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by citilife 8y ago
As someone who has multiple issued patents from large companies.. It's a pretty complex issue. I personally think software patents should be outlawed, as I don't know a better solution. On the one hand, I have several patents for
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by citilife 8y ago
I use Qt for some pretty large applications - works well and highly recommend.
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by citilife 8y ago
The way electricity works is by allowing the electrical company to charge everyone (across their whole network) such that they make a max of 10% (depends on state) above their current amortized expenditure. The idea being, if an electric co
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by citilife 8y ago
There's Automattic (creator of wordpress): http://time.com/88025/wordpress-parent-automattic-joins-the-... There's also companies like Craigslist who has ~50 employees, but is another billion dollar company:
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by citilife 8y ago
> Veterinarian programs specific limit how many students they accept, because if they didn't, their graduates wouldn't be able to afford a living wage. Other majors need to catch on. Medical schools do the same thing, but that&
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by citilife 8y ago
I think the last paragraph really says it all: > Before the very first shuttle flight, NASA estimated that the chance of death was between 1 in 500 and 1 in 5,000. Later, after the agency had compiled data from shuttle flights, it went b
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by citilife 8y ago
I think the people that do realize, short of armed rebellion, can do very little. If the people who control 60% of the nations wealth want to do this, all the complaining in the world isn't going to do anything.
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by citilife 8y ago
Many large companies don't realize there are other groups working on the same project. This means you may see two teams of 6 people working on the exact same problem. Resources are then split, potentially this actually makes both proje
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by citilife 9y ago
> Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups. First part sure, last part.. No one knows who you are on Stack Overflow unles
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by citilife 9y ago
Both Django and Flask make me yearn for Rails :(
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by citilife 9y ago
And thats when he realized Wells Fargo got the last laugh, 10 years of late fees
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by citilife 9y ago
I try to equally tag my face and my wife's face (50/50). That way (even though she's still tied to me), their system can't determine which is hers vs mine - thus it probably has some really funky results. I no longer app
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by citilife 9y ago
There have been many more updates since (for instance the first article you linked was from 01/10/18): January 29th Microsoft had to revert the Intel patch discribed: https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-emer
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by citilife 9y ago
I'm not 100% sure about every other reviewer, but many times tests will be done with a base windows 10 install (as to avoid the need to look at comparisons between patches). Regarding performance impact, short answer is - yes. Basicall
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by citilife 9y ago
Have you heard of Kim Dotcom[1]? New Zealand resident, with a service based out of Hong Kong, and the U.S. attempted (still attempting) to extradite him. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom
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by citilife 9y ago
It hasn't been challenged yet, and it likely wont be. Basically, Facebook (and other companies) patent stuff so if they are sued they can counter sue. Essentially, causing a kind of nuclear war for the companies (think Apple and Samsun
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by citilife 9y ago
> One huge advantage Chinese corporations and startups have is China's super lax (non-existent, in fact) privacy and data protection laws I think it's more that the Chinese government will essentially gift you a monopoly if you
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by citilife 9y ago
I think it's mostly the historical record, as decided by the government
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by citilife 9y ago
I wonder how much Illinois impacts the average... At this stage, there is literally no way to even pay back the pension (it'd be $20k per person in the state, if we needed to pay it back today).
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by citilife 9y ago
I like the premise, but at $3000/month it'd be hard to live in SF (which is a requirement). More importantly though, it appears the goal is to lock-in startups, then as they scale you make more money. For Dark, this makes total se
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by citilife 9y ago
I recently received a "terms of service" update from Comcast, with the notification that they can now "monitor and record anything going through the network. Including, but not limited to: audio recording, video recording, ..
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by citilife 9y ago
No doubt... It's just strange China is literally chasing away some serious talent because they don't agree with their moral code.
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by citilife 9y ago
The Heathens! It's been spiraling down for a while now. I know quite a few Chinese who moved from China to the U.S. now, while they can. A couple of them are LGBT, where it was made clear they weren't welcome - even with PhD'
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by citilife 9y ago
Pretty sure this is a coordinated attack by media, similar to media attacking Trump. The fact is, you're right, most of this has been known for years . It's interesting because four years ago, I actually used the same technique a
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As predicted, more branch prediction processor attacks are discovered(arstechnica.com)
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by citilife 9y ago
At the massive institution I work at, we recently went all-in on O365 18 months ago and are now switching to Google (over the next 12 months). So perhaps, but the room for change seems to be evident.
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by citilife 9y ago
I don't think they really can. Effectively, they'd have to block Google in the EU. Otherwise, Google can technically just stay in the U.S. and sell services. Ad's don't have to be location based, pretty sure a lot of adv
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by citilife 9y ago
I think part of it, is for a time (perhaps generations), we may have less jobs for the masses. Most people aren't able to "cure cancer" (is anyone). This can create turmoil and scare people: "I've done this for year
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by citilife 9y ago
Alright - I like your website layout: https://defphil.com/ But to be fair, some people may want different features than the bare minimum. Also, even if Hugo is the most convenient as an org-mode user, I highly doubt it&#x27
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by citilife 9y ago
It's probably (in part) due to the last line of the article / post: > App Store terms and conditions forbid distribution of Free Software that grants users freedom to use the program any way they want. You're not allowed t

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