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by PostOnce 3y ago
> The USG likes to pay for and own source code and weapon system designs. Surprisingly, the contractors retain copyrights and trademarks somehow. For example, apparently you need a license to put an f-22 or an f-35 in a game (or movie et
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by PostOnce 3y ago
It must depend on the person, how memories weigh. I watched a man who was basically my adoptive grandfather go through chemo and die of cancer in a hospital bed set up in our living room, but the memories of all our beach and forest excurs
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by PostOnce 3y ago
That's exactly the problem, there's no room left for frank discussion or a neutral inquiry into how romanticizing the past can damage all our futures, Maori and Pakeha alike. Yes there were tragedies, and they went on for a very l
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by PostOnce 3y ago
Father forgive me for I have sinned: I am still using a graphical IDE, and have tried vi, but have never tried emacs. I am installing it now.
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by PostOnce 3y ago
Even the pastafarians get to wear strainers on their heads in driver's license photos. Some religions are exempt from paying social security. A group of adamant people is a powerful thing.
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by PostOnce 3y ago
Stallman's character is one of the reasons I have repeatedly considered establishing some kind of "Church of Computing", i.e. an organized "religion" solely to secure religious protections and rights as they apply t
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by PostOnce 3y ago
Guilt for the faults of one's ancestors is especially strange in this case, since it only ever applies to one side (the European side), and nary a whisper of the past of slavery, cannibalism, and genocide are mentioned because those ar
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by PostOnce 3y ago
What podcast was this? Sounds interesting.
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by PostOnce 3y ago
Or the government could do it at-cost in-house instead of paying a margin to BAH. I'm sure we can argue the 100 reasons why we can't/shouldn't do that, but it is a possible option, even if it's claimed to be a terri
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by PostOnce 3y ago
Sure, disney dollars, monopoly money, etc, but "USD" already means something to everyone. i.e., citibank USD account would be a citibank account denominated in US Dollars as opposed to euros, not a citibank cryptocoin. Now i might
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by PostOnce 3y ago
> Does Canada produce (farmed narcotics) But why don't they produce world-leading levels of illegal synthetic narcotics, purely in search of profit on the American illicit market? If farming isnt viable and drugs are massively profi
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by PostOnce 3y ago
That tells me what happened, but not why? (I appreciate the detail, though) Why isn't Canada a major narcotics manufacturing center? Why is Colombia? I think the answer is probably complex and involves poverty (meaning switching from l
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by PostOnce 3y ago
Why does the war on drugs cause Mexico to fall apart and not Canada? I don't think Mexico's problems would be solved if drugs disappeared tomorrow. For example, the cartels are robbing fuel [depots, refineries, regular gas station
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by PostOnce 3y ago
Total tangent but did anyone notice the floating hair on the cherub on the header image (the top right one)? Stable Diffusion in the wild? It looks composited by a human (i.e. use SD to generate "cherubs" and then use photoshop to
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by PostOnce 3y ago
Aside from sympathy, I also feel a sense of awe, admiration, and respect for the fighting spirit this guy has. He had his tongue removed to increase his odds, is struggling with the basic sensations of being alive, is also acutely aware of
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by PostOnce 3y ago
I was excited that it might be about 1960s RCA computers being software incompatible with IBM s/360 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_Spectra_70 Then I finished the headline and opened this Wikipedia article
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by PostOnce 3y ago
Oh, no animosity or hard feelings intended! To be clear I'm not trying to imply your participation is an attack, I just meant that in the general sense in the modern world it's something we have to consider, people overreact to ev
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That's just it though, isn't it? I have to say "people" instead of "men" or I'll be argued with and attacked on a tangential subject instead of the substance of my argument about wealth and worth. That mea
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It's impossible to become perfect, but I also disagree that saying "men" is necessarily wrong or "imperfect", much like saying "hey guys" to a group of people that includes women, it's just a figure o
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by PostOnce 3y ago
link is to www.justapedia.org , but the cert only is valid for justapedia.org (no www)
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by PostOnce 3y ago
There's really no need to do this, or to point out that some of the men (or women, or persons) were black or asian, non-heterosexual, had a physical or intellectual handicaps or any other particular attribute that I didn't specifi
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by PostOnce 3y ago
Plenty of worthy men died broke, and plenty of villains were fabulously wealthy. Smart, hardworking, honest, kind men. There's a degree of luck and circumstance, there's the absence of capital, the time and place in which you live
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by PostOnce 3y ago
Telescopes are often built simply (and rightly) as functional tools or instruments, and that's great of course, but I wanted to compliment you on making a non-ugly, aesthetically pleasing telescope; a bit of craftsmanship goes a long w
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by PostOnce 3y ago
Blogspam? It's just "hello world". For those unaware: Flask is a web framework for Python. My personal favorite, similar to Django but imo with better docs. Nothing really changed in 2023 (or 2022, or 2021, or 2020, or 2019..
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by PostOnce 3y ago
There are lots of profitable software tool companies, aren't there? Atlassian, JetBrains, Microsoft, most of them are smaller than this but still "money"; I live in open-source land, but everyone else I know works somewhere t
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by PostOnce 3y ago
Here's another multibillion dollar example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Research
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I'm not saying it's "right", just how it is; it's that way (or worse) in many places.
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"All" US citizens, no. Naturalized citizens, most of whom were born in China and naturalized on the basis that it would be good for America; so, if you're working on things that are contrary to American interests, you risk lo
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by PostOnce 3y ago
"The App Store" is like a record store that extends for hundreds of miles in every direction. He was right about the concept; but the store is in cyberspace and the media is a file instead of a disc.
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Additionaly, medicine companies aren't going to waste money trying stuff they know is likely to fail (like the example "radium asbestos")

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