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by banach 10y ago
I am not sure that I understand your use of the term "welfare state". My dictionary says: > a system whereby the government undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens, especially those in financial or socia
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by banach 10y ago
On the contrary, historical perspective is essential in understanding the issues that the EU is going through currently. If the German leadership took a good look in the mirror, it would see that it is subjecting Greece to a replica of the
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by banach 10y ago
As someone who has used Windows, Mac and Linux as both personal and work OS for > 5 years each, I'm curious to know how come (you don't see yourself getting one in the future). The two things I have against the Apple platform c
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by banach 10y ago
> the government does not fund software that competes with a commercial product That is such a ridiculous constraint. Do they mean that, if I start selling tapped water for $100 a gallon, the government can not provide its citizens with
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by banach 10y ago
Academics already perform a lot of repetitive and mundane work (e.g. teaching, writing grant applications). A fallacy of the current academic climate is that academic results must be novel. This has lead to pathological behaviour where rese
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by banach 10y ago
But that's exactly my point. Software development and maintenance requires long-term investments.
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These projects are a crucial part of the infrastructure of the modern information society. The solution to a lack of funding for these things is not charity from rich patrons, but governmental investment based on taxes.
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by banach 10y ago
What you are describing is the status quo, but it is certainly possible for government to fund software development. As William points out in his presentation, it is already being done indirectly through software license purchases. I think
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by banach 10y ago
As a an academic contributor to a mathematical software project (much less mature than Sage), I want to thank you for giving this talk. Hope it starts a much-needed public discussion about this topic.
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by banach 10y ago
Trade was a thing for thousands of years before the rise of corporations.
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The scope of this agreement is a problem in and of itself. By stapling together what should actually have been tens or hundreds of smaller agreements the authors of the TPP are ensuring that both support and opposition to the treaty from th
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Minus the human.
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by banach 10y ago
It's OK he's just taking a nap.
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1) If people were to switch, it would bring more people onto a platform that is not tied to Facebook, a company that loathes privacy. 2) Signal is free software, including the messaging server ( https://github.com/WhisperSyst
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I guess this will just make (savvy) criminals turn Touch ID off on their iDevices.
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by banach 10y ago
Good. Now they can all switch to Signal.
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by banach 10y ago
So... FreeNet?
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So they are trying to make it learn how to go on a killing spree. Doesn't sound like such a great plan.
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by banach 11y ago
Stop eating animal-based food. See http://www.cowspiracy.com/ for details.
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by banach 11y ago
Talk about a click-bait research paple title.
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by banach 11y ago
In what way were you not able to copy/paste into Hemingway to get suggestions?
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by banach 11y ago
> Vector Networks You mean "graphs".