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931.
by Iv 7y ago
We do far more than train them with "mediocre handwriting". We introduce letters by showing script (which is a confusing style almost never used anywhere in the real world) and insist for years on the correct shape to use on this
932.
by Iv 7y ago
You can always break in somewhere given time and tools. But like the old saying goes, you don't need to overrun the tiger, you need to overrun the other guy. If a robber has to choose between a locked door and an unlocked door, they wi
933.
by Iv 7y ago
It doesn't. Software patents are an absurdity that people have fought for ages. They are basically invalid in most of EU.
934.
by Iv 7y ago
Not exactly what you are asking for, but the v3 of the GPL is mostly about adding protections against patent lawsuits.
935.
by Iv 7y ago
Find it weird? How about this: Hand writing is still the primary writing tool being taught at school. And not just in Japan. I wont deny that handwriting is useful, but having it taught as the primary writing skill, the first and main one,
936.
by Iv 7y ago
And?
937.
by Iv 7y ago
I knew some would whatabout. Yes, of course there is plenty of other sources of authoritarianism. What does it have to do with the fact that China is promoting a pretty horrible system of it? At least in UK and USA is it legal to be against
938.
by Iv 7y ago
If the political system in Chine does not collapse everyone should worry too. Because they are very quickly becoming the #1 economic power in the world and I really do not want to see them spreading their views on authoritarianism and citiz
939.
by Iv 7y ago
Microsoft has always been very sweet and very competent when it was the underdog. It then seeks to establish dominant and becomes one of the worst players. In the cloud, it is dwarfed by other companies so it needs to play the OSS game well
940.
by Iv 7y ago
Fair market competition is not possible if one actor is in a monopoly position. And I am curious to read what economic theory says about competition over a free product. I mean, I understand their revenues come from advertisers, but they ar
941.
by Iv 7y ago
Agreed. These are not descriptive labels you can infer from an image. They may be, however, labels generated by users from a context.
942.
by Iv 7y ago
That... what? "And when one user uploaded an image of the Democratic presidential candidates Andrew Yang and Joe Biden, Yang who is Asian American, was tagged as “Buddhist” (he is not) while Biden was simply labeled as “grinner.”"
943.
by Iv 7y ago
GNU Taler is not a product. It is a GNU project. You can use it full-features for free.
944.
by Iv 7y ago
Even without using EM to communicate, and assuming we don't need intercontinental radars [1] anymore, a lot of our regular activities do emit EM. What we find weird is that we only see natural EM sources. If a civilization were to reac
945.
by Iv 7y ago
Well, there are a lot of brown dwarfs around...
946.
by Iv 7y ago
> Implement an anonymous internet sales platform that doesn't require Javascript, using GNU Taler (taler.net). That seems like a potentially super important project yet it does not have a wikipedia page. That's abnormal! It was
947.
by Iv 7y ago
I do believe we are coming in an age where reputation is going to be increasingly important to companies. Those that change their opinions based on the hype and the short term profits are going to only have features and price as sales argum
948.
by Iv 7y ago
I consider the likelihood that the NSA made a security audit of OpenSSL very high. And given the horror stories that we heard from people trying to fix it, heartbleed is probably not the only thing they found.
949.
by Iv 7y ago
In France there is the levy, and download is still illegal.
950.
by Iv 7y ago
Functional English requires a very different level of mastery than writing literature in English. I am a casual writer in French, I consider myself almost fluent in English. I tried to write a short story in English during the last NaNoWriM
951.
by Iv 7y ago
For a long time reddit did not host any media content. It was just a link aggregator.
952.
by Iv 7y ago
Twitter is just terribly done and does not really present a system, that tries to provide good tools for self-censoring. There are no way to downvote people or provide a score that can be used (even in a very optional way) by people who wan
953.
by Iv 7y ago
A thousand times this.
954.
by Iv 7y ago
Well what cwkoss describes would work well for you too: you would choose your experts of choice and have them as trusted users. I would too expect some users to become trust nexuses like that.
955.
by Iv 7y ago
Voting is a killer feature. It is an effective spam fighter and makes farm-troll's jobs much harder.
956.
by Iv 7y ago
Good.
957.
by Iv 7y ago
For the same reason most English-speaking authors are not writing their books in Chinese.
958.
by Iv 7y ago
The argument I propose is not a strong one. It is still an argument: if something is possible, why did evolution not use it? There are several possible answers: 1. Life may not have a use for it 2. It may be impossible to achieve with prote
959.
by Iv 7y ago
Is there any lifeform that needs it? With light sensors that basically give us line-of-sight range, I don't see which problem organic lasers would solve.
960.
by Iv 7y ago
Well, if we exclude all the visual spectrum, which is the most useful part of the RF spectrum for animals: transparent to water and atmosphere, reflects well on a lot of surfaces, has kilometers of range if there is line-of-sight, wavelengt

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