duncan_bayne

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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> We used to laugh at comments like GPs Used to? I'm still chuckling.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> We can fight it by electing the correct people. No, you can't. Because the people you're allowed to elect are all complicit in the creation and maintenance of these systems.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> You can't actually break that contract with unconscinable means such as fine print that nobody reads nor is expected to read nor has had explained. You shouldn't be able to, but I think in most jurisdictions you most certa
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
What makes you think that what they broke is your property? Read the EULA. It almost certainly specifies that what you think you own, has in fact just been licensed to you.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> Only corporate greed Go read up about the Cheka, Mao, and the Stasi. I use Fastmail, eschew most social media, and run a PinePhone. I'm not a fan of corporate surveillance. But they're amateurs compared with the murderous sur
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
True client story, heavily anonymised: I was representing my client at a meeting with a third party with which they were planning to integrate. Financial systems and many zeroes were involved. It became apparent early in the call that alth
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
https://youtu.be/UDfAdHBtK_Q?t=476
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Sure, if the provider of the gRPC service wishes to also offer an HTTP gateway, that's true. But it's trivially true in the case where the provider does so wish (as it would be true of any protocol with a fully-functional HTTP
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> Now I can just grab a generated client in a language of my choice. No, you can just grab a generated client in a language of your choice if that language happens to be supported by protobuf. This is a massive regression from the open
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
I remember when the Free Software movement really started to make inroads into the corporate world, which in my circles was the late 90s / early 2000s. It was like a revelation. No longer were we tied to inflexible, command-and-conquer
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> Include IBM 1.0/1.1 Bugs for compatibility I am, to put it mildly, not the greatest fan of Microsoft, or of most of their products. But that just sounds like a flag to avoid breaking backwards compatibility by fixing bugs that pe
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
This seems like an intuitive outcome. Austrians have been saying for years that State calculation to achieve desired economic outcomes is doomed to failure ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_proble
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> We even have people "resurrecting". That's a common problem. I spent a while contracting with an insurance company a decade or so ago, and one of my fellow developers was tasked with coding an "un-decease person&qu
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
I'd like you to demonstrate how that's relevant to my assertion of anti-capitalist bias. (Though for what it's worth, the same way it's solved problems of poverty throughout the world: https://humanprogress.or
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
From a comment by Baeocystin: "If you use our tools, we can kill your livelihood at any time for any reason and tough shit if you want a why" It has always been thus with proprietary tools and platforms. Back in 2011 I switched ca
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> elf-signed was never trusted I think the main reason is that they're on the whole pretty racist towards dwarves.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
The NY Times doesn't have a stellar track record either: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_controver... Although I would much rather them than Fox if forced to choose. (As it is, I follow neither)
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
I have worked in private offices, team spaces, and open plan. Having a private office was great, but a team space I shared a few years ago - rented just for that team, for around three months - was astonishingly productive for all of us, wi
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Never underestimate the strength of anti-capitalist sentiment - it's a common thread in issues like this. Even people who should know better, like Tim Bray, keep trotting out lines like this: > So they're gonna get treated like
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
... which is as I recall, one of the main differences between the New Jersey Style and the MIT Style (per Gabriel).
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
> So Facebook and the government are secretly working together in a conspiracy to falsify court records while secretly they cooporate the whole time and the case was never actually tried? What planet are you on? That's, ummm, not my
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Except that we have proof, at least as far as the US Government is concerned. Snowden provided us with proof in abundance that they will "find a way". How anyone can consider this a gray area in 2020 is beyond me.
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
No idea what this is doing on HN. In addition to being off-topic, it's heavily biased, highlighting the (reprehensible) civilian casualties caused by the Nationalists, while remaining silent on the similar number of (also reprehensible
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
That headline reads more like a bug report than a press release. "Here's a barge full of coal. Maybe you can fix it with that."
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
At what point in the author's encounter with Dave did Dave provide any evidence whatsoever that he was engaged in a lawful operation?
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by duncan_bayne 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) Those two spring to mind immediately, and I'm not American, I'm
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by duncan_bayne 7y ago
It's funny (to me) that people are surprised that Feinstein is so willing to trample over Constitutional protections while blithely ignoring the objections of the citizens she (in theory) represents. For years , this has been her appr
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After the W3C approved DRM, it’s not possible to make a functional indie browser(bbs.boingboing.net)
9 points by duncan_bayne 7y ago|2 comments
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Are the Brains of Transgender People Different from Those of Cisgender People?(the-scientist.com)
1 points by duncan_bayne 8y ago|0 comments
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
That's because historically, there's been one escape from third-world extreme poverty: capitalism. https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=770 Since its economic liberalization reforms in 1991, India’s average in

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