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by galactus 8y ago
I don't find there is that much convenience on having "hundreds of books in your pocket". Unlike music or films/series, most people are never reading more than two or perhaps three books at the same time and most books t
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by galactus 8y ago
Another version of "guns don't kill people, people kill people"
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by galactus 8y ago
He has to release the code because he is distributing an application (as in, distributing the binary files) based on GPL code. If you don't distribute anything, you don't have to share anything, that's the point of the parent
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by galactus 8y ago
It comes from the same latin origin, I don't think we can link it to one language more than to the other.
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Lisp, Jazz, Aikido(programming-journal.org)
1 points by galactus 8y ago|0 comments
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by galactus 8y ago
I don't believe there will be any silver bullet that will make people back to the open web any soon by sheer technical merit. In the meantime, we should not abandon efforts to make people understand why huge centralized walled gardens
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by galactus 8y ago
> " A country or federal state is just a company with a monopoly over law in a certain geographical region. Facebook's "monopoly" is at least subject to the whim of the market" Some countries are at least subject
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by galactus 9y ago
No, victim blaming is holding the victim at least partially responsible for the abuse, which is exactly what the comment does.
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by galactus 9y ago
Textbook example of victim blaming.
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by galactus 9y ago
I agree that speech should be totally free, but, really, are we supposed to treat overtly racist ideas the same way we treat any relatively non harmful but perhaps mistaken theory? If person A is a white supremacist, and person B thinks eth
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by galactus 9y ago
Finally, some good news! /s
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by galactus 10y ago
"the fundamental principle that no matter what in a democracy everyone have the right to say and mean what they want without having to fear the repercussions" I think you are mixing things, Democracy does not give anyone the right
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by galactus 10y ago
I find it hard to believe Japanese engineers don't leave Japan because of the language. Perhaps most of them simply don't want to leave their country?
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by galactus 10y ago
Interesting. How do you plan to keep the plebs from revolting once you eliminate the last vestige of social mobility?
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by galactus 10y ago
So basically you are saying that poor kids have no "potential to succeed" and should be kept segregated?
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by galactus 11y ago
In what sense are academia and corporate not "the real world"?
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by galactus 11y ago
associative arrays could use an example illustrating when/why to use them
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by galactus 11y ago
mine dogecoin? (j/k)
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by galactus 11y ago
what is a "true hispanic"?
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Google is slowly phasing out Google+(yahoo.com)
1 points by galactus 12y ago|1 comments
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by galactus 12y ago
IKEA was a huge brand before the internet was there to make it important for people to type its name correctly..
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by galactus 12y ago
Very impractical if you want to use bitcoin as currency
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by galactus 12y ago
thanks for the link, I'm colombian and I didnt know the battle of Cartagena was considered that important. Blas de Lezo was badass as hell!
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by galactus 12y ago
it seems almost as lax as the nobel peace prize...
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by galactus 12y ago
Hello, I have VS too! I was actually one of the many people dr Schankin interviewed by phone for the first phase of the research that you mention. I have had it for nearly 25 years!
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by galactus 12y ago
Everyone would be ok with blind people keeping their augmented reality glasses on, the same way guide dogs get special treatment today. Why does it have to be an all or nothing thing?
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by galactus 12y ago
"There was no association with a mother’s occupation. However, children who had both parents in technical fields were at a higher risk of having a more severe form of autism."
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by galactus 12y ago
scheme is not really a pure functional language ("set!") One of the things I like about Common Lisp is its "multi-paradigm" philosophy.
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by galactus 13y ago
Fargo is quite nice http://fargo.io/
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by galactus 13y ago
I know, my point is that both "real" capitalism (the libertarian kind) and "real" communism are fantasies.

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