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by phryk 13y ago
Of course I started behaving more carefully around him, and a little more carefully in general. This, I believe, is the wrong way to go about it. To me this seems like some sort of culture clash and in my opinion staying silent is the wro
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by phryk 13y ago
If the effect of not censoring yourself in this regard is to work in a much less diverse environment, which side is going to give? Honest question. And a good one, too. The honest answer is: I don't know. I think this is highly conte
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by phryk 13y ago
They didn't mention censoring anyone. True that, I will try to get a bit less triggerable about this. Do you have one single way of expressing yourself? Do you use profanity 100% of the time? Do you automatically reject all feedback
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by phryk 13y ago
If you meet me in real-life I'm pretty relaxed. I've even been called a pleasant person, too! I'm just getting a bit jittery whenever someone tries to regulate free speech. If you think I'm an asshole you are hereby invi
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by phryk 13y ago
You might be able to move yourself but moving any significant amount of developers is in practise impossible. So it's better to force that significant amount of developers to do your bidding? That sounds just a just a weee bit unreas
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by phryk 13y ago
I agree. The curse-density in that post is obviously a good deal above my average. :) People communicate in different ways (and with different "curse-densities") and that is completely fine. What isn't fine is trying to get e
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by phryk 13y ago
Too much profanity? Well butter my ass and call me fucking skittles! So you want to censor everyone who doesn't buy into your flowery child talk? Fuck that. Cursing is a perfectly fine means of setting emphasis and I sure as shitpissfu
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by phryk 13y ago
My first thought was "Oh, so it's the thing he said it wouldn't be, just above the ground.", too. :P
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by phryk 13y ago
Our local hackerspace, the Warpzone in Münster, NRW, Germany is currently in the process of renovating new rooms (>100m², whoo!) with a magnificent view and then moving into those. Y'all are welcome to come around for the grand open
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by phryk 13y ago
Don't take this the wrong way but for an interface expert Raskin doesn't seem to give much consideration to typography. While it might be innovative, I couldn't use that interface simply because of the bad readability…
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by phryk 13y ago
Could you be more specific? Yes, sorry. I tend to only look at the long term where my personal version of a better society would be one where at least all the production of all the base needs (if not more) is automated and we have depreca
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by phryk 13y ago
I think it may be better if we were allowed to protect engineered DNA sequences with copyright as you suggest. Aren't patents at least not applicable to non-commercial uses? Using copyright seems even worse . I'm against any le
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by phryk 13y ago
With the proliferation of patents and the marketing blitz by these companies, we'll have only a handful of varieties that are sterile. There will be no new varieties coming out of natural cross pollination because we are left with ste
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by phryk 13y ago
Indeed. It's pretty obvious that most patents are owned by corporations who paid someone to do the work and not by the inventors themselves. My personal assessment is that in contemporary times, patents only slow down progress and fill
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by phryk 13y ago
https://blog.crypto.cat/2013/07/new-critical-vulnerability-i... There seems to be a response to this on the cryptocat dev blog. Since I have no clue about crypto, I can't make any assessments though; Still mi
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by phryk 13y ago
Why don't you just switch off your phone? That would save precious battery time, too…
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by phryk 13y ago
Not exactly sure, but aren't most journals a rip-off for both the submitting scientists as well as the readers? As far as I know the submitter has to give all the rights to the journal while the reader pays a shitload of money that doe
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by phryk 13y ago
Yep, and I think they can even keep all the communications of everyone in the US you communicate with. Not encrypting to stay secure is just plain fucking stupid. If you don't encrypt they can read your shit anyways . Plus "reaso
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by phryk 13y ago
I loved PHP at first too, but the more I started to do serious work in it, the more I grew to hate it. I can second that. It's great to get into quickly and just hack something together. But it has lots of problems. Admittedly the de
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by phryk 13y ago
<Generic opinionated argument on BSD vs. GPL>
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by phryk 13y ago
Well, we already see a democratization of the means of production. Look at open source 3D printers. Did you know there is an open library for smart materials? For genetic information? Open Hardware projects are multiplying, think arduino, r
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by phryk 13y ago
We already now have a lot of jobs that simply aren't necessary. I mean look at all the bureaucracy… Haven't you ever looked at some buraeucrats' job and just thought "Wow, I could replace that guy with 200 lines of perl
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by phryk 13y ago
Well, it doesn't really matter if even if we can't supply a way to keep everyone busy right now. We'll have enough time on our hands to figure that out when the time comes around. ;)
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by phryk 13y ago
If ~all the goods are produced automatically we are all parasites living off of the labor of the machines, if you really want to use that word. The way I think about it it's simply taking away the necessity to labor for your survival.
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by phryk 13y ago
I'm not opposed to capitalism, btw, I just feel it should serve everyone, not just the few. Then that wouldn't be capitalism. Sounds like you want some sort of democratic economy. I personally am against capitalism, I think we d
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by phryk 13y ago
Actually I'm totally amazed when thinking about the possibilities we might get with supportive AIs and implants to boost our neural power. And even if we're not needed for research it doesn't take the joy out of doing it an
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by phryk 13y ago
My thought exactly. Fuck work, we can have a lifestyle driven by curiosity and cooperation, full of open research and celebration; Imagine constantly living like you do at hacker cons and camps. When talking about this I often encounter peo
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by phryk 13y ago
Oh, and it being lawful somehow makes it better? Also I'm pretty sure they bent it a way so that the current spying on US citizens isn't technically illegal either.
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by phryk 13y ago
Since I rate the chances of it making an actual difference as pretty low - No. Also, I don't have a clue how to organize SHIT. And as far as making the world a better place goes, I'm currently looking into the possibility of autom
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by phryk 13y ago
Which definitely don't make up >600 million accounts. I could've also used Google as an example, I'm pretty sure the bulk of their traffic is non-US traffic. But even if it doesn't, that doesn't change my point o

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