective? What if two pe
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by 4bpp 8y ago
More issues with IPv6 that are relevant for me as a techie: - Memorising an IPv4 address is about as easy as memorising a phone number, which is to say, fairly easy. I remember the iPv4 addresses of both my rental servers, every device on m
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by 4bpp 8y ago
> You need dynamic_cast for dynamic interface queries ("does this object support X?"), even in the absence of virtual inheritance. I prefer using C-style casts for brevity, and implementing support queries like that explicitly

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