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by ghssds 2y ago
View this as an insurance and it suddenly all makes perfect sense. You pay a little more so if this month your usage pikes, you won't get a surprise invoice you didn't budget for, and you won't get cut either. At worst, you&#
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I like that your solution to corporations locking things away forever is a new system that would immediately excludes individual citizens and ties the capability to remove a cultural good from the public to wealth. The main problems with cu
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Under the threat of death. While death isn't officially a legal punishment for copyright infringement, you typically don't need to resist the law for very long before it become a choice between bending the knee and facing death. I
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Old enough for criminal responsability; yoo young for reading a website?
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My question is: why three days specifically instead of a user-configurable delay?
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Everything you ever do with your computer while using this is subpoenable. To quote Dick Jones: "He's a cyborg, you idiot! He recorded every word you said. His memory's admissible as evidence!"
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*67 could have enabled your shenanigan for years.
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Linux doesn't need binary compatibility as much as Windows, lot of source packages will compile right away with a vast array of different operating systems, typically excluding Windows but including Linux, and Linux is a few clicks awa
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In the '90s, a lot of dial-up BBS were owned by <16yo teens. Later the same happened with internet forum. Today, you'd think 16yo is old enough to have your own social media. Maybe a Mastodon or Lemmy instance, or something unf
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> If the executive doesn’t have parliament, they lose the executive. Not automatically. A minority government of course more at risk of losing the confidence of parliament but it's also a powerful incentive for such a government tha
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USA's clear separation of powers is a liability in this case. In parliamentary system, where executive and legislative branches are not that well separated, if the executive branch misbehave, a simple vote from the parliament can disba
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The Lindy Effect[0] agree with you. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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How many cities are lost every year? Can finding those cities help alleviate the housing crisis? Won't the inhabitants of those cities complain about disrupted postal service? I have so many questions!
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While the Foundation series is what's best known nowadays, the Suzan Calvin and Elijah Bailay stuff, and more generally everything set before the Galactic Empire even exists in Asimov's fictional timeline is where Asimov is at his
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>"the president did x". Which one?
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Build a better life by stealing office supplies, by Scott Adams.
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Still, everyone's causation cone forever will continue to extend across the universe.
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>When Barnes & Noble or Borders returned books to us, stickered and unsalable, we didn’t pulp them; we sent them to Africa, where they could be useful to people who couldn’t afford them. Africa isn't your personal dumpster. If a
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by ghssds 2y ago
True. The only ethical way to obtain money is by working for a corporation. Corporations are the only entities that legitimately can sell anything.
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Is there any peer-reviewed studies about this or are those claims unsubstantiated?
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I'd like for life on earth to go to the moon again. Why should I care if it's bearing a china flag or a usa flag? Nationalism and the "us" mentality is a disease.
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While my main search engine is still Google, I use Yandex more and more. I have no specific example right now but it's not unusual for Y to give me meaningful result when G, with the same search string, give me crap.
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I too miss the '90s. The modem connection sound. The ANSI arts. The BBS communities packaging together online games, forum, and files download. Lord, BRE and Death Master. Fidonet. The Internet was clearly the superior technology and t
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> If those people don't like it, they can go live in a different civilization, or in an uncivilized place. The former don't want me and the later did not exist for the past few centuries.
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Seems like a good fit for op's suggestion.
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What are the problems?, so I save time.
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They don't need to experiment with Mac. They still own the perfectly good Apple II brand they didn't use for decades and could experiment with all they want.
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And host them on Github /s
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> V2X enables vehicles to stay in touch with each other as well as pedestrians, cyclists, other road users and roadside infrastructure. I understand this as traffic cones, pedestrians, bicyclists, and people in wheelchairs being V2X-enab
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Why forking is bad (2020)(bacula.org)
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