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by dnomad 8y ago
How is that possible? Are you going to the Oracle download page and downloading the RPMs? Are you specifically adding a repository that includes Oracle software? There are certainly no default repositories that include this code. The whole
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by dnomad 8y ago
There's no "long legalese." The new license ( https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license... ) is very clear. It states in plain English: "Further, You may not: use the
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by dnomad 8y ago
This is true of every freemium project, from Gitlab to all the commercial Linux distros that sell support+prop extensions on the side. Given that GraalVM is a virtual machine there's strong incentive to push it far and wide. History su
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by dnomad 8y ago
GraalVM is itself an open-source project that is licensed under the exact same license as OpenJDK [1]. Feel free to download it and build it yourself to be extra sure [2]. All the FUD around this stuff and Oracle is a bit comical. It's
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by dnomad 8y ago
BTW, how pathetic is it to use a throwaway account to post this nonsense and then rush in to down-vote replies?
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by dnomad 8y ago
> I disagreed with two false statements of fact: "The crime rates are nearly similar among all races" Believe it or not there is a great deal of research about just these questions. You might want to actually review such resear
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by dnomad 8y ago
You're not misunderstanding anything, the problem is there's really nothing true about the anti-Amazon media propaganda. It's important to separate the media fantasy from the facts in the real world. In the media fantasy: 1.
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by dnomad 8y ago
The fact that you think that it's an "ideological wedge" says more about you than anything about the evolution of linux community. Some people see threats everywhere, they go through their whole lives insisting X is really Y,
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by dnomad 8y ago
The cult of innovation asserts that these new "technologies" are good simply because they are new and provocative and especially impractical. Adherents to the cult aren't really interested in changing the world -- a deeply ba
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by dnomad 8y ago
The problem is that author lives in his own naive little worlds and lacks any kind of imagination to understand what life might be like on other worlds. I mean, really, you've got to be special kind of clueless to think the problem XML
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by dnomad 8y ago
And of course the Sabbath did not actually originate with the Jews. The tradition goes back to at least the Bronze Age if not earlier. If people are interested in a rigorous treatment of ancient economics and their surprising modern releva
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by dnomad 8y ago
Publications and citations don't really matter. All that matters at the end of the day is patents [1]. That's the real story here, this is all about patents and IP. The entire Chinese university system is being forcefully redesign
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by dnomad 8y ago
> Most notably immigration has a huge impact on housing and the ever increasing demand for it. Do you have any evidence at all for this claim or is this just something you made up out of thin air? I mean, no offense, but I remember when
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by dnomad 8y ago
> With the detachment of wage growth from economic growth in recent decades And you think immigrants are responsible for this? Or are they simply being used as a sacrificial scapegoat because nobody wants to address the raging inequality
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by dnomad 8y ago
> Anyways, in Western Europe, the increased demand (which is probably smaller than in the US), those things are easily canceled by the added costs to public healthcare + social benefits. No it doesn't. This narrative is nonsense. Th
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by dnomad 8y ago
> SaaS-ifying your docs seems risky to me. It strikes me as a really, really bad idea. Besides the obvious lock-in issues, I've found the only hope of keeping documentation uptodate is to either generate it from the code or keep it
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by dnomad 8y ago
> It's appalling that people can drop this kind of drivel on an HN thread and let it stand. It's not drivel if it's backed by actual data [1][2]. This always seems to come as a complete surprise because it's difficult
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by dnomad 8y ago
The data on Wikipedia is out of date though it cites oecd.org. Go straight to oecd.org for the correct data. (It's not good that Wikipedia copies data like that. If only we had decent transclusion capabilities on the web.)
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by dnomad 8y ago
It's obvious nonsense to anybody who's taken even a moment to understand what those numbers mean. Here's a very, very simple chart that shows population with tertiary education [1]. The US is not significantly above other cou
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by dnomad 8y ago
Check out [1] and [2]. [1] https://github.com/xerial/sqlite-jdbc [2] http://www.h2database.com/
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by dnomad 8y ago
Yeah this number is way off. A better estimate is 5-6 trillion and many will say that's also likely too low. A solid estimate, when you factor in excessive defense spending that wasn't technically spent on one war, is 10+ trillion
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by dnomad 8y ago
You keep making excuses. Let's review: > Just as we're wired up to consume fat and sugar whenever we come across it, we're basically wired up to start marauding our neighbors if they're way richer than we are. This is
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by dnomad 8y ago
On the one hand the article is the typical US-centric nonsense. Anybody who's actually observed how the "other 7.3 billion live" would grasp very well that not only are we Post-PC but that on a deeper level there never really
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by dnomad 8y ago
> Even so, his research is widely cited as GP stated: Isn't it funny that you still can't answer the basic original question: where are JBP's sources for his extraordinary claims? Instead of giving us a song and a dance ab
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by dnomad 8y ago
> Java 8 is still relatively recent for the Enterprise world. Most actual surveys put Java 8 penetration at 70 - 80%. Dig deeper and the <20% of projects not on Java 8 aren't under active development and are purely in maintenanc
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by dnomad 8y ago
Except nobody actually writes Java code like this. Nobody implements the Map interface. It's just stupid code. The myth of Java bloat only serves people writing silly blog entries and others hung up on "best practices" from 1
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by dnomad 8y ago
Consumerism hardly unique to America. There are societies far more status-oriented and focused on consumerism than America and they don't exhibit pervasive social isolation. (Often it's just the opposite.)
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by dnomad 8y ago
It's not consumerism, it's just beautiful, unadulterated capitalism. The incredible thing about the evolution is that nobody planned it. The invisible hand magically produced a society of lonely, desperate, and paranoid people who
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by dnomad 8y ago
> My wife, while not a full on anti-vaxxer yet, is now suspicious of vaccinations and wants to wait to vaccinate our child, and skip some of them all together. This after having watched some "documentary" series on Youtube. Out
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by dnomad 8y ago
> Could you elaborate please on the atheist community going extreme? I read a paper on this some time ago... and now can't find it. There are many blog entries that discuss the evolution of the Skeptic community and the whole anti-S

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