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by phaemon 11y ago
cURL can handle gopher. I was actually surprised Firefox couldn't. I guess they removed it at a some point.
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by phaemon 11y ago
You need the previous paragraph to see the anomaly: "a small army of hedge funds and 'prop desks' trying to squeeze a few last drops out of a spent deflation trade" You probably know about inflation (prices going up) and
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by phaemon 11y ago
Somewhere on the planet? Sure. Where I am? Nope. I know this because of the high pressure area that's currently sitting here and will take time to move. Last weekend, however, it would have been practically impossible to tell whether i
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by phaemon 11y ago
Just a note that the phrase is "pore over". It's from an old sense of the word "pore" meaning "to study intently". Google Etymology suggests "Middle English: perhaps related to peer."
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by phaemon 11y ago
Not in the UK. I guess you don't have debt collection agencies where you are or anything like bailiffs. EDIT: Oh, and you're misusing the term "strawman". I was asking questions about your post, not positing an argument
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by phaemon 11y ago
That's a useless reply. I was kind of hoping you'd expand on how you thought such a system would work (you could imagine something with a trust network of third party escrow, for example). Try thinking more about your own argument
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by phaemon 11y ago
He mentions in a different bit that it was actually on github, not their own git server. There is a way to get the reflog and write a new branch to point to the commit using github's API mentioned above.
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by phaemon 11y ago
So if I owe you money for some work, and simply refuse to pay it, you should have no legal recourse? How would that work in society? Would everyone just have to trust each other and if they were ripped off, too bad?
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by phaemon 11y ago
Let's be clear here: you're saying that forcing someone to pay you money they don't owe you (e.g. mafia protection racket) is amoral and just the same as forcing someone to pay money they do owe you (e.g. taxes)? Are you su
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by phaemon 11y ago
You can do: git checkout test_data 'testdata/' to only grab the 'testdata/' directory from that branch. You can do this with files with a pattern, like '*.c', as well.
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by phaemon 11y ago
Actually, they're fundamentally different. But that has nothing to do with the original post I replied to. You've changed the topic. Are you conceding that your argument that taxes are equivalent to a protection racket is wrong?
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by phaemon 11y ago
If I lived in a housing scheme that had such an arrangement ("we have a gardener that comes around every week"), then Yes, if I'd bought that house with that arrangement, I don't get to dodge the fees, just because I thi
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by phaemon 11y ago
> Can you opt out of receiving the government's "services"? Yes. I don't pay any taxes to the US government, for example, because I don't use any of their services.
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by phaemon 11y ago
I am not a member of the mafia, nor have I used any of their services. I do not owe them any money, therefore it would be wrong for them to demand any money from me. I am a member of a society which has a representative government which act
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by phaemon 11y ago
Does anyone know what Avago's attitude towards Open Source is? Any chance we might get some decent drivers for Broadcom gear?
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by phaemon 11y ago
Obviously I can't be sure either. But, of course, for most novelists the world would be pretty much the same: they'd write a terrible novel, a few copies would be bought by their family and friends, and they'd become bitter l
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by phaemon 11y ago
The blog entry at: http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/42464.html estimated (in 2009) the number of Fedora users at around 16 million. I think Ubuntu has more users than Fedora had then.
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by phaemon 11y ago
> I don't think anyone agrees with no copyright whatsoever. I do. I'd like to see copyright completely abolished. I think it does far more harm than good.
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by phaemon 11y ago
Since they specifically say Desktop, I'm guessing they're measuring updates to stuff that's only on the Desktop (say, Unity or something).
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by phaemon 11y ago
Yes, from wikipedia: In 2015, Canonical's Ubuntu Insights page stated "Ubuntu now has over 40 million desktop users and counting" Probably based on the number of hits to the repositories (so it would obviously be a minimum nu
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by phaemon 11y ago
No, I couldn't claim that a 19 year old claiming JSA had been "paying into the system their entire lives". Do you not see the difference between someone in that situation and someone who's been paying NI for the past 50
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by phaemon 11y ago
People are paid pensions because they're owed pensions. They've been paying into the system their entire lives, and are entitled to that money. To describe it as 'welfare' is entirely misleading.
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by phaemon 11y ago
> Do you have any idea at what speed the saliva particles are flying during a sneeze? About 40mph. Why can't a droplet of moisture travelling at that speed be deflected by air?
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by phaemon 11y ago
> We're talking about a Basic Income, where the idea is to get enough money to live on, right? No, I specifically mentioned starting it low and even gave an example amount of $30 per week. Several times. My first post was saying &qu
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by phaemon 11y ago
> I know young people from almost every European country and I feel more connected to them to, say, my 50-year old working class neighbours. I'm sure you do, in certain ways. But, for example, perhaps some of your friends have 50-ye
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by phaemon 11y ago
> Gold and silver sure as hell did, and that's what I was referring to No, they didn't. I was referring to gold and silver being used as tradeable goods, not as currency. There's a difference. Bertrand Russell wrote an ess
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by phaemon 11y ago
I'd thought about that, but there could be two effects. There are people working for low wages, who live in high cost areas, because that's where the jobs are. If we're talking about a liveable BI, then they would have the op
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by phaemon 11y ago
Ok, so you're talking about a hypothetical non-fiat currency, rather than the one that's actually used. If you'd made that clear at the start, there wouldn't have been so much misunderstanding. I should note that money d
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by phaemon 11y ago
> Or you could call it something like "Free Money Forever", because that's what its proponents seem to think they'd be getting No I don't. Frankly, I suspect I understand tax and spending a fair bit better than y
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by phaemon 11y ago
> The problem is that a basic income to (say) the 150m people in the civilian labor force x the ~$23k poverty line income would be about $3.4 trillion There's no need to introduce it all at once. Call it a "Citizen's Divid

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