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by pzone 10y ago
There's essentially no enforcement of copyright law in many of the signatory states. Yes DRM kind of sucks, but rampant piracy also kind of sucks. The way the US does it I think is closer to optimal than the way Vietnam does it. That&#
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by pzone 10y ago
That's the price of freedom: putting individuals in control of their data means they have responsibility to protect it. But is that such a bad trade-off? Let me put it another way. Someone has to decide where it's safe to send a
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by pzone 10y ago
Here's a summary. https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-... Here's the full text. https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/tran... Goo
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by pzone 10y ago
This is so sad, I visited the dashboard almost every day :(
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by pzone 11y ago
This is the Grover Norquist / Tea Party position: it's important to keep tax preparation horrible so that people have a healthy hatred of paying taxes. I consider this an extremely ideological stance. Simplifying the tax code is a
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by pzone 11y ago
It's a natural monopoly because the government automatically receives copies of your tax information. You couldn't just set up a competitive market for tax preparation software with the government selling access to everyone's
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by pzone 11y ago
Is Phoronix Premium required to post in the forums?
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by pzone 11y ago
Absolutely. Maybe the article is correct that subscription pricing is for products that do not have an increasing user base, i.e. the user base has plateaued. Just because the user base has stagnated doesn't mean the product has to sta
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by pzone 11y ago
OK, but if the company held $50 in non-cash assets and $50 in cash, the same logic would hold. The "growth and recurring revenue," stuff you're talking about is just an asset pricing restriction, which requires that the $50 i
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by pzone 11y ago
This is great thinking on this matter, much better than the blunt instrument we're looking at currently. I still kinda think the blunt instrument is an improvement over the status quo, but it's hard to say.
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by pzone 11y ago
Love the reference to http://left-pad.io , hahaha
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by pzone 11y ago
As a kid I took an "intro to programming" summer course based around scheme. If I hadn't felt some echo of familiarity with all the parentheses when I started with emacs, I don't know if I would have become an avid fan l
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by pzone 11y ago
You can choose a different leader key in your .spacemacs and then bind space to whatever else you wish.
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by pzone 11y ago
Yeah. Comparing org-mode to handwritten notes? You can grep through your notes, quickly refile, integrate with other software, use hyperlinks, and synchronize over multiple devices. But the same is true of onenote or evernote.
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by pzone 11y ago
My theory is that HN loves Emacs because HN loves Lisp.
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by pzone 11y ago
Have you tried org-capture? It's nice to have the files be accessible through keyboard shortcuts, but it has the additional benefit that the potential places I could drop some random note are specified in advance, forcing me to maintai
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by pzone 11y ago
Finding a therapist isn't so magical. The key things they will do is provide empathy and view your life from a third person perspective, and has training in the way the mind works, particularly how it goes wrong. If you can find a ther
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by pzone 11y ago
Not trying to contradict you, but it's also one of the precious ways offering a shot at helping people overcome depression.
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by pzone 11y ago
Connecting to IFTTT provides some value to the sites too. It's not like IFTTT is pillaging the client sites here. Clearly most of the services have seen enough value to do these upgrades, not just once but multiple times.
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by pzone 11y ago
Oh my god, I'm crying
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by pzone 11y ago
Wasn't Vulkan released less than a month ago? There is a bit of a running joke about Qt 5.6 because it was branched (i.e. feature freeze!) in August of last year.
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by pzone 11y ago
Do you know C++? If so a very fast way to learn is to clone some Qt projects, poke inside and see what makes them tick.
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by pzone 11y ago
C++ is certainly difficult, but if your expectations are mainly based on Reddit's opinion of C++, probably the language is not as bad as you think.
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by pzone 11y ago
There is a clear problem with this post: it is rambling and unfocused. The parent comment engineered a solution to this problem: edit the post. Where's the disrespect? A major theme of the blog post itself is that how the author sees p
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by pzone 11y ago
OK, but some philosophical questions have reasonably clear answers. Here's the philosophical difference. There's a realistic solution to zoning laws: fight hard to remove them. There's no "solution" that involves sl
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by pzone 11y ago
Money doesn't "run out." It circulates. Unless you see less of a future for tech sector in SF in the future, waiting out this problem is not an option.
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by pzone 11y ago
You keep arguing against allowing construction because you don't see it as actually lowering housing prices. I don't think adding, say, 1000 units of affordable housing will lower housing prices in SF, but I don't see a rea
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by pzone 11y ago
Gold is also superior to silver for jewellery. It is more malleable, more tarnish resistant, and less reactive for those with sensitive skin. (People had allergic reactions back in the stone age too.)
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by pzone 11y ago
The monopoly aspect of the diamond market is a pretty outdated claim. It is not currently possible to synthesize large, flawless clear diamonds. The supply side (mining/cutting/selling) is largely constrained by the ability to une
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by pzone 11y ago
I assume that in the long run Qt will relinquish this to standard libraries, so QFile will basically be a convenience wrapper around std::file integrated with Qt's concurrency model.

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