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by _red 7y ago
>The recent Nest development of them closing their API is a clear example of the difference, if it was a Free Software based API I would have the ability to run my own Nest API server. What changes in GPL / FSF licensing would enfor
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by _red 7y ago
>"Open Source" community has given to commercial companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Oracle What are some examples of these 'compromises'. From what I have seen, all these companies publish source code and ab
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by _red 7y ago
>then the worse that will happen But that's not the "worse that will happen". Go tell a starving 3rd world family that their $300 per month salary will now only buy $200 because you decided its a "risk worth taking&qu
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by _red 7y ago
>We have evidence that we are seeing a rise in temperatures For the majority of the earths history, the poles have had no ice on them. Their current existence is a holdover from our last ice-age. Wouldn't it be rational to conclude
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by _red 7y ago
>layering years of patches over top actually generates more stable, more secure code Well, I think your definition of 'stable' is different than what RHEL/Debian customers think. Stable isn't seen as "doesn'
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by _red 7y ago
See here: https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/corporate-lia... "When a corporation is criminally liable, the responsibility also falls on individuals. The board of directors, officers, and other hi
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by _red 7y ago
This is completely inaccurate. Corporate liability protection only extends to civil financial issues, any real property crimes (ie. fraud, murder, etc) 'pierces the corporate veil' and ultimately are filed against the people who p
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by _red 7y ago
>I like Librem, though I am a little concerned here. I prefer if hardware and services comes from different companies I actually agree 100% with you, however I think at this stage of the market development, its enough to have a 3rd choic
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by _red 7y ago
Instead of being a defeatist, why not just invest in a REIT on Etrade and join the party?
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by _red 7y ago
Thats an excellent question. The real answer lies in 2 things: (a) Fiat money, and thus (b) Artificially low interest rates. As long as the money printers, keep printing, and also keep interest rates at 0%, then all sorts of market distorti
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by _red 7y ago
I don't think its mean spirited. "Dive bars" have always been popular. A friend of mine in college opened a dive bar, which quickly became very very popular. This was the type of place where you could smell the ammonia from t
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by _red 7y ago
A friend and I were speaking of this recently. The current trend for "all-in-ones" is to have "monitor computers", however practically speaking it would be better to have a "keyboard computer" that you can chan
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by _red 7y ago
I have yet speak to any experienced embedded developer who actually thinks "full autonomy" is remotely possible in the near/mid term. The suggestions that it is possible, seems to come mainly from junior developers and snake-
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by _red 7y ago
Also, there is a requirement for the hacker to actually publish the results of how they did it. Otherwise, you run the risk of the hacker just walking away with the funds or giving a bogus reason (after they've already spent the wallet
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by _red 8y ago
Those who really care about the environment, know that reuse and recycling are the best approaches. So, you could buy a 15-yr old Toyota or Hyundai, since that carbon footprint already exist. You shouldn't be needlessly creating more d
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by _red 8y ago
It is helpful that the author quantified some of the issues, however there are many factors involved: * Does the authors CO2 estimates for battery production actually include "mining" or just "assembly"? From reading it,
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by _red 8y ago
Has anyone ever calculated the total environmental impact of a Tesla? It seems that Power Stations + Millions of Tons of mining for rare earth minerals must make this a mega-polluter?
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by _red 8y ago
Part of the problem in modeling is to also model the tens of thousands of humans interacting with the new schedule. Changing the train schedule also changes their schedules. Hence, each time a schedule changes there is an uptick of accident
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by _red 8y ago
Since the economic crises of 2008, central banks have been desperate to induce some positive inflation. "Helicopter Ben" even said he would drive around in a helicopter and drop pallets of cash out of it, before he allowed deflati
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by _red 8y ago
Moreover, its interesting that he believes that he was targeted because he said anti-Trump statements. Yet, it doesn't seem to occur to him that: This is what you get when you advocate for "big government". The downside of ha
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by _red 8y ago
Vegetarian != Vegan
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by _red 8y ago
I'm not a scientist, medical researcher, nor even very knowledgeable about biology. However, as part of my work, we deal with some prominent medical research institutions. Over visits and dinners I've got to talk with a few of the
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by _red 8y ago
>and focus on feelings instead of consequences. Agreed, and I think an unintended consequence of 'focusing on feelings' is that it basically ensures that future interactions will also be all about feelings. (ie. we get more of
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by _red 8y ago
Let's get this straight: Someone goes house to house trying to open windows, finds your is open. Then incredibly, they call the FBI and gets an agent to accompany them for a personal visit. You, the stunned homeowner, are now presente
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by _red 8y ago
>What is immigration?
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by _red 8y ago
Sometime around 2013-2014 it began to be visible that Apple stopped trying to make "the best hardware in its class" and migrated to "how does this fit in a marketing matrix". Tim Cook and Steve Balmer have curious parall
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by _red 8y ago
This is totally anecdotal, but we have a family friend who is an undertaker in a small town. He claims bodies today rot at a slower rate then when he started in the 50's. His theory is that its the preservatives in food.
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by _red 8y ago
A common thing that happens to me is: Stuck on a moderately complex problem, usually in a field that I'm not intimately familiar with (ie. A complex mail server config). Work on it, feeling frustrated late into evening. Go to sleep and
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by _red 8y ago
>I don't see how this will work, unless every country does this, or your currency becomes non-convertible. You say this as if tax fraud is a consequence free activity. >And even then, you would still be able to buy stocks, expens
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by _red 8y ago
The monetary implications are even scarier. The real reason they are pushing for "cashless society" is so they can impose negative interest rates. Since you won't have the option to withdraw your funds into cashier, you bank

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