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by mgbmtl 9y ago
> If something like this is implemented, I'm curious to see what it does to prices - will a heart surgery continue to cost less than $2,000? In most countries, the cost of such operations are fixed by the state (ex: Canada). > &q
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
I agree, but the US (and Canada, Australia, etc), still pollute twice more per capita than China. There's still a lot we can do. The EU, however, has lower per capita emissions than China. And that's ignoring that most manufacture
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
I feel like so many similar proposals tend to ignore how saturated our roads are, how expensive the road infrastructure maintenance is, and how fast people expect to drive (because of long commutes from endless suburbs). We need to find inn
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
Thank you for your response and followup. I really appreciate Gitlab.com, I participate in some smaller projects that use it. For the main project I work on (CiviCRM.org), however, self-hosting is an important factor. It's not so much
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
Have there been a lot of pedestrian deaths (or serious injuries) caused by cyclists in your area? How does it compare to deaths/accidents caused by collisions with cars? I'm also pretty sure that most of those accidents could be a
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
I would be happy with something that does a regular plain pull of all branches and tags. As a first step, it would make it easier to declare our Gitlab instance as the canonical source for all official contrib code (a bit like Drupal.org an
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
If anyone from Gitlab is listening: github sync is a really important feature for FOSS projects. Glad that SourceForge implemented it. (In a large-ish FOSS project, we are trying to move to self-hosted Gitlab, but the lack of sync means tha
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
As in the video, people would say the same about Ethereum, and yet, Ethereum's community continue to grow and its exchange value continues to grow. On the other hand, what does Bitcoin have to show? Its community has stagnated and frac
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
However they're not forcing people to use their real name? As someone who used okcupid, it seems like a good move. A lot of people chose very silly usernames. Okcupid would even recommend at some point to suffix names already taken, so
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
I wonder if that has happened from ABP's approved networks. From what I recall, their criteria are rather strict, and I would expect a network to get banned if that happens. To be honest, pretty much the only ads I notice are sponsored
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
> "So could you explain us why you pick ABP over uBlock?" On a philosophical level: I support the ABP strategy of "acceptable ads". I think it's a good way to legitimize the development of adblocking extensions.
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
Many comments are bitterly unfair against ABP. Wladimir/Eyeo changed how we use the web, gave us means to fight back against abusive advertising. They built a business model to make the extension sustainable and find a strategy to legi
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
I agree, but the argument sounds like greenwashing. Sure, it's possible that PoW could be run from green energy, but what's the likelihood of that happening? how do we get there? I offered some suggestions (ban unregulated large-s
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
I expected some graphics comparing various alternatives, but instead, it's 20 pages of ramblings, poorly edited.
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
How do you suggest we get there? Ban unregulated mining farms, only allow them to exist if they have a deal with their local energy producer? It would also require most countries to adopt some sort of treaty. No one is mining only when dema
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A small Italian town can teach the world how to defuse controversial monuments(theguardian.com)
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
Most manufacturers also have a phone app. I use Phillips Hue light-bulbs, and they're OK. Sure, there are still privacy implications (NSA can tell if I'm home or not), but not as bad as having a bunch of microphones. My daughter c
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
Thanks. Makes sense. I guess the "instant buy" on some exchanges gave me the impression that they kept coins in stock. (edit: I just saw the other comments regarding Coinbase, which answer that issue) However I'm a bit confus
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
Naive question: when an exchange sells, I assume they can decline to buy if they don't have a buyer or too much inventory? For example, if suddenly everyone wants to sell BTC, the price would drop, at which point the exchange could buy
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
The protests are also a way to pressure the government to work on such legislation. A government can only do so much, and it usually prefers to prioritize voting laws that do not annoy their donors. Also, few journalists would report on the
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
I use a wiki page (in my personal Gitlab space of our company Gitlab instance): - one wiki page per week - every Monday, I copy over the wiki page to a new one - I split sections between time-based, and "priority backlog" vs &quot
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
Are the same standards applied for alcohol?
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
I'm not sure what money has to do with this? They can spend as much as they want, but it doesn't mean it's going to the right places. Universal healthcare, for example, is much most efficient and cost-effective.
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
Absence of rain does not mean it's sunny ;) Most Democrats in the US aren't remotely close to social-democrats in Canada or Europe. Politicians such as Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren are considered centrists in Canada.
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
Why? It always surprised me how few employees there are in busy NY stations. Those that I see always seem busy and exhausted. In Montreal, there were some newspaper articles about how a few bus/metro drivers make $100k/year by doi
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
Any Jitsi users out there? I found the demo rather flaky, but haven't installed my own server yet.
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
Quality control can help (at least in making sure that the dosage and product is what it should be). Having more resources educating people and recommending alternatives, rather than further marginalizing people, also seems also to have bet
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
Yep, but perhaps to phrase differently: once you get to a certain point, you build a reputation and business network. People usually want to work with you because they know what to expect (in terms of professionalism, code quality, etc). Th
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
We can run our own Firefox Account servers. A privacy-focused hosting co-op could run that as part of their services, or someone could run their own at home (but that's not useful to the general public). People get annoyed of being tol
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by mgbmtl 9y ago
I agree that is a valid issue, but it's still quite a different scale than using Google. If I understand correctly, you're saying that we should be careful about saving passwords in Firefox if we could be the target of a National

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