Afforess

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by Afforess 11y ago
I'm afraid Daemon (novel) beat you to the punch. It's an excellent novel, about fairly similar situations. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665847-daemon
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Zero. This is why companies have EULA and Terms of Service agreements.
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Enough of the motte-and-bailey tactics. Saying 'No Media' therefore 'No Democracy' is incredibly disingenuous.
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by Afforess 11y ago
Nice to see Github catching up to Gitlab[1] [1]: http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-deprecated-feedback...
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Absolutely, and bravo to the officer. If you are ever unsure, pull the plug. The safest computer is one turned off.
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by Afforess 11y ago
That's a poor strategy. All developers start out as free software developers, then gain employment. I persuaded my work to purchase Gitlab EE licenses, due to ease of use and it's excellent features & support. I can't ima
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by Afforess 11y ago
To play devil's advocate, he's right. He shouldn't have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless - the city government should be providing affordable housing and shelters for the homeless. That it hasn't is a f
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by Afforess 11y ago
Never, ever, ever reply to replies. It's a no-win. Your reply, no matter how eloquently written, no matter how correct, can not change anyone's opinions. At best, you spend a lot of time writing an essay in reply to comments which
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by Afforess 11y ago
Not only that, but this whole health plan debate is weird for those of us in high deductible HSA plans. My health insurance costs negative $1000 ($-1000), because my company pays me extra if I choose an HSA plan, and the company covers
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by Afforess 11y ago
Warren Buffet has often said he avoids investing in the tech sector because he does not like to own companies he does not understand. For the life of me, I can not fathom why he broke this cardinal rule with IBM.
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IBM is suffering the fate of OPEC countries, except with technology. IBM wasn't diversified. (Sure, IBM has lots of products, but it usually sold licenses to all these products in large bundles, rarely did anyone buy just DB2, rather,
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Terrible in terms of frugality. The article suggests she saved leftovers and used it for 3 meals total. However, that is still $7 a meal, very pricey. It's not terribly hard to have $1 (or less!) meals if you grocery shop and cook for
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I wonder what exactly goes wrong when people think there are only two possibilities. Black and white aren't the only colors.
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An AI doesn't have to understand the world in order to destroy it. In fact, the less it understands, the more dangerous it could be.
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The Earth can only "gain" heat through #3, solar radiation. The other 3 items you list can store and release heat at a later time, but they can not generate more heat than they already possess now. (This is not strictly true, co
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As you helpfully state, it is a 0.23F average temperature difference. That could mean the temperature was significantly warmer for a large period of time, then somewhat cooler. Depending on the magnitude, the temperature could have varied
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by Afforess 11y ago
Gitlab EE is actually open source. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee
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As a meteorologist, it's the weather that fascinates me most. I think there is a lack of appreciation for what global warming really is. Temperature is the measure of kinetic energy Of particles. Air with a higher temperature has a hig
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Best explanation I've read is an IPO boosts the Saidi treasury so it can last until 2025 under the current oil prices. Current projectIons without the IPO only show the treasury lasting until 2020 before Saudi Arabia has to issue debt
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by Afforess 11y ago
I aspire to make enough important and influential decisions some day to earn the sort of hatred RMS has.
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As far as I can tell, the only "breach" here is revealing what candidates or parties voters chose. The voter registries are public in nearly all states. I've used public voter registries to look up addresses, even when I only
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by Afforess 11y ago
That which flourishes in the night withers in the light of day I definitely feel that vibe from all the news from Theranos. If their methods were revolutionary, they could show off (and license) their innovations with patents, instead of
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by Afforess 11y ago
I'm not sure what filesystem he was copying from (I'd guess NTFS from the comment about not being shut down correctly, as I recall NTFS has that particular flag, which is why you will see the disk-scan on some reboots), but NTFS &
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by Afforess 11y ago
Call me crazy, but I really like Unity. Back on windows, I always kept by taskbar on the left side anyway, and I prefer the dash search to anything else I've seen.
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It's not relevant because their current pledge is significantly different in how it is managed (previous was a 503c charitable contribution, current is an LLC-based corporation that will have stricter control over allocation of funds).
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I think the key question is whether private charities are more or less efficient relative to governments, not whether they are efficient in an absolute sense.
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> He said that having a few very wealthy people decide what were the most important causes was bad compared to having the democratically elected government decide. This sentence is really amusing to me, because our democratically elect
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Pretty sure it doesn't. Feel free to provide quotes / evidence if you disagree.
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No, it really doesn't. Here is the meat of it: > Krämer: In this case, 40 superwealthy people want to decide what their money will be used for. That runs counter to the democratically legitimate state. In the end the billionaires a
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There is no real explanation for why the pledge is "bad" except for the tired argument that the state is good and private foundations imitating the state are bad . There is no further clarification or explanation; We are suppos

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