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> Would you be okay if large for profit companies didn’t have to abide by open source licenses? Yes. I believe in the MIT licensing model. > What’s the incentive to make movies or music just to be given away for free? Firstly, almost
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> But if I had created a product and learned it was being used to torment children until they killed themselves, then yes, I absolutely would feel gutted and likely cry. Using that logic, everyone who created anything would be crying all
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No. It was china. Their productive capacity is what lower solar panel prices. So much so that we blocked chinese solar panels/materials to protect our solar panel industry. On the one hand, cheap chinese solar panels is a good thing fo
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Paying more for energy means your economy gets rekt too. It's hilarious people think only the seller's will be hurt, the buyer's will be hurt too. It's a two way street. Not to mention the political upheaval you'll
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> 1 - Zuck really, really is all in on the metaverse thing. I was never sure if it was his idea, or he sees a trend, etc, but now I'm convinced it's all his idea. It's not just zuck. Microsoft, google, apple, etc are all f
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Wouldn't surprise me if he had God on his podcast one day. I understand why people go on JRE, it's a huge platform. What's surprising is the quality of guests Fridman gets on his podcast, even when the podcast was relatively
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> If you install a solar panel to "become independent from centralized energy systems", you're moving from a dependence to established energy networks to another type of dependence. You now depend on people making, deliver
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Also, we've had a 15 year bull run, arguably the greatest in history. Sooner or later that bubble has to pop. No? Though if we run into stagflation, I wonder how they plan on protecting the value of their cash. Regardless, it's am
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> This moral issue is really easily resolved - what do the people of Ukraine and Taiwan want? It's quite easy to ask them. What did the southerners want? What did the native hawaiians want. What did the aborigines want. What did th
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Or HN is very low traffic with very little propaganda? While twitter and facebook are high traffic state propaganda operators. Check out absurd propaganda on twitter, facebook, etc. > Provoking the it-security-crowd (both locally and abr
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> Most of his financial dealings are well hidden. That is privacy, not anonymity. > Donors to political parties can't hide. In the US, we have anonymity for small donors. If you donate less $200 I think you can remain anonymous.
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> Nope. On WhatsApp, no message I've ever sent has been censored. Just because you haven't been censored doesn't mean everyone isn't censored. https://reclaimthenet.org/whatsapp-kashmir-deactivated&#x2
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> Peter Thiel has more to gain from anonymity than a MeToo member. Is that why peter thiel not anonymous? Is there a reason why he goes on TV and gives interviews? > There's a reason why your address and taxes paid are public inf
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> What’s more important, protecting Ukraine, Taiwan and anywhere else under threat Ukraine, Taiwan, etc are under "threat" because the West is using them as political/military pawns. If NATO/West didn't exist, th
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> Civil rights defenders are there to implement Leninism? What? This probably sounded great in the 80's, but now it just sounds like more disinformation. Not the 80s but 60s. Nixon blamed the civil rights movement of the 60s on the
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You don't need anything to learn to sketch from scratch. Just start sketching and keep at it. Think about it, even children can do it. Perseverance is the key. Now if you want to improve, refine your skill, etc, then you may need help.
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> It arguably isn't possible to understand the halting problem without some notion of encoding (of the data that constitute a Turing machine in a form that can itself be processed by a Turing machine) You can understand the halting
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> When Turing proved the halting problem was undecidable - that there is no program that can decide whether another program will ever finish Turing didn't prove the halting problem was undecidable. The halting problem was defined af
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> Russia has been dislocating extremely threatening weaponry right on NATO doorstep and treating it as its holy right, for a long time. The Kaliningrad region is Europe’s most militarised area, with SAM and tactical ballistic weaponry ex
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> Unlike in the Iraq War, where the only cameras were controlled by a handful of journalists and the US military It was an interesting read, but the guy is about 10 years too late. Social media today is most definitely controlled by a fe
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> 1. The US didn't invade Ukraine, or did I miss something? I thought we did. Remember there being a coup a while back. But I may be mistaken. > 2. Russia is not a democracy, did you even look at the article this whole discussion
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The C standards aren't published at a regular interval of 10 years. They are published as needed or as agreed upon. So it is possible there may be a C standard published in 2089, but highly unlikely. It's similar to but not quite
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Using that logic, we don't have free speech in the US either. Ask the Dixie Chicks, phil donahue, etc. > To openly condemn the actions of the Russian government could have serious repercussions for them, but they did it anyway. Cons
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> Like my other reply to your comment, this is <<not>> about absolutes. Agreed. But your replies to me seem to indicate absolutes. > Democracies are generally more peaceful and produce lower casualties than autocracies. No
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No. My argument is that being a democracy doesn't make a nation good. Democracies can be just as barbaric, evil and genocidal as autocracies. I provided a simple example - hiroshima and nagasaki. I think murdering hundreds of thousands
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It's possible since each country has their own history books. What countries did north korea, cuba, etc invade in your history books. Now compare that with the list of countries britain, australia, france, canada, US, etc invaded. List
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I figured the cheapest oil ( vegetable, canola, etc ) would be the most widely used cooking oil as well. I've never even heard of soybean oil let alone know anyone who uses soybean oil.
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> Frequently autocracies invade democracies because autocracies are inherently unstable Simply not true. Ask north korea, cuba, etc. No democracy could withstand an enemy 1000X its size attacking it. Can you imagine the US withstanding a
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> This was during an online rapid tournament. So still very impressive, but Magnus loses games online all the time and I'm not _quite_ sure why this is news. Not to mention, Pragg wasn't even the lowest rated player to beat Mag
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It's why I stopped watching football, baseball, basketball, etc. Used to be a huge sports addict. Such an incredible waste of time looking back. Now, I only watch ad free highlights, if that. But peak level of lunacy are the ad-ridden

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