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by adekok 10y ago
> If someone can't create a PR without saying things that are racist, misogynist, etc. then frankly I don't want them in my community. That's confusing two issues: code of conduct, and on-topic communication. If someone op
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> won't touch projects with a CoC, and when a project that I'm actively contributing to introduces a CoC, I stop contributing. Here's mine: http://freeradius.org/list/ --- The only permitted topic o
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See the Atheism+ debacle a few years ago. The entire thing was CoC abuse writ large. "Its Atheism PLUS morality, sensitivity, acceptance, diversity, etc." Things which are all well and good, but that turned out to not be the po
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> Or, to simply stop traveling to countries that refuse to play nice with the rights of foreigners. s/foreigners/citizens/ i.e. everyone . I'm a Canadian Citizen. When I enter Canada from abroad, they claim the same
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There are a large percentage of people for whom power games are more important than getting things done. See narcissism, cluster B, etc. Those people are toxic, and removing them from your community makes everything better. If you can&#x2
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My experience was that the prime criteria for deletion was that the Wikipedia editors be unfamiliar with the material. 1000 pages on Pokemon? Great! 2 pages on obscure technical subjects, of interest to tens of thousands of IT admins world
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The birthday paradox. After a few hundred to low thousands of manual captcha's, someone goes Hey... I've seen this one before! . After 2-3 duplicates, they're pretty sure that the corpus is small. At that point, it's w
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I looked through the site, and saw some high-level comparisons, but there's not much meat to it. Where Darcs has this: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Understanding_Darcs/Patch_theo... Pijul has some text sayin
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How does this compare to darcs? http://darcs.net/ Edit: they have some minor text on how it's better, but a more detailed description would be appreciated.
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> To use an extreme example, if I have $1M of expense and zero revenue, no matter how much expense I cut I'm not going to turn a profit as you can't go below zero. Conversely, if I have $0 of expense and $1M of revenue, I can c
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> Social programs aren't revenue, they're an expense. That's nit-picking. Social programs are negative revenue. If you want to maximize income, you can increase income, or decrease expenses. This is grade 5 math. >
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> What's not democratic about optimizing need based upon projected tax revenue? Are we discriminating against "poor companies"? Would you classify companies that allow their employees to work remotely doing the same? The u
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> Making third Reich comparisons, even tangentially, seems like an unnecessary Godwin. Insults like this are unethical, especially when you didn't bother reading the link I posted. The reference was to France , not to Nazi Germany.
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In a free labor market. The labor market inside the country is mostly free. People can move to where the jobs are. The labor market for foreigners isn't free. There are restrictions in place to prevent foreign immigration. If it&#
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> "What's the share price" Which is at least partially based on public perception of the company. > It's the government's responsibility to train people That's... a weird thing to say. I like to think of
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something something democracy . The country is run (roughly) on something resembling democracy and equality. If, instead, the ethos changes to "more power to people who pay more", we give up any pretence at democracy. We might
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By the same token, when I go to say (Forbes.com), the advertisers are stealing bandwidth from me. Unless I use an adblocker, the ads use bandwidth that I pay for . https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160317/09274
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> That is, software you are free to modify, change or use, without restriction The FSF has a different definition of "free software". They don't want you to get software for free, and then modify it, turn around and restr
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> it's commercially recognized as so restrictive it is an effective tool to make people pay for your software. How does it do that? Speaking from personal experience, there are multiple companies making tens of millions a year from
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> I'm very outspoken against the GPL I'm curious as to why. The GPL has manifestly built the modern internet (cloud servers are mostly Linux, most IT startups use Linux, etc.) There are other open source licences which are als
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And what would the US do without daily imports of thousands of cargo containers of goods? How would the US engage in sustained war when a significant percentage of goods used to propagate the war come from China? How would the US "te
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> that economically developed countries (capitalist - but in this case even something like China can qualify) don't fight with one another. France and Germany? WW1 / WW2? Japan and the US in WW2? IIRC, at the time, Japan and
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> But if the government can essentially revoke a private individual or company's copyright merely by incorporating otherwise protected text into legislation, that can have adverse effects on copyright holders. How about: a) voluntar
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I've looked, and can't find anything. That doesn't necessarily disprove what I've said, it just makes it unsupported. I still stand by my claims that the CPB has the legal power to do this. And that it is very likely t
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At the risk of being banned... The lesson is that lying about what I said is OK, but getting frustrated and pointing that out is being "incivil".
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> an international flight is extremely unlikely to include only a single non-American. In such a situation, it's absurd to claim that CBP would board and arrest a single non-American. <sigh> I was wondering if you could read
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Don't be ridiculous. I'm not saying that in every single case the CPB would deport someone. I'm saying that it's happened. Can you not do simple logic?
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> I think claims of sneaky and absurd behavior Such as following the law? a) there is no "sterile transit" in the US b) there is a "no fly list" What do you think happens to someone who's on the "no fly list
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I can't recall specifics, but look at this: http://wikitravel.org/en/Avoiding_a_transit_of_the_United_St... The US doesn't allow "sterile transit". You MUST clear customs if you land in the States.
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I first heard this 13 years ago. A friend visited an airline, and had a set of cables pointed out to him: "That's the feed to the NSA". I thought it was well known that the NSA had feeds into the airline reservation system.

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