AntiImperialist

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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
CentOS was acquired by RedHat because it was eating into their market. So, I'm sure that many customers who have been using CentOS just because it existed have no problems upgrading to RHEL because it's such a small part of their
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
It's the same reason why stocks of companies go up and down: perceived value.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
I had been using Firefox as the primary browser since before it was v1.0 until some time in 2016, which is when I switched to Chrome. The reason was mostly usability related. Chrome felt faster and easier to use. With the reach of Google, F
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
I found the removed video on Periscope for anyone interested: https://www.pscp.tv/w/cqgohTFwempNT2V5dlhYUWR8MWRqR1hxellWZ2... Haven't watched it myself.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Understand this basic thing: Regardless of what we do (or don't), climate can and will change drastically at some point, most likely due to variables we have no control over. It's just a matter of time. It can happen now, it can h
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
That's not how international trade works. You can regulate your competitors differently.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Why would you be downvoted? You're speaking in favor of your enemies, which are the tech companies in the U.S. the employees of which comprises most of the HN crowd. It is in the best interest of the E.U. to regulate Big Tech, if only
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
The politics of HN comes from where the users live. Most of the HN users live in tech hubs which are cities where most people who move there absorb the political views which helps them fit in. Need to fit in is much more important to people
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
If that was the case, the least that would be called for is to eliminate all other apex predators, have herbivore population grow and open up hunting in those areas. Removing apex predators and using human hunters instead has no side effect
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
> The reason to conserve a species is because a biodiverse ecology is healthier. Healthier for who or what or to what end? Whatever changes (because of humans or otherwise), some individuals of a species may evolve to fit better to that
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Do they support older LTS releases? Like for example, do they still support Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 18.04? I'm asking because if I install 20.04 now, I may want to continue using it until its EOL.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Wow, great! I have used Fedora for little less than a year some years ago, but then I wasn't happy with having to upgrade distros every 6 months.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Does anyone uses KDE on their day-to-day machine? Which distro? I haven't used KDE since either openSUSE or Mandrake very long time ago.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
In what metric? People choose metrices when they are describing themselves. So, if they think they are above average in certain metrices, they are probably right because they picked those metrices to value themsevles... and they chose to im
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
> and nobody is using them as "loopholes" Yes, they are.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
So, they'll ferment "food waste"? Sure! If this catches up, I can see them mostly fermenting grains or sugar because collecting and fermenting food waste is more expensive. So, instead of cutting down forests for planting pal
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
I think there is much more hatred for "child" pornography because it is completely natural for humans to be attracted to post-pubescent humans, because biology. But they are also classified as "children" arbitrarily and
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
With freedom, humans can control for this by learning from it. They can see that cars don't necessarily get you women despite of what the ads say. This can also be indirect learning by someone pointing it out. If you start making certa
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
I hope he learns his lesson cheaply and does not end up going to normal school with student debt.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
> Why did schools end up teaching evolution? For scientific reasons? To suppress religion in some freemasonry conspiracy? I think it has nothing to do with "increasing scientific literacy" or anything like that, for sure. It w
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
So, does that mean we should be looking at Risc V as the future of computing?
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
> Just Buy M1 if you'd like to have a low-power, long-lasting, quiet, and performant dev machine. Well, if you are testing it for "real world programming", you should check if your development environment and all the tool
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
It would be interesting to know how many of these vehement anti-child-pornography activists people are secretly pedophiles themselves, just like it was shown to be true for homophobes.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
It is still very much so when it comes to Facebook videos.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
For just faces, there's this website, if anyone is unaware: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
"Hey Google!" "Something went wrong. Try again in a few seconds."
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
> You're telling me that Rachel Carson was a CIA asset? Ok. Maybe not her. > Murrow's withering criticism of McCarthy was somehow a plot by US intelligence? Of course. When you find weakness of a side, you don't expo
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Isn't their selling point that you don't have to pay unless you get hired? I haven't read the fine print though.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
I would think discipline, peer learning and also what you don't know you don't know can be picked up much more in person than by exploring yourself.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
> Considering new diseases are appearing out of the wilderness, I think it would be wise to save this moss in the event it has a future medicinal use. Well, considering the diseases appearing out of the wild, one of them could appear fr

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