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by chc 6y ago
I think by "successful" they mean something like "successfully completed." Four attempts to kill Mussolini were carried out to completion, but only one actually succeeded in injuring him, while the others basically just
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by chc 6y ago
Who is "the certificate authority" you're referring to here?
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by chc 6y ago
I don't have a position on what to call it myself, but I don't see any reason why someone would be insistent on finding some way to call it "Chinese" unless they were attempting to cast blame in a way that "Brazilia
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by chc 6y ago
You're in a thread that was kicked off with unsourced statements about virology and epidemiology, but suddenly we have an urgent need for sources — actually, not just sources , because the demand was for proof — when we encounter th
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by chc 6y ago
Can you link to something that proves this is only asking for a reference? That's what the comment sounded like to me, and why I downvoted it. It does not come across to me as a good-faith request for a reference, and more like an atte
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by chc 6y ago
I agree. My personal term for this sort of "We're OK with little people using the software but we don't want any competition" arrangement is "private-use source license," but I wouldn't be so bold as to ar
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by chc 6y ago
I don't think your conclusion follows. Elastic effectively saying "Nobody can provide our software as a service" doesn't increase the openness of the overall system — it reduces the openness of the system in order to b
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by chc 6y ago
I think the problem is just slightly wrong terminology. In GPL terms, a network connection under the AGPL is treated as distribution , not linking . If it counted as linking, that would mean that any software that makes a network connecti
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by chc 6y ago
Talking about categories of things are useful. This is like saying "Do we really need a term for two-wheeled vehicles driven by pedals? Just say you have a Cannondale or a Schwinn."
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by chc 6y ago
The primary distinction in those licenses is that they're not generally open for use — they allow a carefully chosen, closed set of use cases. As an analogy, when a bar has a TV showing some preselected channel at a preselected volum
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by chc 6y ago
"Freedom software" sounds like word salad to my American ear, so I'm not sure how you see that as serviceable. If you showed me the phrase and put a gun to my head to guess what it meant, I'd probably guess it was a joke
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by chc 6y ago
But now we need a new term to mean what "open-source" has meant for two decades, just because for some reason we wanted to be inclusive of licenses where the source is viewable but not open for use. And once we've redefined i
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by chc 6y ago
"They had never gotten any programmer with the requisite expertise to take a look at the code in nearly a decade of opportunities" sounds more or less like a verbose phrasing of "They didn't care."
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by chc 6y ago
Do you use Twitter much? Some of those were actual issues that arose when the algorithmic feed was first introduced, but none of that is the case anymore and hasn't been for at least at year and probably more. I can't remember the
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by chc 6y ago
Only if you tell it to. You can choose an algorithmic feed or a chronological feed. I don't know why anybody would choose the algorithmic feed, because you're right that it sucks, but there's also no pressure to do so.
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by chc 6y ago
You don't have to do that anyway. Just set your feed to "latest" and there's no algorithm besides "when did this appear on the timeline of someone you follow?"
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by chc 6y ago
As a worker, you want "complications" in that relationship, because in its natural form, the balance of power is extremely lopsided toward the employer.
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by chc 6y ago
In that situation, you have a clear way of getting paid more: Keep working, same as everyone else did. You're not getting special treatment, but it's not like they're working against you either.
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by chc 6y ago
That seems exactly equivalent to following those people and not posting, but more work. How is this better?
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by chc 6y ago
Framing an "average age of 40" as "an older demographic" seems a bit misleading, as the average age of human beings in America is 38. We're not talking a few sickly senior citizens here (which, even if we were, I wo
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by chc 6y ago
There are actually very good reasons to go with Rust over those languages, which were the motivating reasons Rust was developed in the first place. Rust supports lower-level development than Java, offers much stronger safety and correctness
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by chc 6y ago
I'm not saying we should be stuck with the duopoly. I'm saying that we factually are stuck with the duopoly, and we're more likely to get results from regulating the duopoly than we would from pointing at random video game
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by chc 6y ago
> Sure - but what we’re really talking about is Epic wanting to take part of the profit without doing the work to build the platform. Apple did nothing to create Fortnite, but they want about a third of the revenue from Fortnite. Epic di
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by chc 6y ago
I think you're saying that no competitors in the mobile platform market are being excluded. But the point is that Apple (and Google to a slightly lesser degree) are using their dominance in the mobile platform market to exclude compe
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by chc 6y ago
Me: Nobody's saying it's Apple's fault that they're in a duopoly position in the phone space, but that doesn't absolve them of the responsibility that position holds either. What is Apple's fault is that they&#
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by chc 6y ago
This argument doesn't pass the "Would it work just as well as a defense of late-'90s Microsoft?" test. I would be willing to concede most of the facts you brought up, but none of that in any way mitigates the amount of c
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by chc 6y ago
It's true that nobody has to buy an iPhone, in that they can choose any of the one competing platform. "There's literally a single competitor" isn't a very strong argument against regulation, though.
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by chc 6y ago
If you're rewriting everything to get the behavior rather than just hooking together preexisting pieces, that's not what's generally meant by composition.
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by chc 6y ago
Doesn't the security of Tor depend on the proposition "Surely my opponent would never operate a bunch of exit nodes"? That has always been my impression, and it seems like a problem when your opponent is a state actor.
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by chc 6y ago
I don't think I understand. Those are both just time zones, right? So knowing what time it happens elsewhere requires a conversion no matter what time zone you gave originally, doesn't it?

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