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871.
by iso1210 6y ago
The software is expensive and restricts your rights if your time have no value
872.
by iso1210 6y ago
> For individuals, a lot of it comes down to how you value your time. That's why I use open source, I don't have the time to deal with crappy closed source programs
873.
by iso1210 6y ago
I don't see how you could get a hangover from drinking 6x330ml cans of beer in a single evening, let alone across a week. You evidently have a chip on your shoulder over alcohol
874.
by iso1210 6y ago
Arround 1400, the King proclaimed that "every Englishman or Irishman dwelling in England must have a bow of his own height", at one point Tennis was banned to give more time to bow practice. By 1500s every man had to buy his 7 ye
875.
by iso1210 6y ago
Someone drinking an average of 6x 33ml cans of 4.3% beer a week would not be called an alcoholic in any normal conversation. That's 4.4 litres of alcohol a year - less than half the US intake (9.8l), less than Norway (7.5l) and would f
876.
by iso1210 6y ago
None of those things are done by a corporation, they're done by employees of the corporation - be it the janitor or the CEO.
877.
by iso1210 6y ago
Where did you get the list of companies from?
878.
by iso1210 6y ago
Most employers are also employees. What a given middle manager thinks may not be the same as what their manager thinks, or their employees think. Corporations may be legal 'person', but they don't have individual thoughts
879.
by iso1210 6y ago
Do you want to go into the office, or do you want everyone else to go into the office?
880.
by iso1210 6y ago
In which countries?
881.
by iso1210 6y ago
24 cans of beer? Depending on the size that's between 8 and 14 litres a month, about 1.8-3.2 litres a week. At 4% that's at most 13 UK units per week (assuming you buy large cans) -- guidelines are 14 units per week. For say 330ml
882.
by iso1210 6y ago
The canal revenues were down about $15m/day. If it really cost $7b a day, then Egypt is massively undercharging.
883.
by iso1210 6y ago
> 2) The disruption will have introduced hypotheticals that nay spiral out themselves (butterfly effect style) e.g. some retailer may have lost a customer who went elsewhere, some supplier may have lost a retailer who went elsewhere, etc
884.
by iso1210 6y ago
I don't care what you use your electricity for - mining bitcoins, folding proteins, running space heaters, watching porn, making aluminum What I do care about is that others are suffering because the externalities of your electricity u
885.
by iso1210 6y ago
So the vast majority is for aesthetic reasons, and industrial reasons are a tiny amount.
886.
by iso1210 6y ago
The absurdity is that negative externalities are not being born by those benefiting.
887.
by iso1210 6y ago
Medicare costs $750b. Medicaid $597b That's $1347b a year. The US population is 330m, that's $4000 per person. The NHS in England costs £147b, or $200b. England's population is 56m. So the NHS in England, which costs the gove
888.
by iso1210 6y ago
You expect China and Myanmar to attack journalists, but we've seen journalists arrested live on TV in the USA [0], we've seen police attacking journalists in the UK [1], and we've seen attacks on journalists encouraged by so
889.
by iso1210 6y ago
Hell of a long way from Eilat to the med, and even further avoiding Gaza - about 240km. I wonder what the political implications would be
890.
by iso1210 6y ago
You're not adding the size of the ffmpeg binary itself with that. My ffmpeg which I compiled as follows (with my own filter) --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libmp3lame i
891.
by iso1210 6y ago
Yes, I have many scripts that I throw an echo "Content-Type: text/html\n\n" or text/plain at the top and serve from apache. Job done, move on.
892.
by iso1210 6y ago
I had no idea what I was doing back then - copying scripts from MSA, no idea what chmod or ftp binary mode or even what the unix system I was telnetted into was (couple of years before). Managed to get things working though. No mention of s
893.
by iso1210 6y ago
Perl 5, although I try to write new stuff in python now to help the rest of the team. Still write the occasional webpage in perl -- it ususaly starts off as a one liner with grep, sed, etc, but I refactor into perl if it gets complex, been
894.
by iso1210 6y ago
Node at least is sexy, and I suspect will continue with large numbers of people writing it. Ruby however seems to be as esoteric as perl - its not js or python or java in ubiquity, it's not loved like rust and go, it doesn't have
895.
by iso1210 6y ago
DS9 had a lot of commentary. When someone asks why a democracy has such inequality, I think of Rom: "You don't understand. Ferengi workers don't want to stop the exploitation. We want to find a way to become the exploiters&qu
896.
by iso1210 6y ago
Covid had nothing to do with the suez blocking, could easily have happened in 2019, and it's a very rare event The Suez is being progressively widened and doubled. Previous blockages have been due to war, this type of blocking I think
897.
by iso1210 6y ago
I've been shocked just how well global JIT work has continued despite the pandemic
898.
by iso1210 6y ago
I've got a perl website dating back to 2004 - from before php5 was out - that is still used by hundreds of people a day on an internal system. Works great, the code is deployed by a deb in the same was as it deployed in 2008. Since ini
899.
by iso1210 6y ago
And I'm sure some companies spent money rewriting perfectly functioning perl code into something like ruby.
900.
by iso1210 6y ago
Just around 2038 as people go "what the hell does this perl code do" as the clock rolls over.

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