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by pizzazzaro 7y ago
So... We have a cli-frontend for git? Like... git, but only somehow for github?
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by pizzazzaro 7y ago
Western AI researchers partnered with Chinese surveillance firms - https://www.ft.com/content/41be9878-61d9-11e9-b285-3acd5d435...
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by pizzazzaro 7y ago
Freedom is just another lie when you can't afford it. Sure, the marketplace provides choices - all with the same coverage in a race to the bottom, by nearly a half-dozen "health" insurance banks. Burn down the Milton Friedman
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by pizzazzaro 7y ago
Its not like he's contributed to anything helpful afterwards - oh wait. Lets be honest with ourselves - banks have a very specific role in the world economy, and have largely quit lending to businesses small enough to actually upset th
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by pizzazzaro 7y ago
$20 billion laundered, $1billion in actual profits regardless of what the books say, $500k fine. What reason do they have to stop?
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by pizzazzaro 7y ago
Has anybody checked all the code from Huawei that ends up vetted on its way into the Linux Kernel? As far as institutional code contributors go, they're climbing. Theyre not quite Red Hat or Intel, but theyre certainly beating out any
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by pizzazzaro 7y ago
US and western labour are not going to compete with China in terms of scale, even when adopting Chinese 996-icu labor practices. Where the west has always dominated has been in innovation - something sleep/leisure deprived workers are
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by pizzazzaro 7y ago
This isnt new. This isnt even from the early 20th century, when the western world organized its labour. It is much, much older: https://youtu.be/E4CI2vk3ugk
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by pizzazzaro 7y ago
So Pete gives us a social-issues platform and a game of design to play. Can we get some economic policy ideas? Or are we gonna pretend those dont exist again
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by pizzazzaro 7y ago
A cursory read suggests a business-school graduate has "invented" software design, maybe even something as useful as object oriented programming.
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
Or... Melting Arctic/Siberian sea ice may release methane into the air, a greenhouse has several times more potent than carbon dioxide. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18072017/arctic-permafros...
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
Audacity, GIMP, Firefox, Android, the opensource Chrome-version Chromium, every ad-blocker worth installing on either browser? We have the examples. Then again, we have a lot of corporate bs in between the user and the opensource projects t
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
In spite of their crutch upon Freidman-ite economics, this is one of those rare cases where Chicago boys rely on all the evidence rather than cherry-picking and thus turning a potential hard-science into BS. A more ideal solution is to ad
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
Im actually glad that the author pointed out that once you log in somewhere that will track you, that connection is associated with you. A vpn is not a cure-all. It is only as private as you're willing to make it. If you want to pira
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
In that spirit, I (sarcastically) offer myself as a counterpoint to the sitting president of the Heritage Foundation. I expect expenses paid, but nothing else. I contribute: -a neuro-atypical mindset -Solidarity for the -LGBTQ+ community -a
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
That was neither "us trying data ownership" or "society rejecting it". That was tech titans smearing each other with feces, trying to dodge responsibility for tracking teenagers as if they (companies) were pedophiles in
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
If, by w3w you mean gps-capable device. Like a phone. Which can give you those digits. And if connected to the internet to query w3w's database, can send your precise location. There's also the old country directions method - navi
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
Your link expired. Care to post the original, instead of an outline.com one?
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
I see you're a novice to legal-ese, while pedantically forming your opinion based on... Sentence construction? Not the content? I guess we'll just have to deal with a Europe without memes. We'll see only slower, mass-market-o
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
In the San Francisco real estate market? Dont be surprised when some of those workers start going homeless.
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
That's... Gonna take some kernel work - maybe just some wifi drivers, maybe more of the network stack. And if there is one thing that's less "open" than on Linux, its the OpenBSD kernel. Dont get me wrong, the source is
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
The problem here? The only people who share with the poor are those who can relate. And that happens to be... the poor. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129068...
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
This is the kind of question that is too rarely asked - "how is it used in the field?" Im sure those technicians went through a few new-hires who just c/would not put up with not being able to see what they were inputting.
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
I dont know about anyone else, but Im a little scared by the fact that I've never owned a coreboot-compatible device. Look around on their website, and you may notice that the compatible hardware selection is rather... limiting. Oh, do
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
I had thought the NYTimes was above that internet troll behavior. Clearly I was mistaken. Well, that's one less place I'll be spending my money online.
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
>worth more as a person LOL! Social Capital gone insanely, nakedly wrong? Or just a Freudian-style slip?
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
When I evangelize for an open-source project, I tell a company that they need to do two things to make Free/Libre/Open-Source Software work Really Well: 1 - hire an engineer on your payroll give to this one project ( maybe two, i
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
Yeah... What about LibreSSL?
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
raddle.me - free speech-minded actual leftists allow a clone of r/The_Donald on their site. Voat? Yeah, they're kinda gross...
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by pizzazzaro 8y ago
Yes, you do.

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