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by ColanR 6y ago
Multiple citations, but this one seems to be what's referenced by the title: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-020-06067-8 Interesting to note that it is a discussion of models and general impl
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by ColanR 6y ago
I think you were being "inaccurate and hyperbolic". > Linux is not "forcing adoption of HDCP" (it's just something Linux has a driver for) What they actually said in the article: > Historically, some features
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by ColanR 6y ago
I was thinking about something similar recently - if the hardware drivers could somehow be abstracted from the rest of the linux kernel (as if...), then suddenly a ton of experimental kernels could have widespread hardware availability. It
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by ColanR 6y ago
The problem is, that lucky guy can take an indefinitely long time to show up. I heard recently about the Scythe Project. Apparently, the scythe was never invented in some places, including India. That's a long time for the lucky guy to
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by ColanR 6y ago
That's really easy to say in retrospect, just like it's easy to say any major discovery was inevitable after we've already discovered it.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> It would be great if this billionaires would also launch scientific satellites payed from their pocket to compensate, then I would change my mind. They don't owe you anything.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Has anyone talked about the possibility of putting our astronomy tools in orbit? Seems like as it becomes feasible to put megaconstellations in orbit, it also becomes feasible to put more telescopes in orbit. Wouldn't that solve the pr
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by ColanR 6y ago
I don't think that's quite fair. I greatly doubt that successful preventions would be willingly associated with questionably legal surveillance. In the US, "parallel construction" is used specifically to hide how inform
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by ColanR 6y ago
As I said earlier, you're espousing an outlook that has already given up. As other commentators have pointed out, checks and balances are unreliable at best, futile at worst. If you are interested in negotiating for minor concessions
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by ColanR 6y ago
That's a semantic difference that doesn't bear any relevance to what I'm saying. To "realize" that it can be reasonable is to accept the underlying premise - that surveillance is not necessarily (logic term ther
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by ColanR 6y ago
> important that we all take a second to realize that surveillance can be a reasonable apparatus of a well maintained democracy No, I don't think we should just "realize" that. By all means, let's have a discussion; b
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by ColanR 6y ago
It sure would be nice if the memory leaks would be fixed. On some of the long-running machines I use, I have to use chrome because Firefox would eventually fill up the RAM.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Yeah, and then the "average joe" makes the decision which opinion and treatment to go with, if either. Not the doctor.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> Your average joe doesn’t get to just decide what treatment they get. That is flat wrong. Ever heard of getting a second opinion?
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by ColanR 6y ago
Like that paradox for self-help groups: anyone in the forum who was actually successful in self-help wouldn't be on the forum anymore. The people who never got out would be the ones who looked at the wrong things.
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by ColanR 6y ago
There's a lot of hard problems in space, though. We've solved a few of them - enough, at least, so that talking about large nuclear reactors in space should not be dismissed as a hoax.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Your source is ignoring the fact that limitations on nuclear power in space are largely political. If we could put something bigger up there without concern it would be interpreted as a nuke, we would.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Newpipe is the much better app for youtube on mobile.
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by ColanR 6y ago
It definitely looks like it could be.
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by ColanR 6y ago
What font do you use for this? It looks weird with my defaults. I once seriously considered trying to build something that included math symbols in the syntax. It's pretty cool to see that I don't have to.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Mathematica does this, and they solve the keyboard problem with floating palettes of symbols.
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by ColanR 6y ago
The original APL385 font is one of my favorites for coding.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> It just creates a scapegoat to blame when things go wrong. That's just how it works for other engineering disciplines; with the license, the scapegoat has the legal power to refuse responsibility until they're confident thing
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by ColanR 6y ago
I think they're just speeding towards the end of time faster than the rest of us.
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by ColanR 6y ago
I dunno. "Trite" and "substantiative" usually don't go together.
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by ColanR 6y ago
I mean, there's not much to elaborate on beyond what they said: "Zero substantive content, pure regurgitation."
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by ColanR 6y ago
Do the satellites in the photo have the new shades on them? I'd be interested to know how much the situation has improved with the improved anti-reflection.
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by ColanR 6y ago
That's the wrong bet to make, because those are the people that will end up using the Microsoft WSL. From what I can tell, the problems with Canonical will sort themselves out when the market they've created for themselves is eate
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by ColanR 6y ago
I'm not making a disingenuous argument, I'm saying exactly the same thing that most of the people replying to your original post are saying. You've taken the phrase and made up a new definition for it. I'm saying that t
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by ColanR 6y ago
I think you're the one missing the point, which is that you're misusing the term 'conspiracy theory'. The NSA engaged in a conspiracy, which was to "hoover up everything in sight". There was a theory (which wa

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