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by cat199 7y ago
... using machines that british people invented. get the overall point, but not sure this is a good example.
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by cat199 7y ago
cool idea. but.. 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)#Useless_use_of_cat 2) speaking of #1, wheres < > &| etc? 3) Question #2: Extract only Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie's last names. Hint
573.
by cat199 7y ago
this assumes the labor/client pool in a given area is infinite, and that management skill is not a factor. e.g. good managers who take care of their dancers/customers get the best dancers and so attract the best customers.
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by cat199 7y ago
any specific food has a at least one if not many near perfect substitutes, whereas any specific drug likely does not. validity of OP's conclusions aside, this is not apples to apples from an economic perspective. see also: https:&#x2F
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by cat199 7y ago
Ostensibly (not a lawyer) given the sensationalist false headline and the direct attack on his own business rather than just being 'politics', this could potentially be cause for a libel suit. That said, since the company is alrea
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by cat199 7y ago
agree all is gameable - this is why I argue social media should provide tools for users to filter their own content rather than being everyones nanny
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by cat199 7y ago
> Are you saying there were fewer islands and more stacks in the past? was never a newyorker but did briefly visit the strand in ~2002, and from my fuzzy recollection (wasn't in the market for a book at the time) it was pretty much
578.
by cat199 7y ago
> you also increase false-positives ... > if social media offered rewards for identifying such abuse couldn't this also be gamed for false positives, and create an incentive for groups to form smear-for-profit entities which try
579.
by cat199 7y ago
because sudo improves security over 'su' and raw root logins, obviously
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by cat199 7y ago
I'd posit, though without experience of contemporary systems of the era, that the article's more correct title would be 'the birth of standard error in Unix'..
581.
by cat199 7y ago
agree, more correct article title seems to me to be: "When Employees Ask for Justice, Facebook Silence Their Voices, here's an example featuring some Chinese people"
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by cat199 7y ago
> easier to get power, harder to use it to control others and harder to keep it once you have it. curious - if it's harder to use/keep, how is it actually 'power'?
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by cat199 7y ago
> - understand priorities > - allow you to queue jobs technically this can be done oldschool with cron+at/batch.
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by cat199 7y ago
this appears to handle interdependencies / multi machine / in-application hooks you could create some cron framework + glue code that accomplishes the same thing, but that would be alot of code.
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by cat199 7y ago
> Its not clear to me that you can comply with a user request to get access to replace or modify LGPL'd software in your application. It doesn't need to be available via the same mechanism, it just needs to be available, no? An
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by cat199 7y ago
As clear a proofe as anie that the Americane Revolution, hafing overthrowne the Tyrannikal Nature of Evil Popishness, has replacede the corruptede Imperial Idolotrie of suche Devils as 'St George' with the Superior and Enlightened
587.
by cat199 7y ago
all of these are up to the list. various policies spam: some run filters on the list, some let it through banning: some lists are moderated where posts go through moderators, some are not, ban tendency is up to the list administrator archiv
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by cat199 7y ago
> What is the article suggesting, that we sit on our chair doing nothing? no, it's suggesting that just because something is new it is not automatically an improvement, and progress exists both on the technological plane and also th
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by cat199 7y ago
not op, and not 100%/authoritative, but I can think of some things: - adding/refactoring locking for improved SMP support - dropping older architectures (VAX, etc) - dropping older protocols/servers (e.g ISDN, decnet sorts of
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by cat199 7y ago
probably a reference to this whole thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_fi... some posit that this (may have) helped elect the clintons who in turn moved for the WTO/trade liberalizatio
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by cat199 7y ago
> serving the rest of the world. what about sourcing manufacturing? this is the crux.
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by cat199 7y ago
> Without that I'd bet China would have civil warred and bootstrapped its self into Democracy. orr.. gotten over the sino-soviet split and bolshevized europe and latin america, leaving the US without a leg to stand on geopolitically
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by cat199 7y ago
> basically describe the relative market size. pretty sure that basically describes the relative market valuation - given income differences/relative cache of the two different leagues, market size vs valuation would be vastly dif
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by cat199 7y ago
CCP is officially atheist.
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by cat199 7y ago
Seems to revive the 'receiving a physical thing' feel like magazines. why not?
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by cat199 7y ago
> Our goal is to have the lights respond to your requests as quickly as possible when you interact with them via Alexa or Google Home. so perhaps design the product such that it is a few minimalist byte oriented protocols operating over
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by cat199 7y ago
dyslexia for the win
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by cat199 7y ago
how are these 'libre' alternatives? (libre being typically used to disambiguate free-as-in-beer vs free-as-in-freedom in the english speaking OSS world)
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by cat199 7y ago
> I am not a US citizen nor a resident, nor am I a Russian citizen or resident, so my opinions are absolutely subjective. believe me, this doesn't make your opinions objective ;)
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by cat199 7y ago
how is it unusual? from screenshots it looks like itunes+pdf reader to me

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