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by la_barba 7y ago
We test our medicines on a small group that is representative of the entire worlds population. We build soil models based on sampling a small region. We don't test your entire blood to do a medical test. I don't know what you mean
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by la_barba 7y ago
I still don't see your point or what you're disagreeing with. But anyway, thanks for your comment I guess. Have a nice day..
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by la_barba 7y ago
IBM is a consulting company, and the open source business model is all about consulting, so I don't know what threat you're referring to. In any case, while you may use air quotes, they invested actual hard cash at a time when Lin
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by la_barba 7y ago
I don't see why Twitter should be expending resources determining what is or isn't an 'official' government account, and what rules apply in all the different countries' legal jurisdictions. That's just a horne
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by la_barba 7y ago
I think 'hacker' is too generic. Fiddling with the OS is just one form of hacking. Not every hacker enjoys doing that. One aspect of hacking the OS is dealing with the breakage when you end up with a system state that isn't p
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by la_barba 7y ago
IBM also put in billions of dollars into Linux. They (along with many many others) are part of the reason Linux became commercially successful. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB976650399196757666
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by la_barba 7y ago
The funds have been earmarked for more eco-friendly transport services. It would be easy to go through the budget and see what happened. News articles can only give you so much context. It would consume an entire newspaper to give the back-
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by la_barba 7y ago
It should be easy to see what happened to the tax revenue in the budget numbers. Large taxes and fees are risky. Governments are usually careful to not put an entire industry (including thousands of jobs) at risk of overnight collapse. Also
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by la_barba 7y ago
Not entirely unexpected now that YouTube has grown up and can't be seen hanging out with certain folks by the other grownups in the room. Another example of this trend of getting popular on the backs of the same nerd/geek/hac
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by la_barba 7y ago
Yeah, but then you look at a modern car, and there are plenty of electronics that are critical to its functioning, especially safety. We reply on those every-time we drive. The car industry is probably 1000x more risk-averse than your typic
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by la_barba 7y ago
Or they can just get the NSA to do their dirty-work. Non-US citizens have little to no protections against the NSA and the CIA spying on them.
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by la_barba 7y ago
This is bad PR for the Chinese government, but only in the West. They will probably stop doing this when they can get some NSA type organization to do this. Its much easier to vacuum up the data behind the scenes.
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by la_barba 7y ago
> but let's not delude ourselves about how prepared any of us really are for The End Of The World. What does that even mean? Is there an upcoming mass extinction event that comes with a detailed list of skills required to survive it
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by la_barba 7y ago
>The idea that you could change the world for the better with electric private transport appears be an American trait and Musk is convinced by this, What has being "American" got to do with anything? Are electric vehicles not u
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by la_barba 7y ago
Interesting idea, but scale also brings about commoditization. Proprietary chemistry is not going to protect you. A Tesla branded battery that costs 2x a regular one isn't going to sell well.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Driver support is mostly a non-factor for cloud installs though. You can carefully chose what hardware you use, unlike the desktop, where the end-user can plug in any number of peripherals.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Wait till you hear about how they also lie about Windows 10 being Windows 7 so that old programs can run.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Wow.. I have never found a showstopper bug in either of those OSs, but I have found a couple of ICE bugs in MSVC which I'm kinda proud of. B-) Any repro steps for the bugs?
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by la_barba 7y ago
>If you backup etc and home, you can pretty much restore a linux machine back to working order. Hmm, I've never done this. In terms of config files, are there never any breaking changes between versions? Like ..is a v1.0 config file
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by la_barba 7y ago
What you say is all true, but some kind of end to end encryption would reduce the risk, or at-least impede mass leaking of data. That seems to be the entire point of the article.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Oh, I'm not disparaging scientists! I'm just not seein how the claim was ridiculous.
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by la_barba 7y ago
I don't think its ridiculous to expect a person trained in a specialty profession to be better than an untrained one. But yeah, the difference is that a purely s/w oriented training teaches you nothing about the domain and the dom
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by la_barba 7y ago
Couldn't you layer your own account management and other conveniences on top of IRC ? Like use the underlying chansrv tech for auth but add your own layer on top for password retrieval or 2FA. You could always run a server which has de
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by la_barba 7y ago
Actually, the article just broadly mentioned that they worked on some aspect of the software. There is no evidence (in the article) that they were working on critical software, and it was their piece of software that caused the current prob
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by la_barba 7y ago
I think this is just rabble-rousing. For all the flack outsourcing gets, if you hire an incompetent person, and they fuck up, you're still responsible for hiring an unqualified person. I don't think it matters if that person was o
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by la_barba 7y ago
>Microsoft did not grow big, because millions of home users decided to buy DOS/Windows as they considered the best choice. Yes, things don't get popular primarily because they're the best in class. They get popular because
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by la_barba 7y ago
To add a few.. C) You're looking to get acquired by Google C) a) You're looking to get noticed and hired by Google
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by la_barba 7y ago
What you said: > Real life doesn't have any policy either, if you have the capability, you're free to copy & distribute what you have access to or not. It is a third party that is trying to interfere with these native abili
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by la_barba 7y ago
That writeup does a good job at explaining the current situation, but it doesn't completely refute the validity of the demand. The primary people who are asking for stable driver APIs and ABIs are desktop folks who want to be able to r
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by la_barba 7y ago
You can find those challenges yourself by volunteering your time at the grass roots level. One of the top of my head - One of the challenges in mass immunization (especially in poorer countries) is that the 'last mile' data is ver

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