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by bcg1 11y ago
The article makes good points but is a little harsh... of course mastery takes aptitude and practice and it is ridiculous to think that you could learn anything even remotely complex in an hour or a day. But the "learn to code" ef
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by bcg1 11y ago
https://www.iqt.org/ The rabbit hole goes a long way down from there. And to answer your question... yes, the government just sits around waiting to leech off of people. Its what they do. Otherwise it would be called a bu
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by bcg1 11y ago
He didn't say he would give away 99% of his wealth. He said he would use 99% of their Facebook shares to fund their agenda. And he said they would do that with 99% of his shares over their lifetime... if they were 'giving away 9
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by bcg1 11y ago
Java
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Support Conservancy Now(faif.us)
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by bcg1 11y ago
Just depends on who your users are, and if they care about free software. But, in general, yes... it is probably wishful thinking. But just because the future looks dismal doesn't mean that you don't give it your best shot.
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by bcg1 11y ago
Look at Exter's pyramid and decide which level(s) can withstand whatever you flames you think are coming, and then divide your assets among those levels in proportion with how bad you think things might get. https://en.wikip
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by bcg1 11y ago
This is true, and a good comment. It sort of supports what I am saying though; there actually aren't a lot of gun owners who think it is tyrannical to have regulation around this. And besides, the percentage of crimes committed in
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by bcg1 11y ago
Actually it seems very similar to the example you provided. A similar scenario would be if a firearms manufacturer designed a semi-automatic rifle (one trigger pull = 1 shot fired) that easily could be modified to be an automatic rifle (one
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by bcg1 11y ago
Danny, In your opinion how does this affect the ability of governments to pass laws requiring them to use only free and open source software? I think this is incredibly important not only for software freedom but for a properly functioning
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by bcg1 11y ago
Guile is designed to be an embedded language, so in theory you could write a small C wrapper to set up the Guile environment and load your scheme program... I'm not sure if libguile can be statically though The VM written in C that run
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by bcg1 11y ago
You have to get a license from the BATF to do so, and you are limited to 10,000 gallons per year (which is plenty). To get the license you have to give them permission to enter your property without a warrant to inspect whenever they like,
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by bcg1 11y ago
Yes, it is essentially moonshine. I'm not sure how cattail spirits would taste though. A word of caution however, the ethanol that you can buy for camping stoves and such is NOT the same thing... by law it is denatured (mixed with toxi
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by bcg1 11y ago
Ethanol stoves are actually great for this problem... very low emissions, and fuel that is easy and safe to store and can be produced locally. In many parts of the world, there are abundant non-food sources of mash... kelp, mesquite seeds,
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by bcg1 11y ago
> I'm not sure what to think about the competitors-stealing-our-code angle, but the OSS-is-being-used-as-freeware argument is certainly one point in favor of closing/controlling their code (as a business). Implicit in this argu
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by bcg1 11y ago
I was wondering why no one mentioned Avian... I'm not a mobile developer so I wasn't sure, but I thought that it does the same thing essentially. Avian is a fantastic platform and the maintainers are true friends of free software,
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by bcg1 11y ago
Their "private closed platform" that is based on monopolies and privilege provided from the public coffers - spectrum auctioned off by the FCC, publicly subsidized student debt used to buy iphones and macs, off the rails "int
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by bcg1 11y ago
Good to know, thanks
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by bcg1 11y ago
Are you sure? Could someone add some invisible 'before: content()' (or however that works in CSS) inside of an a:visited rule, and then check the DOM via Javascript to see if that content is there? I haven't tried this, but i
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by bcg1 11y ago
Quit complaining, they're just trying to provide you with a more personalized browsing experience! This is what people want, studies have shown that 52.97% of people would rather be tracked and have more targeted ads than just random o
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by bcg1 11y ago
Browsers could just implement it like: font-family: system; /* does what the author expects */ font-family: "System"; /* does what they expect on MS backward-compatibility fantasy island */
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by bcg1 11y ago
You make excellent points. I guess what I meant was that Zillow's model _should be_ to improve the process and to make it cheaper. Maybe 6%-7% commission is still appropriate for high-end properties that only have a limited pool of p
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by bcg1 11y ago
Sold my house this summer. My wife listed the house on Zillow and took nice looking pictures and put a good description. We also paid a real estate agent $300 to list our house in the MLS (and we would handle the rest of the sale). Once o
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by bcg1 11y ago
Recording of Eben Moglen's speech, if you'd like to listen instead of reading the transcript: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2010/jul/20/episode-0...
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by bcg1 11y ago
Pretty sure hintjens is on (y)our side, he did after all give "free software" top billing. The "aka" part seems like an acknowledgement that in 2015 many people see the distinction as an ancient battle that perhaps does
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by bcg1 11y ago
Downvotes not warranted. madaxe's comment is historically accurate. The end of WWII ushered in the heyday of "internationalism", or "globalism", characterized by the formation of the UN on land in NYC donated by Jo
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by bcg1 11y ago
Couldn't they ignore noise below a certain threshold and create the signature just based off of the "peaks" and "troughs" so they could expect an exact match, and/or hash several samples from the recording in c
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by bcg1 11y ago
Your demos might be good... but I can't see without logging in. One suggestion... if you are trying to showcase your work, don't make people set up an account to try it out. Maybe have a demo site specifically for that purpose t
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by bcg1 11y ago
Awesome, and thank you both :)
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by bcg1 11y ago
I think doing it in a VM for this type of tutorial is not a bad decision. We're at a point where you can't assume everyone uses Windows, and writing up how to do this on every operating system would be a PITA I imagine. As a GNU&#

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