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by nzp 13y ago
Don't waste your time. His books are just horribly misleading. After reading them you won't come out with any better knowledge about what is actually going on, in fact you might even be worse off. He throws around lots of techni
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On all mailing lists I'm on that allow non-subscribers to post (a few high-profile FOSS projects) the benefits far outweigh drawbacks. A few individuals periodically complain about reply-to policy and duplicate emails (which, if you&#
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by nzp 13y ago
Private ownership of means of production , or "capital assets" in that article (it's just terminology). Neither private ownership of goods nor the existence of markets are specific to capitalism.
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> This is by far the most common attitude on HN but would be one of the least common in the reality based community. Does this sort of view come from too much science fiction or something?This is by far the most common attitude on HN but
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by nzp 13y ago
Since I don't really follow Hollywood I found out about this movie only yesterday. I haven't seen it yet, but watched the trailer. So apparently there's something about this movie that provokes poking holes in its portrayal
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by nzp 13y ago
> I don't think she was Alfonso Cuaron's first choice either According to Wikipedia, Angelina Jolie was the first choice, but in my opinion that would have been a much, much worse choice. What's wrong with Bullock? To me
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> There needs to be some incentive for tedious work to be done at a modest wage. Otherwise the supply of labor will crash through the floor. Of human labor, yes, but fortunately we have machines and computers... And that's exactl
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> And they were ideologically motivated. I may be reading you incorrectly, but I get the sense you consider what the US/West does somehow isn't ideologically motivated or that having any such motivations is inherently sinister?
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Probably, but that's just one more reason for them not caring about 4 monitor support in non-Windows drivers. From what I've gathered from mailing lists chatter, the very reason Nvidia maintains Linux and FreeBSD drivers is OpenC
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But see, judging people is inevitable. Everybody judges everything all the time, whether openly or not. And in general there's nothing wrong with that. One cannot ever be so objective about oneself to see or acknowledge that somethi
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> Turn over your billing records and other material you do have, but don't turn over anything you don't have, and be unfailingly polite, prompt, and not a dick. No, in fact, when dealing with law enforcement you should be as un