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by r_smart 8y ago
The Pareto Principle is a bitch. There's no way to remove inequality without trampling on the rights of the few lucky people. |If money flows to those who own things more easily/readily than those who do things The vast majority o
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by r_smart 8y ago
Somebody should have tested that in Firefox. I don't know what's wrong with it, but it's an unreadable mess.
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by r_smart 8y ago
How dare you leave out electrical engineering!
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by r_smart 8y ago
Yes, so long as they aren't breaking the incitement to violence clause.
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by r_smart 8y ago
I work at a company that provides industrial laser measurement systems using robots. This is a niche where robots are far superior to humans because they're much much more repeatable. Our clients are specifying their manufactured par
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by r_smart 8y ago
Agreed! I was young at the time. Also, my poor coworker was the one that had to find and fix it since I was in class that day. Who knows what font he was using.
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by r_smart 8y ago
My GF demonstrated an aptitude for STEM at an early age. She received an enormous amount of pressure to continue down that track despite not being interested in it as a career. Your claim may have been true at one time, but I don't thi
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by r_smart 8y ago
Precisely. One of my favorite bugs I ever introduced was typing 0 instead of O in a variable name. Review your mental model all you want, a debugger is going to be a lot more useful in sussing that kind of thing out. Even just being able to
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by r_smart 8y ago
Just a heads up: Firefox gave me a bad cert notice when I visited your site. You might be losing some business.
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by r_smart 8y ago
Maybe, but you sought it out on your own. The porn was a convenient pit stop on the way to living things out, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't have ever gone down that road. All you would've needed was to screw up the coura
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by r_smart 8y ago
And the net result of that is what? Why would any business want to have regulations passed dictating what they can do? You can support a free, open internet and still not want regulations dictating your behavior. They aren't mutually
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by r_smart 8y ago
I doubt it. It may mutate, but regulation has never stopped that sort of thing. If anything, it gains legitimacy by finding a loophole (technical compliance), and it's unlikely anyone will build the political capital to amend the law.
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by r_smart 8y ago
I mean, if they fix the problem, why would you be upset the government wasn't involved? If the problem persists, we can always have the conversation again. Barring anything else, government solutions tend to be inflexible (which is a f
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by r_smart 8y ago
|subsidizing education lowers the cost, making it more attractive than it otherwise would be compared to the alternatives The saddest thing, is that it clearly hasn't. Tuition costs have sky-rocketed, as has interest rates on education
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by r_smart 8y ago
So what you're saying is, the people currently using the software don't have control over the purse strings?
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by r_smart 8y ago
I mean, the article mentions right away that it's in the Philippines, and the whale's stomach was full of rice bags as sold in local grocery stores. It also says the Philippines is one of the worst plastic polluters in the world.
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by r_smart 8y ago
I wonder if this is because the people in companies currently using open source aren't people with control over the purse-strings. They're the people focused on getting a product out the door. The marketing department on the other
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by r_smart 8y ago
Possibly. I'd say there are a lot of people who are lacking in the principles / integrity department, but I also think Musk tends to stand out among his peers. He's not normal, even for that group of people.
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by r_smart 8y ago
|Capitalism has killed many more Please support that claim. |will continue to kill millions and millions as the effects of climate change worsen Communist countries, past and present, hardly have a sterling reputation when it comes to envir
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by r_smart 8y ago
That's the point though, it's inaccurate to do so. Money is a finite resource, but its value constantly fluctuates. It's just a unit of exchange that exists for convenience. The total supply of money does not correlate to the
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by r_smart 8y ago
|Employees are all exploited by their employers, who steal most of the value created which they had little to no hand in. Didn't that turn out to be bullshit? Like, years ago. Pretty sure that guy made the story up. Also, those people
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by r_smart 8y ago
|Employees are all exploited by their employers, who steal most of the value created which they had little to no hand in. I'm sorry, but this is bog-standard communist clap-trap. Even if you don't like the current arrangement, the
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by r_smart 8y ago
Just because one went up when the other went doesn't mean that there's a causal relationship. If we assume it is causal and the trend continues, you can expect belts to start tightening. I don't know if you've ever worke
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by r_smart 8y ago
You have no proof that any of that is the cause. So at the very least, celebration is probably premature.
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by r_smart 8y ago
Wealth isn't a zero sum game. Further, that money is being transferred voluntarily. People buy things like iPhones because they think it enriches their life more than having the $600 it costs. Hundreds of millions of people believe thi
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by r_smart 8y ago
Why would I want to celebrate someone else making less money?
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by r_smart 8y ago
You can end up being the one punished in all kinds of scenarios where you're the wronged party initially. If you are too vigorous in defending your property, you can be charged with assault, which I'm guessing is what happened.
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by r_smart 8y ago
|If you r_smart you should have noticed the jest in this statement It's my name. I make no claims about my intellect :) It didn't read like a joke to me, and rereading it as a joke, it seems like, at best, a quip. I stand by my pr
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by r_smart 8y ago
Let's not conflate fundamental rights with programming languages. |And sometimes speaking your mind has a cost. Wait, you think this was acceptable? The fine for speaking is outrageous, and it will only get worse if it turns out it&#x2
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by r_smart 8y ago
So her speech isn't free as in liberty or as in beer, eh?

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