bigbubba

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by bigbubba 6y ago
Such a ballot marking machine sounds interesting, but I see no reason for it to be a digital device. You could accomplish the same with a glorified spring loaded hole punching machine. Or purely electromechanical, using simple button acti
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Well.. duopoly. I think we're witnessing the war on general computation being lost: https://archive.org/details/GeneralComputation
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by bigbubba 6y ago
That's why I say it's not precisely the license requested. But if your aim is to scare off corporations, it works pretty well.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
AGPLv3 isn't precisely that, but it may as well be since it scares corporations like Google shitless.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
You've been downvoted but I agree. We've had a decade of mainstream Linux based smartphones and it sucks. Locked bootloaders, bloatware, proprietary hardware drivers that don't get updates... this is what mainstream Linux
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> Why? Because it doesn't just have to work. Voters have to have confidence in the system. And that system isn't just technical, it's social. I'd go even further and say that if voters believe in the system, it does
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by bigbubba 6y ago
As I see it, a key element of democracy is making people confident that their opinion was counted. We ask the masses for their input not because we think mobs of people are particularly wise, but rather because the populace being consulted
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I'm pretty sure blockchains don't violate the laws of physics, so providing a working prototype shouldn't be much challenge.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
America. I used to walk two miles to school when I was a kid. That school got torn down years ago, but was replaced with another on the same lot. It would be just as easy to walk today as it ever was; there hasn't been some fundamen
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think you must have misunderstood. The idea was to make laws against murder sound ridiculous by breaking them down, not make yourself sound ridiculous. I'm pretty sure you cannot do as I requested.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I mean.. swimming didn't conflict with any other sport but diving, and swimming got precedence. We practiced in the morning because it was a good time for it.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Those can be done the same way.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
When I was on the swim team, we often had practice in the morning before class. If school started later, morning practice would be even easier (as it was, we were waking up at something like 5am for that.) And competitions can easily be o
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> If you break any concept/law down far enough, it becomes kinda meaningless. I call bullshit, I think it's mostly just bad laws that become ridiculous when 'broken down'. If you want to convince me otherwise, demo
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by bigbubba 6y ago
If our society took a chill pill with all the 'stranger danger' fear mongering, we could simply let kids walk themselves to school, as was once common not too long ago.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
There is none. Either can have content that would offend Apple's conservative American sensibilities, though I'd wager that more movies would than games. If Apple thought they could get away with content policing movies, they sur
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Knowing that it makes people in your line of work cringe makes marking newsletters as spam even more satisfying, so thank you for telling me this. I hope you all cringe so hard your faces get stuck like that.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
'Need' is not the right word, since cars without any of this nonsense work just fine. You could perhaps argue the car itself is a luxury that isn't needed, but smartphone integration certainly isn't needed in any sense.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
In my local American grocery store, I inspect all bread for mold, all cartons of eggs for breaks or spoilage, fruit for rotten abscesses. I avoid Walmart because they get special low quality SKUs, Amazon because they comingle counterfeit p
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It hardly makes sense to speak of the US as a monolith in this respect. In some parts of the US, people don't lock their front doors during the day and unattended vegetable stands have money jars for honor-system payment. In other pa
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by bigbubba 6y ago
This is also true in Nethack. Possessions lost in previous runs may be found again in later runs in bones levels.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
There is some limited use of poppies in America, but I expect most Americans are unfamiliar with it. It's primarily a Commonwealth thing.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Actually I disagree. I think any organization capable of establishing a Martian colony would likely be capable of sending along a few anti-satellite missiles to defend their claim. I do however doubt they'd be inclined to do so.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Sounds like you're saying it's political for being insufficiently political.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Who truly owns Mars will be decided by whoever has the power to enforce their claim. (Realistically I think any Mars colony would be too dependant on Earth to ever call themselves independent.)
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think people are attracted to extreme things in general and power in particular. The great white shark is great because it's huge and powerful, though it's considered monstrous in popular culture. In my experience it's al
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Consider this sentence: "Covid19 has caused a great loss of life." The word 'great' is not simply a more emphatic word for 'good', though in some contexts it might mean that. Great Britain isn't great
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> Stories about sacrifices should be taken with a grain of salt unless there is hard evidence Such hard evidence has been found, in the form of human remains mutilated in the manner described by contemporary sources.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I'm sure there are plenty of 'poor people in south-east asia making some money on youtube' who are doing it without making fraudulent content. Why don't you save your sympathy for them, rather than offering it to the
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> rsync is not a replacement [...] I can't use cp like syntax, it's not a replacement. Can you explain what you mean by this? I use rsync with the 'same syntax'; instead of 'scp src user@remote:/dst&#x27

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