konjin

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by konjin 6y ago
>You're doing the same as those who cheered on software patents. We have the GPL instead of trade secrets, we can actually see the code without signing away our firstborn. I don't see a down side here.
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by konjin 6y ago
There is literally no way that we the people can't win. Either google gets slapped and stops being a parasite that lives in the cracks of copyright law, or newscorp dies. This is the definition of a win win situation.
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by konjin 6y ago
I joined it way back when, somehow they send out mass emails to everyone on my gmail list about how I wanted them to join. Needless to say I have not used linkedin since.
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by konjin 6y ago
>That completely got wrong what the Medieval period really was - the transition from Roman imperial rule to early-modern European states, and a small industrial revolution in technology including agriculture and navigation. The Dark Ages
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by konjin 6y ago
So by that logic Obama should be small capital black since his father was from the wrong side of Africa and not a slave. When will we have our first Black president who isn't just black? And what of the whites in Africa. Do we capitali
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by konjin 6y ago
>Wealth inequality and social unrest in America is DIRECTLY related to corrupt and/or incompetent (you choose) Fed policies. It amazes me why most people do not grasp this. I think it is lack of education. I'd say it is the int
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by konjin 6y ago
It would depend on if the average offspring was sterile. We have evidence that at least some weren't, but we don't know in general.
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by konjin 6y ago
Clones and industrial espionage are slightly different things.
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by konjin 6y ago
Odd that the wiki page doesn't mention that the 8 bit series of computers were clones of the then current generation of apple computers gotten through industrial espionage. We had a friend in the security bureau who had some funny stor
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by konjin 6y ago
The best lecturer I had in maths would screw up the proofs every time from memory, but the way he screwed them up taught me a lot more than if he'd gotten them right.
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by konjin 6y ago
There is a reason why we don't visit surgeons who do it as a hobby.
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by konjin 6y ago
So they would rather steal the hard work of others. Doesn't make me any more sympathetic to them.
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by konjin 6y ago
You need to start paying for software because if you don't then you're the product. Payment might include leasing out your infrastructure to the project until cryptos become viable for something other than ponzi schemes.
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by konjin 6y ago
Start their own app that's better. The fork option is there and always has been.
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by konjin 6y ago
Back at uni I ran an experimental lisp shell. A few notes of what was painful and what worked. Outer most parens should be optional, if you're running ls you don't want to type (ls). Grouping flags, files and options is difficult:
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by konjin 6y ago
Everyone at ports and airports gets a forced 2 week quarantine on arrival in AU and NZ. The only other way to enter an island (check a map to see why this is relevant) is by sailing a boat, since illegal boat arrivals are already being trea
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by konjin 6y ago
>This is pretty rich in an article about misinformation. If people had worn masks, we would have better outcomes. If we had locked down, it would have been over already. Full stop. How is this confusing? Are you prepared to close the bor
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by konjin 6y ago
>3) There is a pedophile ring run by democratic operatives who shield each other This will not age well.
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by konjin 6y ago
And usually chosen by the side that is throwing stones. Was it misinformation or disinformation when the CDC told us not to wear masks? They did it because they thought us dying was better than doctors dying. Which does not inspire confiden
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by konjin 6y ago
So say News Corp is lead by a racist, sexist, homophone it is their duty to be racist, sexist and homophobic? The only people who think they can say everything they think and not be purged for it are people who don't think much at all.
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by konjin 6y ago
We need to stop pretending that nature will survive. Once you start treating the natural world as just another finite resource all sorts of policies become common sense. For example an oxygen tax to keep enough land set aside for plants of
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by konjin 6y ago
The funny thing is that your low effort zinger is factually wrong. Something you'd learn in second year compsci: >In computer science, a universal Turing machine (UTM) is a Turing machine that simulates an arbitrary Turing machine o
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by konjin 6y ago
I wonder if Coca Cola has an instrument like that, the more they sell in any place the lower the life expectancy will be.
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by konjin 6y ago
This goes beyond online communities: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6611240-three-felonies-a... Short summary: you dear reader are a federal felon, the only reason why you're not in prison is that no one
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by konjin 6y ago
Also worth noting is that these are the official channels, there are plenty of dark pools where there are no rules but all sorts of exotic instruments are being traded in volumes that boggle the mind. I worked at one quite some years back.
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by konjin 6y ago
If anyone thought that big tech wouldn't do this 10 years ago they were naive. Big is they key word. Big everything does the same thing. Which is why we need to not let anything get big.
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by konjin 6y ago
> Net effect is likely higher cost of trading for everyone. Good, trades are not zero cost and should not be treated as such.
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by konjin 6y ago
Yelling at the top of your lungs that cosplayers are a real danger to the biggest superpower on the planet makes you either dishonest or insane. Either of those precludes a good faith argument.
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by konjin 6y ago
Ah yes, Wilmington NC 1890, the place I go to when I need to imagine what could possibly happen in DC not 130 years later.
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by konjin 6y ago
My version of editing the constitution is vastly more likely to happen than whatever fever dream this is.

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