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by ponow 4y ago
Does trusting the government depend on administration or jurisdiction? Should Russians heed your advice?
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by ponow 4y ago
Sorry to beat a dead horse, but please use "copyright infringement" or "unauthorized copying" instead of "piracy". Actual pirates commit or threaten physical violence, so this meaning-slippage is just propagan
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by ponow 5y ago
GHz not Mhz for your GPU specs.
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by ponow 5y ago
Sounds like bait and switch.
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by ponow 5y ago
Apparently, expertise with Rust is a pre-requisite.
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by ponow 5y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. Please don't use one travesty to justify another. Instead answer to yourself, why I should have any right to dictate the standards of the goods you may knowingly and willingly purchase, and particul
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by ponow 5y ago
> If your serious about getting the government out, including out of copyright and patents, then let's talk. Until then, let's regulate these companies. I'm all for eliminating all government privileges and cronyism (which
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by ponow 5y ago
Please no. Get the government and their violence out. No one has an inalienable right to APIs and such. You have the right to buy what you want. If the market is not serving you, then look in the mirror and pick your priorities.
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by ponow 5y ago
"For some reason" there are temptations to addiction all around us, and alcohol is only one. We can't treat being human as merely a medical condition. Human cultures have adapted using shame as a tool.
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by ponow 5y ago
Because kids want things does not mean that they are owed them. That's the difference. "I want it now!" by Veruca Salt is not reasonable way to interact with artists.
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by ponow 5y ago
> Like if a friend offered to help you move and then never showed up. No, it's not at all like that. That friend told you they would show up at a particular time. By contrast, when your read a book, then you've read it. Deal
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by ponow 5y ago
Problem drinking isn't due to marketing, and precedes modern marketing by ... millenia.
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by ponow 5y ago
Wow, I have no sympathy for that driver. The sleazy beginning of that article, which glosses over the difference between drinking and drunk driving. If she doesn't like her passengers or what she's enabling, she should stop doin
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by ponow 5y ago
My only real concern here is whether the manufacturer may be able to unilaterally _limit_ already-enabled hardware capabilities in the future. If they can do so without your express consent _at the time that the capability is downgraded_,
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by ponow 5y ago
Independent of copyright law, people have a more fundamental right to contract as they wish. If people wish to pay less by allowing a lack of full control of hardware in their possession, then we shouldn't stop them. To assert otherw
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by ponow 5y ago
Can't you just export the struct? Edit: Just tried it and ran into those difficulties. Julia structs appear to be treated as constants, and Revise.jl didn't help (for me).
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by ponow 5y ago
There is a serious amount of diversity on the app stores, though. It's not as if you must use Photoshop, with zero alternatives.
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by ponow 5y ago
I vaguely recall that you could get source code back in the 70s and early 80s, with early UNIX say or mainframe code, because the revenue was from the big machines. Technical reference manuals for the early IBM PC were awesome.
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by ponow 5y ago
Way to misrepresent the _purpose_ of the US military.
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by ponow 5y ago
Could it be because you lose your professor job is in peril if you don't get research funding? Survival explains so much.
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by ponow 5y ago
So software copyright is not a net win?
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by ponow 5y ago
People already have an incentive to save their lives.
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by ponow 5y ago
Of course get to know the candidate as much as possible before hiring, but if you had to pick your candidate based on a single number, you truly don't think IQ isn't way up there as one of the more usefully discriminating ones?
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by ponow 5y ago
Milly should be able to keep or sell what she found, if it was her land. If a museum or government wants these things, then they can go find them themselves on their own land. This socialization of individual efforts is maddening.
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by ponow 5y ago
Me too.
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by ponow 5y ago
No. There is no protection from a lack of due diligence.
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by ponow 5y ago
I really hope the government stays out of this. We need alternatives to their monopoly, and regulating stablecoins will ultimately limit people's choices.
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by ponow 5y ago
All investments require people to do their due diligence. That's no excuse to "forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults".
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by ponow 5y ago
I guess the same logic should be applied to housing and gentrification then.
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by ponow 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't licensed at all. I was arguing from the point of view of the author, not the user. Because there is no contract nor consideration/payment, the author is (or ought to be, morally)

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