crpatino

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by crpatino 6y ago
Really, hell banned? Go figure. I assume you at least can still read me. BSD and MIT licenses are Open Source but not Free, they are more concerned with providing a claim of ownership to the author than with the freedom of the user. LGPL is
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by crpatino 6y ago
I'd have to disagree... https://policies.google.com/terms https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/terms/site.htm... Maybe there's some code that at one point was FOSS in those
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by crpatino 6y ago
I do teach at high school level and, in general, I am unimpressed by what the current generation of education tech brings to the table. Most of them do the same stuff as the tools available 15-20 years ago (Microsoft Office, Skype, Moodle),
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by crpatino 6y ago
That's what we do nowadays, is it? Somebody walks and say something against our preferred political ideology and we throw vague threats of ruining that person's life with false accusations?
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by crpatino 6y ago
The "two corners of the White House" part is totally in line with the "heads on pikes". It is all part of the same figure of speech. The part everybody is missing is "I'd actually like to go back to the old tim
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by crpatino 6y ago
Correct. Your point being?
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by crpatino 6y ago
On the other hand, your insurance company would have strictly (and wisely, IMHO) defined how many millions worth of chemo your $500/month plan will buy you, or specifically what kinds of treatments will it pay for, and at what rates. S
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by crpatino 6y ago
To answer bluGill and saalweachter both. If you have power fantasies, may I interest you in the practice of martial arts instead? I know I am biased in favor of that, but I will try anyways. If you want to learn and make others do your bidd
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by crpatino 6y ago
As we age, we find bigger and better dreams to pursue. What is it so special about the minions? Do they have to be robots? What is it with the Moon? Answer those questions and you will figure out what is your new dream... or reframe the old
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by crpatino 6y ago
> And yes, it is true that these totalitarian methods ar efficient in fighting street level crime. You give too much credit to police states. What happens in reality is that criminals with connections and a minimum of self restrain are f
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by crpatino 6y ago
Unlike the playbook, though, this is a observable behavior that can be documented. If I were writing an utopia, class action lawsuits would rain like fire and brimstone.
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by crpatino 6y ago
In order to communicate effectively you need a mental model of your audience. The same sentence can be cumbersome to some readers, just right for others, and even condescendingly simplistic for a small minority. The fact that you found the
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by crpatino 7y ago
If I may recomend the book "Stars' Reach: A Novel of the Deindustrial Future" by one John Michael Greer, maybe we can see this idea from a different perspective. From Greer's point of view, the factors that make today&#x
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by crpatino 7y ago
It all depends on your definition of improvement... C is a bit like a Formula One car. Regardless of the historic reasons that caused it to evolve the way it did, it ended up occupying a niche and being very well suited to it, while at the
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by crpatino 8y ago
First, let me say that encoding bits in whitespace is to Steganography what ROT13 is to Cryptography. Neither has a chance of success against any non-incompetent attacker, but they serve well as simple proofs of concept. Second, you assume
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by crpatino 9y ago
You know, nobody has been actually linched for either trolling or reckless driving. Maybe some were killed, if they crossed the wrong kind of victim, but that's the risk you assume when being a jerk. On the other hand, I would fully su
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by crpatino 9y ago
> But if I'm a huge tech company, I can afford a lot of time and resources too, Can? Sure! Would? Security is one of those things that most people say they care about, but they are really not willing to pay for. Big companies have r
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by crpatino 9y ago
I have met Diego a few years ago at LatinCrypt, and if half of what he says is to be believed, it is much worse than that. It is not just the possibility that "very dirty stuff" might be uncovered. It is the fact that in spite of
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by crpatino 9y ago
I am surprised that nobody has raised this issue? If elephants are smart enough to recognize an enemy, avoid it, and warn other elephants that have not seen this enemy first hand... do they qualify as people? They certainly seem at least as
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by crpatino 9y ago
If you are going to criticize, at least get your facts straight. Peak oil did happen in the 1970s. American peak oil, that's it. The reason we have had the last couple of decades of Middle East adventurism is because the US stopped
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by crpatino 9y ago
You know you are living interesting times when companies bust on purpose !!!
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by crpatino 9y ago
Right. When we set out to "change the world", we rarely stop and think whose world we'd be changing.
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by crpatino 9y ago
You assume too much. Uber might be good for the customer, but it is a total jerk to the driver. Last scandal at my hometown, that is unlikely to reach the English speaking world, is as follows. Our airport, which lays on federal grounds, gr
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by crpatino 9y ago
No, you were never going to beat the elite at their own game if you came from relatively humble origins. But the unwritten agreement was that if you probe yourself useful enough, you would be accepted as a kind of junior member of the club.
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by crpatino 9y ago
This, as many other things, is a people problem. The number of experts in CS is not constrained by availability of resources (though that might not be the case for every field), but the number of people that have: 1. a minimum of inteligenc
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by crpatino 9y ago
Yeah, sorry about that. It is not really you, it is that I have had this conversation over with more people before, and my tolerance have grown thin. But other than the epithets, my point stands. Knowing what an eigenvalue is, or how to cal
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by crpatino 9y ago
Even if you are right, your comment is pointless. Let's assume Buddism was the ultimate truth of how the Universe work. Would it be Ok for a Buddist to interrupt a debate about criminal law with the remark that, given reincarnation, al
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by crpatino 9y ago
Humans are social primates. Being willfully unaware of how the other tribes of primates perceive your own tribe is both naive and stupid. And given the fact that the other tribes are more numerous, have bigger and hairier and angrier primat
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by crpatino 9y ago
> This was written so disrespectfully and dismissively of programmers, hackers and engineers that I have a hard time reading I did not read anything there that was openly hostile to us. Critic of unintended consequences, yes; but that re
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by crpatino 9y ago
If you are going to unfriend them, you may as well not use FB at all. My wife's happy medium is, basically, to not login until a close relative or friend (usually her mother) phones and tells her there's something there to check;

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