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by chc 9y ago
I explained how you're wrong here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14659675 The TL;DR is: "That is just a patent license, and most OSS doesn't even include a patent license at all, so it seems weird to b
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by chc 9y ago
Sure, but none of that makes it a useless assertion. I'm not saying React is a magic shield from lawsuits — I'm saying that React doesn't appear to be any more dangerous in this regard than the majority of open-source softwar
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by chc 9y ago
Apache 2 is somewhat less permissive than Facebook's choice of BSD + patent grant. I agree that people probably wouldn't have been able to spread the FUD so successfully if they'd gone for a more conventional setup, but the l
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by chc 9y ago
It's not accurate. Facebook offers a blanket patent license with React, and the patent license (not the software license — just the patent one) terminates if you sue Facebook for patent infringement. And of course, if you sue them for
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by chc 9y ago
I could be interpreting the image wrong, but the star appears to be expelling some material on the left. It's not flattened on the bottom so much as bulging in the middle.
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by chc 9y ago
You may as well say that a game is not free if it poses a challenge, since then you pay in frustration. When we're talking about prices, "free" refers to money. You're certainly right that there are other interesting axe
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by chc 9y ago
What does this mean? Skinner boxes have nothing to do with showing ads.
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by chc 9y ago
In the absence of a fair pollution tax, I don't think subsidies for less-harmful technologies are necessarily bad. Unless you are actively in favor of the tragedy of the commons, these negative externalities have to be addressed someho
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by chc 9y ago
The entirety of your comment was about how much cars and their associated infrastructure suck and how you wish we didn't devote space to them. That's a hell of a lot more specific than "there might be a better way," and
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by chc 9y ago
You don't see any difference between banning cars and simply putting the parking spaces in a garage instead of on the street? The difference seems pretty stark to me — one implies that people cannot drive there and the other implies th
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by chc 9y ago
It doesn't sound like you're talking about the same thing as anyone else. You're right that parking garages accommodate cars just fine, and nobody here is arguing against parking garages.
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by chc 9y ago
Because for the majority of people, that ugly, dead cement is eminently useful. You essentially seem to be expressing confusion at why people who are different from you should be allowed to exist.
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by chc 9y ago
According to the CDC, at elevations above 6,500 feet, water needs to be boiled for three minutes to kill E. coli.
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by chc 9y ago
True. Relationships, on average, don't survive nearly as long as businesses. I'm not sure that's necessarily a knock against these people's approach, though.
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by chc 9y ago
The "difference" between robbery and theft exists primarily in legal jargon, and was never sharply defined in common usage. Regardless of your distaste for "literally," the dictionary is a much better source on colloquia
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by chc 9y ago
OK, so we've established that the legal definition is different from the dictionary definition. Now we just need to figure out if the OP is a blog post or a legal filing and we'll know which definition we should use.
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by chc 9y ago
That is neither vaporware nor BSing because Musk never suggested he was going to build the Hyperloop. He explicitly said the opposite, that it was an idea he thought was neat and he hoped somebody else would work on it.
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by chc 9y ago
It isn't, though. The two tasks aren't very similar. It's a pithy put-down if you already don't like the idea of driving AI for other reasons, but nobody who's looking to objectively evaluate a technology for use in
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by chc 9y ago
I don't know if there's any better way to downplay a major hire leaving after less than half a year. Everything in those statements is extremely obvious from the circumstances and I can't think of a more cordial way to phrase
920.
by chc 9y ago
In terms of privacy, doesn't it kind of let the cat out of the bag if you host your own VPN server? It's not your home address, but it's still just as much an address associated with you, isn't it?
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by chc 9y ago
I'm pretty sure any technology that could do that would also obviate programmers for most tasks, since it apparently understands how to program and learn new programming technologies well enough to implement algorithms both correctly a
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by chc 9y ago
This seems like an argument against any standards at all and for NIH as a guiding principle. Using the logic presented here, you could just as validly say that WebKit shouldn't support HTML and CSS since they're not proprietary an
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by chc 9y ago
I think Vulkan was meant to be included under the banner of "OpenGL" in the parent post. It seems to me the point is that Apple is doubling down on its proprietary API rather than going with the standard.
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by chc 9y ago
How is not being allowed to induce a mentally ill person to kill himself any more of an infringement of free speech than fraud or libel or perjury or conspiracy laws? The freedom of speech is a freedom to express oneself, not a freedom from
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by chc 9y ago
An orange includes 10–20 slices, so you could just as well say it's 1/10 the price. Trying to make a 1:1 comparison between oranges and cigarettes is a pretty weird idea in the first place.
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by chc 9y ago
Case law has established that commercial speech is not the same as other speech and is much more prone to restrictions.
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by chc 9y ago
I'm offering a reasoned analysis of what the actual effects of smoking a cigarette are and whether those things are widely considered luxurious. If you're addicted, sure, smoking offers a great luxury in taking the money off your
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by chc 9y ago
> A pack of cigarettes is one of the most luxurious pleasures available if all you have is $5. There's nothing luxurious about smelling bad and getting a wicked cough. Unless you're already addicted, nearly anything under $5
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by chc 9y ago
The idea that I can't criticize pathological behaviors by investors because I myself invest in things makes about as much sense as saying I can't criticize bad US policies because I live in the US.
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by chc 9y ago
This doesn't follow at all. You could just as well say, "You don't have to be employed to be in a business office, ergo a workplace cannot be a workplace under all conditions." This is semantic gymnastics around the word

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