abiox

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by abiox 9y ago
now we just need a chat app that bridges all the chat apps. (again)
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by abiox 9y ago
> Because your employees are human beings and not machines. They have a life, they have needs, etc. ...they also have access to gmail and a thousand other services, no? > People have rights, even while working for an employer. They ar
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by abiox 9y ago
> When the word "literally" can mean, casually, either "literally" or "figuratively" then it ceases to have any real meaning. i don't think i can agree here, at least not with the gist. in a sense, wor
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by abiox 9y ago
I have way too much stuff that I really don't care much about. For a good while it was a feeling in the back of my mind, but packing and hauling all this stuff in a recent move has made this a very clear thought. Currently 'at wa
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by abiox 9y ago
> Because they're pushing the progressive agenda, so who in the media, government, or academia is going to stand in their way? Well, the media largely only cares for agendas that fit their advertiser's preferences. Their adver
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by abiox 9y ago
Well... they were speaking to a behavior. It's a bit murky whether `dislike for changing the subject` is accurately or usefully reduced to `castigating someone else's opinion`.
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by abiox 9y ago
> I know at least as many anti-science hippies as I do religious nuts are those distinct groups? seems like there could be significant overlap.
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by abiox 9y ago
at first glance it appears that goby runs on windows, which is pretty handy.
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by abiox 9y ago
clicking that link, i see a 'not all code paths return' error.
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by abiox 9y ago
perhaps you've 'complected' this thread. :)
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by abiox 9y ago
is there some notional relationship between these two things?
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by abiox 9y ago
if i'm paying google to host my stuff, should i also be getting bills from comcast, time warner, cox, and every other isp on the planet?
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by abiox 9y ago
> One of the primary consumer arguments in favor of net neutrality was that ISPs advertised bandwidth at certain speeds, and therefore were obligated to provide that speed to any point on the Internet. really? even a good ten years ago
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by abiox 9y ago
> with the hope they are wireless headsets wouldn't going wireless imply heavy batteries strapped to your head?
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by abiox 9y ago
From what I understand, React isn't under patent, so what patents would be 'implicitly licensed'?
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by abiox 9y ago
exactly what patents are covered by this 'implicit grant'?
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by abiox 9y ago
> rewrite your existing React code my understanding is that this isn't the case - react isn't itself covered by patent, and the bsd license remains in effect.
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by abiox 9y ago
> I assumed that, for a work ethic, it had to be as useful as possible too. do you mean to suggest that chomsky replying to these sorts of emails isn't all that useful?
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by abiox 9y ago
it's been a while since i've bought from amazon, but i recall that one-click orders have a delay before being 'executed'. this lets you use one-click multiple times and have items bundled to save shipping, as well as re
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by abiox 9y ago
'No one knows' here is idiomatic. Your response seems fallacious; you are equivocating by representing the words as literal, rather than addressing the idiomatic meaning.
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by abiox 9y ago
Sometimes it seems as if there are as many definitions of 'racism' as there are people discussing it. 'Race nationalism' is certainly political. I suspect most people would associate that with 'racism' in at l
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by abiox 9y ago
> Its a hate crime, not terrorism. I'm not sure that it's any more or less 'terrorism' than the vehicular attacks by Islamists in Europe. How would you describe those?
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by abiox 9y ago
As far as I can see, you are not correct.
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by abiox 9y ago
> a racist i can't help but feel that this is more and more just a boo-word that doesn't actually mean much.
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by abiox 9y ago
i started watching the first lecture; when you ask about the output of ghc, i love that someone says "burritos". thanks for making this material available!
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by abiox 9y ago
> It just dilutes the extremity of what the Nazi's did. conversely, does the (sometimes aggressive) privileging of ww2 wrongs not "dilute" what others have faced? even in modern or near-modern times? it also seems such a
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by abiox 9y ago
> A fund policing the habits of an investment is literally the people who own the business policing the actions of their employees this seems to be equivocating on "policing". > That has nothing to do with indemnifying someo
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by abiox 9y ago
> It seems like the fund is insisting that its investments follow the law the fund is not the police or courts, though... right? it's not their "job" to ensure the law is asserted upon the land - at least not beyond their
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by abiox 9y ago
> I would also note that saying "I wish more effort were being made" is a bit entitled when you're talking about an open source project. No one working on any open source project owes you anything. no, "i wish" j
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by abiox 9y ago
I don't know that all look alike (there's a bunch), but Unreal, Unity, etc tend to ship with a lot of premade shaders and materials.

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