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by npo9 7y ago
We need free hardware before we can build free software. No one produces an LTE modem with open source firmware.
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by npo9 7y ago
Warren has no authority to affect how computers operate outside of the US. The non-us market is large enough that controlled marketplaces would exist if they couldn’t exist in the US.
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by npo9 7y ago
If Linux Desktop is a safer environment it has just as much to do with its obscurity as it does with it’s improved security mode. Add a few hundred million gullible users and you’ll see more malware in Linux Desktop.
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by npo9 7y ago
It’s very hard to have solid product, engineering, marketing, sales, and support on any scale without taking VC money.
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by npo9 7y ago
Is there an electric car that is a true competitor to the Model S?
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by npo9 7y ago
I keep a few emacs tables and template files for doing creative workflows. It’s easy to learn (once you bought into the eco system), fast to create (measured in minutes instead of hours or days), easy to use, and easy to modify. The big dow
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by npo9 7y ago
I think the most important aspect of a community is its members. Reddit, Facebook, etc have all tried hard to grow their communities and have reduced the quality of them as they increased the headcount. The best communities don’t strive fo
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by npo9 7y ago
Sure, self driving cars will be common in a lot of places, but the most dense places will require more.
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by npo9 7y ago
I strongly disagree with this idea. While not having to park, consuming electricity, and more efficient road usage will make cars much much better, this future car will still be significantly less efficient than modern trains in several key
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by npo9 7y ago
Both agriculture and consumer transportation are non-trivial contributions. We should go after military and cooperate polluters first because of their larger impact, but that’s easier to do when you gain moral high ground.
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by npo9 7y ago
I am anti housing projects. To me, creating a housing projects is like sweeping the problem under the rug. It concentrates poverty and crime into the area in/around the projects.
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by npo9 7y ago
It’s crazy how different his dyslexic experience is than mine. I think there are differently several different things going on under the umbrella term “dyslexic”. Colored glasses do not help me. Reading is slow, but doesn’t cause headache
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by npo9 7y ago
By using integers they can avoid a person rounding off fractions of pennies and putting it into their own bank account. Really, it’s about rounding and floating point math.
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by npo9 7y ago
I wouldn’t call the networked versions of quickbooks legacy. (Quickbooks Desktop and it’s ancillary products) That’s like saying Excel is legacy because Office 365 will let you edit spreadsheets in the cloud. Sometimes local operations ar
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by npo9 7y ago
This really depends on what the company wants to adopt as “core”. They cannot be great at everything, so they must be careful in picking what topics to be experts in. For example, maybe the Slack like app wants to be able to upload, distri