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Zed's new Lamson licence: yank the rug at any time.(github.com)
21 points by anthonyb 14y ago|35 comments
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by anthonyb 14y ago
> I interpreted your reply as more akin to.. That was my reply exactly, except I would've used fewer big words ;) I guess conversation and arguments like this still follow the same rules as formal logic - they're just applied in a fuz
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by anthonyb 14y ago
You missed one though: <Is your name GavanWoolery or mkramlich?> | YES | <Please don't breed>
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Thanks for the patronising tone, but I follow your logic (such as it is). You're just wrong.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
> similarly I think "nigger" derived from some matter-of-fact observation The latin niger means black
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Oh, a lesswrong pedant. No, it's disproving his statement. You only need one counter example for that.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
> it is the way nature made us What utter bullshit. I've been in plenty of bars, while drunk, and never felt the need to sexually harass anyone. You're just excusing sexist, asshole behaviour.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I suspect that means that you don't plug it into a docking station. I also suspect that the only thing it'll disrupt is your genome :)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
> Gosh, I don't recall saying that he was my bitch. Really. Can you point out where I did? Sure, here you go: > has shown not only not-shame, but active antipathy to those who have the temerity to call him out on his irresponsibi
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by anthonyb 14y ago
That was a good read - thanks :)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
What's the story with that David Mark guy? Based on the parent to that post ( https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.javascript/QVlJ0bz... ) he seems to be mentally ill or something - there's about three pages of stream-of-consciousness
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by anthonyb 14y ago
So where's your chunky fantasy trilogy then, if they're so easy to write? Edit, since I'm being downvoted, and that was written in a hurry on the train: I wrote a book too. It was really fucking hard, and took a long time, but I'm ultimatel
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Congratulations! Writing a book is insanely hard.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
It doesn't depend on predictions. Climate change is happening; the models are just to try and figure out how much warmer it's going to get, and how soon.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
That's complete crap. All it takes is a reasonable investment in technologies like wind and solar. For example, I'm in Australia. Aluminium smelting here consumes about 1/3 of the electrical energy produced. Mostly that's done with hugely s
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Except that there are civilisations which have died out due to overexploiting their environment, or the climate changing and killing off their agriculture. That's two risks. You can add others now which haven't previously been possible, s
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt, and read economic arguments like that in the sense of "we will need to spend a large chunk of our civilisation's energy/material output to do this", not "Oh noes! My small, green pieces of pap
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Just talk to some scientists, maybe? Here's the Australian CSIRO's take: http://www.csiro.au/Outcomes/Climate/Understanding/State-of-... They produce a nifty State of the Climate report every so often, which is pretty easy to understand.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Typo on the front page: "Javscript plugins"
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Yep. Evaporation in action... :(
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Hey bill - looks like you've been hellbanned. Something that you said on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4213223 ticked someone off. Maybe talk to info@ycombinator.com and get it sorted out. PHP still sucks though ;)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
What part of Even if you end up with older hardware, you get the benefit of highly tuned software for it were you having trouble with? And if you want support for newer routers it's easy to arrange - buy two, and ship one to your nearest
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by anthonyb 14y ago
> if you don't have control of the firmware then there is nothing to stop them changing it Technically, there's nothing to stop them putting backdoors in the chip itself. If I recall correctly, there was something recently about backdoo
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Cool! :) Don't forget that there's an author forum if you get stuck and need a hand. I check in every day or two.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
There's really not much difference between a script and a program, other than size/features. A program just has a few more added :) It perhaps seems like there's some extra sauce if you're looking in from the outside, but it's really just a
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Two things: It definitely helps to have some sort of scaffolding or small seed program to help get you started. If you're looking at other people's projects you don't see all of the small choices and decisions that they made, just the final
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by anthonyb 14y ago
But why would you remove it? Because whatever you've installed has broken. Much better not to be broken in the first place.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Except that apt-get will check GPG signatures and detect that kind of attack. How is a MITM attack going to find a 3rd party's private key?
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Or writes a script which checks the user agent and only serves up malware to curl. Or the second time that an IP address hits it. Or something else that you haven't thought of. Update: Such as doing something nasty to http://getcomposer.or
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by anthonyb 14y ago
It does not help you if the originating server has been hacked, which is by far the most likely attack vector (after people being assholes on the internet or making mistakes in their script). Protecting against that is the whole fucking p

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