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by dpc_pw 11y ago
It's different than "welfare fraud", as there are people who really need welfare, while if there was a business that would be profitable without government grant, it would already exist. So grants like this by definition supp
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
> Do you think he is going to read your comment and think, "Christ, why didn't I think of that?" He should. He's an expert in statistics. And on paper everything is OK, but in reality 99% of this new "companies&q
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
How can one not see how much bullshit that is? The very same program in European Union is called "Innovative Economy Programme" (website of it's Poland implementation): http://www.poig.2007-2013.gov.pl/english
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
> Getting things installed and set up is where 70% of your time goes when you’re starting out. (...) I remember whole days dedicated to just installing a damn module. This is normal. It's not normal to struggle with installing modul
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
I'd love that as an animated android background.
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
For people looking for replacement ideas: I use Zim + Syncthing. Works on my Linux machines, and Android app works OK.
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
Very interesting project, but intro is way too slow.
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
What about the Mozilla CEO, that had to resign over his his private political views? Isn't that a great example of PC-police in action?
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
As it's related I'll post some links. I've recently discovered: http://fosslawyers.org/the-copyfair-iniciative/ And I have an idea how to organize open source project to be both free, and sustainable (ma
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
So when I was getting paid in dollars, and converted it to my local currency right away, I was proving that USD is a commodity? I could not get anything with USD, so it is not a currency? Interesting. What people miss is that commodity and
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
GPG sucks. I use it, I have a smartcard, I did subkeys, etc. I encrypt backups, I log with it to ssh. And it sucks. It sucks so bad, that I don't even know why I am doing it. There are just so many technical glitches, not to mention al
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
Ah, Ok. Thanks for clarification.
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
Once in my careerer I was already tasked with stripping a C project from a Python based building system (SCons, IIRC) because it was damn slow, buggy, and problems with Python and SCons were more severe than with a C codebase itself. I rep
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
Engineers and programmers are usually where they are because they do have a "drive" and "passion" for what they do. Applying attitude of that group to whole population is just a selection bias. A lot of population has no
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
Didn't Finland do the exact opposite, with opposite results? That's interesting given that this countries are neighbours.
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
And the strengthening dollar will force more QE or/and negative interests rate and basically a currency war...
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
And was posted on "Hacker News".
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
As dayjob C coder, I just find the way types are written in C complete nonsense (especially when you start declaring pointers to functions), and no modern language should force that horror upon developers. Go types syntax is well done, IMO,
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
The reason is monetary. Private debt increased and has reached it's peak. Previous generations have borrowed their prosperity, and next generations are living in an economy that is already full of debt obligations. Everyone should see
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
Thanks for your comment. It scared me a little and gave me a perspective. First thing: I hope you're all doing OK now and your health improves. I'm a bit envious of all the great hackers getting plenty of nice Open Source projects
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
That's nothing. Apple Watch cured my cancer.
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
Idiocy of political correctness taking it's toll. Always relevant George Carlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY In 20 years, next Github will be taking down projects that have "cognitively impaired&qu
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
Is current wealth redistribution scheme so much better? With forced taxation, shady fractional reserve system, central banks manipulating markets, rich getting richer, etc. I don't think so. Actually Bitcoin is very fair. Everything is
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
My desktop has 32GB, and if I could I would have more. Why? Because RAM is always useful. Caching in RAM is such a nice feature, speeding up your daily work-flow. Same thing applies in the phone. IMO, the biggest RAM increase drive is graph
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
"Today the Bitcoin network is restricted to a sustained rate of 7 tps due to the bitcoin protocol restricting block sizes to 1MB. " https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
I suffer from this syndrome. I can break anything in 5 minutes just by using it my way. I have "power user" setup (wrapping scripts, custom environment variables, etc.), and my own ways which collide with any shortcomings, hacks a
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
It's way easier to have a centralized system than decentralized one. Bitcoin in it' current form can handle around 7 transactions per seconds, and scaling it upwards is costly. 7 transcations per seconds is laughably small number.
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
And how does this exactly prevent double spends?
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
R. P. Feynman on social sciences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaO69CF5mbY Psychology, economics, climatology. World is literally run by "almost-sciences" claiming to have an authority of "full-science&quo
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by dpc_pw 11y ago
What people mean is Python (and others scripting languages) dependency hell. Unix dynamic linking very rarely has any issues as static typing makes it relatively easy to reason about stable interfaces. The raise of containers, is consequenc

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