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by jcbrand 9y ago
> they use it and say 'F*ck you' to those who laughed at them Except that the "fuck you" goes less to people who laughed at nerds years ago and more to the local community, regulators and software users.
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Turkey is not part of the EU.
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It will become uneconomical to mine and therefore people will stop doing so, causing the hash rate (and therefore the cost of energy + hardware required to mine) to plummet, eventually making it economical again.
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by jcbrand 9y ago
> would you rather have ads from services which know nothing about you? I'd rather have zero ads. If I'm interested in something, I'll search for it, or ask around.
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That's a claim, not an argument.
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Anarchy as a political philosophy has nothing to do with disorder and rather more with "self-organising". It's more akin to American libertarianism, but approached from a leftist perspective.
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by jcbrand 9y ago
I'm skeptical that this is actually as big a reason people don't want to open-source their code as you assume. In any case, there are good solutions for it. Firstly, if you know from the start that you're going to open source
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by jcbrand 9y ago
The Sahara is in Africa and the Himalayas are in Asia. So not much effect I presume. You probably mean the Gobi desert.
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I'll try to provide an answer as far as I understand the issue. Poorer countries with less developed markets are forced to open their domestic markets to foreign countries and competitors who then completely outcompete and dominate the
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My impression is that people generally leave the television or radio on the entire day because they struggle with silence and being alone with their thoughts. The same is true with social media and internet addictions, although there's
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by jcbrand 9y ago
> There should be a German word for that feeling. Best I can think of right now is "fremdschämen", which literally translates into "foreign shame". It means to be ashamed or embarrassed for other people's behavio
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But then you'd also need to cover 5 times the area, and land also costs money.
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I agree that one should strive to make good code human-readable and I often also try to use names in a grammatically correct way (to make reading easier). However, this article leaves me wishing he'd show examples of what he's tal
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by jcbrand 9y ago
My experience is that whether one is writing tests first or not, the code that is being written does get tested one way or the other. In other words, people (for example web-devs) who don't write tests first tend to "test" th
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by jcbrand 10y ago
> reading the news with annoying ads, or not reading the news? False dichotomy. Firstly, ads don't have to be annoying. Secondly, news doesn't have to be financed by ads. There are lots of smaller and independent news sources t
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by jcbrand 10y ago
> In the space of all possible universes it is unlikely that we live in the most probable one, but it is likely that we live in a probable one. I was never great at probability theory, but wouldn't we by definition most likely be li
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by jcbrand 10y ago
The "Free" refers to freedom, not price. Facebook is not freedom-respecting software as defined by the FSF.
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by jcbrand 10y ago
Evolution is incredibly agile, while intelligent design follows the waterfall model. Since intelligent design presupposes that a design was in place before implementation, you'd need a watertight specification to know what you'll
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by jcbrand 10y ago
People's inability to service/pay their loans, due to not having enough income, due to the job market collapsing, due to a recession (which is already overdue).
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> Then couldn't a preventative measure be to take all the existing child porn and make it available to them? What about the victims' right not to have their privacy and dignity violated by the continuing consumption of the mate
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by jcbrand 10y ago
Yes, the Plone CMS still runs on Zope2. https://plone.com The ZODB (Zope Object Database) is also still going strong: http://www.zodb.org
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by jcbrand 10y ago
> As to Burning Man itself, it always felt like one of those events that I was not cool enough to go to. So you're playing your own gatekeeper? If you wanted to go, just go, you might just learn a thing or two about coolness, yourse
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by jcbrand 10y ago
One reason would be to store your savings yourself instead of entrusting them to a bank. Why would you not entrust them to a bank? Because of negative interest rates, capital controls (e.g. Greece) and concerns due to bank liquidity and bai
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by jcbrand 10y ago
Makes you wonder how many other studies are bought and paid for, such as the recent studies highlighting the evils of allowing cash (or at least high denomination notes) in our society. For example, from this Guardian article: http:/&
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by jcbrand 10y ago
Here you go: https://blog.andyet.com/2015/06/09/what-is-being-open-source...
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by jcbrand 10y ago
There's also talky.io, which is FOSS and works well for me.
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> it would probably have worse wealth distribution than the US since it still has lower mobility and maybe even worse than some emerging and developing markets. But higher taxes for the rich and more redistributive social policies. So I&
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Pluggable.js: A tiny plugin architecture for your JavaScript project(jcbrand.github.io)
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> He (Kenneth Rogoff) argues that, apart from facilitating crime and tax evasion, cash hampers central banks from setting negative interest rates. I think a lot of the "war on cash" boils down to this. Central Banks want to imp
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by jcbrand 10y ago
Depends on who is doing the tracking and for what purpose. I prefer societies that expect people to do the right thing and have measures in place to deal with anti-socials than societies that expect people to do the wrong thing and therefor

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