phaemon

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by phaemon 12y ago
>Unions commoditize workers. > http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/chap20p4.html That link is just terrible. It makes no intelligent argument and presents no evidence of anything. It's drivel. If you t
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by phaemon 12y ago
Unions do not fight for any of the things you listed. Frankly, you don't seem to know what a union actually does. Let's take your last example: * re-hiring of employees who were terminated because they were caught stealing or phys
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by phaemon 12y ago
It's supposed to be for Works & Pensions (unemployment and pensions basically) but I think it now goes into the general tax pot. It's not health insurance though.
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by phaemon 12y ago
As others have pointed out, not much was known of that area at that time (1746). In James Boswell's "THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON", which occurred in 1773, he writes: "Talking of Phipps'
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by phaemon 12y ago
You're a .Net developer who wrote a C# framework back in 2004 and consistently posts about how great Windows is and how poor Linux is. At a wild guess I'd say that's why you're "more productive with PS in a couple o
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by phaemon 12y ago
That Troll Bridge page is a bit difficult to read. Try: http://markdownshare.com/view/0d9bab9a-065a-4838-adf5-17d507...
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by phaemon 12y ago
Not if you had 2 USB-C ports, and you could charge from either side. That would be pretty cool actually.
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by phaemon 12y ago
How well does the Asus UX305 run Linux? I have a Macbook Air at the moment, but it has a couple of annoyances that I'd like to be rid of. However, I do like the build quality and the trackpad especially.
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by phaemon 12y ago
I am honestly baffled by your points 1 & 2. You have 220 people working on 6MLoC and you think git can't handle this? You are aware that git is used for the Linux kernel, right? I mean, it must be its most famous use case.
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by phaemon 12y ago
My invented mission statement made it through unaltered. "We reinterpret the existing synergistic environment to create an overarching fluidity that will encompass both the paradoxical business lexicon and the mainstream black swansong
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by phaemon 12y ago
I think that the context makes it pretty clear that he's talking about borrowing and lending between friends. Shakespeare would indeed have been aware of it, as it was commonplace for young noblemen to run up ruinous debts from gamblin
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by phaemon 12y ago
In what way is "neither a borrower nor a lender be" ironic?
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by phaemon 12y ago
All companies mess things up occasionally, especially if they're overloaded. Clearly other folk have got what they wanted which is why there is such a demand for their service. p.s. Your website - www.complexventures.com - appears to b
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by phaemon 12y ago
Try: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/documents/ It has their financial statements.
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by phaemon 12y ago
That's odd. Your comments in this thread sound like "I'm not intelligent enough to identify a metaphor" to me. Strange how those things work, isn't it?
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by phaemon 12y ago
I'm guessing "RandomCode" is a new username for "TempleOS"?
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by phaemon 12y ago
> and the hiatus is a real, non-cherry-picked feature of the Hadcrut data, which was everyone's gold standard until the hiatus showed up in it The problems with HadCRUT4 are known: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi&
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by phaemon 12y ago
As 'euid' said, you can just add a check. If you don't want to add proper option checking (because this is the only option) you can do something like: response=$1 echo "This will STOP THE SERVER. Are you sure
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by phaemon 12y ago
Americans refer to people who live in the USA without government permission as "illegals". These people often take low paid work, such as pizza delivery.
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by phaemon 12y ago
Might be better having something like the following at the top of your script: echo "This will STOP THE SERVER. Are you sure you want to do this?" echo "Type 'yes' to continue:" read response
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by phaemon 12y ago
Oh please! You can't honestly believe that Microsoft didn't exert any pressure to get exFAT specified as the filesystem? There was no reason to specify a filesystem in the standard at all . SATA drives don't have a 'spe
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by phaemon 12y ago
The effects of that standard are only just hitting us now . Have they dropped the requirements for a license for exFAT yet? As for Open Sourcing .Net, what good has come of it as of today? It looks like a move to push their own environment
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by phaemon 12y ago
Perhaps thinking of your spending as a percentage of your net income, rather than an absolute amount, would help? Have a read over: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim... I found it p
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by phaemon 12y ago
> That was 2006...If that's your reference on Microsoft's standards support, it's not the full picture. The new standard for high capacity SD Cards - SDXC - specifies a filesystem in the standard. That filesystem is exFAT,
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by phaemon 12y ago
Excellent stuff! Inkscape really is a superb bit of software. I still recall the first time I tried the included tutorials and realised that the tutorials themselves were just SVG docs. So it had things like, "Let's explore the ha
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by phaemon 12y ago
New POSIX OSes won't take off in a meaningful way either (whatever 'meaningful' means). It's nothing to do with it being POSIX or not, it's just difficult to get traction for a new OS. Linux faced exactly the same i
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by phaemon 12y ago
> it's that both the major one and most of the minor ones are derivatives of either UNIX or the POSIX specification. How is that the problem? How does that stop you from doing anything? > you are at the same time throwing away 99
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by phaemon 12y ago
Since Apple's core product is hardware, and Microsoft's core product is an OS (at least in this case), it makes sense they would each want to commoditize the other. So "Yes, for good reason" is the answer to your questio
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by phaemon 12y ago
> Or you could learn how to use a system that doesn't buy into the UNIX monoculture My first computer was a ZX Spectrum. It didn't run UNIX. > which has been a detriment to operating system research and development for the p
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by phaemon 12y ago
Perhaps you're thinking of: "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped

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