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by bentley 10mo ago
The last (general) copyright extension in the US was the CTEA in 1998. What’s happened since then? Google, who has power, money, and incentive to lobby against future copyright extensions.
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by bentley 11mo ago
> gifted kids or the ones from religious zealots will all live in their bubbles If you’ve read this thread, then you know most homeschoolers dispute that they live in a bubble. > Sure, let's make homeschooling the norm, problemat
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by bentley 11mo ago
If the school system is damaging kids, it’s good to work to improve it, but you won't see results (if any—effecting systemic change is hard ) until after your kids have already graduated, facing irreversible damage in the process. If
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by bentley 11mo ago
Childhood and youth are anything but “low‐stakes.” The social experiences I faced in public school were far worse than even the worst parts of my adult life. The direction I was headed was one of dark cynicism and misanthropy thanks to the
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by bentley 11mo ago
In the same sense that a farmers’ market is like Walmart, sure.
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by bentley 11mo ago
Did you make a point to interrogate all the non–socially awkward people you met at university to determine if they were homeschooled or not? Yeah, thought not. When I was in university, there were several instances where people who’d know
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by bentley 11mo ago
My public school experience was that the ones beating up other kids were usually the jerks.
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by bentley 11mo ago
> I missed my slipstick. Dad says that anyone who can’t use a slide rule is a cultural illiterate and should not be allowed to vote. Mine is a beauty—a K&E 20″ Log‐log Duplex Decitrig. Dad surprised me with it after I mastered a ten-
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by bentley 1y ago
Do you also spell out the implicit <tbody> in all your tables for clarity?
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by bentley 1y ago
Implicit elements and end tags have been a part of HTML since the very beginning. They introduce zero ambiguity to the language, they’re very widely used, and any parser incapable of handling them violates the spec and would be incapable of
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by bentley 1y ago
> That is the wonder of BSD like licenses for big corps. You mean any free software license, BSD or otherwise. Notice how NetBSD isn’t asking for code contributions, but for monetary contributions. The GPL doesn’t cover that either. Obse
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by bentley 1y ago
As a 12‐year‐old I encountered this passage during my first complete read of the Bible and wasn’t bothered by it. It’s a colorful metaphor that uses sexual promiscuity to symbolize Israel’s religious impiety, a common theme that occurs else
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by bentley 1y ago
> Many How many? Can you provide some examples?
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by bentley 1y ago
The article provides ancillary hyperlinks to nearly every topic mentioned, but fails to link the actual video of Kernighan speaking. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEb_YL1K1Qg In reality the subject of the talk
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by bentley 1y ago
Notice how I said “some exceptions,” precisely to head off a comment like that. Or did you read “some exceptions” and think your example wouldn’t qualify? No, I don’t care what Pakistan thinks of me. But I've been to the UK, and I&#x27
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by bentley 1y ago
> If they think that UK law doesn't apply to them (which seems very credible) why react at all? If I get a speeding ticket in the mail from another state I've never been to, I'm not going to ignore it, I'm going to ex
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by bentley 1y ago
Not even the multiple cases of an individual doing nothing but call a politician a dick on social media? > Last year, Andy Grote, a city senator responsible for public safety and the police in Hamburg, broke the local social distancing
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by bentley 1y ago
> There was an expectation that if you traveled to another city, you should sacrifice to its god. The Bible even has the example of Naaman the Aramean, who after being convinced of the might of Israel’s God, asked for a gift of two mule‐
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by bentley 1y ago
> Basically if you are an observant Jew then you are forbidden from doing work on Saturdays. There are some extremely specific rules about what "work" is. This was cause for major debate in the founding days of Christianity. Je
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by bentley 1y ago
> I don’t understand why people are ok with Google scraping their site (when it is called indexing), fine with users scraping their site (when it is called RSS reading), but suddenly not ok with AI startups scraping their site. I’m prett
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by bentley 1y ago
> The activities that make life worthwhile have largely been priced out for the average person. What activities make life worthwhile?
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by bentley 1y ago
I primarily source my copyrighted audiobooks from Libro.fm and Downpour. Both have large (though not universal) catalogues. Librivox has free, public domain audiobooks. The narrators are volunteers, so performance and recording quality vari
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by bentley 1y ago
This is a straightforward consequence of how continents are defined by various cultures. In Anglo cultures, there are seven continents, with a distinct North and South America, and Europe and Asia. In Romance cultures, there are six contine
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by bentley 1y ago
The average American knows that Canada is in North America, as does the average Canadian, the average Englishman, and the average Australian. The average non‐American is from outside the Anglosphere, and so may be from a culture that consid
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by bentley 2y ago
That’s way better than my example!
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by bentley 2y ago
I hate --help. First, I hate having to run the program. If I wanted to refresh myself on the shutdown command, running “shutdown --help” would make me extremely nervous! There have been times where I’ve only had source code and wanted to re
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by bentley 2y ago
It’s fun to compare BSD alternatives to GNU software and BSD documentation to GNU documentation. For example, OpenBSD refused to integrate GnuPG for package signing due to its complexity, instead developing its own signify(1): https:/
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by bentley 2y ago
mdoc(7), which is the primary macro set used on BSD systems, is a 90s language (as opposed to a 70s language) with useful semantics that support both hyperlinking and featureful search, both on the web and in the terminal. For example, here
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by bentley 2y ago
On systems that use the mandoc implementation of the man(1) command, these semantics are preserved and accessible from within less(1). See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43634894
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by bentley 2y ago
This feature exists, on systems that use mandoc as the default manpage formatter and viewer (such as OpenBSD). In HTML output, definitions for flags, environment variables, and other such things are converted to hyperlinks, and hyperlin

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