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by d1zzy 6y ago
Seems to be popular at Facebook.[1] Where I work Mercurial has been an option for some time now (no Git unfortunately) and coming from Git I must say I really love how it does some of its things: - hg split: split a commit into as many diff
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by d1zzy 6y ago
I don't think there are a lot of development world people posting on HN so it's all good /s
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by d1zzy 6y ago
I'm curious if Google were to provide a payed service for their web services, which includes human support, how many people would pay for that? ... Probably as many as currently pay for Youtube Premium and then come to HN and complain
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Computers are just a tool, they're great at processing lots of data very fast. That makes certain types of tasks a good fit for them. None of the things you mentioned were necessarily better before computers, they simply used other met
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by d1zzy 6y ago
To give someone an idea of how bad the difference between neighbours living in the same type of house (same lot size, same floor plan) can be because of Prop 13 in CA, check out this site: https://www.officialdata.org/ca-pro
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by d1zzy 6y ago
An interesting proposal I've seen that attempts to still save the retirees from being forced to move out for not paying their taxes vs houses locked at a certain rate for too long would be to recover the FMV rate owned taxes upon selli
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by d1zzy 6y ago
> But at the same time, these cities, like Palo Alto, are building office space left and right and welcoming businesses into town. Because said cities cannot get enough tax money from property tax (blame Prop 13) so they need to get it f
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by d1zzy 6y ago
How come would that not happen? Apps come from somewhere and they are installed on someone's platform. The government can simply ask the provider of those apps to stop providing them and/or the provider of the platform to stop all
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by d1zzy 6y ago
> The (rather massive) flaw in your reasoning is the idea that Google and Apple are the solution to the problem. Nor should they even attempt to, because the moment they get involved in policy making you have an army of HNs complaining
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> On another hand you have Google and Apple, yet again, being the complicit chokepoints of “free speech”, with regard to app developers. And how is that detail is pertinent to this discussion? If it wasn't Google or Apple it would b
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Feel free to convince your government and fellow citizens to use tax money to pay for such infrastructure. Google laying down their own cable isn't stopping anybody from doing so.
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The question is: can that income fund the Google-style salaries and benefits that are currently being payed for people working on it? Otherwise lots of existing employees may not want to be part of this split company. If that is a large los
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by d1zzy 6y ago
I don't agree that an economy made out entirely of smaller players is strictly better. I think there pros and cons to each of these scenarios. For example one thing smallest companies cannot do is effectively tackle problems that take
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by d1zzy 6y ago
So no business should be allowed to refuse whom they can do business with? (other than illegal deals)
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> but they objectively did almost everything better. Sure, if you ignore everything else they didn't. Even restricting the discussion to COVID, the reason why a lot more people have, are and will be getting infected (and die) is bec
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by d1zzy 6y ago
I think humanity (as a species) is able to overcome situations like this, but not without large loss of life (and potentially setback in culture, technology, society). So I wouldn't be too concerned about humanity, just about our curre
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by d1zzy 6y ago
That reads as an argument but my lack of English skills makes it hard to understand what exactly are you saying. However, it does seem to me that that you still haven't addressed one of the main points you're responding to, that w
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Wait, is mobile data access a basic right now? I am living very comfortably but never got a mobile data plan. I find them too expensive for what they are. YMMV.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Seems sad to be them but this has always been the case with open source. There has been countless successful businesses established that run with on source software (think Linux, glibc, etc) and almost none of them payed back open source de
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Who is "ours" here? They make perfectly legal use of that code. What they're doing seems to be in my interest because if they do it, it means I could also establish a business using permissive code to run it and hopefully mak
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by d1zzy 6y ago
So, according to some in this thread, as a business owner you are "exploiting open source" by taking more permissively licensed code and making money off it. Shame on you! /s
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by d1zzy 6y ago
If taking an open source product that is released under a license that allows you to use in some ways and then using it that way and making money off it somehow is considered to be "exploiting open source" then yes, Amazon is guil
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Last time I researched this (when I settled on a desktop condenser mic), the only headphones that had good mic quality were the very expensive ones, $200 and higher and/or the professional ones (the ones you see used in sports on the f
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by d1zzy 6y ago
I hope this doesn't result in Twitter banning all adult content which seems to be how all platforms handle pedophilia lawsuits/legal pressure these days.
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by d1zzy 6y ago
Actually, there are games that run better with Wine under Windows than native... I mean, there are some games that work better when you use the OpenGL based DirectX implementation of Wine than the native Windows version, notably Dracula 3 o
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by d1zzy 6y ago
> That aside, he's a public representative of the highest order (a Senator). He needs to be heard whether we like it or not. And to achieve that you're going to force businesses to host content that hurts their bottom line (the
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by d1zzy 6y ago
So who's going to pay the money to keep the lights on for Trump? At the end of the day these companies are businesses that cater to their customers. For adtech that's advertisers. The reason a lot of non-illegal content is removed
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by d1zzy 6y ago
I'm not sure about the last point. I would think hardware dedicated accelerators were done because it was the cheapest way to achieve that performance not because it allowed to somehow bypass GPL. However, choosing to not run Linux but
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> Curious if you feel torn supporting the US highway infrastructure? It can clearly be used for to traffic drugs, humans, blackmarket weapons, etc. It can be used to flee justice, evade police, abets vehicular manslaughter, etc. The lis
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by d1zzy 6y ago
While it's not necessary to say "the only country" I think it IS necessary to "brainwash" people by potentially lying to them that it is possible to have economic mobility in order to actually enable it. If most peo

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