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by cat_plus_plus 6y ago
This excludes - Businesses that have not yet built a product they want to charge for - Businesses that have not yet decided who to charge (individual users vs advertisers vs 3rd party sellers) - Businesses that have other money making produ
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by cat_plus_plus 6y ago
For the past five years or so, I prefer discussing current events with conservatives - not because I think they are closer to truth, but because they are willing to be a good sport in a conversation. This has nothing to do with political pa
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by cat_plus_plus 6y ago
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by cat_plus_plus 7y ago
It's too bad that modern day hardware does not allow similar depth of hacking decades after release. CDs could be still overburned to significantly larger capacity, yet there is nothing like that for Bluray.
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by cat_plus_plus 7y ago
What kind of women and does anyone else find it sexist to assume that men will always be the offenders and women the offendees? Programming involves deconstructing complex problems into basic steps while ignoring full real world nuances in
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by cat_plus_plus 7y ago
People are throwing these words around so much they lost all the real meaning. Harassment is someone seriously interfering in your life. Bad jokes during a public talk where you are obviously safe from unwanted advances does not qualify. Ne
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by cat_plus_plus 7y ago
That's what makes me so furious at the morons who deplatformed RMS over some silly devil's advocate defense of Minsky on an internal mailing list. The guy has an important idea that he put most of his life into developing. In the
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by cat_plus_plus 7y ago
Well, that's a copout. Of course, if you take absolutely any computer architecture, you can't assume simple things like sizeof(int) or data structure alignment. But if sizeof(int) is at 4 and data needs to be aligned by its own si
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by cat_plus_plus 8y ago
So the argument in question was about a technical matter which is not appropriate to share externally. The software engineer with "strong anti-vax opinions" believed that vaccines are net beneficial, but not that they should be ab
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by cat_plus_plus 9y ago
Why only 40 inch - get whatever fits on your desk. 4K monitor will not be painfully pixelated up close. If you coded through the past decade, you will likely see an improvement from some of your recent monitors. At the end of the day, it&#x
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by cat_plus_plus 10y ago
So just give money in small daily deposits. If someone spends all money in beer one day, he/she will be hungry the next day and make better choices.
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by cat_plus_plus 10y ago
Government policy is for long term. We can think of how to help people to transition, but can't just stop progress because some are used to current system. And long term basic income will work precisely to reduce learned helplessness.
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by cat_plus_plus 10y ago
This is nuts. Basic income is not to provide extra spending money for 100% of americans. It's help 10% of the most poor while everyone else ends up paying back the money in taxes. So we are talking about 300 billion. This is half of US