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by arto 12y ago
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/7/23/licensing/
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by arto 12y ago
http://www.shenlanguage.org/ > Shen is a portable functional programming language that offers pattern matching, lambda calculus consistency, macros, optional lazy evaluation, static type checking, an integrated fully fun
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by arto 12y ago
http://www.shenlanguage.org/shenbsd.htm
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NYPD punishes city by not citing, arresting citizens as much. Oh, no.(reason.com)
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The Surprising History of Copyright and the Promise of a Post-Copyright World(questioncopyright.org)
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by arto 12y ago
Reddit thread on /r/Bitcoin: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2pu0b2/american_jus...
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by arto 12y ago
> The Dread Pirate believed in total economic freedom, but in order to make his market work, he had to do some very bad things. WTF. As if unsubstantiated, increasingly dubious allegations were actual established fact. Read some quality
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Silk Road prosecutors want to ban Ross Ulbricht's libertarian politics in court(dailydot.com)
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by arto 12y ago
In quoting Einstein's definition of stupidity, the analogy is to ineffectively chopping at a tree without managing to fell it, and then proceeding to ineffectively do the same to N other trees.
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by arto 12y ago
"The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
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by arto 12y ago
"Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me." — David Thornley, in reply to a question older than most programming languages ( http://lispers.org )
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> I'm not saying [GPLv2 is] the nadir of licenses - but it's pretty good, no? It's certainly "pretty good" compared to having no source code available at all. But when people talk about "liberal" licens
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by arto 12y ago
LICE is a public-domain C99 compiler in about 10 KLOC: http://gmqcc.qc.to/cgit/cgit.cgi/LICE.git/tree/README.md
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Voiceprints being harvested by the millions(bigstory.ap.org)
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by arto 12y ago
Thanks for that. And another economic perspective as well: http://mises.org/daily/6956/The-Economics-Behind-the-Fall-of...
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by arto 12y ago
> each hour you spend exercising extends your life by around 3.5 hours [...] They say 2.5 hours per week over a 75 year lifetime makes you live 3.5 years longer, and 2.5 hours per week over 75 years is around 1 year. That is significantl
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by arto 13y ago
You're free to do as you please, but I for one believe the presumption of innocence to be a useful stance both in the courtroom as well as beyond it; particularly so when the accuser is a party known to have previously routinely lied i
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by arto 13y ago
Alledgedly calling out hits on people. Let's try and maintain at least the pretense of the principle of presumption of innocence, eh?
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by arto 13y ago
I must wonder just how large and self-evident must the mass or movement be before you'd deem it worth joining? Have a little peek at how much public domain software is already being produced daily on GitHub: https://github.c
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by arto 13y ago
As detailed on D.J. Bernstein's page at http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html , a lot of the fear, uncertainty, and doubt about public domain software can be traced back to Lawrence Rosen's influential 2002 Linux Journ
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by arto 13y ago
Zach, awesome stuff, hadn't noticed that Nightweb was in the public domain. We've added a link to your project just now in the Unlicense.org featured project list: http://unlicense.org/#unlicensed-free-software
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by arto 13y ago
Properly, projects lacking licensing information are known as "license-free software": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License-free_software http://ar.to/2010/12/licensing-and-unlicensi
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by arto 14y ago
Better for whom, exactly? Clearly not better for the people who could have been helped in the meantime.
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by arto 15y ago
See Rick Falvinge's blog post at http://falkvinge.net/2011/09/05/cable-reveals-extent-of-lapd...
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by arto 15y ago
Likewise on an Android. Made for difficult reading.
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by arto 15y ago
Likewise for me with the Google Apps account I'm usually signed in as when doing searches. Going to the non-SSL page http://google.com/history (as suggested by someone here) doesn't result in the redirect, but gives the message "Web Histo
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by arto 15y ago
Indeed. Those who are going to attribute you will attribute you anyway, without needing a gun held to their head about it. Those who won't, won't. Many of these concerns are addressed in Peter Saint-Andre's essay "Who's Afraid of the Public
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by arto 15y ago
As one of the original authors of the Unlicense, always nice to see yet more people opt out of the copyright racket. The growing visibility of unlicensing is a good thing what with the copyright industry increasingly running amok. Sometimes
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That is why the Unlicense is designed to be treated as a license as a fall-back strategy (inspired by the Creative Commons Zero public-domain dedication). More particulars at: http://ar.to/2010/01/dissecting-the-unlicense
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by arto 15y ago
Hence Cory Doctorow's recent talk, "The Coming War on General Purpose Computation": http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-p...

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