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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Why? If it's ok for you to discuss, of course.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
My hidden bullshit detector says it's an advertising article playing on fears, and having fake comments below it.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Proper analogy is Western tourist coming to China, and filing reports about dissenting Chinese citizens. It's not about waving banners.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
First of all, thanks, your summary is literally better than the article itself :-) P.1 is not correct (it correctly reflects the article contents, but not factually correct). Research mentioned states vit. D supplements doesn't seem to
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Strictly speaking, almost nothing in the article is about Linux. It's about tools which work perfectly on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or Illumos. Some of them work on OSX too, btw.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
This should be applied to politics as well.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
The piece is interesting, but author's conclusions left very strange aftertaste. So there was a king with psychiatric problems, and his doctor who, abusing influence over his patient, usurped powers, and made a kid with the queen. And
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
It changed conditions for media business as much as for many other industries, making things economically worse for some and better for others. It didn't make journalism worse, for sure. Media has been always flourishing on sensational
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Blaming the internet is absolutely unfair. Before, it was really hard to expose bad journalism, that's the foundation of the myth about times of good journalism. Duranty was awarded with Pulitzer for blatant lies in the first half of X
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Authoritarian, or totalitarian tendencies are often naturally produced by absolute conviction in "us being good, them being evil". Even when one's ideology in theory insists on democracy, and compromise, it's very easy t
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Yup, my fault. I exploded too quickly, probably because recently had a similar discussion related to my own work.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
It's not a programming advice. Similar counsel is dispensed in various tech, and non-tech fields, because it's about relations with other people which sometimes could be more important than efficiency for one's career, or co
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
There was more economical freedom in Eastern European countries compared to those incorporated in Soviet empire. At least small private initiative was somewhat tolerated. Also, in countries like Poland communists weren't able to comple
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
For an "average user" Linux, and FreeBSD are absolutely identical. If it's supplied with pre-installed GUI (say Ubuntu as Linux, and TrueOS on BSD side) it's more or less the same point-and-click experience. If it's
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Soviet Union was trying very hard to keep up with the US military advances - I know it for sure, because as an engineer my father was involved in such efforts. And, by the way, "just" producing more missiles wasn't easy thing
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
To be interested in programming languages generally, I think, is an inherent feature of a passionate programmer.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Israel is pretty much constantly shelled by rockets. And there are capable state, and quasi-state actors behind that who officially claim they want it to be eliminated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinia
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Could you clarify your position please: do you think that "Significant part of FF's userbase decided in its favor exactly because of choice of third-party addons" is incorrect?
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
In general, you are right (excluding the usage of word "Nazi"): private entity can deny services to other entity. However, in legal practice there are exceptions to to the rule, e.g. when the entity which denies is a monopoly (eve
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Yes, Quantum changed API => it made a bunch of addons dead => lots if worried, and upset users appeared discussing it. I have nothing against Quantum, I accept it was necessary to go for a new model, but it clearly shows addons are im
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
I can't offer you a number, but it's significant enough for Google to offer me to autocomplete "firefox quantum addons" with "stopped working", and relevant discussions left a visible footprint on the net. I&#x
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
I'm not sure the "big problem" of Windows stemmed exactly from possibility to install third-party apps, and not from poor security defaults which let those apps to mangle everything around without asking for permission, and p
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Significant part of FF's userbase decided in its favor exactly because of choice of third-party addons.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
I really don't know what part of opposing GDPR is disproved by this example. Actually, the one of the points was that it is blurred, and can be applied too arbitrary. The story clearly proves it, even if this time rulers were so mercif
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Other solutions do exist, and it certainly means they are possible. There are likely solutions which not yet written in code, but possible anyway.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
>It is equally unnatural in all languages, therefore the best possible solution. I don't see what logic connects statements before, and after "therefore", sorry.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
This is a popular trick, but it doesn't work well with more than one parameter, and reads unnatural in many languages anyway.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
>it does reduce the possibility of being manipulated through fake news I'm sorry to say, but there's no evidence it's true. Formally more educated, and formally less educated belong to different social tribes, and react to
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
While it's probable that formal education levels correlate with political choices, it doesn't necessary imply that higher degree leads to better ones, or even reduces possibility of being manipulated. Also, every major player of e
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Words "Russian", and "bots" are absolutely irrelevant for the discussion. "Lies" is relevant, but who is the authority to decide what belongs to the category? The whole Free Speech thing is invented exactly bec

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