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by lakecresva 5y ago
I think this has to be tempered with an understanding that it is actually possible to improve things and create better systems. It's probably good to be skeptical of claims that whatever new thing comes along is inherently better, but
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by lakecresva 5y ago
Hey look, another thing Uncle Bob was completely wrong about. It's telling that after using "we" to set up the initial question, literally every pronoun in the article where he waxes on about testing is a personal pronoun. He
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by lakecresva 5y ago
>You simply do not have that in a static world. I keep seeing lisp people bandy about all of this design by contract/arbitrary predicate validation stuff. Can you give an example of an instance in which static types + runtime checks
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by lakecresva 5y ago
If you have access to legal databases like Westlaw/Lexis, you can look up the lawsuits the FSF and SFLC have been a party to. All of those suits were settled and the plaintiffs secure monetary compensation, disclosure of the source cod
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by lakecresva 5y ago
Commercial users still take copyright issues pretty seriously because of the remedies available to copyright holders under title 17. Even if an author doesn't register the copyright until they want to begin the suit (you lose statutor
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by lakecresva 5y ago
I'm not sure that someone who published their work under the GPL hasn't thereby given consumers the right to put the repo on github. If the rights Github asks for in their ToS can be construed as a subset of the rights granted by
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by lakecresva 5y ago
It doesn't have to, the rights you grant Github when you agree to the ToS and upload your work exist independent of any rights you might grant as part of the repo's license.
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by lakecresva 5y ago
He was interviewed for a TV segment in 2018, seems like a cool guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJHIByLnGVo
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by lakecresva 5y ago
>Elon Musk has promised to eventually fuel Starship with synthetic "green" methane. Just so I can pencil this on my calendar, where does this fit on the timeline relative to full self-driving and the hyperloop?
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by lakecresva 5y ago
> Tensions flared in early April when an anonymous student account on Instagram posted about the cheating charges. Soon after, Dartmouth issued a social media policy warning that students’ anonymous posts “may still be traced back” to th
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by lakecresva 5y ago
I wonder if the millions of communications that fraudulently bear the names of their constituents have anything to do with that lack of enthusiasm.
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by lakecresva 5y ago
It's actually very easy, regulators are directly subordinate to congress and leadership is appointed by the president and confirmed by congress. The fact that people were willing to spend millions of dollars engaging in widespread frau
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by lakecresva 5y ago
The whataboutism is already strong in here. Net neutrality is the battleground, but the issue is pretty universal. Corporate actors are signing off on illegal activity to directly undermine the democratic process in a way that should fright
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by lakecresva 5y ago
Because you're saying up-front that you didn't even bother to click the link to see whether it was different, and you're suggesting that corporate malfeasance is only worthy of scrutiny if it's fresh.
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by lakecresva 5y ago
I'm glad you guys are still doing stuff with this, I thought the demo was really promising. Even though it's specific to your thing it seems like a good test case for how this can best be applied in the general case. Putting this
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by lakecresva 5y ago
> It even seems doubtful to me that the people who developed Chia are the ones who'll make the money off it, if there is any to make. Oh I wouldn't be so sure about that. From their FAQ: " Why are we pre-farming? Chia has
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by lakecresva 6y ago
> I'm not a lawyer but I can't see how having every court case public is a good thing. Well for one, the US has a common law legal system, so it's entirely dependent on the public availability of court cases. In terms of f
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by lakecresva 6y ago
I have 'Enable to view adult and NSFW (not safe for work) content in your feed and search results' enabled in my user profile, and this is what I'm seeing when I click that link: https://imgur.com/gm9PZqZ
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by lakecresva 6y ago
I think you're misusing the search. If I enable nsfw by adding `nsfw:yes`, both 'asian' and 'european' show ONLY porn results both for content and communities. If I omit the `nsfw:yes`, but allow my profile to view
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by lakecresva 6y ago
I think your judgment is clouded by this insistence that you're doing math rather than something which is squarely in the middle of the cs/math venn diagram. Relational algebra has an accepted notation for left outer-join (⟕). Do
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by lakecresva 6y ago
Touche.
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by lakecresva 6y ago
I think you'll be more successful as an advocate for TLA+ if you just say "yeah, the syntax isn't for everyone", or "the tooling has some issues" instead of writing long missives about how syntax like `[][x&#x2
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by lakecresva 6y ago
I think the more important lesson from the DAO hack was the fork itself, and that by organizing it, Vitalik and friends saved their own wallets (after hilariously asking exchanges to stop trading). If the people holding the reigns can get w
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by lakecresva 6y ago
> a source who participated in the response to that breach alleges Ubiquiti massively downplayed a “catastrophic” incident to minimize the hit to its stock price, and that the third-party cloud provider claim was a fabrication. I'm
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by lakecresva 6y ago
> To repeat the key info from this case that makes one question the NRLB ruling... These issues (among others) are addressed at length in the NLRB's decision ( https://apps.nlrb.gov/link/document.aspx/09031d
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by lakecresva 6y ago
> will act as a catalyst in driving away the next generation of bright young Indian innovators and engineers from the country. Somehow I doubt there's much of an intersection between "the next generation of bright young Indian
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by lakecresva 6y ago
How are you calculating the cost of medicare for all?
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by lakecresva 6y ago
Or just exhaustion. There's an interview with a Japanese ace Honda Minoru on yt in which he talks about how pilots were so exhausted from flying eight hour combat missions every day of the Guadalcanal campaign that they would fall asle
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by lakecresva 6y ago
I think it's pretty clear at this point that fines do not effectively deter white collar criminals.
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by lakecresva 6y ago
There was widespread fraud (of the criminal variety) in the run-up to 2008. A number of journalists, particularly Matt Taibbi, have written extensively about this.

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