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by lolinder 2y ago
The extra baggage in AGPL is what makes it work for the purposes that OP wants it. LGPL takes the GPL a step towards MIT, where AGPL takes it the opposite direction.
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by lolinder 2y ago
The anger over cloud hosting came from a specific set of Open Source companies that produced cloud software with the intention of earning money by selling hosting. Mongo, Elastic, and Hashicorp were the big ones. These companies failed to r
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by lolinder 2y ago
No, don't stop using the older images! They were the most fun for me! Reasoning about the political landscape that would have led to the beach photo was challenging and rewarding when I got it right. And the London Blitz photo was also
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by lolinder 2y ago
I got 3.2. Spoilers below. Round 1 I just guessed in the middle of the 70s. Round 2 I was 5 years off, but I should have been able to get closer if I'd slowed down. Someone with a better knowledge of modern Middle Eastern uprisings or
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by lolinder 2y ago
Every time we assume a limitation like this we've been wrong. If tardigrades can survive floating through space, I think it's reasonable to guess that there might be life that survives at the other extreme.
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by lolinder 2y ago
That assumes that working until 75 is feasible for a significant chunk of the population. I don't have stats, but anecdotally I would say that it's not in the US.
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by lolinder 2y ago
The concern with demographic collapse isn't that the world won't be fine with fewer people, it's that the transition period is going to be extremely painful. During the increase in population kids are helpless for ~8 years be
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by lolinder 2y ago
Okay, by that logic you can get apps on iPhones by just individually inviting each user to download the developer tools and install the app on their phone from source.
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by lolinder 2y ago
I've seen this cited on HN a bunch but haven't seen anyone link to a source and nor have I found one. Is there a source for this claim, or is it just inference from their behavior?
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by lolinder 2y ago
That's not a Yes, that's a pretty clear No. You just don't speak fluent Politician.
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by lolinder 2y ago
Federal (USA) taxes are always free with them no matter what complications you have. They only charge for state filing or for live support. Seems fine to me to call it that.
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by lolinder 2y ago
I find that FreeTaxUSA has a much better interface than TurboTax. They don't play games with fake loading screens needlessly making you wait (when we both know that the math involved takes just a few CPU cycles) and make the whole ex
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by lolinder 2y ago
The piece resonated with me a lot—the idea that things were better back before computers became mainstream—right up until they identified the key date where things fell apart as 1995. At that point I had to take a step back and reevaluate t
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by lolinder 2y ago
At a certain point I think we need to just acknowledge that we actually all learn two quite different dialects—Written English and Spoken English—and we should not expect our Written English to match 1:1 with our Spoken English. It's a
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by lolinder 2y ago
> There's other ad companies, there is no other way to get an app on iOS. There is no other way to get an ad on sites that use Google Ads, just as there's no other way to get an app on iOS. These seem to be perfectly parallel t
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by lolinder 2y ago
You're mixing up antitrust cases. The 2020 case [0], decided in August and going into remedies in a week or so, was about search. This one is about advertising [1], a separate market that the DOJ has argued Google has also been actin
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by lolinder 2y ago
The first Trump admin started the Google search antitrust suit 3 years before the Biden admin filed this one. Attacking Big Tech is a bipartisan affair these days. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google
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by lolinder 2y ago
Why do you believe AGI is important for the future of humanity? That's probably the most controversial part of your post but you don't even bother to defend it. Just because it features in some significant (but hardly universal) c
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by lolinder 2y ago
Really the only people for whom this is bad news is OpenAI and their investors. If there is no AGI race to win then OpenAI is just a wildly overvalued vendor of a hot commodity in a crowded market, not the best current shot at building a mo
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by lolinder 2y ago
I recently moved into a home where the previous tenants told us they didn't use the dishwasher because it didn't actually clean the dishes. Having seen TC, I checked the kitchen tap and sure enough it behaved like yours: it took a
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by lolinder 2y ago
Pre-rinsing uses way more water than is typically necessary just to get the water hot, especially given that to be an effective pre-rinse you're going to want the water to be hot already before you even start.
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by lolinder 2y ago
I think it depends on the kind of residue. If we're just talking about caked-on stuff that you recognize that didn't wash off, I'd start with hot water and adding the pre-wash powder. But if you get stuff on your dishes that
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by lolinder 2y ago
I'm not even saying that you're wrong that such a thing exists, just that you're wrong to implicate Jonathan Haidt in that plot. And by seeing it everywhere—even where it's not—you are losing credibility when you go to p
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by lolinder 2y ago
Funnily enough, just yesterday the authors posted a follow up to this piece focusing on Snapchat: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/industrial-scale-snapchat
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by lolinder 2y ago
But if the medium isn't the key factor then why did OP place the emphasis on the medium—headphones? How do you know that their interlocutors aren't listening to self-curated playlists a la mixtapes or to a carefully selected audio
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by lolinder 2y ago
Who exactly do you think you're quoting there? I can't find it in TFA, and the article actually says exactly the opposite: that the current US approach is misguided because it focuses on the ownership of the company rather than th
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by lolinder 2y ago
If you start calling out things that are clearly not that then you start looking like a crazy person and lose credibility. We have a popular children's story about this called The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Maybe take a few minutes to actua
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by lolinder 2y ago
There wasn't much to them, but yes. The second comment asked a question which I'd already answered, which is why I'm wondering if you read it and followed the link to the article targeting Snapchat. I can respond again if you
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by lolinder 2y ago
Did you even read my comment?
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by lolinder 2y ago
This comment isn't so bad, but there were a bunch of comments earlier that were implying or stating outright that the author of TFA was targeting TikTok specifically for political reasons, which is clearly nonsense if you have even a p

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