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by jzb 2y ago
Is really being "under fire" if it's just accurate reporting?
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by jzb 2y ago
Not sure where you get 75% for Bandcamp. They take a 15% cut for digital sales, 10% for physical, plus processing fees. Also, they’re not really a streaming service: you can preview a lot of music on the platform, but it’s primarily about b
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by jzb 2y ago
It's designed to increase profits, for sure. I do not have a lot of love for Spotify, currently, but this particular practice does not bother me much. Look: If you give a damn about what you're listening to, you can go over to S
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A Zephyr-based camera trap for seagrass monitoring(lwn.net)
3 points by jzb 2y ago|1 comments
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by jzb 2y ago
As they are observed in the U.S., I'd argue they _are_ an odd custom, because it's so free-form. I'm old enough that I've been to a number of funerals -- ranging from distant, much older family members when I was a kid,
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by jzb 2y ago
"There are cases where an individual's choice to end it all early would be a net loss for their immediate community, and there are cases where it would be a net loss for the wider community and the state. At some point that net lo
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by jzb 2y ago
I thought that Momentary Lapse of Reason was okay: but that could be because it came out when I was a teen and apt to be uncritical about albums. I still enjoy it, but I can tell it’s a lesser work, now. The rest don’t even hold my attentio
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by jzb 2y ago
He would argue that Matty got a raw deal.
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by jzb 2y ago
But regulatory capture ensures that can’t happen.
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End of Hachette vs. Internet Archive(blog.archive.org)
23 points by jzb 2y ago|1 comments
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by jzb 2y ago
If a company has a significant amount of infra set up with VMware the costs of migration to another solution are substantial. They have to retrain staff, who may not be keen on relearning how to do what they already know how to do with VMwa
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by jzb 2y ago
We have a very fluffy orange guy who is... not dumb, exactly, but I'd say he operates on a different plane than the rest of us. He often stares at things that aren't there -- or, at least, that none of us can see -- and he tends
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by jzb 2y ago
most black cats are male Huh, I had not heard that. In my experience it's pretty evenly split -- at least, in my circle of friends and family there's eight black cats, four of each. (Most short-haired, one long-haired black cat
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by jzb 2y ago
“Is a farmer entitled to the entirety of your work output because you ate a vegetable grown on their farm?” Bad analogy. I pay a farmer (directly or indirectly) for the vegetable. It’s a simple, understood, transaction. These players were g
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by jzb 2y ago
Google docs IME is great for collaboration until the number of reviewers exceeds, say, 5 people and/or there's a need for extended conversation on parts of the text. For simple editing? Fantastic. Loved it. For a debate over, say,
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by jzb 2y ago
I thought they were announcing a blog aggregator / "Planet" of feeds from NixOS contributors. Dang. That would've been useful.
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by jzb 2y ago
“What President was impeached, and on what charge?” Well that question didn’t age well…
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by jzb 2y ago
"He himself is a billionaire and no longer writes any code." I expect Linus will be a little shocked and quite pleased to find this out. The billionaire part, anyway.
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by jzb 2y ago
People are signaling to you that this particular thing crosses a line. You'd do well to heed that and take that part out. Speculating on his health / insinuating things undermines the points you're trying to make.
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by jzb 2y ago
WordPress has literally millions of Web sites in production, tons of add-on software, and an ecosystem of companies and people providing solutions for it. Suggesting that the solution is "well, just start from scratch with something el
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by jzb 2y ago
I hope the decision works out for him. Six months salary is really only a big bag of cash if 1) you have a decent salary, and 2) you can be confident of landing a job of equal or better salary within the six-month window. Otherwise you&#x27
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by jzb 2y ago
They’re “good” because they’re associated with a company or product people are positive about. How does it help me if the trademark expires on a brand I like and ten other companies push out similar but not the same product? All the IP expi
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by jzb 2y ago
Most companies don’t live forever. But I don’t see any value in having a mandatory expiration for trademark, and several downsides. If the TM expires on a popular brand of beer, for example, then there will be competitors flooding the marke
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by jzb 2y ago
I don’t see any value in expiring Trademark. What’s the public benefit there? Five years is a bit too short. Maybe five years automatic and then require renewals up to 25 years. It’d be good to have different terms for different types of th
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by jzb 2y ago
Oh, I wouldn't correct someone for saying "lead" -- or "intro" or any other variant that makes sense. Leed is right out, though.
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by jzb 2y ago
It's not a misspelling, it's jargon. FWIW I prefer it and I think it's valuable to preserve in part because people who dig into it a bit learn about the history of the term and practice of putting publications (especially new
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by jzb 2y ago
Note that "bury the lede" isn't really about "make the reader get to the end to find out the answer" but when a reporter/writer emphasizes the wrong part of a story in the intro then you'd say they buried
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by jzb 2y ago
I don’t. It’s naive to believe any social network is in it for the long haul. Too many have failed to believe they won’t as well. Particularly, exitter. It’s best to assume anything you don’t host yourself is ephemeral.
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by jzb 2y ago
So how do you interpret that Elastic has switched back to a FOSS license?
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by jzb 2y ago
Is it? I guess I have no idea what people perceive as his best-known work, generally. You may well be right - RYM has far more reviews of Songs of Leonard Cohen (and a higher average rating) than I'm Your Man or The Future . I sti

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