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by nybble41 4y ago
Sure, as long as the same rules applied to their own works. That's the whole motivation behind copyleft licenses: to turn copyright against itself. Without copyright there would be no need for copyleft, the GPL included.
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The "lie" is the unstated implication that doing these things the ads recommend will serve your own interests, and not just the interests of the advertisers. "Creating awareness" would be handing out unsolicited facts
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With SRI you can't store unique identifiers in the cache since the cached content has to match the hash in the URI. The only real privacy leak would be potentially determining whether certain data was already cached.
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by nybble41 4y ago
You could include js-ipfs[0] and fetch all your resources from IPFS without going through a gateway. However, this approach would make the site fully dependent on JavaScript. A PWA with a Service Worker could perhaps implement its own clien
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by nybble41 4y ago
The Liberty Dollar was not a "fake version" of the US Dollar. It wasn't even a "fake version" of the Federal Reserve Notes (nominally denominated in US Dollars, but trading at a far lower value) which make up the
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by nybble41 4y ago
> as it is currency designed to confuse people into thinking they are real dollars That was the government's argument. The defendant clearly disagreed. Arguably they were closer to "real dollars" (defined by the Coinage Ac
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That press release does not name any actual laws which were violated. You might do better to link to the ruling itself[0]; it's hardly less biased than the DoJ's statement, but it is at least more specific about the charges. The
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by nybble41 4y ago
> The original intention of patent system was to encourage open publication of inventions. That is how it was sold to the public. Unfortunately the system was never designed with the proper structure and incentives to ensure that patents
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by nybble41 4y ago
Patents are only one of the varieties of monopolies which apply in the field of medicine. The FDA imposes several more. Even after the patents have officially expired and you've developed your own safe & effective alternative you
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That's a plausible story for drugs which already exist. The problem, though, is that they wouldn't bother researching new drugs in the first place if it weren't for the prospect of those "absurd profits" in the USA,
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> [!] Amusingly, my laptop won't actually charge off the _standard_ A/C plugs on most airplanes because the 100W charger blows a soft fuse that requires unplugging and replugging the A/C adapter! To be fair, 100 W may not
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by nybble41 4y ago
Ensuring accurate metering in the context of commerce is within the scope of "To … fix the Standard of Weights and Measures". The specific form of the nozzle clearly is not, but they might justify it on the basis of some other e
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by nybble41 4y ago
> …if we're forcing every device to merely adopt a USB-C port, that does nothing to ensure they're actually using USB-C specifications or interoperable. You certainly need more than just the physical port. IMHO the minimum reas
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Some adapters are more problematic than others. For example if the charger and the vehicle both expect the other side to initiate the charging process and withhold power until some voltage is detected then the adapter may need its own indep
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> I was set to be all libertarian about this… Disallowing patents is the libertarian solution, though it would be up to the customers to demand published specifications and official support for interoperability.
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by nybble41 4y ago
"Functor" is a perfectly good and descriptive name… provided you are at least somewhat familiar with the esoteric branch of mathematics it's based on. For someone from a Category Theory background renaming it to "Mappabl
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> one the two other important Haskell "design-patterns" (Functor - Applicative - Monad) These days you should probably add Foldable and Traversable to that list, as they are closely related and appear throughout the standard li
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by nybble41 4y ago
Naturally there are far more IPv6 /60s than IPv4 /32s. As a spammer, though, you don't get to pick just any /60 prefix you want—it has to be allocated to you.
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by nybble41 4y ago
I'm not affiliated with either, but from looking at some of the extension pages on Open VSX it appears they use GitHub accounts exclusively for publishers—so that part is already handled by the existing GitHub/Keyoxide integration
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by nybble41 4y ago
You're supposed to get your IPv6 prefix from your ISP's allocation, not directly from the regional registry. Simplifying the routing tables with hierarchical address assignment was one of the major selling points for the larger ad
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by nybble41 4y ago
IPv6 addresses are more plentiful. However, you don't assign reputation to an individual IPv6 address but rather to an IPv6 network prefix (a /64, or even /60). That gives roughly the same granularity as a single public IPv
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by nybble41 4y ago
With LTO when you "compile" a source file it really only processes it into an intermediate language (IL) format and stores that in the object (.o) files. When you invoke the linker on those object files it runs the compiler again
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by nybble41 4y ago
> You don't have to be a homeowner to have a right against people invading your home. "Your home", as in: a home you have ownership rights to. You may only be renting those rights for a limited time, but your right not to
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> Something as minor as changing what user handle is displayed was probably hand waved away, if it was even considered, yet here in this thread we have a demonstrable case of a user losing trust and confidence in the project simply as a
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by nybble41 4y ago
Open VSX (and perhaps VS Code Marketplace) might consider adding support for identity verification through Keyoxide[0]. This would allow interested parties to easily determine whether the user bung87 on Open VSX and the user bung87 on VS Co
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by nybble41 4y ago
Sure, if you want to use arbitrary-precision integers everywhere. At a significant loss in performance.
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by nybble41 4y ago
Haskell's number system has its good points, but there are some hidden gotchas there as well. For example, all integer literals are interpreted by starting from the most general type (arbitrary-precision integers) and narrowing them wi
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by nybble41 4y ago
Thanks for mentioning that. It looks like there is support in HLedger for per-posting / per-account dates via `date:` tags[0]; I'm not sure how I missed that before. For the auxiliary dates, I suppose one could just ignore balance
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In practice most computer-based accounting packages only simulate the appearance of a double-entry bookkeeping system. In traditional double-entry bookkeeping one must manually enter the data for each transaction into multiple journals: a
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> There is a differentiation between source and destination accounts (called expense and revenue) which makes reverse transactions a pain. I pay 100€ for furniture in May and return it in July. Now I can either create the furniture store

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