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by dx87 8y ago
Would you consider slavery acceptable in developing nations? After all, the US benefited from it while it was growing, why should we deny the economic benefits of slavery to other countries.
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by dx87 8y ago
It's good at finding things you'd watch, but not necessarily things you should be watching. Ex-youtube employees said that the algorithm is trained to keep you engaged and watching videos, so the recommended videos keep getting m
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by dx87 8y ago
From what I've gathered, the developers don't work for Tidelift in any capacity, Tidelift just collects money on their behalf whether they want it or not. If you agree to Tidelift's terms, you get a portion of the money they
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by dx87 8y ago
The creator of that site, Coraline Ada Ehmke, is also the creator of the new Linux kernel CoC.
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by dx87 8y ago
I wouldn't be so sure. When Valve had their failed attempt at a marketplace for paid Skyrim mods, one of the common complaints from other modders was that you should only make mods out of passion for the game, and any modders who put
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by dx87 8y ago
I always thought it meant "single lines of code", like if line breaks added for formatting had been removed so every statement had its own line.
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by dx87 8y ago
The developer who started that twitter thread massively overstated how much react was going to be used in MS Office applications because for some reason he didn't like that a college professor said that scripting languages aren't
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by dx87 8y ago
So high COLA areas typically already have better schools, utilities, and public services, but you reward employees living in those areas with higher pay because it would be unfair to pay them the same as people in lower COLA areas? Why wou
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by dx87 8y ago
No, because as has happened before, the developers just go "oops, we made a mistake in the smart contract" and nullify the gains of anybody who profited off of it.
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by dx87 8y ago
Enforcement isn't the issue, selective enforcement and trying to force the values of a very small subset of people onto a global community is the issue. You can see from other links in this thread where the people pushing for these Co
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by dx87 8y ago
He stopped the outbreak entirely by accident. For all he knew, registering the domain name being queried by WannaCry could have caused the malware to start deleting all the data with no chance for recovery. Even if he did know that he was
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by dx87 8y ago
It's because of the belief that specific acts shouldn't be illegal, just the negative effects caused by those acts. People can say racist things all they want, but if there isn't anyone actually being harmed by it, should th
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by dx87 8y ago
They are only allowed to contradict state laws to the extent that the federal government may decide it's not worth it to try and enforce the rules in the state, especially states like CA where they state that they won't cooperate
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by dx87 8y ago
I don't think people are upset that Google could change settings or software, they're upset at the lack of technical controls that allowed Google to accidentally push out settings changes to user's devices, and the lack of se
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by dx87 8y ago
People should care about tracking because even though Google and Facebook may only care about serving ads, they also have to provide information in response to requests from the government. Any tracking information available to a company i
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by dx87 8y ago
Gotta love their choice of wording, "recover lost revenue from ad blocking users", like blocking ads is equivalent to stealing money from the site owner.
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by dx87 8y ago
I agree, he seemed to only get personal when he knew the developer, and it seemed like it was mainly because he knew that they knew better, but were still submitting bad patches anyway. I still remember seeing an email response to someone
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by dx87 8y ago
>Snowden attempted to expose an incredibly corrupt and unconstitutional surveillance apparatus by working within the system but was ultimately ignored. He says he tried to work within the system and was ignored, but he's provided 0
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by dx87 8y ago
Very true. I remember when one of the kernel maintainers announced why she was going to stop contributing, one of the reasons listed was "Linus has advocated physical abuse of kernel maintainers." Looking at the email that was g
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by dx87 8y ago
I think it's possible to blend a polite environment and a no-nonsense environment as long as you're physically working together, or at a minimum doing video conferences. IIRC, Linus said that one of the reasons he used such stron
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by dx87 8y ago
I don't think it's necessarily that we have less interest in cultures besides our own, it's more that we usually plan vacations around wanting to see something, like a national monument, or do something, like party at Mardi G
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by dx87 8y ago
None of those are related to anything in the post you're replying to. What point are you trying to make?
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by dx87 8y ago
Looks like it's Airwave telling their employees about Airware being shut down. You can see in the first message that someone is telling the channel that Airware informed their employees of the shutdown, and the rest of the messages re
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by dx87 8y ago
The thing that bothers me the most about it is that the changes are almost always proposed by someone who isn't actually part of the offended group, but wants to make it seem like they are fighting widespread oppression. For example,
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by dx87 8y ago
"Technically" of course it's just as much of a programming language, but "practically" it's normally used to kick off other programs, and is just glue meant to pass input and output between programs. FWIW, when
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by dx87 8y ago
Which games are you talking about that require you to open loot boxes in order to have fun in the game? The most popular games that I can think of with loot boxes, Hearthstone, Dota 2, Overwatch, CS:GO, PUBG, all either have strictly cosme
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by dx87 8y ago
It's probably getting downvoted because they're trying to evoke an emotional reaction by comparing forced labor as part of a prison sentence with literally keeping people as your personal property. If we're going to call any
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by dx87 8y ago
People post this quote all the time, but he never actually said that. It's a misinterpretation of one of his stories where the "temporarily embarrassed millionares" are people that voted to have a socialist society thinking
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by dx87 8y ago
People frequentyly use the term parallell to describe having the same experience, so logicaly a perpendicular experience would be synonymous with an opposite experience :)
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by dx87 8y ago
I think the opposite of mindfulness would be anxiousness. Like, if your car breaks down and you start worrying about being late to work, then worry that it's going to cause you to get fired, then your partner might leave you, that&#x2

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