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>Epidemiological studies of sugar consumption — which look at patterns of health and disease in the real world — were dismissed for having too many possible factors getting in the way. Experimental studies were dismissed for being too di
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I'm not sure what a social science study has to do with a biology study. If you feed rats sugar and 50% of them die of heart attacks and you have a control group where it's 10% you have found something about sugar and rats. I&#x27
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>It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. I'd say I'm surprised that some people are attacking your license, which overall forces providers to increase user fr
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I know of at least one startup that will be closed in the next few months despite the Chinese investor trying to put 30 million in it every which way. They are up to suitcases filled with cash right now. Everything is fine on the US side, i
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No just a motivated former user.
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The whole gtk ecosystem smells off. I don't know why but projects that pick qt are by and large friendlier, better maintained and more successful. Back in the day I tried to port xournal to gtk3 and it was a nightmare because there was
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There is solid python: https://github.com/SolidCode/SolidPython I have used it extensively and it's better than raw openscad.
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Anything that grows exponentially is a bubble. The only question is when it stops growing because it has run out of space. A simple example is that if Caesar had invested one gram of gold after the conquest of Gaul at 3% compound interest t
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Pollution is also a result of centralization. Methods that are cost effective in huge projects are usually ones far too unsafe to be used in small projects. A stupidly obvious example is farming. Small scale manure production is a net benef
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Back in my MSc I had to code a ray tracer for a black hole. all the lovely GR tensors implemented in C and the like. Someone in sci pointed me to the gsl and how to install it on the local lab machine in Suse. Then they critiqued the way I
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4chan has better discussions that reddit and hackernews put together. The point is that they aren't stored anywhere and disappeared once they were finished. Over here I've been told that I can't have more than one account to
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LLVM only exists because companies can't steal from gcc. The second gcc disappears LLVM will be forked a dozen times with no one seeing any source code again.
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You are getting very close to the only idea I think makes sense. A license that is only to be granted to human beings. You can use, distribute, copy, modify and sell my software to your hearts content as long as you are doing it on the beh
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Creative commons has an NC version. All the video game art I made in my younger days was NC/SA because the freedom to inspect all software you run does not mean you get to sell the software to other people.
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>which is a distribution license, not a usage license. This is a well established fact. That's what I said.
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Which is nonsensical since we are talking about collecting data, not changing theories because of the data. "Oh look, Uranus is doing that odd things again. Doesn't fit in with Newtonian mechanics or my current pet theory so bette
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If we threw out 99% of data based on current theories we wouldn't have figured out that there was a problem with heliocentric until the 20th century.
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You do realize you just said what the author said but in a mocking tone? Their point is exactly that the trigger systems are controlled by algorithms based on current theories, which so far have shown nothing for all their efforts. I haven&
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If you are using IP without a contract you are engaging in copyright infringement. People we've been through this. This fud was deal with when the GPL was ruled valid a decade ago.
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>Copyright is just that, copyright. It's not readright, useright, flyright or workforright. It is that. There is a reason why IBM got an exception from the JSON license to do evil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-
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The GPL/AGPL restricts freedom zero too. You can't run your code on a users computer without respecting the other three freedoms, and the AGPL goes even further and says you can't even run it on your own computers. This was a
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By charging for the software we produce and using the economic resources we gather to get the outcome we want through the acceptable channels in our society, e.g. the courts and the legislature.
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This is nothing new. The loudest people in the software industry are the ones with the most time, which by definition is the ones who are least employed or most activist. Back in the real world that reddis wants to charge a license fee woul
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I'm free to modify the source code. That's a lot different to never seeing it. Calling these licenses proprietary strains the word past its breaking point.
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Having been around for the GPLv3 debate this sounds exactly like it. A lot of gut feelings with very little in the way of factual knowledge of what copyright law is, or what the current problems we are trying to deal with are.
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Funnily enough the 90s saw better growth for median incomes in Japan than the 10s have so far for the US. If anything Japan looks like they managed their crisis much better by pushing the losses up rather than down.
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It's good and bad in the same way a crack head finding a suitcase filled with crack is good and bad. In short it's catastrophic to anyone who cares about tomorrow.
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Give it 30 years. Including a lot of uncomfortable call outs when someone starts going on about how great the Chinese are genetically.
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China today is somewhere around the 1900s US when it comes to racism. Lynchings and eugenics included.
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One day you wake up and have your own custom firmware on your hacked together laptop which is running a Linux that's using three different package managers on top of custom built kernel and x. Each step seemed like a good idea but when

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