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by bkor 3y ago
> Office is much superior to any open source and even paid alternatives, and we must remember that most people using the software don't have a degree in CS. Germany is investing in improving free software, see https://www
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by bkor 3y ago
> I'm not complaining. I am trying to counter FUD that is obscuring documented history. But you haven't actually shown any proof of your claim. You claim to "explain some history a lot of rich and influential people would
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by bkor 3y ago
> Why do you keep attacking a stranger? Do you hate me for some reason? Because it certainly feels like it. I do not see that person attacking you. He's saying the article is bs, that is about the article, not you as a person. >
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by bkor 3y ago
> Then it should be easy for you to prove it wrong, then. Again, prove that you are right. It should be easy, no? Even a release team member at that time who says you're incorrect only resulted you in saying "citation needed&qu
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by bkor 3y ago
> So prove me wrong, and when you do it, stop calling my work insulting names and accusing me of things I do not have or do, such as calling me bad-intentioned. You keep repeating this, but it's not up to others to prove what you cl
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by bkor 3y ago
> > Microsoft's legal threats were not what motivated the shift > > [[Citation needed]] You made that claim, it's on you to prove your claim. Instead, you claim something and pretend it is true unless someone provides
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by bkor 3y ago
Spotify uses (used?) DNS TXT records as well. See e.g. the following article: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2017/03/spotifys-love-hate... I thought they also used it in their client but cannot find a article a
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by bkor 3y ago
> Way better than Canadian or European health care because it's basically a private ppo plan the state pays for. That's a strange method to consider something better or not. It seems to lead to overpaying for stuff. And it seem
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by bkor 3y ago
> It's really weird the spin on this. The "spin" is coming from you. > Space X rockets (and others) blow up all the time SpaceX has done ~227 successful Falcon missions in a row. Those rockets do NOT "blow up all t
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by bkor 3y ago
I'm aware of the following: https://harmonyagreements.org/ Still, CLAs are a barrier on their own already. Standardizing them doesn't help. Plus as another commenter mentioned: sometimes a standard CLA is used but
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by bkor 3y ago
> "Visa available both on arrival or eVisa" That just means that they're taxing the arrivals. Turkey and Indonesia (for my country) switch between requiring a visa on arrival and not needing one. That's tied to lower&
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by bkor 3y ago
> I have a CAA on my GPL project so that I have the right to start releasing it as MIT, that is, more Free. That really depends on the CAA. It might allow way more. The text might be (legally) not applicable or have flaws, etc. > Do y
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by bkor 3y ago
Why? Getting someone so sign off on a CLA is a huge burden. There are loads of companies that have huge software development teams but the company is NOT an IT company. Legal isn't setup to figure out a CLA. At least that's in my
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by bkor 3y ago
> It also screams loudly and for long times whenever I power it on and when I want to switch the ambient noise mode. You can disable that through the Android app. > default is active noise cancelling, and it's broken most of the
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by bkor 3y ago
Efficiency has a huge impact on the cost/economics, something that you've highlighted. If significant more energy is needed, it'll likely be more expensive. Hydrogen is sometimes only a third as efficient as other solutions.
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by bkor 3y ago
Might also want to try an psychologist. The person you go to often suggests solutions that they're familiar with. Meaning, if they often cure things with drugs they'll likely give you such a solution. You didn't really specif
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by bkor 3y ago
The following site works for The Netherlands (not just Amsterdam): https://mapitout.iamsterdam.com/ It has some minor limitations to select the time (has to one of the predefined options). That can be worked around by chang
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by bkor 3y ago
> The evidence is to the contrary. That something is not done doesn't automatically prove it's due to e.g. Middle East, or giving really old stock to Ukraine. The US is more than capable of doing multiple things at the same tim
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by bkor 3y ago
You initially said: >US policymakers have repeatedly stated their aim is to remove Putin, and they have plans to break up the country. > > For the Russians, this is an existential crisis. Russia decided to invade Ukraine, you seem
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by bkor 3y ago
> If transport over big distances wasn't a problem There's a project that's planning solar power generation in Morocco and a cable to the UK. That'll be a fairly long cable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by bkor 3y ago
> They seem to be using an awful lot of wind, and it was my understanding that how much power they produced was somewhat random The amount of wind that's produced is predictable. In NL they do "day ahead pricing". You can
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by bkor 3y ago
> A 2014 study which looked at the same issue found that 2-megawatt wind turbines And such wind turbines are nowadays tiny. If you look at https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_windmolenparken_in_d... (Dutch) the
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by bkor 3y ago
> I got that wind turbines do not actually produce more energy than was needed to build them. Wind turbines generate way more power than what is needed to produce them. Loads of wind turbines will be installed in the North Sea by various
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by bkor 3y ago
I use Consent-O-Matic. You can configure how it should behave. By default it'll reject things. For the websites it doesn't support I often use reader mode.
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by bkor 4y ago
> A practical collapsible container still has not been made. That's yet another idea that people often think of when people wonder about improvements for container shipping. The container shipping company I worked for studied it eve
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by bkor 4y ago
> Is whatever the standard mechanism is for securing containers to ships sufficient here? Not in the slightest. Containers are secured by lashing them. But that's just the one level, mostly. Then after that it is twist locks. There
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by bkor 4y ago
That video shows that they have no clue about containers or the container shipping industry.
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by bkor 4y ago
> Have you actually talked to anyone in the cargo ship industry about your idea? I worked in the container shipping industry. It doesn't sound like this person ever talked to anyone in the industry. It's not like "add a sa
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by bkor 4y ago
> It makes the exact same observation. I find it highly difficult to figure out what the article is trying to say. This especially as it's trying to say something about private debt vs the welfare system. I don't understand wha
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by bkor 4y ago
Credit Suisse was involved in loads and loads of scandals. Joe Blogs summarized loads of them in a video: https://youtu.be/tAJRqpDqjLU?t=325 It's insane that this questionable bank which continuously says "problem

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