PeachPlum

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   by PeachPlum 9y ago

   With the caveat of Jevan's Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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   by PeachPlum 9y ago

   Homilies that didn't age well : "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand." - Milton Friedman
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   by PeachPlum 9y ago

   If you think Web Programming is where the interest is at, you haven't been searching "data analyst" on the job boards
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   by PeachPlum 9y ago

   The utopian dream of a benevolent dictator
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   by PeachPlum 9y ago

   try posting "It's OKAY to be white" in a popular subreddit
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   by PeachPlum 9y ago

   I was a user from 2000. The first question new users would ask was "where's the web browser". You basically had to run two computers, one with Linux/Windows and one Plan9. The next question was "what are the keyboar
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   by PeachPlum 9y ago

   Contactless payments with either a card or your phone is widespread in the UK from big chain supermarkets to small local stores. I can buy coffee at a vending machine in my Uni computer lab without cash money by waving my NFC enabled phone
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   by PeachPlum 9y ago

   Adidas breaks the mould with 3D-printed performance footwear https://www.adidas-group.com/en/media/news-archive/press-rel... And it's not all plastic The patents for laser sintering are running out http
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   by PeachPlum 9y ago

   Lingo ain't, like, fixed, blood. Your spitting is tripping.
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    See also ports of plan9's Sam http://sam.cat-v.org/
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    > Nothing we haven't heard and mostly ignored many time before. except for embarking on habitat conservation, programmes of re-wilding, reducing food waste, more people than ever eating a mostly plant-based diet, and "massively
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    I wanted to fully quote Ron because they're his feelings and I think that's the only fair thing to do. He's my friend (this is from Facebook (a public post so I don't feel it is violating any trust))
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    Ronald Minnich (if you don't know him see [1]) comments : [1] https://share-ng.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/san... ----------------- "The semiannual TOP500 Supercomputer List was released
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    Blue Gene runs Plan 9 and Inferno
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    I think that overlooks the contribution of Rob Pike, Russ Cox and others from the Plan 9 community. Plan 9 is very much influenced by Oberon, and the Acme text editor in particular.
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    11 Sep 2017 · Google today appealed the record €2.4 billion ($2.7 billion USD) antitrust fine levied against it by the EU
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    > Here's something I wrote in October 2000 I hope Mark Dominus has learned how not to use sarcasm and condescension in his coaching style since then. Toxic environments kill people.
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    Boeing keep repeating the same mistakes "There are places where the networks are not touching, and there are places where they are" - Boeing's Lori Gunter 2015: Hackers Could Commandeer New Planes Through Passenger Wi-Fi htt
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    Ask yourself "what is a firm?" and "why do people join a firm, rather than finding a new place to earn money every day?" The firm is a way to reduce the transaction costs of finding work every day. When I am an employee
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    History would suggest the human race says "no, it isn't"
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    > ten thugs steal thousands of pounds of iPhones and iPads so, one iPhone and one iPad
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    That's the thing about referenda, if you want to have a say in the outcome, you have to cast your vote, not sit at home Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by Command of Her Majesty, F
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    see also: Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by Command of Her Majesty, February 2016 2.1 The result of the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union will be final.
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    Sorry, no can do: The process for withdrawing from the European Union, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, HM Government https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... Presented to Parliam
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    There's not really a thing as "gamers" I don't think my 48 y.o. self who's been playing PC games since before VGA would share many opinions or habits as an 18 y.o. Call of Duty player.
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    There are great YouTube series if you want see before you buy. Katherine of Sky is particularly good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxlpQMJt8XA&list=PL4o6UvJIdP... There is also a demo version of you want to actually t
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    you're talking about the US I'm responding to > the recent wave of xenophobia worldwide The costs of the refugee crisis The German government will have to spend 50 billion euros on refugees during this year and next, a new stud
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    > the recent wave of xenophobia worldwide your welfare state is not the world model e.g. Germany Sees Welfare Benefit Costs More Than Double Asylum seekers received nearly $5.91 billion in welfare benefits in 2015 https://www.
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    That is quoting Greenspun's tenth rule "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." https://en.wikipedia.org&
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    by PeachPlum 9y ago

    Define a PDF thus: 1 when n = number, 0 everywhere else