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by praptak 1y ago
GP probably means being initially released under a proprietary license.
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by praptak 1y ago
Like producing enough carbon dioxide to change the climate.
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by praptak 1y ago
I wouldn't get anything done.
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by praptak 1y ago
Even the purely materialistic improvements have negative externalities which the rich western countries could mostly ignore but cannot anymore. I'm obviously talking the climate catastrophe plus the huge bunch of political problems.
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by praptak 1y ago
The rich don't need the bigger spender to have 100% chance of winning. It is sufficient that both sides need the big money to even have a shot.
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by praptak 1y ago
"I'm seriously thinking that the CCP encourage this with maybe the hope of externalizing the cost of the Great Firewall to the rest of the world. If China scrapes content, that's fine as far as the CCP goes; If it's blo
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by praptak 1y ago
How did you choose where to get the IP addresses to block? I guess I'm mostly asking where this problem (i.e. "get all IPs for country X") is on the scale from "obviously solved" to "hard and you need to play c
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by praptak 1y ago
That's why big DBs do group commits, trading latency for throughput.
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by praptak 1y ago
Same category - bad but not enough to warrant four years jail time. Unless you are prepared to argue four years in jail for unlawful termination.
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by praptak 1y ago
I don't buy this equivalence of financial damage to a person with financial damage to a business. If I had a business its finances would be separate from my personal finance using limited liability, so even if someone destroyed 100% of
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by praptak 1y ago
We don't have a procedure to reliably establish a benevolent dictatorship.
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by praptak 1y ago
Flash is proprietary(#), so nobody bothered. When I contributed to Ruffle I think buying a second hand Adobe Flash Professional CS 6 was the recommended way. Also some subscriptions that you can buy from Adobe cover producing Flash format.
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by praptak 1y ago
It was both better and worse. Much better in that every kid could create interactive web stuff. Much worse because of the reasons the plugin got finally dropped from everywhere (after which the advertisers found other ways to abuse our brow
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by praptak 1y ago
You may have a look at Quilt. I doesn't solve the problem the author described but may help you once you accept there is no easy solution in sight. Quilt is automation for the "bag of patches" model. I used it once when I nee
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by praptak 1y ago
So... sue everyone you can?
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by praptak 1y ago
True skepticism is rare. It's easy to be skeptical only about beliefs you dislike or at least don't care about. It's hard to approach the 100th self-professed psychic with an honest intention to truly test their claims rather
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by praptak 1y ago
Possibility of mutiny, sabotage or just someone becoming dangerous because of personal conflicts or mental illness.
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by praptak 1y ago
A condition that "should not happen" might still be a problem specific to a particular request. If you "just crash" it turns this request from one that only triggers a http 500 response to one that crashes the process. T
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by praptak 1y ago
Lisp implementors would love additional bits for tagging pointers more efficiently.
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by praptak 1y ago
> Your recourse is the legal system. Crypto isn't mutually exclusive with working with trusted, legally registered corporations whom you can sue. I agree with this. The problem is the way from "isn't mutually exclusive&quo
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by praptak 1y ago
No, it doesn't solve the actual problem which is both: a) "conveniently pay for whatever is legal" and b) "have some recourse if someone takes my money and doesn't send me anything". You may argue that current
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by praptak 1y ago
No, that's not what I concluded. I used the word "perhaps" to indicate that accusers telling the truth is a possibility . And it's one that cannot be ruled out even if we believe 100% of what the author wrote in this ar
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by praptak 1y ago
I hadn't even read the original accusations when I wrote this, just this fragment, so I don't think I got exposed to any tricks by the accusers (except maybe indirectly by the author). I am only saying that even the person being a
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by praptak 1y ago
I wonder if it's resilient against swastikas made of penises.
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by praptak 1y ago
Maybe both sides are telling the truth. I mean that this fragment: "It was like reading a fiction about me concocted from benign fragments of reality, transplanted into new context to make them sound abominable." makes it sound
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by praptak 1y ago
You can say "murder" on HN.
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by praptak 1y ago
"When you "transfer money" from your bank account to another, your bank has to physically move the associated cash from it's vault to the other banks vault, by hiring secure trucks, people, and so on." Payment settl
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by praptak 1y ago
We'll all just use Tide: https://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/
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by praptak 1y ago
Even a mop bucket holds enough water to cause deadly accidents. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2313873/
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by praptak 1y ago
It does but it's just one of many factors that make maps diverge from the ground truth: https://nautil.us/what-happens-to-google-maps-when-tectonic-...

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