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by hvis 7y ago
> Why are you talking like this? Because I feel like willful mislabeling things for emotional effect is what got us in this situation. Remember the contents of the original email: it was pointing out that "child rape" was not a
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by hvis 7y ago
> Well, many people described RMS as a creep. And when the accusations are true, that for example he told women they should date him or he kills himself, than that is valid. If . And was it "women" or "a woman"? Once
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by hvis 7y ago
> I don't think anybody is interested in "destroying RMS' reputation." Really? Look at this disgrace: https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1177030240951926784 But this lady has her audience,
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by hvis 7y ago
Please buy yourself a dictionary. Misogyny is nowhere near the claims presented in the story or the follow-ups. And no, simply being an awkward nerd (whether that happened or not), or "being a creep" how some people called it, doe
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by hvis 7y ago
> It is not about that he defended him, it is about how. He didn't defend Epstein. Quite the opposite. > Minsky did associate with him nevertheless. Apparently, so did many, many other people. Very few of which have somehow been
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by hvis 7y ago
It was a guess. And not an entirely implausible one. Yes, apparently some people have an extremely emotional reaction to seeing the word "willing" anywhere near the topic of sexual exploitation, but that's not a good enough r
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by hvis 7y ago
OK, I'll give you that. But what actually sounds worse, "attention whore" or "creep, pedo and rape apologist"? The girl is likely going to get out of the scandal unscathed, so in my personal opinion she deserves wha
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by hvis 7y ago
> more than willing Who said that and when?
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by hvis 7y ago
"Both sides"? What wild accusations is the defending side throwing? The details are not 100% clear at this point, but there's a testimonial: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/339725/ Also: https:&#x2
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by hvis 7y ago
> How about "sorry for spreading misinformation"? By "stuff" I mean all the subsequent "revelations" about his character. > So you did not read the medium blogpost that started this, at all? So you meant
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by hvis 7y ago
The sign was probably there for decades. If it was problematic, I'm sure some of the university staff would have removed it. So which "latest thing" was the last straw and how?
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by hvis 7y ago
Such decisions are not done in a day. The original post, with misinterpretations, appeared on Sep 12, and the resignation happened on Sep 16. The extra "revelations" post was also published on Sep 16.
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by hvis 7y ago
What was an isolated incident? Sharing his opinions over email? Certainly not. Of course I'm not being charitable: the armchair warriors have tried (and, to a large extent, succeeded) to destroy the reputation of a man who we all, coll
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by hvis 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts In any case, RMS effectively got dismissed because of an email on a university-internal mailing list where he tried to defend the honor of a dead friend and colleague
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by hvis 7y ago
Maybe it wouldn't be so scary for you, but is everybody else's computer is compromised, did you really win much?
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by hvis 7y ago
Refactoring means retaining the exact behavior, by definition. Of course, many refactorings will make it easier to apply performance optimizations later.
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by hvis 7y ago
Can't you do the switch on the next extension update, for instance?
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by hvis 8y ago
That's not all one might want to do the structured out. Think of converting to HTML, as one example.
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by hvis 8y ago
They should also know that git ls-files -z | xargs -0 grep -nHE <regexp> can be almost as fast.
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by hvis 8y ago
> black box Have you tried looking into any other contemporary DVC systems? I get Git, more or less. Having tried to make sense of Bazaar or Mercurial on several occasions (to understand the internal data model), I eventually gave up.
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by hvis 8y ago
It predates Minecraft by about a decade, I think.
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by hvis 8y ago
I don't see any Pocket ads. As for analytics, they need to use something . And disallowing extensions to run on addons.mozilla.org is a solid technical decision. > but Mozilla love to shoot themselves in the foot As opposed to some
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by hvis 8y ago
None of that happens in the current Firefox releases.
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by hvis 8y ago
There is a huge distance between "Doing the right thing" and "doing one's best to avoid getting sued". There are lots of things that are legal but frowned upon in a decent society. And no, Facebook is not "just
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by hvis 8y ago
> my monitor manufacturer is a third party to my Facebook data It actually is. Your monitor, on the other hand, can be considered a part of yourself for the purposes of viewing the data. If it somehow sends sensitive information back to
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by hvis 9y ago
> I'm not sure I'm a fan of that, as that's the opposite of what I see freedom being. Your freedom ends where other people's freedom begins. That's just basic ethics. No freedom is absolute. And by releasing impo
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by hvis 9y ago
> The user, in the only way that is significant to the license But for the GPL, the notion of a user almost always includes you and me. Or at least it would, it this particular case. So how can one compare the licenses on the amount of &
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by hvis 9y ago
Intel is software vendor. Or a "developer". They also use it, of course, but there are a number of magnitude more other users than Intel. Such as you and me, probably. But anyway, that BSD is more permissive than GPL is a very obv
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by hvis 9y ago
> "Open source" is not "more free" in any general sense And yet, this is the point that Mr. Tenenbaum has tried to make in TFA: "this bit of news reaffirms my view that the Berkeley license provides the maximum a
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by hvis 9y ago
What do you mean by "give the function"? If you can do that, either by writing a deterministic algorithm, or even defining it analytically, there's no need for machine learning, neural networks or etc.

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