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by gbear605 3y ago
The difference is that in the Middle East most of the wealth comes from the land because of oil reserves. In the UK, owning land makes lots of money, but there are plenty of industries that are not based on extracting resources.
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by gbear605 3y ago
Anyone smart just uses one of the many different OpenJDK versions, which are free and open source. (I personally use Eclipse Temurin.) OracleJDK is a trap for enterprises that don’t have a connection between the decision makers and the lice
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by gbear605 3y ago
The end result is the same number of cars, that all have built in features that no one pays for and uses, causing more resource usage and waste but providing no one any value. It just hurts the environment but doesn’t convince anyone to swi
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by gbear605 3y ago
You can count me in the one percent then. :) Seriously though, lots of people don’t use Twitter. Of my friends, only one has a Twitter account, and he’s switched away since Musk took over.
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by gbear605 3y ago
PhpBB is GPLv2, and it still works just fine. Discourse is also GPL, if you’re looking for a more modern look. There are a number of others too ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_s... )
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by gbear605 3y ago
…what? I’m not familiar with Canadian papers, but at least with American news sources most of the national newspapers have paywalls regardless of ideology (NYT, Washington Post, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal), while television news (
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by gbear605 3y ago
The mobile games are the weirdest to me, because most of them that I see are ads for games that are also primarily ad supported. It’s ads all the way down. I suspect that a lot of it is riding on VC funding that will eventually dry up, brea
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by gbear605 3y ago
More than half of my non-techie friends have cancelled their Netflix subscriptions in the last few months because of the changes. They were already on the edge of having it anyway, so when Netflix said to pay twice as much they just left.
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by gbear605 3y ago
They definitely used to have more uptime issues, so that’s an improvement. Not sure it really needed two orders of magnitude of employees, but still.
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by gbear605 3y ago
The key is that it protects YouTube (and Valve in this case) since they can say “we weren’t allowing our users to upload copyrighted content but they snuck it in”
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by gbear605 3y ago
Project Gutenberg has three pdfs of her works: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46554
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by gbear605 3y ago
It’s not entirely impossible; mathematicians did it for thousands of years (just read Newton’s Principia). It does use very specific language to do so, and some of the language might not exist for some advanced mathematical concepts, but I
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by gbear605 3y ago
> And what would stop the companies from using consultants or third parties to implement these backdoors? Nothing. Contract with the unions could force the companies to not do so. The employees of tech companies have a lot of power that
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by gbear605 3y ago
Nurses unions have advocated in the US for policies like Medicare-for-all (single payer health care), so it’s not just possible but plausible. It would help them too (simplifying insurance makes nurses lives easier), but that’s equally true
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by gbear605 3y ago
Trademarks are for a given category. Apple has a trademark on “Apple” in the computing space but they don’t run up against apple orchards.
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by gbear605 3y ago
Runescape has sharded worlds, but the worlds go up to 1500 players, which is decently high.
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by gbear605 3y ago
There are lots of “contractors” in the tech world, that are brought on for a project and then move onto something else. It makes sense because they can be there for an important project that they can really contribute towards and then move
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by gbear605 3y ago
Ironically a one year contract isn’t even an option for Netflix right now (in the US, can’t speak for other countries). Honestly not sure why, since it seems like it’d be more profitable for them, even with a slight discount.
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by gbear605 3y ago
The GDPR is doing a good job at it, even across an ocean. Thank goodness for the EU.
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by gbear605 3y ago
From a moral viewpoint, letting someone of your country join another country’s foreign legion is identical to letting someone of another country join your foreign legion. If you say that joining a different group to fight ISIS is not okay w
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by gbear605 3y ago
Hmm, let me check in again with France… Oh, what, they have a thing called the Foreign Legion, where they want foreigners to fight for them? It seems like actually France wants people to fight for nations that aren’t their own.
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by gbear605 3y ago
That’s what they wanted to charge - Reddit only makes $0.13/user/mo, so their cost must be less than that (or else Reddit has much bigger problems), so let’s say $0.05/user/mo. Apollo has 2 million users, so $1.2 million
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by gbear605 3y ago
Reddit doesn’t like to remember it, but it’s fundamentally a site where users provide content, and only a small fraction of users provide the most popular content (and do moderation). Those fraction tend to be the more advanced users that u
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by gbear605 3y ago
I was referring to cars in general, not new cars. It’s absurd to say that something is malpractice when it was standard practice just a couple years ago. I’d prefer that we get rid of the advanced electronics in cars entirely, so I’m not ex
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by gbear605 3y ago
Most cars don’t have radar at all, so it’s hardly like they’re sacrificing consumers by not including it.
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by gbear605 3y ago
His infamous “reality distortion field” is the definition of bullshit, but it turns out that the right kind of bullshit can be turned into a trillion dollar company.
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Elon is helping with DeSantis’ presidential campaign, so it seems almost certain.
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The purpose of a patent, generally speaking, is to encourage innovation by giving the creator legally protected time in which they can exclusively use that innovation. If they don’t use the innovation but someone else wants to, society is i
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by gbear605 3y ago
I interpreted that as having an implicit “by this step of the filtering process”, not as applying to the entire firewall.
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You could have a theory of antitrust that allows for both rules - if a company is across multiple fields of business or if a company is too much of a single field, it gets split up. So Standard Oil and Ma Bell get split up for controlling t

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