EarlKing

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by EarlKing 4y ago
Latinx is a term used by imperialists to tell their subject population how they should identify themselves. If you use it, you are implicitly identifying yourself as pro-imperialist. Don't be surprised when people react badly to that.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
There's currently a case pending before the SCOTUS involving discrmination against asians in universities, but the point of the matter being that this won't change anything. You don't end discrimination with laws that nobody
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by EarlKing 4y ago
...but only caste-based discrimination against Dalits, of course. This will have no effect against those of you experiencing discrimination because you're "asian" or "white". California's well-entrenched race-b
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Milk is hateful. Coffee is hateful. I'm pretty sure in five minutes someone will tell me waiting for the light to change on alternate thursdays under a full moon while wearing the color green is also hateful. The dysphemistic dreadmill
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Why would that be odd? Most people encounter memes in the wild far removed from their point of origin. They have only the context in which it is used to interpret its meaning. Even if it had anti-semitic origins that doesn't mean it is
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by EarlKing 4y ago
No it doesn't. My mind contains information derived from expressions I've read which I can rearrange into novel expressions. I don't regurgitate protected expressions verbatim. Co-Pilot does.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
...except you don't need an infinite number of monkeys. It has been trained to produce protected expressions by virtue of being trained on protected expressions. The probability of it producing a protected expression at some point is 1
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Co-pilot spits back protected expressions, not novel expressions based on ideas harvested from code. It is therefore violating the licenses of numerous free and open source projects. The author is right to be pissed.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Once the last coin has been minted, every note of fiat currency will begin to spontaneously wink out of existence. 南無不可思議光怜. 南無不可思議光中村.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
I think you mean: How much of the US economy is employing Hollywood Accounting.[1] --- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
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by EarlKing 4y ago
We were discussing a self-employed man, not someone who has employees. You're moving the goalposts again. I have to ask: Do you actually own a business? Have you ever worked for yourself? This sort of condescension isn't the sort
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by EarlKing 4y ago
I am, and I do, and yet that still doesn't change that a man who works for himself is still a capital-owner, whatever class he may identify with. I'm all for independent business owners (including small family businesses) identify
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Moving the goalposts when the definitions don't fit your argument isn't going to change anything. Denying the lived experience of working men does not endear you to them. Try talking with working men instead of down to them next t
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Cronyism is the end stage of everything. All political and economic systems ultimate tend towards dominance by a minority who refuse to lose, and warp the system to suit their interests until they are removed by one means or another. It&#x2
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by EarlKing 4y ago
TIL that an independent contractor with his own tools has no capital. LOL.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Honestly this is a problem that was solved 40 years ago with the breakup of AT&T: the Equal Access mandate.... and it worked right up until institutional capture ensured that it didn't. Now here we are 40 years later and AT&T h
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Because email has been so thoroughly decommoditized by Big Tech in the name of "fighting spam" that trying to receive email successfully feels like a trip to the roulette wheel?
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by EarlKing 4y ago
No, definitely not half the time... a third tops. I've become accustomed to the fact that it's beyond clear that pre-Musk engineers pushed changes to the servers live without testing them first, and didn't even bother doing a
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> leeching How is it "leeching" if I deliberately release my source code under a BSD license because I don't care if other people use it or not? It can't be "leeching" if I don't care about their contri
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> downfall What downfall, exactly? If I want to get paid, the GPL doesn't help me with that. If I don't care about outside contributions, the GPL doesn't provide any advantage. Insofar as I have written something that is c
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by EarlKing 4y ago
I don't know about you, but I can't eat code. That said, some people don't care about outside contributions or reuse, so I guess I find the pro-GPL partisanship more than a little misguided. Some people just have different go
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Can I take this to mean that they're censoring archive links finally?
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Why wait? AWS and DigitalOcean are dirt cheap. Go set something up and have fun. A number of communities have already forked from Reddit and seem to be doing just fine. As long as you have something interesting to talk about then people wil
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Cory Doctorow even wrote an entire book recently documenting this practice across half a dozen companies over the past two decades.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Describing a shovel as an "emplacement tool" does not make it not a shovel. Similarly, dressing up a software patent to disguise its functionality as a software patent does not make it cease to be a software patent.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
I'm honestly shocked no one has openly laughed themselves silly at the idea of "personalized domains" for a site openly engaging in piracy... because surely that wouldn't be a way to build a stronger case against individ
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by EarlKing 4y ago
There are no fundamental rights in the UK, just privileges contingent on the blessings of His Majesty's government. This is why America fought a war of independence against them.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
It's worse than that: This is Google pulling a Yahoo moment. They're realizing they missed the boat and are scrambling to try to maintain relevance against what is clearly an existential threat to their revenue.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Insofar as an FPGA can have a customized pipeline to deal with an operation without the overhead of your CPU's instruction pipeline? Yes. Most any task can be sped up, but ultimately whether or not an FPGA is right will depend on how m
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> The tech nerds were a great investment recently and so people are trying to spot the real ones in a sea of fakes now. The investors think that spotting the real ones will lead to more of the same. The good news is that there are real t

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