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by 4bpp 9y ago
Not the parent poster, but I'll barge in and say I don't have any. Who knows, though - maybe there are actually some really good ones, and I'll never know them because everyone who came up with one kept quiet lest they be bla
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by 4bpp 9y ago
Why not run a poll rather than speculate idly? (Of course, the interesting comparison is probably between the percentage that would say that with "better" and with "worse" respectively. You'd also want some restrict
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by 4bpp 9y ago
> "Fork it" is not an acceptable answer. The problem is not with Firefox, it's with Mozilla. Mozilla is a good company at heart and they're an important pillar of the web. Losing them to stupid stuff like this sucks,
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by 4bpp 9y ago
Whether the union position on who should be empowered here has merit is orthogonal to the question of whether unions are broadly for expanding or reducing administrative power, no?
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by 4bpp 9y ago
I'm sorry that I can't provide more details or evidence (lest I leak bits of identifying information), but as far as I can tell, our union has not made any statement to the effect of considering excessive administrative power or e
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by 4bpp 9y ago
> And from the student perspective, the recent votes at places like Chicago to unionize (and, more importantly, the justification provided by the student groups that organized those votes) I'm at a school that underwent a grad stude
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by 4bpp 9y ago
Seems very unlikely that for the foreseeable future, any Moon->Earth threat of kinetic bombardment could stand against an Earth->Moon threat of nukes and cutting off supplies. There is a fundamental asymmetry in that rendering Earth c
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by 4bpp 9y ago
> As an aside, one silly thing that tarnished Mozilla's brand for me was the treatment of Brendan Eich. I may not agree with his donation of money but I think impinging on his rights is a far more fundamental immorality than what he
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by 4bpp 9y ago
There is a fairly recent manga ("Kanojo, okarishimasu.") fictionalising the rental girlfriend version of this business. In a two-page preface to one of the chapters, the author depicts a date that he sent his editor on with a girl
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by 4bpp 9y ago
Surely this is an obvious thing to control for; if they didn't, it would conversely be extremely implausible that they would find any sort of "piracy is harmful" effect for any other category, which the article seems to say t
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by 4bpp 9y ago
The quoted blurb (I haven't checked if this checks out in the study proper) does seem to suggest that at least in some cases, the report found the positive result that it isn't harmful: > On the contrary, in the case of video g
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by 4bpp 9y ago
The only reason I'm resorting to violent metaphors is that our moral intuitions are usually more clear around those than around fairly recent societal constructions. Given the choice, I would rather be beaten up than subjected to any o
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by 4bpp 9y ago
Your point being... that I underestimate how people will keep downloading them anyway? I haven't done help desk work, but have been asked to do plenty of the latter; over the years, at least in my vicinity, skepticism about downloadabl
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by 4bpp 9y ago
I wasn't meaning to say that the legal prohibition to do something in this case is comparable (similarly bad) to deadly force; rather, I believe the relation between "prohibit DRM" and "use DRM to prohibit exercise of ri
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by 4bpp 9y ago
> Really? I can see a pretty good argument for why it SHOULD be legal. If I want to post some content I make online why shouldn’t I be able to try to protect it? The current state of affairs is that it's not just legal to use DRM, i
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by 4bpp 9y ago
Assuming the motivating reasoning here is that the overarching goal of the browser vendor should be to protect the user, the question still is what timeframe it is appropriate to consider. If the browser does not implement DRM, the user may
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by 4bpp 9y ago
I think Pale Moon in particular was at least in part marketing itself, whether deliberately or inadvertently, to people who take objection with browser authors presuming to make this sort of moral decision on behalf of the user, independent
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by 4bpp 9y ago
My impression has been that it has commanded somewhat outsize (to its actual utility/userbase) attention ever since its conception, because the promise of an "optimised, bloat-free, classic" version of Firefox clearly is attr
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by 4bpp 9y ago
I don't know about Pale Moon, but at least Firefox was well-known back in the day for being extremely resource-intensive to compile ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g... ) - I v
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Pale Moon blocks AdNauseam extension(forum.palemoon.org)
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by 4bpp 9y ago
People are happy to claim they want to downsize university administrations when the appeal is voiced like this, but another kind of editorial that pops up just as frequently in the opinion press later, they will be just as enthusiastically
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by 4bpp 9y ago
And, of course, so can the fork with all changes of merit that the mainline project produces. In the end, the decision between the two will be based on momentum and politics (as in: will the fork produce enough shiny Medium posts and HN buz
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by 4bpp 9y ago
My impression was that the charges are rarely trumped up; it's just that everyone remotely successful does it (so it's hard to be competitive without) and the law is enforced very selectively.
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by 4bpp 9y ago
So next time my partner wants me to help with household chores, I can cite my well-documented disinclination towards the task to excuse myself as being fundamentally unsuitable for it? Dictionaries define "suitable" in terms such
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by 4bpp 9y ago
As of four years ago, Germany at least had the same restriction on operating pharmacies (I was not aware of any legal restriction on their number, but it wouldn't surprise me either).
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by 4bpp 9y ago
The use of "malice" here seems ambiguous, and I'm having trouble finding an interpretation that makes sense to me. If you say that X does A out of malice, I can see it meaning (1) X does A, and X expects that X doing A will h
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by 4bpp 9y ago
This (conflating opposition to a process or movement for X with opposition to X) seems to be a common trick in the political discourse nowadays, and is unfortunately called out very rarely. We didn't hear many instances of "anti-j
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by 4bpp 9y ago
Apart from the clear goalpost-shifting occurring here ("this is unimaginative bullshit" [as in fictitious/incorrect?] -> "this is not meaningful to programming"), I can't help but be astonished at the last s
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by 4bpp 9y ago
In this particular case, though, there were enough warning signs that I wouldn't want to run code by anyone who wouldn't notice them on my machine. The email was clearly not professionally written or machine-generated (note the co
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by 4bpp 9y ago
So a three year old finding an unanticipated way to slip out of its chair is evidence that it is smart, but a neural net finding an unanticipated common pattern to all school bus images in its training set is evidence to the contrary?

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