KingMob

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by KingMob 2y ago
I actually agree with you in many ways, but I think FOSS diehards miss the likely outcome of this line of thought: less FOSS will be written. Everyone still has to pay their bills, but if FOSS-based companies can't survive, the only pe
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by KingMob 2y ago
I thought this, too, but the AGPL isn't bulletproof. Notably, Amazon has a hosted Grafana service, which is under the AGPL, yet they can still compete Grafana. The idea that a FOSS company can sell services around its code runs into th
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by KingMob 2y ago
As Cory Doctorow has documented, you're frequently still the product even when paying: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/12/market-failure/#car-wars
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by KingMob 2y ago
Also, Free Software creators should get compensated for their work by current free-riders in the system.
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by KingMob 2y ago
HN isn't much better, just tech-ier.
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by KingMob 2y ago
That's a strong argument against open source then, at least as currently formulated.
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by KingMob 2y ago
> Why would anyone volunteer their time and effort when it is mainly going to benefit a company which is so openly antagonistic against its volunteers? Thing is, this sentence could equally be applied to the big cloud free riders. Why sh
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by KingMob 2y ago
> ... no white kid has been stupid enough to do that? So you're saying only non-white kids are that stupid. Got it.
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by KingMob 2y ago
It's really telling how you're focusing on the "white house" part, and glossing over the "arrested and accused of terrorism first" part.
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by KingMob 2y ago
Can you dig up any instances of that happening? Because if not, you've accidentally proved the racism in this incident, because we can already turn up news reports of misunderstood nerdy islamic kids, but find no arrests of caucasian s
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by KingMob 2y ago
> I think people on HN can be better than to spread conspiracy theories and avoid racism. HN users tend to think they are more logical and thus, somehow more immune to racism, while failing to understand that's simply not how racist
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by KingMob 2y ago
Ehh. I'm sure any number of equally awkward HN commenters at 14 might have done the same, and if they weren't muslim, gotten the benefit of the doubt instead of being hauled off to the police dept.
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by KingMob 2y ago
"My made-up strawman scenario is horrible!" Not to mention ahistorical. Frequently, monopoly breakups just resulted in new companies formed.
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by KingMob 2y ago
All Skulls' Day, Skullster, Kwanzkull...
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by KingMob 2y ago
subprocess.run() will happily accept a single string, though, so you may still inadvertently run into the issue anyway.
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by KingMob 2y ago
Neither of your points are proven. Is the slowdown a real effect of hitting technological/technique/data limits? Or is it just a lull in the storm?
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by KingMob 2y ago
It's not native, but I've been pretty happy with big-AGI. It's just an `npm run` away. I don't use it for coding tasks, though. Its most unique feature is its "beam" facility, which allows you to send a query t
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by KingMob 2y ago
This isn't quite correct. The Free Software flawed conception of a "user" includes megacorporations, which have a lot of power. The article's critique cuts somewhat independently. E.g., some counterexamples from the arti
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by KingMob 2y ago
> AGPL instills fear into SAAS corporations When I brought the same thing up on Lobste.rs, someone pointed out that AWS has no problems selling a hosted Grafana, which uses the AGPL. ( https://aws.amazon.com/grafana/
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by KingMob 2y ago
Yeah, people forget Ronald Reagan passed some of the nationa's earliest gun control laws as governor of California partly as a response to groups like the Black Panthers arming themselves.
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by KingMob 2y ago
I get you, but to my ears, the phrasing itself implies it's part of the sentence (unless the common phrasing was different back then). Most people would say "The number _preceding_ this sentence". "of this" sounds l
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by KingMob 2y ago
It certainly is, because the laws are passed with the intent that they won't be applied equally. Incidentally, this is one of the things critical race theory actually talked about: how laws can be non-discriminatory on the surface, but
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by KingMob 2y ago
> But it's easy to "find out" (and then try to do something about it) if you stick together. You're kind of describing the civil rights movement.
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by KingMob 2y ago
"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"
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by KingMob 2y ago
Heheh, no voting for you! It's "Paris in the the spring", with two the's!
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by KingMob 2y ago
It's debatable whether "1." is part of the sentence (and thus should be left alone). We wouldn't consider a non-alphanumeric bullet point to be part of a sentence. Regardless of which you chose, if the examiner wished to
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by KingMob 2y ago
Meaning things is not the problem. The issue is word overloading. “Free software” curtails certain freedoms of downstream users. “Open source” means more than just the source being open to view. And this is fine! But people have gotten so u
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by KingMob 2y ago
> Blood pressure readings are only useful in the context of stationary measurements under known conditions. This isn't fully true. For clinical reference to known "good" number ranges, then yes, you want to make the compar
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by KingMob 2y ago
One of the things I wish had come out of the Quantified Self movement (which is now so mainstream, it wasn't even mentioned in this article), was a consensus awareness of how to mentally handle fluctuations when recording more data. We
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by KingMob 2y ago
You probably meant "static" or "strong", not "strictly". Regardless, both are still not right, since Elixir is getting a gradually-typed set-theoretic type system. It's been in the works for a few years no

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