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by ksk 8y ago
Because there is no agreed upon basis for you to claim a category error. Or at the very least, two reasonable people can agree that the basis of the classification is an opinion.
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by ksk 8y ago
>this comparison isn't particularly interesting, because you're comparing dissimilar things The differences are not relevant to the point - which is the concept of ownership versus leasing. >bits have asymptotically zero cos
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by ksk 8y ago
Why would you ever compare two items if they were identical?
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by ksk 8y ago
Ive come to accept that nerds only care about copyright when its about GPL'd code, and not music/movies/proprietary software.
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by ksk 8y ago
> The only relief at this point is regulatory. But why would the government intervene in a private decision that citizens have made?
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by ksk 8y ago
What does that mean? People don't value it, ergo, not valuable.
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by ksk 8y ago
I'd hazard a guess of several hundred million.
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by ksk 8y ago
>I cut out about 95% of packaged food about 3 years ago. The last time I had to empty my trash was June 2017. This is something I want to do as well. How did you manage to do it?
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by ksk 8y ago
I'm not sure why you were confused. I just showed you a simple and common usecase where Linux deployment is not "trivial" as you boldly claimed. >Ironically, this is a non-issue with docker since you can base your image of
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by ksk 8y ago
Sure, who could argue that bad is better than good? :) The question is - But, Why. I'd bet half a paycheck that the only people who really really care about the new "cool" designs are (1) Bosses looking to take credit (2) Bor
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by ksk 8y ago
You forgot a few steps.. 0.1) Convince every single library author to open source their code. 0.2) Convince them to submit (and maintain) the package across all Linux distributions. And many more.. Oh, and hope you don't depend on a sp
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by ksk 8y ago
>you're conflating the success of the technology with the success of its users. They were operating on a different definition of success.
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by ksk 8y ago
>how many more stupid native apps must I install to get basic textual and photo information? You're conflating the web with web apps. Those are two separate things. If web apps are to be the future, bloating up the browser to the si
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by ksk 8y ago
Remote working only works well for a certain type of person. If you're that person, good for you. There are few people who are self-motivated enough to work remotely. Most people need and want daily human interactions with co-workers.
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by ksk 8y ago
What does "actual data" mean? All data is actual. A study is not the termination of a logical argument. Its a model that someone thinks best explains the gathered data. Most studies don't go anywhere. People keep doing them s
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by ksk 8y ago
Do you believe that a human life should be valued more than say, a worm?
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by ksk 8y ago
powershell one liner: gcb | scb or, if you like using your mechanical keyboard .. Get-Clipboard | Set-Clipboard
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by ksk 8y ago
Sometimes UX people design the UX to wow the people who (1) control their paycheck (2) review their work externally (3) appreciate UX theory/trends/etc. No different than a programmer using a needlessly complex algorithm to impres
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by ksk 8y ago
Its worse when you consider accessibility. People with poor motor skills find using it infinitely worse when your UX depends on fine motor skills.
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by ksk 8y ago
Capitalism self-selects for those hypergreedy people. Thankfully, a lot of humans are social animals interested in welfare of other humans, and society at large. A Welfare component is required to offset people harmed by the excess of capit
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by ksk 8y ago
I use the same criterion that people use when they use it in their day-to-day conversations. Lets not get into the definition of words. In any case its not my goal to resolve disagreement or to convince someone of something. I don't vi
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by ksk 8y ago
>How much did newton or einstein's father exercise? Were they body builders? Why would that matter? Are they the only smart people? And why are you conflating exercising with body building?
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by ksk 8y ago
>And the article automatically relates it to humans, From the article: "Of course, this study involved mice and not men and cannot tell us whether the same processes occur in people." > when absolutely no study has been done
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by ksk 8y ago
I think what GP is also saying is the money maker divisions subsidize the 'loser' regional divisions. It would be interesting to see that data...
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by ksk 8y ago
Its just a database. Using the registry is not a requirement for any app. They can store their configuration in a text file, they can store it in the cloud, they can do whatever they want, they can even create a C:\etc and store it there :)
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by ksk 8y ago
If every single company said stuff like "At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right." then yes. - https://www.apple.com/privacy/
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by ksk 8y ago
Well, I'm saying that we should probably ignore Apple when they say[1] stuff like "At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right." My cynical reading would be "At Apple, we're going to compromise on wha
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by ksk 8y ago
If people simply admitted that Apple (like many others) will compromise on their privacy principles in exchange for commercial gain - we would never have been having a conversation on this topic. People want to hold Apple to a higher standa
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by ksk 8y ago
Okay.. call me small-picture-minded but I much rather prefer - "I press a button M and Feature X doesn't work when I choose option Y" - over "Feature X is terrible at its job"
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by ksk 8y ago
Well I am not denying that they have an effect. I simply would like to see some metrics that would help quantify the effect. People have pet peeves about using bug fixes or lines of code or whatever, so they're free to use whatever met

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