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by esrauch 5y ago
You obviously disagree but it seems very reasonable to me that 20 year old FSF code should fall into the public domain including for Microsoft or MomAndPopSoftwareCo or whoever to use. Note that they still couldn't just take the curren
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by esrauch 5y ago
Taxes (and tax deductions) are generally one of the best ways to align incentives. If it's a binary condition then you have tons of derelict content that should really be public domain, but because of the big ticket well-maintained Dis
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by esrauch 5y ago
MIT license is very permissive but the original author retains copyright and one of the very few restrictions is that you must maintain the original authors copyright notice. So you can use MIT code in a GPL project but you can't remov
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by esrauch 5y ago
What you're saying doesn't make any sense. If what you're saying was true you could take any MIT repro, fork it and replace the license with a fully proprietary copyright claim or any other license. You absolutely can't
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by esrauch 5y ago
There's a wide gray area but surely there's some point where you think a person is just being rude. Eg if someone mouse slips and blinders their queen on their 5th move in a 90 minute game. You have no concern with having to sit t
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by esrauch 5y ago
I think his point was that it's more likely taking the total income and total property costs and computing the average that way. But if you instead compute the same per-city and then look at the middle of those it can give you a drasti
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by esrauch 5y ago
I skimmed the workbook and while I wouldn't subscribe to every idea in there or the inflammatory phrasing, it looks like overall like it would be a useful tool for teachers. Lots of the sections that mention white supremacy seem to mak
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by esrauch 5y ago
You're referencing one weird out of context quote (which sounds like it was since clarified) from one nonprofit who got funding from the Gates Foundation. It seems somewhat disingenuous to make the claim that the Gates Foundation think
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by esrauch 5y ago
I don't really follow your assumptions; surely it might be that the same people influenced by this are also people who would never have converted or always have converted? In which case the measured effect is not relevant to any actual
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by esrauch 5y ago
Peesumably if Nvidia went out of business then eBay would just stop enforcing having it. But otherwise there's no advantage compared to a traditional database that I can see...
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by esrauch 5y ago
I really hope you miswrote what you meant or are just a troll, because saying black people are genetically inferior is overt racism right now from you.
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by esrauch 5y ago
It's not like the problem is that Harvard is "unattractive" to minorities. The thing is that if someone goes to Harvard, their children are more likely to succeed. It's effectively an inheritable benefit; it's just
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by esrauch 5y ago
Assuming that's a genuine question, the idea is that otherwise we still have a systemic problem where (for example) the overt racism which denied opportunities to black Americans historically is still having ongoing impact because whet
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by esrauch 5y ago
I think the reality is there is no free-software alternative, because the entire user experience is based on ecosystem buy-in where every media source (Netflix/Amazon/YouTube/Hulu/HBO, even NPR/PBS and Chrome itself
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by esrauch 5y ago
The normal phone-controlled Chromecast definitely doesn't have ads (but ads will play when watching YouTube unless you have premium obviously) I feel like that experience is optimal. I don't want any launcher experience on the tv,
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by esrauch 5y ago
I don't really understand your point; the fact that preppers have gold and gold didn't help against zombies seems easily explainable by preppers not actually preparing for zombies, but instead far more realistic events including s
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by esrauch 5y ago
Besides the other comments there are legitimate security reasons to be worried about sanitizing in general even in zero-rpc-app cases; malicious files are an attack vector. Eg if you were making Calibre you do still want to be hardened agai
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by esrauch 5y ago
Surely it can go both ways though; if everyone believes everything will naturally get better forever there's absolutely no reason to act now to bend the curve for the better.
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by esrauch 5y ago
> Only if you never have the case where Optional is empty but you expected it not to be I kind of think that sentence is contrary to the point of Optional, and if you start from that mindset then Optionals do end up no better than nulls.
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by esrauch 5y ago
There already was National Guard diving school buses too.
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by esrauch 5y ago
I feel like it's a case where you the stereotypes exist to backwards explain any outcome that you want. Like NYC and Boston famously have a "fuck you, mind you own business" stereotype contrasted with a rural stereotype expec
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by esrauch 5y ago
It seems like the goalposts are moving in the conversation. People are acting like it's banned above, and then you're saying it hypothetically will be less but still nonzero proactive algorithmic promotion of the content, right
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by esrauch 5y ago
Being difficult to measure doesn't mean they don't try though. It would just mean they are less likely to fully succeed. I would be pretty surprised if they don't have a "disinformation penalty" as a factor in the s
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by esrauch 5y ago
Do you have a citation of how they "openly" not give any weight to facts?
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by esrauch 5y ago
I'm not sure about that last part. In general the people who own single family homes in the Bay Area have had nimby opposition to more dense housing being constructed since more supply lowers prices.
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by esrauch 5y ago
There's no reason you have to kill the 12. It would work to just have 1:00 be the first hour of the day, have the day be 1:00-12:59am followed by the same as pm. 1:00pm is "meridiem". No change to analog watches. Obviously th
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by esrauch 5y ago
Movie theaters don't make much of their money from the actual tickets, but if they stopped showing movies no one is going to pay them $20 for a popcorn. Gas stations might not be quite as drastic as that, but still seems like the same
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by esrauch 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean; standard library is part of C++ and it overloaded the meaning in that way. iostream "is C++".
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by esrauch 5y ago
They mention precision bit then actually gave the example that if all inputs were exactly 0 that it gave differing results of +0 vs -0. Presumably the game checked the sign of the result and hit an error recovery codepath if it was negative
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by esrauch 5y ago
I think op is arguing that somewhere libraries should be able to have reasonably fixed budgets and not have this constraint, though more aggressive legislation that weakens publisher's rights. I think it's possible with things lik

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