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5y ago
I cannot tell if this is willfully pedantic or not. And well, since we are being pedantic, I guess I will allow myself to say, that you can't re-license per se, only newer versions can be re-licensed. a prior release will forever be th
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5y ago
Whining is not illegal, if you can whine about a license change, you should.
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5y ago
They are if the license allows for it.
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5y ago
Given Veritasiums most recent video, the degree doesn't matter, even physics professors can be wrong. The degree is just there for you to be wrong less, you will still be wrong, just less.
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5y ago
Well, the code could've still been GPLed after. The BSD license allows it.
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5y ago
I will agree with the point about comedies is somewhat true, comedic releases have diminished greatly. We used to get a great new comedy every year. I can name 20 great comedies in the 80s, 90s and 2000s respectively, but in the 2010s there
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5y ago
The critics curse, the reason you enjoy movies when you are young is because you don't have critical thinking. the more of it you have, the less you enjoy. until you enjoy nothing. The solution is simple, turn it off and let yourself b
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5y ago
If something is terrible then comparatively you must have a better solution around.
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5y ago
So basically White Castle?
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5y ago
Colorforth not only does this but solved the colorblind problem by switching fonts.
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5y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding this but a 0.5% false positive rate and a 51% positive rate means that you still get a 50% TRUE positive rate instead of the current rate, which is 0%. And then after you can follow up with a test that is mor
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5y ago
The deal with cancel culture is power, if you're canceling Joe Schmo, or if you keep canceling someone well after they've lost everything, well then that's just bullying.
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5y ago
You can disable seeing ads in settings though. if you choose to see ads however, the website doesn't get anything, you get crypto from it.
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5y ago
starting forth and thinking forth.
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5y ago
Just recently colonial pipeline paid $5 million in btc. It's not that hard to imagine when you don't have to send anything physical.
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5y ago
> There's also a strong (IMO) argument that energy-intensive crypto-mining can make renewable energy more competitive If this is true then the goal is to create a mining algorithm that focuses on being as wasteful as possible. >
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5y ago
> FACT: COVID-19 is NOT airborne. > The coronavirus is mainly transmitted through droplets generated when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks. > To protect yourself: > -keep 1m distance from others > -disinfect surfa
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5y ago
The more awk I write, the more it starts to look like apl/j. And that's a good thing.
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5y ago
While true, this also gives jobs to millions of people, unlike crypto, which is comparatively less.
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5y ago
A lot of people are very derisive, and that's easy to do while sitting from a comfortable chair on a keyboard. but if you're taking a manual labor, you will suffer the consequences down the road, all that and without insurance. An
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5y ago
There's a lot of good with being mediocre. normalcy, so long as you're not in some sort of barbarian culture. is a net positive.
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5y ago
It is, at heart, a ponzi scheme.
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5y ago
Weird thing to say for a dying industry that's basically whoring itself for the highest bidder. You want objectivity and unbias? Those are not cheap, and until the whole journalism industry is fixed, you're going to keep getting w
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5y ago
Disagree on this, like discord, third party apps are frowned upon. There is no youtube-dl for spotify (not a good one at least) so while I do agree that creators should not be burdened by the distribution aspect, spotify is ultimately vendo
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5y ago
Embrace and extinguish.
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6y ago
Why not use freedos?
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6y ago
Morally wrong, legally correct. ethically grey. but a really black shade of grey.
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6y ago
It isn't, the practice stopped in the 19th century or so, its still used for some ailments but its not a cure all as they used to believe 200 years ago. https://maximumfun.org/episodes/sawbones/sawbones-bloodl
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6y ago
Or, If you like something, would you want less of it? I for one think, this is a subjective question.
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6y ago
"Thin out" is this another word for dying?
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