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cowl
4y ago
If your bug ends up risking the economy of the country definitly yes. But Public Humiliation is not the solution because if it worked we ould not have the same executives who failed LB fail yet another Bank. There should be Legal conseguen
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cowl
4y ago
> The bank was capitalized fine (albeit with underperforming treasury assets given interest rate increases) until it got $40 billion in withdrawals in a day. You, like many others, are counfounding the trigger (Panic Withdrawls) with the
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cowl
4y ago
And they literally rewrote a Browser for no reason, And they literally rewrote a bunch of infrastructure for no reason. And they literally reqrote an operating System (Android) for no reason. Oh wait...
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cowl
4y ago
I don't know if they have reached break-even. I know that they are in business for a long time and are clearly getting investments based on the usage and the potential. Usage that would not be there were it not for the Free time contri
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cowl
4y ago
It contributes to polarize the opinion. Never a good thing. It accuses People of things that have never crossed their minds. When I do a BlackBox testing never have I or those that I know Associated the "Black" of the Box with th
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cowl
4y ago
Most of these platform have reached their critical mass to stay in business (and time to attract the customers like you) only because of the free tier. Sorry but even a low cost tier is too much for most wanting to give a try to a new inf
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cowl
4y ago
That Publishing fee is nothing compared to the cost of the research itself. It's a rounding error and can be easily included in any research funding. Free Access is a clear Win. Any research that can not afford that Fee for a peer Revi
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cowl
4y ago
Because both of this "solutions" are not part of the delivery mechanism but part of your problem space. So the delivery system is not guaranteeing even a fake exactly-once delivery, it's you usage that makes it a fake exactly
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cowl
4y ago
National Borders are not there to enforce "thought". They are there to protect Physical Security (and Economic one that can be ported again to the physical Security). Exchange of Information (What Internet is) has always been a bo
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cowl
4y ago
Because Laws have never declared illegal/criminal things that should never have been declared as such? Or just because at the time it is considered Criminal, Noone should have the possibility to protect themselves from the government u
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cowl
4y ago
Well the whole idea is to "make it work" under the constrains of our current understanding (General Relativity). After all , all that Dark Energy is by definition is something that is Contrasting the Gravity as described by genera
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cowl
4y ago
Eh? They helpedd reduce the Emmisions of the system they were promoting for? Diesel is more CO2 friendly but much more polluting with NOx. This agressive push for a clearly inferior fuel (for this metric) is what raised the NOx emissions.
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4y ago
|prevalent enough trains Everyone keeps repeating this farce. No Trains are not prevalent enough. Those are prevalent only between major cities and do not offer a good service. (Most of trains in rush hours do not have enough capacity, are
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cowl
4y ago
As I understood it, AGPLv3's contains a clause that allows the users (Purethink in this case) to remove additional conditions added to the license. In this case to remove the Commons clause because it was added to the AGPLv3. So they c
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cowl
4y ago
Ofcourse the contributors have signed copyright assignment to you (that's mostly standard practice) but they have done so for a project that at the time was with the liberal license. It may not be illegal but it's certainly abusiv
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cowl
4y ago
Patches are not the only contribution, although I am sure that while not every OSS projects get many, the most visible ones do get also Patches. Anyway whatabout the early testing, bugfiling, documentation and helping others to understand h
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cowl
4y ago
It's a good model but only when it starts like that from the beginnig. How many developers have contributed to that open source because of the liberal orginal license? Now they take all that work and make it commercial? Ok but in that
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cowl
4y ago
Make sure you have the righ C cross compiler for the target platform. Then you might encounter the usuall Wrong version of libc etc. So it's not enough to compile for goos=linux for example but also need to make sure that your C cross-
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cowl
4y ago
First, we are talking about Development tools, so not non-technical population. Second, if Opt-in is considered difficult for the population, what does it say about the opt-out? Opt-out is always, no exception, more difficult than opt-in.
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4y ago
There are Court cases that have established that the very fact that a connection is being established constitutes a potential collection of IP adresses and needs to be declares under GDPR. (this was specifically about sites using links to G
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4y ago
For the majority of links there is no particular reason but for some specific cases where the link brings you to a App that the developer has build with that browser in mind it is useful. I want a way to force the opening of that app in th
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4y ago
It doesn't matter if it's signed or not. It's the AV heuristics that trip on the way the new executables from these languages are build. I have had The AV trigger even on simple Hello world programs while developing. THere
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4y ago
its very difficult for cars behind to judge the level of braking. in a Freeway everyone assumes to break enough for a slowdown and not full stop. In Italian Highways there is a very practical custom. the cars that see a full stop not only b
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4y ago
The Exception "exclusion solution" definitely it's not personalized and Sourcehut-only but available to anyone that requests it and in the issue track you can see several people that are using this exclusion already. True th
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4y ago
A ruling class will come out no matter what. Who "redistributes" the wealth? even the most passionate advocates of this form have recognized this and now propose an overruling "AI" and the postponing of this organisation
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4y ago
> I wonder why coop corporations are not more common. that's the same reason why state coops failed everywhere. because they are forced to work toward some common denominator that is almost always worse than each working to maximiz
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4y ago
> That may be true of an authoritarian regime, but under democracy, as I imagine most of us here are, government does not regulate society. It regulates individuals who try go against society. Society defines expectations, government cle
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4y ago
The diatribe against capitalism is unnecessary because there is no better system. You can quote Marx's Capital all you want. I have lived the system build upon it's premises and it's the worst system possible. It destroys the
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4y ago
And the premise that there can be reusability of software in that scale is the flow. > Most devs are rebuilding identical software stacks to serve a very small different business layer product. The problem is plainly because we don'
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4y ago
> Even if we think that we should describe mothers as birthing persons Mother definitely does not mean birthing person. The easiest example is adoption. Would would you call the mother in that case? Adoptive Female Parent goes again aga
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