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by dahart 2y ago
It seems like you’re making assumptions. But who cares, what business is it of ours if they want to keep Defold free? Would you rather they charge for it? Proprietary and disallowing others to commercialize your software is the law’s defau
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by dahart 2y ago
> They no longer even have paper sets of encyclopedias. Why would they? With Wikipedia being freely and always available and up to date, and most/all for-profit encyclopedias being online now, who goes to the library to use a paper
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by dahart 2y ago
It says why multiple times, right on the page parent linked to. They want Defold to be free to use, they are trying to guarantee it’s always available to developers free of charge, and that the source remains always available. Why do you as
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by dahart 2y ago
Oh I don’t doubt it’s a hassle. But you are paying the bank/insurance company, outside of Apple’s payment system, and they’re the ones refusing you international service, right? Have you tried calling them up to get support while trave
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by dahart 2y ago
For apps, you pay the developer and Apple takes a cut, right? The developers are the ones demanding region locking functionality, and either way they are also paying Apple. Apple’s not working against you so much as serving multiple custome
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by dahart 2y ago
A lot can be said about Apple and walled gardens for sure, but is it fair to mostly blame Apple for the region locked insurance app, rather than the app developer? That was the developer’s choice to do, not Apple’s. Hopefully Anees’ insuran
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by dahart 2y ago
Yes it does, it’s one of their stated goals: “Prevent the Defold software from being commercialised by a third-party.”
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by dahart 2y ago
Why do you assume the problem won’t exist, when this exact thing happens all the time? Just to name a tiny handful of obvious examples: Oracle, Canonical, GitHub, RedHat, DataStax. Not only could someone add enhancements that justify the pr
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by dahart 2y ago
> potential energy surface of gravitation extends in 1/r What does this mean? Gravity falloff is 1/r^2 right?
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by dahart 2y ago
The statement is technically true, but slightly confusing because the article talked about orbit being free fall, and about microgravity being in the range of one millionth to one thousandth of earths gravity. It is certainly possible to ge
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by dahart 2y ago
Institutions at the state and city level are called “government”, and those are included in the data parent linked to.
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by dahart 2y ago
> the number of civilians in the US Federal work force has gone up fairly steadily. The graph you provided is not Federal government, it’s all US government which includes state & city, and other types of government employees. It s
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by dahart 2y ago
Hehe explain aesthetics from first principles sounds like demanding the equation that proves Mona Lisa is a good painting. I mean you can argue aesthetics, but it’s a fact that in the western world, a suit is considered by everyone, more or
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by dahart 2y ago
There’s no reason that excepting false or misleading advertising from free speech protection would or should be overturned, right?
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by dahart 2y ago
Which historical documents are you referring to? Are you talking about the Declaration of Independence, which doesn’t mention free speech, nor define what natural rights are, nor provide any protection from any governments when asserting na
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by dahart 2y ago
That’s great, but not what I asked about. Free speech protections in the US are based on laws and not natural rights.
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by dahart 2y ago
Oh I totally agree, a blanket ban on advertising isn’t remotely realistic, ever. It’s a silly idea, and I doubt what most people want. I’m just sayin’ the Central Hudson test makes commercial speech less protected than, say, political rants
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by dahart 2y ago
Commercial speech is also widely recognized to have lesser First Amendment protection than personal, political, or ideological speech, and there are cases of advertisers losing in court, c.f. Spann v J.C. Penney, as well as decisions that e
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by dahart 2y ago
Free speech has exceptions that include commercial speech and advertising, especially false advertising. So are you talking about US free speech laws, or about some other kind of free speech? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by dahart 2y ago
> this idea of making advertising illegal is just a non-starter. It goes against the basic tenants of freedom of speech. FWIW, that’s not entirely accurate. The tenets of free speech include a long list of exceptions. In the US, commerci
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by dahart 2y ago
Smh. It’s not a scam, and it is a serious value add, and a real ticket. For someone , just not you. And only if the project survives, which is why they’re fundraising. https://www.aslsp.org/the_final_ticket.html
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by dahart 2y ago
Again, the terms of the purchase are explicitly laid out. Maybe go read them? It’s not a marketing stunt, not false advertising, and it is a real ticket. It’s a financial contribution to the project, same as any donation. You can rationaliz
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by dahart 2y ago
This is a roast. Funny, but is it useful?
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by dahart 2y ago
No need to speculate wildly or cast unsupported aspersions. The funds from the “Final Ticket” sales are explicitly a financial contribution to supporting the project. Nobody buying one is unaware of that fact, there’s no potential for scam.
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by dahart 2y ago
What taxes or subsidies are you talking about?? The Halberstadt project is funded on voluntary donations by people who want to see it happen. It’s not clear what’s making you angry about one obscure performance of an obscure piece of music,
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by dahart 2y ago
To be fair, while the piece is a deliberate provocation, like some of his others, the rest wasn’t imagined by Cage to take 17 months, that’s just an artifact of someone else’s decision to play the piece for 639 years. In typical performance
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by dahart 2y ago
Which of today’s real-time demos or games are you thinking of? The trend over time toward physically based rendering over the last 40 years has been pretty clear and absolute, and your claim is failing to capture that fact. While it’s a lit
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by dahart 2y ago
Does Doom on a dishwasher count? https://www.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/comments/1budbid/doom_on...
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by dahart 2y ago
> everything is locked down in the name of safety, and people loosing out on the ability of just having fun by modifying devices we already own. Do you have any specific examples? I’m not convinced this problem exists for demoscene. For
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by dahart 2y ago
How does one live or even function with no trust? You’re going to do your own experiments on everything in your life? Do you purchase any food, take any medicines, travel in any vehicles, or use any technology? You’re relying on products th

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