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by frenchy 6y ago
While it's true that few of us remotely understand what life is like for most people, I don't think it's fair to say that none of us care. For the most part, we don't have the slightest clue of how to even help.
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by frenchy 6y ago
Yes, I could see someone putting forward the argument that the SSPL is so unusable that ElasticSearch isn't actually expecting anyone to use it, and therefore it's more of a marketing gimmic than a license.
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by frenchy 6y ago
You can't? I mean presumably you can't fork it and re-license the fork, but that's not exactly new.
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by frenchy 6y ago
Also, why is SSPL not open source? As far as I can tell, it mostly just seems like the APGL, but taken to 11. I can definitely appreciate why it's a problematic license, but I don't think "not open source" is its problem
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by frenchy 6y ago
You're sort of right, but I don't think I'd any less terrified to have a surprise 1,000,000 dollars arrive in a parcel in my mailbox, than to have the same surprise in my bitcoin account. That said, I'm not in the positi
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by frenchy 6y ago
Those are really more like employees than customers. The chief difference here is that a customer can easily take their business elsewhere, and has no use for a union, but an employee can not.
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by frenchy 6y ago
I assume he's referring to https://www.axios.com/ted-cruz-hunter-biden-trump-f38805a0-6... I don't know enough about US politics to know if that qualifies as being a dumbass, but I don't think this qualifies
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by frenchy 6y ago
I would personally prefer this too, but there's a lot of people who don't, for good reasons and for bad ones. I strongly prefer the UI on "Hacker News" to what you get on Twitter or new Reddit, but it's also pretty
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by frenchy 6y ago
While you might consider software that runs on the internet to be part of the internet itself, not being able to run some of the software doesn't mean you can't access the internet. A little bit less pedantically though, while thi
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by frenchy 6y ago
Yes, the title seems to be misleading. At this point, it's pure conjecture. Basically, some people (at least) are no longer getting emails from his campain. It's unclear if they've just stopped sending them or they've be
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by frenchy 6y ago
A while ago I worked on a library [1] to help send out notifications for a Django site. The notifications could be in various forms, but email was the most common. After a few prototypes, I quickly realized: 1. People don't want to bot
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by frenchy 6y ago
> Tally up which of the numbers had the least amount of money bet on it and then make that the number. I mean, pretending that it's random is fraud, but if you were honest about the affair, that would actually make for a mildly inte
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by frenchy 6y ago
Please don't use Google AMP links. Edit: actual URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tennessee-blast-packages-...
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by frenchy 6y ago
Not to mention there was Hitler's quote about how no-one remembers the Armenian genocide. He wasn't even wrong about that, as few remember the brutality that the Nazis exacted on the Poles.
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by frenchy 6y ago
Abstinence as the primary tool for birth control/STD prevention is stupid because we have better alternatives. If we didn't, abstience would be a lot more popular. We don't have good alternatives to prevent the spread of COVI
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by frenchy 6y ago
There's a bit of a difference though between "all nursing home patients" and "the exceedingly frail ones". This might vary between countries to, as people in some countries might get put in nursing homes sooner than
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by frenchy 6y ago
> People inherently trust humans over technology I don't think that's generally true, or at least, the contrary notion is also true some times. I'm pretty sure that if someone asked me the product of 13 x 6, they would tru
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by frenchy 6y ago
Sorry for the late reply. It does not. My point was mostly that the TypeScript analogs are either more of a pain or less type safe.
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by frenchy 6y ago
I'm sure they would, but a business is not going to willing shrink its market unless is forced to. Trying to maintain your market, while giving all sorts of people liver cancer, cirrhosis, fetal alcohol syndrom, et al, is probably cons
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by frenchy 6y ago
You might be confusing the placenta with the amniotic sac. The placenta is ultimately the part of the embryo that embeds itself in the uterus and triggers the mother's pregnancy. It connects to the fetus via the umbilical cord. In prac
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by frenchy 6y ago
You're conflating copyright and privacy. What's being discussed above is really more akin to you "If you post an albatross video on Youtube, should someone else be able to do a remix" or "should someone else be allo
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by frenchy 6y ago
I think you're giving deams a pathological importance, unless you're using the term very creatively (e.g. the wish to not live in unbearable pain or something).
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by frenchy 6y ago
I'm not sure if this is being sarcastic or not. Doesn't America have some of the weakest employee protection in the developed world (because, ironically, freedom)?
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by frenchy 6y ago
This is actually more similar to what is going on above: function ok_or<T>(x: T | null, msg: string): T | Error { if (x === null) return new Error(msg); return x; } Thrown values (or exceptions if you like that term)
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by frenchy 6y ago
Also, if you just ditch the whole enterprise, you end up with even worse problems.
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by frenchy 6y ago
Can't misuse it if you can't even build it.
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by frenchy 6y ago
The original source is actually kind of interesting. It's too bad this sort of thing isn't covered more regularly in the mainstream news. That said, it's rather mis-characterized by Rebel News, I was only able to read the tit
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by frenchy 6y ago
My history education was mostly one-sided like this in primary school, but not in secondary & post-secondary school. Perhaps the difference is that I wasn't studying in the US, but I don't remember any grave epistemological ch
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by frenchy 6y ago
As far as the cross-site tracking goes, they'd actually need to get all the other websites to update the facebook JS code they include, and it would only work until the tracking blockers updated their lists again. I agree that tech is
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by frenchy 6y ago
> Or you could just set the speed limit appropriately, at a level that most drivers will naturally conform to. The problem is that such a limit would not be a safe one, you would basically be replacing the limit with a sign that posts th

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