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by graemep 3mo ago
I should really have worded my comment differently too. You need to filter out those Asian countries. Thinking about it, I think one thing that might stop that is that most people will start with English like languages first even if they ar
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It might show up if there are national or even regional numbers for popular languages.
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> Why EU could not buy from Microsoft directly to spare the embarrassment is beyond my comprehension. Possibly either some form of CYA, or a requirement to buy from an EU company.
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The people in charge assume that a large scale project requires lots of work to implement in all cases. That is not a given. Creating software that runs 10,000 separate instances is a lot easier than something that has to scale to one insta
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by graemep 3mo ago
> as might be the case with programmers from Asian countries or others where familiarity with English is not guaranteed Lots of Asian countries where familiarity with English is assumed in professional contexts. > So if your primary g
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by graemep 3mo ago
Does it require innocent until proven guilty? Other standards. Not familiar with most EU countries, but common law countries have a balance of probabilities for civil cases.
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A lot of comments are missing (IMO) the main point, which is the conclusion in the last paragraph. > Still, whether Snow Leopard really was this bastion of stability and polish, the myth surrounding its development and stated purpose obv
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She sticks to some principles. The hainish universe has no FTL travel, which lots of hard sci-fi does. There are people with psychic powers,but that also happens in hard SF. Compare her to Niven, for example
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Most people attribute that entirely to greed or monopoly rather than to it being a result of scale. IMO its all three. More importantly politicians and the civil service still believe that the private sector is automatically efficient and t
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Thanks, good points there.
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> made in Buckfast Abbey by an order of Benedictine monks. Historically, yes, but after they lost their license to sell wine (a century ago) they licensed the name to a drinks business that scaled production up and changed the recipe.
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by graemep 3mo ago
Why is Atom better?
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From what I know OpenBSD httpd is written with the same security focus as other openBSD projects? I would have thought there was more need for that than ever. The same for relayd.
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by graemep 3mo ago
That is not the claim being made though. The difference is between work done (and payment due) being defined by time spent, vs work done being defined by tasks completed. A hundred years is not a long time ago. its post industrial revolutio
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by graemep 3mo ago
The Ubuntu equivalent is PPAs.
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I was thinking of sprawl with regard to the instances when these are valid objections. With regard to the environmental impact, I was not thinking about climate change but things such as endangering habitats of rare species.
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by graemep 3mo ago
How do you define ethnicity and race? Apart from the ambiguous areas I do not think we all use the same definitions. > In the US it is very common for someone to identify as half black and half white, or one quarter Irish and three quart
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by graemep 3mo ago
Fair enough, just adding development of new housing in places I know is strongly opposed with the reasons given are things such as strains on existing local services, environmental impacts (e.g. on endangered or protected species), and lot
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by graemep 3mo ago
Depends what you mean by fuzzy. it is culturally defined and people in different cultures use different definitions. Americans have whole categories not used in, for example, the UK (a very similar culture otherwise) such as "hispanic&
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NIMBYism happens in all sorts of places. Not just car oriented cities, or even just cities.
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My understanding of racism in the US is that it is more like caste in India than like class in Britain, for example. The big difference is that you are defined by your ancestry so there is little to no mobility. This seems to be confirmed b
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by graemep 3mo ago
> You want to prevent the transition from a GPL codebase with some public domain code to a public domain codebase with some GPL code. That would take a very long time if contributions are reviewed etc. By then any legal ambiguities would
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by graemep 3mo ago
> But even if that is the case, this is one of the largest and most complex pieces of software on the planet, and is used to produce the binaries of countless other pieces of software. I think this policy makes sense because of that. We
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by graemep 3mo ago
For that very reason they would also add very little LLM code over the next few years (until we get more court rulings) even if they allowed it. A little LLM code would not be usable without the rest of their code which remains covered by c
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> the judge tells you to punch sand because your codebase is all AI generated and therefore not copyrighted. 1. There is no indication that is at all likely except for purely vibe-coded projects. It seems highly unlikely and in some coun
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The stance may be reasonable, but the reasoning is not clear to me and the limit does sesm to suggest copyright concerns that are, as you say, far fetched.
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Given how other Andaman islanders have been treated by outsiders hostility towards people who come there uninvited is understandable. People going to their island are not "immigrants" - no intention of remaining.
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Because you believe you are proclaiming the truth and have a duty to do so. That does not mean you think they are immoral. Its just an extreme version of things such as the Christian duty to spread the word. Christianity has always had the
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I do not think anyone is arguing the Sentinelese are immoral?
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Plus civil war and internal conflict and violence.

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