MrMorden

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by MrMorden 9y ago
Why would an appliance vendor prefer Linux over FreeBSD or Illumos?
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by MrMorden 9y ago
Let's look at the license ( https://8th-dev.com/com-license.html ): "Except as otherwise specifically permitted in this Agreement, you may not: [...] (h) publish any results of benchmark tests run on the Software to
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by MrMorden 9y ago
So what does Elon Musk know about boring that Martin Herrenknecht does not? I'd love to see some more affordable tunneling methods, but I'm not holding my breath.
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by MrMorden 9y ago
If a business doesn't have enough employees to open seven days a week, there's nothing stopping them from picking the most profitable five or six. (Or, for that matter, providing a product that's sufficiently better for your
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by MrMorden 9y ago
If the ad networks actually honored "DNT", Apple wouldn't need to implement this mitigation. For that matter, what are they smoking to make them believe I'll purchase $PRODUCT any second now when I still haven't cli
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by MrMorden 9y ago
CIA. (Source: Larry Ellison, as quoted in Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-cia-made-larry-ellison-a-... ) Which is why the villain in Charlie Stross's _The Jennifer Morgue_ is "Ellis Billington&
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by MrMorden 9y ago
MIT Press has published SICP online for free for years. https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
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by MrMorden 9y ago
I don't know what's scarier: that I used the Boost preprocessor library a few months ago; or that the file format I had to deal with sucked the stars out of the sky in such a manner that a reasonable person could have agreed that
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by MrMorden 9y ago
So it sounds like they're paying over market, but not overpaying—they recognize the cost of these people leaving and provide a salary that takes said cost into account.
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Council tax increases also wouldn't have much of an effect on empty properties in central London because of the band system; tax on a property in Kensington would max out at £2124.04 before surcharges, or 0.02% on a £10M house. The pro
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by MrMorden 9y ago
If you want my attention, the thing to offer is an actual office with an actual door that closes. (Private, semiprivate, whatever—just not a thousand of my closest friends and a jet engine or two.)
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by MrMorden 9y ago
If the amount of second homes and STRs is causing a problem, it's perfectly reasonable for the government to tax them. As an example, UK councils are allowed to charge 50% more tax on homes that have been empty for more than two years
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by MrMorden 9y ago
Also -Wextra, but I haven't tried the hyperpedantic options that need to be enabled individually.
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by MrMorden 9y ago
The resort fee isn't charging for anything in particular if it's mandatory; you can just as well say it covers air conditioning and elevators. The logic here is perfectly sound. Resort fees haven't decreased customers (or hav
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by MrMorden 9y ago
That would be covered by policy controls, not technical ones—it's the same issue as someone taking pictures of the screen with their personal phone. You'd need to address the actual issue that's causing people to do that (ill
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by MrMorden 9y ago
Sadly, vendors are still shipping hardware that requires Java applets for critical functionality. (ASRock, I'm looking at you.)
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by MrMorden 9y ago
Your question is based on two premises: that DRM reduces piracy by a non-negligible amount, and that anyone pirating a copyrighted work would have otherwise purchased it legally. The available evidence contradicts both.
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by MrMorden 9y ago
Not a requirement that you participate in Kindle Unlimited to sell Kindle ebooks, but Kindle Unlimited requires Amazon exclusivity. (I could have worded that comment better.)
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by MrMorden 9y ago
The big caveat is that Amazon wants you to enroll in the Kindle Unlimited program—and they'll require exclusivity. This is, to be extremely generous, a bad idea for the author.
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by MrMorden 9y ago
The article provides one example of Republicans defending the free market, but usually that's the last thing on their minds. (See e.g. how the phrase "everything is bigger in Texas" applies most of all to government.)
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by MrMorden 9y ago
Employer-provided healthcare got started in the US because of wage and price controls (employers were allowed to improve healthcare benefits but not increase salaries directly), and continued because it's exempt from income tax. Some b
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by MrMorden 13y ago
I'd be much less annoyed by this tactic if the retargeted ads didn't gang up on you like a platoon of Belarusian KGB agents.
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by MrMorden 13y ago
If TPTB wanted affordable housing, they'd get out of the way, ditch rent control, let developers build more of it, and subsidize rental for the poor. There's one showstopper problem with a more free-market approach--the overriding
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by MrMorden 15y ago
A "please don't use this code for evil" license would, by definition, not be open-source. (Also, such a license would almost certainly be ignored by evildoers.)