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by ajarmst 6y ago
You absolutely have the right to not board an aircraft if you don't feel safe, and should exercise it. Laurence Gonzales has a story about declining to fly on a DC-10, which saved his life. But even he admits that that decision wasn&#
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If your interest is understanding what happened and how it could have been prevented, you would do far better to read the accident reports, in their entirety, carefully. A half dozen cherry-picked and context-free lines from a store of tho
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What's the alternative? There was a flaw in the aircraft design, a dreadful one. Some fundamental structural issues and conflicts of interest at the FCC (that the NTSB has been complaining about for roughly its entire existence) were a
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I have to admit grabbing an easy joke at your expense, which feels a bit petty in retrospect.
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I come to this site to avoid the would-be-funny-if-it-wasn't-part-of-a-process-leading-to-our-extinction factional raging in social media, so apologies to all. However, as my use of the term 'lunatic' is being judged inapp
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Ah, good. Just what the rest of the world needs. A lecture from an American about being needlessly inflammatory.
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My concern is that an imposter could seize control of the arsenal because everyone knows Trump's Authenticator Code: PERSON WOMAN MAN CAMERA TV.
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Theoretically, Trump, might have had unquestionable control of the US nuclear deterrent since you lunatics inaugurated him. (It's complicated, see https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a... ) I
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by ajarmst 6y ago
You do recall that your initial thesis was "A lot of people think day-to-day tasks like running a web app are difficult or impossible in Haskell! But of course this isn't true!"? Right?
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Sure. But you're begging the question that those are somehow evidence for an argument that Python is easy. I disagree that they would be, especially for a novice, or one who already has a familiar and comfortable workflow in a differe
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I'm not convinced that arguing that "think[ing] day-to-day tasks like running a web app are difficult or impossible in Haskell! ... isn't true!" is well-served by a series that introduces (in the first post!) Persist a
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Local news. An informed public is necessary for real democracy and any real chance of solving real problems. Solving problems in a city is neigh impossible if the majority of citizens are unaware of what's going on in their own commu
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Sadly, that very entertaining story is certainly apocryphal. Pencils have their own problems. A device that sheds conductive graphite into a weightless environment full of electronics is not necessarily an obvious choice, nor is something m
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I went through a similar process many years ago and settled on the Uniball Jetstream for biros and the Kuru Toga for mechanical pencils.
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A notable side effect not mentioned is that the biro began the downfall of cursive handwriting, as described by an interesting Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/ball
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How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive(theatlantic.com)
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Fair point on the semantic vagueness of "open source", I'll exercise more caution. However, I think it was clear in context what category of licenses I and the main conversational thread are referencing.
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You keep making the claim that it's settled law that, regardless of license terms like permanence and unrevokability, any gratuitous license is trivially revokable by the copyright owner. Once again, I ask that you cite the jurisdicti
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i'm not competent to explain standing requirements, but I did say that it would be more difficult, not impossible. While I certainly agree that license issuer probably has standing to sue or defend, I also think that any complexity aro
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I should also mention that there is another remedy to that concern (which I don't necessarily agree is that big of one) is another cultural component of the OSS world: forking. If the party you assigned your copyright to (and remember
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One other concern that is important here is that if the need or desire to litigate the license ever occurs, inability to clearly show ownership hampers an effective argument (or at least makes it less clear) and might make the license terms
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It makes sense to nearly everyone who has contributed to GNU projects, as GNU makes that a requirement for significant contributions (i.e. those that aren't likely already owned by GNU as trivial and thus derivative changes). Remember
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IANAL, but my understanding is that if their contribution is a derivative work (as most would clearly be), they would be subject to the same license restrictions that restricted their access to the original project. I.e. they had no permis
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Replying to myself after a very brief search (IANAL, so responsible readers should be skeptical). This seems to have been a common concern around the turn of the century (sufficient to prompt 'abundance of caution' warnings to
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You cannot change the license on code that is copyrighted by another party, unless that other party has already licensed you to do so (e.g a release under version x of some license may permit licensing under the terms of later versions.). T
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My understanding is that such relicensing rapidly becomes impossible once there are more than a very few significant contributors. Most proponents of Open Source licenses would consider this a feature, not a bug. In any event, this is one
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You're correct that the motive is important in assessing the act, but so is the willingness to correct the issue when notified of it, and the manner in which one responds. "Immaturity" rapidly loses any cachet of innocence w
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I don't have a horse in this race, but I've become curious. Can you identify the cases and jurisdictions that provide this strong precedent? I.e. who has successfully cancelled a permanent irrevocable license, even having provide
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Greenwald has done important, admirable work. As has The Intercept . Unfortunately my estimation of both has catastrophically declined. The Intercept outed an important source (Reality Winner) with comically incompetent OpSec, which is
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Straw man. I made no assertion about the the prevalence of cargo cult science in Medicine or any other field. I, too, have read Ioannidis. And Smolin. And Goldacre. And Kuhn. And Popper(well, some Popper. His writing is pretty dense.) Hell,

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