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by gnfargbl 2y ago
The reason that I think rule-of-law will always be important to entrepreneurs is that if you don't have those things, then you're always at risk of the King taking what is "his" and you being left with nothing to show fo
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I wasn't convinced of this, so I asked ChatGPT to give me the founding dates of the top 10 companies from the Wikipedia page, with an instruction to track backwards through M&A. Here's the result: * Volkswagen: Founded on May
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China may be market-based, but does China actually allow successful entrepreneurs to actually retain the fruits of their successes, or are those fruits confiscated in ways unrelated to taxation? Look at Jack Ma, for instance. This is why th
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Your point is well taken, but I think we need to question why Europe declined so significantly as a centre of innovation. A big part of it is obviously the relative effects of twentieth century wars, both hot and cold. However, we also ne
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The quote applies to everyone!
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" People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel, " as Maya Angelou has it. Rickover, for all his delivery talents, apparently made a good proportion of peopl
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It's like the current situation with "vibe coding". An LLM can build you something which demonstrates a principle in some kind of hand-wavy fashion, but the gap between the thing produced by the LLM and a sustainable product
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Looks like you can "feed the drama" by sending unauthenticated JSON messages to an endpoint that the site specifies? Fortunately, nobody on the internet has the urge to break things just for the hell of it, so I'm sure everyt
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I can't find accurate statistics, but I question your use of https://truthout.org/articles/more-israelis-are-refusing-dep... as an unbiased source. If you are going to quote an article with that title, you could a
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Military service is compulsory in Israel, so being a former member of 8200 isn't exactly unusual. Given the choice between spending two or three years as deployed infantry, or writing code in an air-conditioned office, I suspect a few
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You're thinking of HCSEC. In the majority of their reports they repeatedly complained that they couldn't even get binary equivalence with Huawei's deployed builds (which clearly obviates the value of any code review) but in t
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> “America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests” Yes, and we are well aware of this. See the history of the Tube Alloys project and the McMahon Act.
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I do agree that the wider guarantees offered by NATO aren't now what they were, particularly for states that Trump feels shouldn't have been members in the first place. His recent comments on Poland (strong support given) followed
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The US has a vested interest in a large number of military bases in the UK, including Fylingdales which is an essential part of the US's ballistic missile warning system. There's no way that the US could renege on existing defence
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In fairness, VWP travel to the US in circumstances that mean you might be considered to be working there has not been a good idea under any administration. If you're a professional tattoo artist and you arrive for a month with tattoo e
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If you believe Putin only wants "clean wins," you've fundamentally misunderstood his character. It's a binary outcome from his perspective. If he obtains his his key objectives at some survivable cost, that's a win
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And what exactly do you think Putin will do after he successfully exits this particular engagement? Past performance is, in fact, often quite a reliable guarantee of future results.
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In the short term, certainly. In the longer term? I'm pretty glad not to have been born into an occupied British puppet state. If not for a man with the obstinacy of Zelenskyy, I might have been. It was always ironic that Trump kept a
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I also empathise, for the same reasons. Co-incidentally, I was just listening to the radio, where a former BP strategy employee was pinning the failure of BP's "Beyond Petroleum" strategy squarely on the difficulty of a compa
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You can reasonably disagree with the direction of a project that you're involved in, and you can withdraw from that project if it refuses to change direction.
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My (minimally-informed) summary of the mailing list posts is that Hellwig thinks that the addition of Rust to the kernel is fundamentally bad because it [1] > turns Linux into a project written in multiple languages with no clear guidel
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To give you a counterpoint: from this side of the pond it is extremely surprising to see how effective Vance's speech has been in distracting a good proportion of the American public. Which, I have to suspect, was the real point.
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Border control agents in all countries -- including the US -- have fairly extensive powers to search your devices or deny you entry. I'm not sure this decision should change your calculus on that point. See also https://medi
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The advantages of Pulsar are very much practical, at least for us. Without it we would have to manage two separate messaging systems. I don't see any evidence of StreamNative abandoning Pulsar at this point. I do see a compatibility la
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Pulsar. Works extremely well as both a job queue and a data bus. We have been using it in this application for half a decade now with no serious issues. I don't understand why it doesn't get more popular attention.
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Typically old binary; unfortunately these are the documents which clients' accounting and legal departments tend to send me. OOXML is better, though not always identical to the Word rendering. Spreadsheets, in fairness, tend to do pret
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I use it near-daily. I agree it no longer crashes often. It most certainly does mangle the formatting of imported Word documents.
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We have different definitions of "supported and maintained". My definition means that it doesn't crash, and that it opens my clients' documents without mangling them. I have absolutely no interest in how many lines of co
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> In that way, you can get long-term Service Level Agreements (SLA), personalised assistance, technical support, and custom new features. Thanks, but not quite what I'm looking for. I want a fully maintained and supported offline wo
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I have said this before, but I still don't understand there isn't a supported version of LibreOffice that I can pay for. I'm mostly happy with Google's online tools, but I want a Linux-compatible offline spreadsheet and

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