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by diskcat 11y ago
Stallman cries a single tear
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by diskcat 11y ago
>That US PCB manufacturer is also sending his kid to school, that's great. but chinese schools are way cheaper than US schools so if somebody asked me to give up $100 to educate 100 chinese kids or half a US kids for x amount of tim
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by diskcat 11y ago
Given the choice of giving $1 to a chinese 1% or $10 to an american 1% I still choose $1.
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by diskcat 11y ago
>What makes you think the workers have any other choice? They're not "willing" if it's wage slavery. that's like saying we are all physics slaves because the universe imposes the laws of physics on us... slavery
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by diskcat 11y ago
Well if it's too local it kinda begs the question of whether it's one brain or multiple brains loosely linked together just as in your example it's not clear if the human society as a whole is a planet scale intelligence or a
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by diskcat 11y ago
It hasn't been long since somebody told me that unless you do 10000x item runs it's not worth it. I wonder if this low unit cost for small number thing is a recent development.
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by diskcat 11y ago
If people in China are willing to work for a lower labour standards I don't see why I shouldn't buy from them. They are already making huge sacrifices working in terrible conditions because they weren't lucky enough to be bor
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by diskcat 11y ago
>Nice, instead of supporting the PCB business 5 miles away, send it to China. I don't see why he should support somebody who charges 5x the competitor. Im not gonna pay $20 for a jar of peanut butter because the factory owner lives
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by diskcat 11y ago
Does this actually mean I can now write python code instead of JS for websites?
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by diskcat 11y ago
But why the name?
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by diskcat 11y ago
program is kinda hard to say because of the 2 r's.
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by diskcat 11y ago
You don't have to trust them. That's the great thing about the free market.
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by diskcat 11y ago
Sounds like the "old wise sage master teaching grasshopper employees a lesson" pattern. But has he such low opinions of his employee that he couldn't have simply told them "captchas are bad UX, try it out if you don&#x27
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by diskcat 11y ago
Whenever somebody told me that 'Desktops are gonna be obsolete because smartphones' I always told them that screens on desktops have always gotten bigger so there is a demand for big things that are easy to work with but he won&#x
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by diskcat 11y ago
>and prefer to own my music unless you wrote it and played it you don't 'own' any music.
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by diskcat 11y ago
>The desktop is almost dead I disagree. -sent from my desktop ps. try running 4K VR on your tablet
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by diskcat 11y ago
b-but terrorists and pedophiles
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by diskcat 11y ago
we should have a first come first serve policy unless stated otherwise. it would be very rude to take the name 'stickman' from an author just because some big important webscale global internet of things unicorn multi-national 100
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by diskcat 11y ago
> in defense of biological inception the movie?
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by diskcat 11y ago
Isn't this just a fancy phrasing for "make your code easy to read"?
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by diskcat 11y ago
any regulator is bound to be captured because the special interest has more concentrated power compared to consumers. Thus regulation always does the opposite of what it is supposed to do in the long run. This is a common theme with interfe
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by diskcat 11y ago
>The barriers to entry are raised so high it's impossible to have real competition. once again the government is responsible for it. don't worry though, im sure somebody will call for the government to 'reform' the in
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by diskcat 11y ago
Is Lua the new in vogue programming language?
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by diskcat 11y ago
But a hooker won't look like taylor swift while your VR CG GF will look like whoever you want.
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by diskcat 11y ago
flight sim isn't really that great with VR HMD because you can't see the buttons which you need for more realistic controls. With a HMD you are limited to only the joystick + throttle combination which don't have enough butto
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by diskcat 11y ago
b-but isn't marketing purpose to generate sale?
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by diskcat 11y ago
None of the issues you mentioned is a problem with porn, which will be the reason why 99.9999999999999999999% of VR headsets are purchased.
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by diskcat 11y ago
>It encrypts data by comingling does the use of the word 'comingling' here implies any kind of special combination technique??
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by diskcat 11y ago
try cranking it up to 110%
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by diskcat 11y ago
This is just ad-hoc changing the definition of wealth to suit your particular need at this particular time.

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