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by plonh 11y ago
Many people intentionally do the not-popular thing. Some of realize later, and tell ages hence, that the majority made the right choice, and that our renegade choice made all the difference in our lives.
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by plonh 11y ago
You only need one person in the world to write an interface and then sell it for a open source bounty, via something like Patreon.
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by plonh 11y ago
May is not programming, and math is often handwritten, so there is a lot of friction in setting up a DCVS for "scratch work". Polymath was rather awkward, and I would guess it was either (a) an easy problem for the (genius) solver
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by plonh 11y ago
Simons always seemed to be more about attaching the Simons name to superstars' halos, and promoting Simons, than about maximizing the impact of the contribution to science. "Buying a proprietary license for many researchers is be
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by plonh 11y ago
Edit: North America, not whole world, sorry. My sense of anti-chauvinism prevented me from registering the truth of the matter.
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by plonh 11y ago
You are right. Parent post misstated the details; the reality is even worse, and along the same lines.
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by plonh 11y ago
Patreon is a better fit -- subscription funds from satisfied users. Unfortunately, most users don't pay their own bills, their administrators do. And administrators don't pay for free software -- classic free rider problem. (That&
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by plonh 11y ago
I don't know exactly when TeX was written, but back in the ed days before vi and emacs, a yellow legal pad was a substantially better full-screen editor than the line editor. Computers were for executing programs, not editing text.
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by plonh 11y ago
Sarcasm doesn't work on the Internet. Say what you mean, to avoid needlessly confusing and upsetting your readers.
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by plonh 11y ago
Did you read he article? Simoms bought a license from the closed source academic authors, and gave them to every academic institution in the world (but not amateurs). No one is paying for it (except Simons), so there is no voting with wall
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by plonh 11y ago
Linux. MySQL.
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by plonh 11y ago
Human meat is also delicious.
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by plonh 11y ago
Animals aren't as self-evidently like ourselves as other people arem
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by plonh 11y ago
Apropros of the other Google thread today, the here.com link completely fails: it shows an full screen ad for the mobile app, with no way to get to the map.
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by plonh 11y ago
If you know they know who you are why don't you log in, and if you don't trust them then why do you use the site at all
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by plonh 11y ago
CDNs get copies of SSL keys so they can do their job: serving data. They are logically part of the serving infrastructure for example.com
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by plonh 11y ago
Chrome originally caught in for the same reason Firefox: when it came out it was the best browser by far. People forget how bad IE used to be and later how bad Firefox got.
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by plonh 11y ago
You can fight this by ignoring fancy pedigrees and social signaling when you interview job candidates.
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by plonh 11y ago
It is caused by American parents not feeding their babies peanut butter like other cultures do.
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by plonh 11y ago
But most people don't address those other real problems. They just fight negative sum game for social status.
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by plonh 11y ago
When you consider that a full time homemaker does about $60k/yr worth of work during the weekdays , a single income household with a honemaker doesn't look so bad compared to a meduam dual income household.
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by plonh 11y ago
Why didn't we get /dev/getrandom?
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by plonh 11y ago
Are those numbers bad? Do you need to drive two 400mile legs without a 16hr break in between? For "road trip", yes, but those are rare as a portion of trips, and most people don't need to purchase on the need. And there are s
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by plonh 11y ago
IIRC, Tesla predates the standard, provides adapters, and will migrate over to the standard.
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by plonh 11y ago
acrylamide is a byproduct of cooking a Starches, a practice which goes back centuries older than our grandmothers, and seems to be as dangerous as everything else , now that scientists at able to detect toxins at 100-1000x more dilute conc
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by plonh 11y ago
If your genetic heritage has never been the target of genocide, it is easy to maintain an emotional detachment.
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by plonh 11y ago
That game was incredible. My arcade had it configured to give 7 lives per quarter, until one day it changed down to 3. You could arrest people nonviolently, except for the ones who fired guns at you and the PCP junkies. The civil forfeiture
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by plonh 11y ago
It is easy to understand what is being scanned when the answer is "10-100x as much as would be necessary in a RDBMS".
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by plonh 11y ago
But having data corruption baked into the system design is shuge minus. Even the big shots at Google and Amazon are constantly firefighting data corruption in their NoSQL systems.
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by plonh 11y ago
The media circus died down in a few weeks. Why wouldn't he be welcomed back? Why is science drowned in political crap?

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