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by mlinksva 8y ago
Don Syme talks a bit about this paper at the beginning of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw2BAxG3bdM from a recent F# conference. He also talks about F# history in a 2016 interview https://channel9.msdn.com&#x2F
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Needs to be made illegal (not just stadiums) http://www.governing.com/gov-institute/on-leadership/col-eco... or at least not federally subsidized https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress&#
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GIMP and GEGL in 2018(gimp.org)
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All the more reason to implement a large scheme that returns everything to individuals, like the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act recently introduced in the U.S. House and Senate https://www.coons.senate.gov/newsroo
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by mlinksva 8y ago
Carbon fee _and dividend_ is the obvious response to all that.
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Is LibrePlanet Safe?(wwahammy.com)
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I want to be sold on Fuchsia/want it to succeed because of security. If it succeeds the UI will change a bunch of times, and there will be many UIs. Very happy to be corrected, but it seems to be the best hope since Midori was canned,
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by mlinksva 8y ago
Similar program in Oakland, California http://plantingjustice.org/
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by mlinksva 8y ago
> I love NYC. I want to do open source and I want to live in comfort in this city. Godspeed. I'm all for subsidizing open source development, at a level that can probably only come from taxes. One _tiny_ step in this direction was r
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> To add insult to injury, in addition to the grotesquely high rents, New Yorkers and Californians are subjected to some of the highest overall income tax rates in the country. Surely the rents would be even higher without those high inc
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That's the genius of a carbon tax that returns 100% of the collections as a citizen dividend, like the bipartisan bill recently introduced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Innovation_and_Carbon_D...
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Another mentions-based trends site https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend that shows Postgres uptrend. Most surprising thing to me there is that MongoDB is still going up.
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Recent paper on this very old and worthy idea https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
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by mlinksva 8y ago
Hilarious that "Back to Linux System page" is javascript: window.history.go(-1) as if one would only get to a link like the above through https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/joining-oin/linux-syste... rather
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Sacramento, after 1861-2 floods.
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Blood money? Take it. Seize it. I wonder why, AFAICT, the Magnitsky Act allows for freezing, but not seizing assets? Surely mass murderers should get worse financial treatment than say people who happen to be near a drug deal.
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The Redox leader did ask https://twitter.com/jeremy_soller/status/1042261893367250944
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract#Dominant_as... ... complicating and unproven in practice, just an offhand thought.
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Related Projects – OSTree(ostree.readthedocs.io)
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p.s. A somewhat similar but specialized arrangement https://www.freexian.com/en/services/debian-lts.html and monthly reports on level of support and work done https://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/Fr
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by mlinksva 8y ago
Very interesting. https://www.aixam.com/en/range/discover/legislation has some legal background. Is there anything similar in the US? Brings to mind some retirement communities such as Celebration, FL, where
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by mlinksva 8y ago
Optional 1b: Make it dominant. This might encourage firms to step in. With or without, only facilitating individual developers to offer maintenance contracts would be limiting. I hope kemitchell or someone tries the idea described by kemitc
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I'd prefer to tax rather than ban ads. Ads are like (indeed contribute to) carbon emissions, not murder.
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> Atlanta, and the broader surrounding areas, still have cultural scars from decades of racism Centuries. By the way, Newnan is named after a slaveholder. The area is also scarred by decades, close to a century, of car-centered developme
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Downtown pedestrian malls were tried in many US cities and mostly failed. They were an attempt to make downtown retail competitive with suburban mall retail, by the former emulating the latter, after the former was already failing. They onl
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One difference is that US regulation (on intrmediary liability, privacy, and copyright) has been much more favorable to consumer platforms than has EU regulation over the last few decades. http://law.emory.edu/elj/_docu
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by mlinksva 8y ago
I guess I'm in the "most people" category, thanks for the pointing this out. I found someone studying this https://harvardmagazine.com/2017/07/the-rise-of-vegan-cultur... -- https://www.n
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OK, I googled it and "basically that he doesn't train" is a gross exaggeration. Same regarding diet. One link briefly covering both: https://www.gq.com/story/runner-usain-bolt-training-secrets-... Same l
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Is it true that one can get away with doing a lot of stuff that's sub-optimal for short term performance in an extremely competitive league like the NFL? There's someone almost as freakishly good waiting to replace you. On that no
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Story is a writeup of https://stripe.com/reports/developer-coefficient-2018 discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17928067 There's actually very little difference in the surveyed % say

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