kardashev

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by kardashev 9y ago
Aaron Swartz faced 35 years in prison for leaking JSTOR articles. Instead of fines, the Chief Security Officer should be fully responsible and face 35 years in jail if a breach happens. You better believe they'll care about security th
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by kardashev 9y ago
One thing that's worrying about CoCs is that many of them seem political in nature and are used as excuses to abuse other members of the community who don't conform to certain opinions. Bryan Lunduke has chronicled a few examples
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by kardashev 10y ago
Imagine being able to create windows, draw, deal with io devices (keyboard, mouse, controller, etc.) and do OpenGL graphics type work with system calls. That would allow (practically) any language to trivially create native apps with a GUI,
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by kardashev 10y ago
I think the reason using the browser for desktop UI is because graphics and UI programming is terrible. The computer architecture and operating systems we use today are built on tech that was before graphics existed. That's why it&#x27
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by kardashev 10y ago
You'll remember me when the west wind moves Upon the fields of barley You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky As we walk in fields of green
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by kardashev 10y ago
I was at a conference once setting up a booth for a company I worked for. We ended up borrowing an electric screwdriver from a booth next door, but had to turn it by hand because only union members were allowed to use electric tools to se
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by kardashev 10y ago
Most people consider intellectual property as a given, and believe without questioning that IP promotes innovation. This book examines those types of arguments and makes a case that IP hinders innovation. Relevant considering the recent Ocu
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Against Intellectual Property [book, 2008](mises.org)
4 points by kardashev 10y ago|1 comments
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by kardashev 10y ago
I would love to see a return to simple designs where the majority of kB come from content vs ads, tracking, advanced 'design' that's annoying.
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by kardashev 10y ago
Wasn't krihelinator the same guy who was doing revision history on his repositories and making himself the only contributor? (someone please correct me if I'm wrong)
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by kardashev 10y ago
The article is a bit misleading. The minimum wage is $11/hr. in Seattle and will reach $15 for large businesses by next year, and by 2021 for small businesses. Amazon by itself is bringing in thousands of people per year, none at the m
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by kardashev 10y ago
Your article proves my point. He deliberately altered his data.
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by kardashev 10y ago
Piketty's data was already found to be fraudulent. He skewed it to push his own political worldview. https://www.ft.com/content/e1f343ca-e281-11e3-89fd-00144feab...
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by kardashev 10y ago
I think the biggest problem with accounts in general, is that the accounts never really are deleted. Any DB admin will tell you info is never deleted.
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by kardashev 10y ago
From the comments it doesn't look like many read the article. Here's the tldr: Free software won. Yay! However, what about hardware, infrastructure, and services? Oops. All those things have been become increasingly centralized.
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Capitalism Promotes Equality(fee.org)
8 points by kardashev 11y ago|4 comments
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by kardashev 11y ago
Actually (counter-intuitively) college would be more affordable for middle class and the poor in a situation where there are no loans. Consider, there are only a tiny amount of rich people and there are many, many colleges. If there were
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by kardashev 11y ago
Though I can't recommend it, there would actually be better outcomes if we banned loans for college. Flooding the higher education market with cash has made it less affordable not more. Having people be responsible for the cost up fron
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by kardashev 11y ago
It is precisely because of resource constraints that the open source model would work better. Take education for example. What if anyone could start a school with any standard for curriculum? It would instantly solve the arguments that happ
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by kardashev 11y ago
Imagine a building whose design and construction was governed by democracy. The architecture would be a horrible mish-mash of whatever happened to be popular, and likely architecturally unsound and unsafe. The actual construction would be a
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by kardashev 11y ago
Actually, the ethically and morally right thing to do would be to respect people's right to keep everything they earn. Good causes should prove they are good causes and be funded voluntarily. Forcing people to fund things causes confli
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by kardashev 11y ago
It's in their video just below the fold of their page.
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by kardashev 11y ago
1. the cloud - No. I'm trying to get more off my data off the cloud, not on it. 2. (censored) swearing in marketing materials - Not classy. Or to put it the way nextbit's marketing would understand, F*ck no.
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by kardashev 11y ago
Wow! What a depraved view they have. I wonder if they would still think it was moral to limit their children to a 3rd world education because it's only fair that education (level) be equal for everyone? Human progress is made by those
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by kardashev 11y ago
If only more people read Bastiat... http://fee.org/resources/economic-sophisms/ http://fee.org/files/doclib/20121116_thelaw.pdf
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Snickerdoodle, $55 computer with FPGA and wifi(crowdsupply.com)
4 points by kardashev 11y ago|0 comments
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by kardashev 11y ago
Does anyone have knowledge about the comparison of different FPGA boards? I've seen the Mojo v3 from Embedded Micro, the Papilio line of dev boards, and the miniSpartan6+ from Scarab Hardware. It looks like all these dev boards are pre
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Create Your Own CPU on an FPGA(embeddedmicro.com)
118 points by kardashev 11y ago|20 comments
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by kardashev 11y ago
The author of the article is inaccurate. The Declaration of Independence made it quite clear the reasons colonists separated from Britain. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transc... The Britis
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by kardashev 12y ago
Inflation would be a way to get rid of debt, but it literally takes money from the poor and working class and gives it to the rich. 10% inflation is equivalent to a person's salary going down by 10%. Also, any savings you had would be

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