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purple_turtle
1y ago
If you verified it and llm only prompted you to start - then do not mention it at start. If you know so little on the topic that chatgpt was illuminating - then I have doubts whether you are qualified to review it. Nutrition research has pi
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2y ago
Is it "7% selected such option in a poll" or is it "7% actually believe this"? People in polls repeatedly select stupid answer either due to confusion, trolling, bad poll design, not caring about what they select and so
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purple_turtle
2y ago
That is why "and 250k loss would be more than 90 times worse" is there. If loss of 250k would ruin my life and loss of 3k would be annoying, then paying makes sense. Similarly, taking bet "double your wealth at 51% chance, lo
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2y ago
whole point of insurance is that you pay for avoiding risk in other words, you pay more than you would on average loss from bad events - but you avoid catastrophic losses that would break your life that is why insuring your phone is likely
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2y ago
Oh, I am not claiming that overall system is friendly. I am paying some absurd taxes myself. But at least "I want to test run a business idea at tiny scale, without violating law" is solved.
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purple_turtle
2y ago
I guess that DEI add some % of paperwork and costs, but it hardly a main problem or cause.
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purple_turtle
2y ago
"anything anymore" is blatant overestimate and mistating the problem. See from space telescopes to Poland catching up after Russian occupation.
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2y ago
> It has been a while since the US or other western countries have done a major public infrastructure project (compared to what have been done before) how you define "major" here?
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2y ago
> Most progarmmers Yes, definitely true. > It is about doing unpaid work. If someone does unpaid work on weekends and it is not done as hobby or something they are very silly, exploited or both. > which is not ethical for them to a
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2y ago
> You never check personal email on company devices? Participate in mailing lists? Bug trackers for personal projects? no there is no chance whatsoever that something as critical as my email signin is on any device not fully controlled b
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2y ago
> in Europe it costs money to start a business, some paperwork and taxes is involved, even if you don’t make a single sale not everywhere - in Poland it is fine to run a tiny-scale business without registration https://www.bi
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2y ago
> Unless they pay you to work weekends That is really different from "Don't write code related to work on the weekend. That is unethical no matter what the law says." I see no problem whatsoever with taking contract for em
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2y ago
> Don't write code related to work on the weekend. That is unethical no matter what the law says. Why getting paid and working on weekend would be unethical? Why law would relevant at all for ethics here?
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2y ago
> this is a standard edition by them note that in many/some cases they are happy to drop such clause if you demand it at least I negotiated it away multiple times (though it was not some large corporation, they were more cargo-cult
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2y ago
The time I am not getting paid for. If employer want to control my time they are obligated to pay me for it. If they want to control all of it, I expect to be paid hourly rate 24h/day.
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2y ago
> how about you give them the copyright? I refuse in general. If they want me to read and sign extra legalese, I expect to be paid for it. If they are unwilling me to pay for my time and code I license away, then I will find other projec
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2y ago
It is not changing that CLA makes easier to abandon open source project and use contributions in proprietary system.
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2y ago
> but just whether or not the main developing entity sticks to a FOSS development or not if software is say GPLv3 and they hold no copyright (no CLA) then they must not relicense it. If copyright was transferred to them they are free to
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2y ago
> 60,000 spam SMS, £120k fine > 1000 spam calls? £100k fine. Go to prison. sounds just and deserved to me, fine spammers into nonexistence > Quite the gig they have. Do next to nothing Maybe you are right that there are serious pr
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4y ago
> Having a file format that won't admit that temporary state means that either the user can't save incomplete draft work, or that an entirely different format will be needed to represent such in-process work. Saving such tempor
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5y ago
In many areas there is zero or just one local mapper. And vandalism and malicious editing remains rare. That would be enormous effort for minimal benefit.
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purple_turtle
5y ago
Given how BSD was used to create proprietary MacOS and PlayStation operating systems with basically nothing contributed back - I am not convinced.
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purple_turtle
5y ago
Where I can download Google map data dataset for my own processing? Yes, Google makes apps usable by general public but their database is proprietary - including what people contribute for free.
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purple_turtle
5y ago
That would make sense but at least some companies that maintain hydrants are also using OSM data.
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purple_turtle
5y ago
To clarify: they maintain(ed) own reviewed replica of OSM data and asked about suspicious edits. Any edits in OSM go live immediately without review. And Poland has no government database of hydrants or AED. In fact Polish community is righ
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5y ago
To clarify: they maintain(ed) own reviewed replica of OSM data and asked about suspicious edits. Any edits in OSM go live immediately without review.
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purple_turtle
5y ago
Edits on OpenStreetMap are not moderated, any edit goes live immediately. Do you remember your account name?
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purple_turtle
5y ago
Russia invaded Ukraine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War ), captured Crime and there is ongoing conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Russia in
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5y ago
> - Environmental impact: ethereum is five and a half years into a six-year upgrade to completely eliminate any negative environmental impact. Ie. Ethereum will stop using proof of work mining Reduce, not eliminate. Maybe, maybe it would
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5y ago
> 2. Nobody uses proof of work anymore (besides bitcoin) And Ethereum and...
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