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by davorak 3y ago
> Stuffy, Maybe, but rude? Full names, at least in the USA, are sometimes used by parents to address their children when they are in trouble. Rude might not be the right word but potentially at least jarring. I have never experienced it
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> Edge is breaking this cardinal rule: Browser chrome belongs to the browser, but the content area belongs to the application alone. I think the end user should have 100% control or access to it. I do not think this would be an issue if
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> There's been a fair bit of noise about needing HR departments in order to enforce safeguards (which depending on who you ask will look like standardized interview processes or quotas or whatever). That's hierarchy and structu
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> The thing that I think was pretty stunning about this article is that it pretty much lays bare that, in some people's eyes, "diversity" is the only goal. Some people think incorrectly on all topics in wild ways. This art
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> It's a news article, not a research paper. It's kind of expected that they'd find (friendly) experts to rely on for appeal-to-authority and not be picky about questioning "common knowledge" (that the article is
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There are quotes from external sources offered as evidence, but they do not stand by themselves or help support the article other than reference an external source. They do not show that flat organization results in the bad outcomes they m
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Pollution is a negative externality and I would understand the gist of it if it was called theft of clean air, but hesitate to endorse the wording. I think of theft is something that you catch someone for and punish and potentially get back
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Delegation is typically from someone senior to someone more junior. It is also normally knowingly and directly communicated(both transmitted and received). The author's examples that I can bring to mind don't fit my pervious two
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I agree there would still be problems, but it would be obvious what is going on and would allow services to compete on those terms. Right now there is no competition on those terms and no real reason to try since the general consumer assum
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I think the spirt of the statement still works if you move the incompetence up when level so something along the lines of ~"It is spectacular how incompetent that the law allows confused/convoluted communication to act as protect
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AGPL is very explicit/narrow about how and when you give back not everyone will want exactly that. My last example of where I have seen the word abuse used is only about lack of attribution similar to an academic citation.
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I do not call anything under BSL open source. I would prefer if companies when presenting the BSL talk about their schedule to open source, the schedule being when the Change License takes effect, at least if the Change License is an open s
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> This is purely a way for HashiCorp to ensure they are the only ones who can commercialize these formerly open source projects. Which is fine. But just go closed source, then, and own that, instead of trying to have it both ways. Pragma
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I do not follow either of your statements. I do not know what you would use as an example for your first sentence. I do not know what you are trying to communicate with the last two sentences.
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> Open source licenses don't require you to do those things. That was the intention in coming up with them. I mentioned the cases I have seen the word abuse used as a counter point to 'If somebody doesn't want any competit
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> To abuse the spirit of open source The main way I think about this and how I often see people act are that actions which undermine the long term success and sustainability open source community is abusive. So you take a behavior and sa
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Not having competition is not the problem I have seen listed when abuse is talked about. It is not contributing back in ways that are promotional to how much the company is benefiting. Or not going out of their way to acknowledge that they
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>> Certainly something interesting is bound to come out of quantifying things? > In science they call this trap P-hacking. Even data "scientists" know to be wary of overfitting. We're really good at finding patterns,
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> I think there are point of views that are a much larger burden on society, and yet people are free to have them. I claim this is an apples to oranges comparison. Controlling peoples views is an attempt at mind control vs regulating su
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> Feel free to disagree. This is my personal political view. How do you address the argument that drug users go on to be a burden to society? > But I don't want a government having any opinion on what people put into their own bo
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"But when I talk about modularity I mean a style of programming in which the internal details of an object both its data and its code are sealed off from the code outside that object. And to communicate with an object you have to use p
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I agree we practically may never know and fundamentally the rules of the universe might end up making it impossible to know somethings, but as far as I know the ultimate limits are currently unknown so 'We can hope ...'.
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> but it is the start of the universe as far as physics is concerned At least what we currently spend most of time studying/researching in physics right now. We can hope to expand beyond that given enough time.
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altairprime's idea seems to be to sell the software to your users, but hire them as contractors to modify the gpl code so they can not redistribute it themselves. So on perm saas where the on perm operators are technical hired for $1 s
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> I know exactly what a social contract is, and it's always superseded by a legal contract Legally sure, it is also legal to be a jerk but in most circles/societies there is social contract to not be. Social contracts are ofte
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> Miles become more or less valuable depending on how well the airline is doing, exactly like how these tokens tend to go. You can sell your token in this case right, but you can not sell the airline miles, not in the rule/tos of th
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> That's putting the cart before the horse. Catching criminals is supposed to be a means to an end; compliance with the law is supposed to be the end, and getting people to voluntarily stop doing crimes is a win. "We can't
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> Because the whole point of the rule of law is that the law same law applies to any clown. If the head of securities law in the country can't tell you whether a basic thing is legal or not then why even bother having a congress and
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> It does not say that minimal copying is ok, rather that minimal copying does not justify a new copyright. The wikipedia link[1] gives an example of infringement cases being dismissed based how insignificant it was. > Similarly, cour
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>It's clearly affecting the market for the original as you are removing yourself from the market for it. Creating a copy for your own consumption harms the copyright holder's ability to market a reproduction to you. > Courts

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