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IbJacked
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IbJacked
14y ago
Yep, it was a license purchase, sorta (I was in batch 2). From their website at the time: "you’ll be able to purchase the limited version of Phusion Passenger Enterprise Edition for the price that you think that it’s worth. Get it while su
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IbJacked
14y ago
Nice. I did something like this (tho MUCH more limited!) back in the 80s. I created a little Turbo Pascal program that let you enter the wake-up time, and at that time it would make my home phone ring, which was guaranteed to always wake
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IbJacked
14y ago
Theft and copyright violation are not comparable. Both may be illegal, but they aren't the same. Would it be illegal to build a replica of the Porsche for myself? The GP's example was bad because he mentioned taking a product or service,
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IbJacked
15y ago
The auto-page-refreshing is annoying!
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IbJacked
15y ago
What's the limiting factor? (Genuinely curious.)
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IbJacked
15y ago
I agree with you for the most part, particularly about the run-away increase of debt. I even agree that I would not payoff 3% debt while I could earn higher elsewhere. However, the government isn't doing that. They aren't delaying payback
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IbJacked
15y ago
Fair enough, I was unaware of the common distinction in the CS domain.
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IbJacked
15y ago
>> Trillions in debt is perfectly fine for an economy as large as America's. No it's not. Wouldn't it be much better to not have to constantly pay billions to simply pay the debt's interest? We aren't even reducing the principal,
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IbJacked
15y ago
But, um, concurrently means "at the same time," too. Merriam's first definition is actually "running parallel." Wouldn't it be better to describe it as running serially, using non-blocking asynchronous function calls? Guess that doesn't r
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15y ago
However, the energy costs are upfront and non-recurring. The number of bit coins produced every 4 years is halved, capping out at about 21,000,000.