LaunchAway1

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by LaunchAway1 5y ago
I was going to say that you can choose to not install the antivirus but unfortunately this crap and similar come installed on so many laptops. If the HW is compatible I suggest to format the whole thing and install Linux.
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by LaunchAway1 5y ago
I think it's nearly impossible to learn the facts because the issue is so heavily politized. Too much money and too much votes. If we can go on with renewables then it's great although I hope the tech is maintained somehow like fo
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by LaunchAway1 5y ago
> If those non-natives don't speak proper Dutch or with a heavy accent I could understand these parents, kids pick this up and it will influence their learning and future prospects negatively. It's more complex. Learning in you
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by LaunchAway1 5y ago
So several fundamental forces gave us the centralized internet, at least for the time being. Trusting a few players has never given resistance to these forces and so blockchain doesn't alter the equilibrium. What are the forces pushing
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by LaunchAway1 5y ago
When I was young I pirated everything but now I have paid the few proprietary programs I use. I prefer to spend some hundred on licenses, maybe a thousand in total if I sum videogames and have some hygiene on the computers I use to access m
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by LaunchAway1 5y ago
Cuba and Iran have been under sanctions for a long time. Dictators are very interested in not losing their jobs. I think, from the comfort of my home, that there are two paths out of a dictatorship: one is military and involves a brutal inv
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by LaunchAway1 5y ago
I think one possibility is that the boss is trying to bypass hiring procedures to hire "his" candidate.
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by LaunchAway1 5y ago
The issue was that RMS did not conform to some ideology and so he was bullied. The fact that he is wrong or right about his opinions it's not even relevant. We have normalized ad hominem attacks, amplified through social networks. Repu
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by LaunchAway1 5y ago
I actually read the Scientific American article because I have previously read Scott Aaronson's blog and he doesn't looks to me like someone who would write anything before thinking about it. The SA article is a complete piece of
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by LaunchAway1 5y ago
Internet is just for tourists now. We all know how it sucks but no one finds a solution. Now what?
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by LaunchAway1 5y ago
That's an interesting point to make and defendable but these declarations mentioned in another comment, I will assume to be true, coming from Trudeau, Canada's president: “They don’t believe in science/progress and are very o
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by LaunchAway1 5y ago
I've been thinking lately about jobs and motivation. Some people will always be unmotivated, that's an statistical fact. What about the rest? I used to think that the relation between unmotivated employees and their corporation wa