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841.
by _jal 5y ago
Sure, it can happen, and something like it probably has. The point is that doing it and being caught out would be something approaching corporate suicide, and sane leadership would not risk it. This places it in the bucket of 'unlikely
842.
by _jal 5y ago
> Sure, but ‘synthetic’ is a weird word. Every word is weird if you think about it too long. At least in the US, this is pretty simple, even if it offends the sensibilities of category pedants. "Natural" fibers are cotton, wool
843.
by _jal 5y ago
I think of it as Fantasy Cartography, or maybe Fantasy Nation State-Building. Frequently, but not exclusively, found among those who enjoy feeling historical grievances.
844.
by _jal 5y ago
They are supporting politicians who are destroying the country. At some point, ignorance stops being an excuse.
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by _jal 5y ago
> I don't find tax filing to be particularly difficult. That's nice. You still might care that we collectively waste an enormous amount of time doing it, unnecessarily, for the benefit of Intuit (and some cranks who want peopl
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by _jal 5y ago
Which... is why, when working with my international team, I type things like '9am PDT'.
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by _jal 5y ago
> But it does matter, it practice it matters more then what is legal if we are honest. To the first part, I meant simply "impracticality does not effect the legal analysis here". Of course it matters for writing code. To the se
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by _jal 5y ago
I encourage people to move to email. I know people hate it, but I'm serious. Threading suddenly works in a non-stupid way, search suddenly works, and you can manage your own windows.
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by _jal 5y ago
I don't think it matters that it is impractical. It isn't the FSF's job to write Rust tooling, it is to write licenses. I do agree that that the concern is becoming much more orthogonal both to the FSF's goals and to the
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by _jal 5y ago
try "man git" in your favorite search engine.
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by _jal 5y ago
I think I'd phrase that a bit differently. Extracting cash by threatening mom and pop restaurants for playing the radio is old hat, nobody cares. Threatening cops over it is going to attract attention.
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Fruit Flies smell with Bloom filters(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by _jal 5y ago
In a job a long time ago, I was on a conference call in which a sales guy kept repeatedly emphasizing the value and importance of their "robust, scalable backend". Eventually, we had to mute the phone, people around the table coul
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by _jal 5y ago
You can still use wood if you want. Many of the reasons you don't are the same reasons airless tires have not escaped niches.
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by _jal 5y ago
Why is that?
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by _jal 5y ago
> Similarly, the bundled `cc`s with classic Unices (if they were provided at all It has been a generation since it was common for people to pay for Unix, and then pay more for shitty developer tools. That gcc has gone from savior to lega
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by _jal 5y ago
I'm sure people are selling them, although I think it would only become public by accident. At least some are going the back to the Full Disclosure days... https://twitter.com/jonathandata1/status/144803746341
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by _jal 5y ago
> even the boring test mass payload would also cost Of course. I'm not talking about considered opinion, just knee-jerk human reactions to headlines. You can tell people they're wrong if you want. Let me know how that goes for
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by _jal 5y ago
I think a lot of people are just grossed out by the symbolism. Destroying a car that retails for years of many folks' income in a flashy, ostentatious manner is going to look like lighting cigars with $100s to many people.
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by _jal 5y ago
Sounds like you hung out with the wrong kids in high school. A couple friends and I pulled off some stunts of comparable non-digital complexity. (This was the 80s, schools didn't have networks.) They were more of the logistics and misd
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by _jal 5y ago
If cheap commercial fusion became a reality, no. We would use far more energy.
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by _jal 5y ago
We have found OnOff! Beware the Emergence...
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by _jal 5y ago
> its certainly lacking. I'm so old I remember Microsoft's white papers on how shitty Linux was, how it couldn't do this and that, etc. But the cool thing was, like this tractor, you could fix it yourself.
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by _jal 5y ago
I haven't voted on it, but it looks like astroturf/spam to me.
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by _jal 5y ago
OK, awesome. I encourage anyone complaining about CA taxes to go enjoy that super infra in North Dakota (#4).
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by _jal 5y ago
And one of those would be....?
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by _jal 5y ago
A classic version of calling for Mom. I don't do front end, no dog in this fight. But when someone starts talking down to you, explaining in small words why "business is ultimately in charge", you know they lost the first arg
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by _jal 5y ago
> middling infrastructure Compared to what?
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by _jal 5y ago
Reason #481 virtualization-capable phones would be a huge privacy win.
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by _jal 5y ago
Because if they start doing it, they'll get more requests to do it in the future. And then they'd have to make more process around it and pay people to execute that process, and then they're in the business of selling small b

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