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by monochr 13y ago
Harmful: GPL, LGPL, Apache Software License, MPL, CC. Less Harmful: ISC, MIT/X, BSD, CC0, public domain. Yes, giving users even a smidgen of freedom like the GPL does is harmful. Who could say the terrible things that would happen if w
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by monochr 13y ago
"What is going on here is that the commentators are assuming we live in a noise-free world. They imagine that everything is explicable, you just have to find the explanation." They know full well that there isn't
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by monochr 13y ago
As someone in Australia our decrepit internet makes it impossible to do anything resembling a startup. I can't imagine New Zealand would be so bad that they need to move here.
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by monochr 13y ago
Not necessarily higher but at least equal to the best. According to its HDI[1] New Zealand is ranked 6th, bellow the USA but above Japan, Switzerland and South Korea. This is similar to the way that European countries seem to lose out to th
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by monochr 13y ago
And why is that unreasonable? If I did it on my own time and my own resources they should pay for it. Jobs aren't slave contracts where a company gets to own everything about me. And if an employ doesn't do any work at work and ju
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by monochr 13y ago
That Pretty Much Wraps it Up for hammers I love hammers. So damn much. I enjoy using heavy hammers. I love having some nails and some wood and the flexibility to do whatever I want. I love that it imposes a discipline that prevents me from
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by monochr 13y ago
>Also, if there's a shortage of talent, then the Silicon Valley CEO's can put an end to things like their conspiracy to drive down tech wages that is playing out in the courts, which is something that would obviously depress th
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by monochr 13y ago
Looks like they are in a freeze period waiting for a stable release and won't touch any rules for the time being. Happy regular expression fun times ahead.
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by monochr 13y ago
You probably know this but the blog breaks with https everywhere.
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by monochr 13y ago
Thank you for warning me about this. I am now going to sell my dollars for gold and potatoes to avoid using something I don't understand.
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by monochr 13y ago
That he could write this: > after weeks of really having to watch them[Manning and Snowden], they’re both increasingly looking too weak, too stupid, and too easily manipulated to be conscious traitors. Rather, they seem to be narcissisti
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by monochr 13y ago
That's a terrible article. The little ice age had a large number of causes most of which were local to Europe or at most the Northern Hemisphere. The main point about the sun quieting down is that it makes inter planetary travel surviv
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by monochr 13y ago
Here we go again, the idealistic high school student who hasn't had to pay bills in their life.
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Every technology is political. The only time it stops being political in an overt sense is when it no longer provides an advantage over other technologies which can do its job. Taking the knife. It's invention was somewhere around the
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by monochr 13y ago
And control of the block chain can be taken over in minutes too. As far as I am aware the network updates itself every 10 minutes. So unless the operator never has a period of more than 10 minutes of 51% control or more the network is vulne
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by monochr 13y ago
I don't sign up for courses that have self paced study unless I feel like I want to take the final exam which may at some point mean something. But courses with deadlines I spam subscribe the hell out of. The majority are available ind
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by monochr 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but this only solves the problem if the miners aren't purposefully coordinating the take over of the system. It is merely that a pool of otherwise benign miners can't be used by the pool operator to re
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by monochr 13y ago
>They didn't use force, as far as I am aware Then you're not very aware. During the Gilded Age there were hundreds of strikes a large minority of which ended with the murder of the organizers and arrest of the leadership, an in
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by monochr 13y ago
But "interlocutor" is just fine and dandy. Why I use that in conversations with my 5 year old niece all the time: "Now, now even if your teacher wasn't your intended interlocutrix when you called Josh 'Mr. Poopy Pan
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by monochr 13y ago
To recap what's happened in your post. Not only did you do everything but engage the issue at hand but you also threw in a personal insult, a group insult and some general disparagement towards any ideas you don't agree with.
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"Engineers and physicists are often portrayed as clueless geeks on television, and despite the high pay and the importance of such jobs to the country’s future" I must have missed this part when I was a post graduate. The only thi