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by insulanus 5y ago
Every important criminal law includes the idea of intent. Killing someone with a car because you sneezed is very different from intentionally running them over in the eyes of the law.
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by insulanus 5y ago
> Effectively, you're just restricting the business models of your users. It has worked for some projects (Linux above all) I think you are understating how crucial a license like the GPL was in Linux getting to where we are today.
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by insulanus 5y ago
> Also, you might moan about cloud lock-in, but collaboratively editing documents in Office 365 is a vast improvement over emailing documents around and clumsy manual version management[0]. I would never go back. This is not a good argum
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by insulanus 5y ago
> the software industry has been moving towards less problematic and more permissive licences [sic] ... less "problematic" for who, exactly? That is conveniently left out.
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by insulanus 5y ago
This is extremely anti-competitive. In the old days, this was called "lock-in". The reason it is wrong is the extreme power imbalance between you and the service provider. No matter how independent you are, or how much time you ar
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by insulanus 5y ago
The value of HN to YCombinator is keeping a large community of plugged-in and knowledgeable people on-tap. If there were any hint of commercializing HN, it would be clear as day that Ycombinator was now run by idiots. Everyone would flee fa
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by insulanus 5y ago
Yes, it matters a lot. One of the reasons people want open source is to be able to "fork away" from a popular project, if the leadership team of that project takes a direction that people disagree with. Obviously this goal is impo
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by insulanus 5y ago
The novelty of a tool is not directly correlated to its worth, because we can always make new, worse tools. Newer tools CAN make use of new information in a better design, but it doesn't always happen.
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by insulanus 5y ago
Yes, you can. That's called a grinding attack. There is mitigation in the proof-of-space construction for exactly that. That is also the reason that they will have to move to more expensive proofs as time goes on, and hardware improves
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by insulanus 5y ago
I admire your optimism. Here are some reasons I don't want to see car makers selling software: 1. There is a huge power imbalance between a car company and a car "owner" (licensee?) 2. The incentives on the car company side a
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by insulanus 5y ago
That's only if you can (and do!) test everything locally. Otherwise, you are still beholden to the CI system.
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by insulanus 6y ago
Yes, the Trump tariffs show that there are one or two things that China will respond to. It seems unlikely that the US or the EU will want to pay the cost in the short term.
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by insulanus 6y ago
If you delist a company in country B, you stop all investment in that company, and you create a chilling effect on future investment. No change in company ownership. Business carries on in country A. People can get new jobs.
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by insulanus 6y ago
It is an excellent point that the well managed Chinese economy and PR apparatus has helped the average Chinese citizen. You would be singing a different tune if you were to come under Chinese rule.
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by insulanus 6y ago
zm262, I improvedthe grammar in your comment. > The more likely case is that, there are a bunch of people who are unemployable having no skills or lack motivations to work or happen to be in miserable conditions (like the homeless in US)
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by insulanus 6y ago
I translated your comment. > The more likely case is that, there are a bunch of people who are unemployable having no skills or lack motivations to work or happen to be in miserable conditions (like the homeless in US) were forced (yes)
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by insulanus 6y ago
The string won't break apart, because the forces that are holding it together are so much stronger than the "force" that is pulling our universe apart. Unfortunately, it doesn't answer your more fundamental question of &
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by insulanus 6y ago
"your worst enemy" can be a stand-in for "a faulty algorithm running on another thread". Or, another way to look at it - a lock-free algorithm that allows starvation or livelock/deadlock.
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by insulanus 6y ago
> The fundamental problem isn't streaming, as much as it is that natural systems follow power law distributions I think that's an important truth to keep in mind when discussing this. > That was just as true 20 years ago as
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by insulanus 6y ago
You lucky duck. That's quite a setup for a 13 year old!
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by insulanus 6y ago
It's number 67 in the world, using immigrants per capita. Still, a pretty high rate of foreign-born population.
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by insulanus 6y ago
It's not like the disk is divided into SMR and non-SMR zones. Adjacent tracks that already contain data must always be re-written. So, these driveswork well if managed in one of two ways: * Append-only * Only use every other track If u
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by insulanus 6y ago
Thanks for linking this. I just read it, and that is some DAMN fine writing. Sometimes when I complain about jargon and bad writing in scientific papers, people argue back that the author has to be precise. This paper makes it clear that th
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by insulanus 6y ago
Yeah, it's hard to describe accurately, because it runs in the browser locally, but is delivered from whatever URL is being referenced on their site.
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by insulanus 6y ago
Good thinking, but if I understand correctly, the javascript running the scan is running on your browser. So the scan is coming from the browser process, and both sides of the connection have IP address 127.0.0.1. That javascript can then r
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by insulanus 6y ago
> Windows is still going backwards in terms of hostility to users. Do you mean that Windows is becoming more user-hostile, or less?
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by insulanus 6y ago
Wow. I just downloaded and installed it (on Linux). Hands down the best install experience of any similar tool. * Unzip one binary and run it. * The app auto-detects everything you need, and uses the best version it finds * Its project layo
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by insulanus 6y ago
:) Before I read the link, I was thinking about a text editor I would keep on my rescue floppy disks. The method of distribution was typing the assembly out of the November 15, 1988 edition of PC Magazine. http://texteditors.org&
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by insulanus 7y ago
Google Verbatim. It is super well hidden. Type your Query, select "Tools", then "All Results". Switch that to "Verbatim"
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by insulanus 7y ago
> Is it that people have so many hidden motivations you become suspicious, or worry about generating / reciprocating feelings of obligation, or end up disappointing you after causing you to invest emotion? These are all good, but th

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