BeefySwain

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by BeefySwain 9y ago
To expand on this, calling and complaining to the intern at your local reps office is lobbying. Asking your school board member to consider adding more snow days when you see them at church is lobbying. Lobbying is any time anyone seeks to
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by BeefySwain 9y ago
I think that's pretty disingenuous. Humans are vulnerable to influence. In theory that is a feature more than a bug, but that's not super relevant to this point. There are a number of steps that our country could take towards havi
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The Validity of EPA’s CO 2 Endangerment Finding [PDF](thsresearch.files.wordpress.com)
2 points by BeefySwain 9y ago|1 comments
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by BeefySwain 10y ago
Anecdote, but I am a Linux user and have paid for animation software (the name escapes me, I didn't do much with it). That said I feel like if more quality software existed for Linux, I feel there would be more of a market for it. I wo
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by BeefySwain 10y ago
>The reason Nathan is not sharing more technical details is to protect the security of Red Hat users. Security through obscurity?
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by BeefySwain 10y ago
Unless I am missing something, I believe you could do wireless for well under $1k. Ubiquity is my go-to for things like this.
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by BeefySwain 10y ago
> One team documents the protocol as a spec. A second team takes the spec and writes implementations. How is the first team compensated? or am I missing something? >This is legal and safe. It is how the first clone PCs survived even I
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by BeefySwain 10y ago
Is now a good time to invest in British currency? Are there some good resources for how to do that?
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by BeefySwain 10y ago
You could easily make something like that. Half of an Ergodox would do the trick.
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*precedent, not law.
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Choice means interoperability, not picking between walled gardens.
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The issue isn't creating such a platform, it has been done. The issue is getting others to use it. That has not been done.
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by BeefySwain 10y ago
5 years? More like 2.5
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by BeefySwain 11y ago
I'm by no means an expert, but this is an international treaty, so I suppose I would find out if your host country is currently in talks to implement it. Regardless, for better or worse, things that negatively effect the US of A tend t
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by BeefySwain 11y ago
It's unfortunate that AdNauseam is incompatible with uBlock
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by BeefySwain 11y ago
I didn't know buzzfeed put out articles of substance.
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by BeefySwain 11y ago
>There are a few methods known since sixties, with less side effects than female hormonal contraception Such as?
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Richard Stallman – “A Free Digital Society” (Kent, OH)(fsf.org)
2 points by BeefySwain 11y ago|0 comments
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by BeefySwain 11y ago
If you honestly believe that then you should try to associate with more technically illiterate. The web is a metaphorical minefield of malware. The average internet user can't download chrome without installing two or three pieces of a
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by BeefySwain 11y ago
To add to that, a world without ad supported content very well may be better that the one we currently inhabit.
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by BeefySwain 11y ago
Could someone explain what one might use this for? I have read both the website and a bit of the documentation, but cannot think of a use case. Obviously there is one, but I am very ignorant as to what it might be.
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by BeefySwain 11y ago
Are there any good write-ups out there on how linux grew in popularity in the very beginning?
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by BeefySwain 11y ago
I have been looking for something like this for a while, I find software calculators to be woefully inadequate for anything beyond the most basic math. Will definitely check this out!