anonymou2

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by anonymou2 6y ago
What would have happened if Richard Stallman had decided to go work for a capitalist company and just worried about making money?
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by anonymou2 6y ago
It is great, I used it in a web application that I wrote at work that shows and let the user edit a graph of building electric, gas and water meters. A button lets you calculate the relationships between meters. For example one meter may be
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by anonymou2 6y ago
So you give them your data for free then you need to pay the ransom money to get it back?
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by anonymou2 7y ago
I think proprietary software and staying secure are contradictory ideas.
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by anonymou2 7y ago
I pay cash too as much as I can, it freaked me out when my bank started classifying my expenses. That hostile talk you mention reminds me of when I talk about vehicular cycling, specially in northern european circles, where they are a lot i
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by anonymou2 7y ago
They are discriminated against even more for the convenience of the rich.
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by anonymou2 7y ago
there is devuan already
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by anonymou2 7y ago
still using Windows?
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by anonymou2 7y ago
The well designed bike lane does not exist, the whole idea of segregating by type of vehicle is wrong. And this is so because it contradicts the principles of traffic engineering. It is not done for safety but for political reasons.
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by anonymou2 7y ago
The danger is actually the bike lane, because it puts you in the drivers blind spot, that kind of accident is so common it even has a name, it is called right hook (in right driving countries). It is easy to learn to avoid collisions with c
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by anonymou2 7y ago
I don't understand that, as a cyclist I find it much more relaxing to just follow the rules and stop at a red light, if there is a car already waiting I wait behind it as he got there first. I would be much more anxious running a red l
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by anonymou2 7y ago
In fact I would say that the belief in perpetual growth is pretty much anti-science. It contradicts the evidence that the earth is a sphere to begin with.
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by anonymou2 7y ago
yes, disconnected from reality, unlike the people that think that we are ever going to go to Mars.
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by anonymou2 7y ago
free as in free beer
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by anonymou2 7y ago
You are probably a pedestrian on wheels then
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by anonymou2 7y ago
I donate to the fsf. At one point I realized how much free software my company was using. Thanks to it I was getting paid. I thought it was only fair to give back. Of course it should have been my company that should have done that, but the
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by anonymou2 7y ago
As a cyclist who have taken the effort to ride correctly not only I have to put up with motorists who think that the road belongs to them, also with bicycle activists who think it is best for me to ride as If I were a pedestrian on wheels a
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by anonymou2 7y ago
Also the speed is not so different. The speed difference is even greater between bicycles and pedestrians yet you see places where they mix them. As a pedestrian I have been passed by cyclists which disappear much faster than a car when a c
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by anonymou2 7y ago
Whenever I wanted to go to a place by bike I used to go into google maps then clicked on the "avoid freeways" option and I would take that route. Nowadays where I live I have to not only avoid freeways but streets or roads with bi
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by anonymou2 7y ago
There is one basic rule of traffic engineering: first come first served. It allows for vehicles of different speeds to share the road. Your responsibility as a driver of a vehicle is to not drive so fast that you can not possibly stop withi
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by anonymou2 7y ago
Of course the example here might not be so bad because it is so far away from the road that motorists may not know it is there. The moment they know and they see you on the regular road then they yell at you harass you.
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by anonymou2 7y ago
There were bicycles in the Netherlands before they were segregated, a lot of them. Then they were kicked off the roads to let "progress" (i.e. the car) go unimpeded. Now yeah, they sell that as bike-friendly, so sad.
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by anonymou2 7y ago
The problem segregating bicycles is that that automatically means that they are excluded from the best infrastructure which are the regular roads, which by the way do not belong to cars. I suffer that discrimination everyday when I ride my
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by anonymou2 7y ago
That's just insane, building two sets of parallel road systems, it's probably the most inefficient engineering ever, are you also going to build a new set when a new type of vehicle comes along? what about a scooter only road? And
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by anonymou2 7y ago
There are a lot of particles coming out of tires and brakes.
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by anonymou2 7y ago
didn't you wear any protection?
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by anonymou2 7y ago
Actually yeah, it's all a matter of scale. Of course we are animals and what we do is perfectly natural, like a volcano blowing up, any other species that had been so successful evolutionary speaking as ourselves would be doing the sam
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by anonymou2 7y ago
It is approximately 200.000 new humans every day. Or an entire new Germany every year.
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by anonymou2 7y ago
It is not so hard to believe if you look at a graph like this one: https://www.resilience.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Biomas...
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by anonymou2 7y ago
So is that constant inflow from the sun at our disposal to use at ever increasing rates?

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