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9001.
by api 7y ago
I was being legalistic. Technically you still "own" your copyright if you release something GPL, but the license grants certain rights that can't be revoked. So we're both correct.
9002.
by api 7y ago
It's like vehicles. Desktops/workstations and even most non-tablet laptops are now analogous to small trucks such as pickups. Tablets and phones are cars. Most people drive cars. Trucks are for work or people who like to haul stuf
9003.
by api 7y ago
Yeah, since about 14nm the nanometer number has become kind of like CPU speed (mhz/ghz) became in the early-mid 1990s and for the same reason. Long ago you could say e.g. a 600mhz CPU was faster than a 500mhz CPU. Then things like inst
9004.
by api 7y ago
That's not true unless the license specifically transfers ownership or it's just public domain with no license at all. In the latter case jurisdictions differ in how they interpret that. I dislike the sentiment here. Open source w
9005.
by api 7y ago
This is correct. The Linux desktop works , but the last ~10% of polish and UX attention is what takes like 95% of the time. It's the little things , the edge cases, the things that just sort of work or break at odd times or in odd wa
9006.
by api 7y ago
Wait a bit and you can get a higher quality version at a lower price. It's called Apple's Refurbished units. They've been through QA twice. :)
9007.
by api 7y ago
There are tiny USB ones and WiFi ones that are okay, but it would be a neat option. It better be unlocked of course for a laptop.
9008.
by api 7y ago
Yeah I guess people carrying around transmitters is too easy to exploit for surveillance and it's just irresistible.
9009.
by api 7y ago
This... sounds... like... they... listened to their customers ! Listening to customers is a fine art. It can be a bad thing if you listen slavishly without thinking. You'll end up with a haphazard ball of features. This looks like the
9010.
by api 7y ago
Mobile is all about surveillance as near as I can see. The whole purpose of it is to track users.
9011.
by api 7y ago
I was referring to the popular vote. HRC won there but by such a small margin it was well within sampling error. I think we should have a runoff in that case. Drop all the other candidates and have just HRC vs DT. Of course I'm also no
9012.
by api 7y ago
> This would seem to contradict the premise of the article. The talented poor kids would by that argument have no problem breaking into the top echelons of society, irrespective of the resources available to rich kids to attend the best
9013.
by api 7y ago
Another big one in our culture is location prestige. When I was reading a lot of scientific papers I lost count of how many times top universities on the coasts got credit for things that had shown up a decade earlier in some little known p
9014.
by api 7y ago
The 2016 presidential election was well within sampling error, so we kind of did.
9015.
by api 7y ago
Props for mentioning Alpine, the only sane distro.
9016.
by api 7y ago
Political reddits are the worst. I am not aware of a single one that isn't a pure circle jerk. The libertarian one used to be this weird melting pot where you even had the odd Marxist or whatever engaging in actual intelligent discussi
9017.
by api 7y ago
Even better is the name. What a good old cornpone American name for... just wow. The cold war does make me wonder about quantum immortality. Maybe consciousness just happens to exist here in a timeline where consciousness still exists.
9018.
by api 7y ago
Curl to shell is a result of Linux's fragmentation. It's the only way to provide a simple install process.
9019.
by api 7y ago
CO2 + 2H2O + energy -> CH4 + 2O2 Discharging the battery is this reaction in reverse. It's net zero carbon. It's basically a rechargeable fuel air battery using incredibly abundant materials so it can scale.
9020.
by api 7y ago
Those are more like the crazy complex epicycles in Ptolemaic cosmology. They point to something seriously wrong. I'm on the fence about the revisionist view that the Ptolemaics were rational at the time, but in a way its optimistic. I
9021.
by api 7y ago
Even better would be to use this to efficiently produce CH4. Now the entire natural gas power infrastructure becomes a giant battery.
9022.
by api 7y ago
My natural inclination is to agree and stand against this stuff which superficially really does look like hysterical moralism. The thing that stops me and almost makes me side with the CoC crowd is that I've spent the last 8-10 years w
9023.
by api 7y ago
Makes me wonder if there are any nutty ideas today that are right but seem to not make sense because we are missing a vital piece of theory that would explain how they work.
9024.
by api 7y ago
Boomers were criticized by their parents for being soft and lazy.
9025.
by api 7y ago
The best practice would be to replace it with something simpler and more elegant.
9026.
by api 7y ago
I love that there is a Cthulhu region, especially given that Pluto is Yuggoth. :)
9027.
by api 7y ago
Depends. If your model of the world is inaccurate, it's better to change your mind. If it's accurate, it's better not to.
9028.
by api 7y ago
I've observed that there is often more to the story in these sorts of cases. Not always, but >50% of the time. The little thing everyone is reacting to is usually the last straw. The same often holds true with outbreaks of political
9029.
by api 7y ago
Open source ideology is stuck in the 90s when the primary goal was to displace closed source lock-in platforms like Windows, and that ideology has become an unquestionable dogma. Today the primary goal should be to build an open software ec
9030.
by api 7y ago
We recently adopted the BSL too. Here's a blog post that goes into detail about our rationale. https://www.zerotier.com/on-the-gpl-to-bsl-transition/

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