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by cat199 7y ago
Is there a technical paper or short writeup for this? I'd be interested in hearing about the internals / structure.. e.g.: 1) what is the process/threading/privilege model 2) is this it's own lisp or ?? etc. suppose
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by cat199 7y ago
doh. good point :)
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by cat199 7y ago
> given the BSD state back then you mean being persecuted by over-bearing commercial unices? (e.g. SVr4 and ATT)? lets not mis-confuse the issues to our personal ends - the argument is just as valid that without BSD UNIX, stallman would
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by cat199 7y ago
> They share even their philosophical stance on code freedom arguable. BSD and commercial Unices used PCC and PCC derivitives for much of their history; by this token, GCC is the 'other woman', and this is itself ignoring the c
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by cat199 7y ago
this is taking the post USL vs BSD legalized definition of unix, which, w/r/t history, is revisionist. following the lineage and where active development happened at the time (80s/early 90s), one can easily make the case that
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by cat199 7y ago
> war crimes and killing journalists. and yet, the saudi's are our allies and noone cares when prince so-and-so donates to XYZPQ election via some proxy organization.. i have no doubt russia attempted to influence the election. the
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by cat199 7y ago
'with' and 'for' are two quite different words. which was it?
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by cat199 7y ago
None of this definitively means it was done 'on behalf of', nor 'for the benefit of'. 'to the benefit of', perhaps, but an unwitting puppet is not necessarily an accomplice.
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by cat199 7y ago
not exactly 'mind mappy', but some form of analog: 1) use a wiki 2) write a script to build a graph of the links 3) use graphviz or similar to view this
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by cat199 7y ago
this would be great.. and/or also leverage the modern VM extensions for a cheap 'realish mode' hypervisor system.
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by cat199 7y ago
ironically given the article title, this is basically the definition of a good monarchy..
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by cat199 7y ago
get a loan from the world bank and imf, obviously..
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by cat199 7y ago
and where do chinese living in cages 'because crowding' or having organs harvested for political dissent fit into these figures?
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by cat199 7y ago
> And if you stand up against them, as the Panthers did, well even the NRA will suddenly support gun control. .. lets not pretend that the Panthers were some mild group either. A group of people advocating along race lines for the end of
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by cat199 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Malaysia
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by cat199 7y ago
windowmaker.org
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by cat199 7y ago
many problems here: a) why exactly is google qualified to comment on national security? this either means they are verbally overstepping their bounds, know more than they should about secret+ programs, or are processing their vast data in
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by cat199 7y ago
Hmm. interesting. But wasn't this the same time as glasnost/perestroika? And again, this doesn't happen in a vacuum.. Was non-communist policy (e.g the west) more favorable to china than russia?
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by cat199 7y ago
> return to living happy, normal lives that are less stressed and more focused on being good to one another. but this would mean we'd have to actually produce things again..
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by cat199 7y ago
Not a field expert, but I'm fairly sure that China's vast economic growth is due largely to trade normalization with democratic countries in the last 20 years or so that happened after the fall of the USSR. Both were subject to th
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by cat199 7y ago
While i agree that much of the technological progress happened under soviet times, USA also abolished slavery in the 1860s, so this is not a very good data point for comparison.. one could make the argument that most 'western' (in
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by cat199 7y ago
'cup' typically refers to a demitasse in colloquial coffeespeak, but this is a scientific study, so ymmv. should be roundabouts 100mlish for demitasse and 200ml for US cup, give or take
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by cat199 7y ago
or, alternately, buy out the entire media and claim that the global level of implicit spin injected into everything is 'objectivity'... this is a 2 edged sword which cuts both ways
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by cat199 7y ago
Why are financial instruments going to remain exclusive to the elite any more than prior revolutionary economic technologies like agriculture, refrigeration, or pasteurization? Financial instruments in general have undergone prolonged cost
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by cat199 7y ago
Not a dev, but as i understand it as a Vaxstation 4000 owner who boots up from time to time to enjoy the beeps: a) build.sh allows cross compilation, which helps with build validation (although openbsd built native until they dropped vax
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by cat199 7y ago
Realize you are somewhat summarizing, but: "compatibility with unix" didn't matter in those days. There were many, many OS's, all running on computers so expensive (for whichever micro/mini/mainframe segment) t
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by cat199 7y ago
which is why the progressive democrats have made removing these programs such a core tenet of their platforms? this isn't partisan. perhaps skewed one way or another, but both parties seem to be quite happy with the state of domestic s
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by cat199 7y ago
if this was such a partisan issue, why did most of the backlash against wikileaks come long before the change of administration, and why didn't the previous administration hillary, etc, speak out loudly for assange, and terminate the
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by cat199 7y ago
Interesting that 'smart history' chooses a picture of the circus maximus that obscures the fact that it is now st peters basilica in rome, itself no small historical detail..
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by cat199 7y ago
> It's a nicer alternative to ntpd. define nicer?

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