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by frenchy 6y ago
Ultimately, "long-sighted" shareholders should be able to outperform the short-sited ones, as long as they can retain control of the company. I wonder if there's any way to form a sort of shareholders union to maintain the co
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by frenchy 6y ago
> Google has terms of use on their service. > You are violating those terms of service. That's not what piracy means, and that's not how the law works. If I state that the terms of service of reading this comment are that yo
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by frenchy 6y ago
> Chemistry kits with a sample of every element in the periodic table should advertise them as "have all the materials needed for COVID-19 vaccine. Not that this invalidates your point at all, but doing that literally would actually
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by frenchy 6y ago
I'm not sure it should be called level 5 autonomy until Tesla is willing to take responsibility for any accidents it causes.
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by frenchy 6y ago
Probably a simliar reason as why I won't normally give an up-front price when doing contracting work. For better, or for worse, "enterprise" folk are trying to sell "solutions" and not services. This usually works o
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by frenchy 6y ago
Mountains are gorgeous when you have plenty of food and shelter, like we do now. They're shitty if you're a subsistence farmer in the 1800's.
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by frenchy 6y ago
> there's no reason that anything on Facebook's servers should affect if your app works. Absolutely, but the problem is that in order for you to use these features, you're supposed to use the official Facebook SDK. The add
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by frenchy 6y ago
That's vastily oversimplifying things. XHTML2 was a markedly superior language to HTML in a few ways, but you still would have needed to have the same CSS & JS components to interact with an XHTML page.
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by frenchy 6y ago
It shouldn't be, but if you don't control the software and the encryption algorithm, there's no reason why zoom couldn't just sign the content so that could evesdrop on everything.
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by frenchy 6y ago
Quite easily. They just need to make it so that one of the "ends" is Zoom itself.
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by frenchy 6y ago
Note that checked exceptions are essentially the same thing as returning a tagged union, from a theoretical perspective at least. They're not popular in Java though, because the ergonomics is a lot worse than working with a Result type
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by frenchy 6y ago
> When are you creating functions take or return radically different types that need to be expressed this way Let's say you're opening a file that you think is a CSV. There can be several outcomes: - the file doesn't exist
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by frenchy 6y ago
Yes, the irony here is that (depending on the amount), you can easily douse a fire with jet fuel.
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by frenchy 6y ago
Firefox didn't choose the C++ regex implementation because rewriting pieces of code with well defined interfaces is hard. It was for a few reasons: 1) at the time they made the decision, there was no existing rust regex library that ma
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by frenchy 6y ago
I have a particular hatred for FPTP too, but claiming that the only reasonable voting system is one that no state uses is like claiming the only reasonable programming language is <insert-awesome-toy-language>. Things rarely suck unti
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by frenchy 6y ago
That's painting it more black and white that I think it is. Proponents of elections won't argue that their system will always produce someone suited for the job, just that it will produce the person much the electorate believes is
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by frenchy 6y ago
I suspect it's because it works for enough people that it pays off. Every now and then I forget how annoying it was last time, and I think it would be nice to donate money to some sort of charity, and then they proceed to spam me for t
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by frenchy 6y ago
At least it's easier to throw out the window.
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by frenchy 6y ago
It's certainly possible, but as a regular use, it's a giant pain in the ass.
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by frenchy 6y ago
I think there's multiple definitions of magic at play here. One is phenomena that beyond the limits of human understanding. The other, based in the theory of vitalism, is something unexplainable, but also comes with the assumption that
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by frenchy 6y ago
If you're black, you're probalby speaking a particular vernacular that's at least slightly different from standard American english.
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by frenchy 6y ago
I'm going to guess you're pretty exclusively an Apple user. I think a big part of the problem is that a lot of the people developing FOSS don't have access to Apple's platforms for doing development, and in many cases, e
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by frenchy 6y ago
Taiwan is the common name for the state that officially goes by the name Republic of China. It's de-facto administrative boundaries have been the island of Taiwan for the last 70 years. That's long enough for most people stop cari
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by frenchy 6y ago
I imagine anyone doing this seriously would have a spearate system for building binaries. Obviously if that system was compromised, you would not be in a great situation, but it should be much easire to lock that down.
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by frenchy 7y ago
I missed the part in the article where he was praising the usability of the CLI.
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by frenchy 7y ago
If you're looking for a chemical explaination, I don't know, but the virus can work it's way around quite fine using the lymphatic system, so there's no "fitness" reason that would make it need to hang out in t
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by frenchy 7y ago
Only if you fail to use the Apple advertising ID. Tracking users is fine as long as Apple holds the keys.
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by frenchy 7y ago
I think many liberally minded people realize that (nothwithstanding a few libertarians). In the US then even have the concept of "The Constitution is not a suicide pact", and during WWII a lot of free speach was limited. I think t
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by frenchy 7y ago
If I'd hazard a guess, it might be because someone still has to operate the ventilator, and hospitals are expecting a drop in healthcare workers (since you don't want a sick person treating patients).
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by frenchy 7y ago
I don't think learned is the right word to use here. Github's centralized design and vendor lock-in is quite intentional.

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