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by radiator 7y ago
Longer term, nothing of the underlying fundamentals has changed. This is why the collapse is inevitable.
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by radiator 7y ago
Well, I have some questions now: - Is it necessary that the document should take the whole screen? - Is it possible to render a PostScript document in different sizes and resolutions? - Do any people today read PDFs on their screens? If som
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by radiator 7y ago
To my eyes, NeWS does not look like a mistake. On the contrary, it looks beautifully engineered. Among other advantages, I can imagine a world where PostScript would be used for building user interfaces: a document in screen and print would
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by radiator 7y ago
It is not necessarily a contradiction, it is possible that German education is now clearly worse than 10 or 20 years ago, but still not as bad as the current situation in grandparent's country.
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by radiator 7y ago
Why are you calling him a fatalist? He plans to survive. You are in reality the fatalist, for saying he'll die within a month.
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by radiator 7y ago
Regarding distributing such documents, they are cheaper to distribute than applications. Regarding producing the documents, the author mentions Xanadu as inspiration, and in the linked wikipedia article we find rule 9: "Every document
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by radiator 7y ago
I for one think the expression 'leaders under me' is clear, accurate and inoffensive to anyone.
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by radiator 7y ago
Linux is not the only OS you can control.
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by radiator 7y ago
If you acknowledge that there was a big increase in money supply, then there is nothing more needed to conclude that there IS inflation. Whether acknowledged by official narratives or hidden, does not matter: it is still there and cannot re
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by radiator 7y ago
How big of a problem would it be, if the professional sports leagues were to disappear? There are probably many opinions on the matter. But I agree, without advertisements, professional sports would not survive, so it's not going to ha
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by radiator 7y ago
I hope it does not come as a surprise if I tell you that printing money has already been, since a long time and in great quantities, taking place. The cataclysmic devaluation part is the one they are working on postponing.
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by radiator 7y ago
I would say this is a rather childish view of the world, to separate things into two categories, evil and good.
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by radiator 7y ago
I agree, and I am not still sure if he is serious.
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by radiator 7y ago
> We should be steering society ... > We want people ... Who is we, may I ask?
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by radiator 7y ago
I am not sure that part is 100% accurate: "where a company makes a service". Are you referring to MongoDB Inc making MongoDB?
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by radiator 7y ago
In Germany you pay a deposit of 0,25 € for your plastic bottle of water, which you get back when you return it empty in the supermarket. The empty bottle gets shredded, not sure where it ends up, though. This could be probably be extended t
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by radiator 7y ago
How long would you need "to ask yourself how much you're willing to learn about configuring servers"? Because if it's more than a couple of hours, in that time you would already be at least half-way through solving the e
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by radiator 7y ago
Yeah, just rent a VPS for a month for $5, install an OS, install a (software) web server on it, acquire a subdomain for free (or buy your own domain) then edit the configuration of the web server to respond to requests for different domains
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by radiator 7y ago
Why should a city have the right to tell a house-owner what they can do with their house and what not? In order to satisfy other people who want to live in said city and want to pay less rent? Are you ideologically against the right of priv
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by radiator 7y ago
In Geneva thirty years ago there were newspapers for sale on the street using this system.
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by radiator 7y ago
... did not censor it (although they did moderate and censor various content on their service) ... What does this mean? I don't understand at all.
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by radiator 7y ago
It might be both of those things at the same time. This book claims so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics .
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by radiator 7y ago
Interesting ... "money is money". But what exactly is fiat currency? Some would say it is not really money.
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by radiator 8y ago
We are being told about it, but it is considered old-fashioned. Also, when you are young, the effects of breaking those rules are less severe. But then, gradually and slowly, you are not so young anymore.
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by radiator 8y ago
+1, this is a political question and, as with every political question, there are of course plenty of different opinions in Europe about it.
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by radiator 8y ago
Hard to agree with you. I don't think "understanding what the author meant" is remotely relevant, and if this is a mistake, I am actually very curious how such a mistake could be made. Many people find it extremely insulting
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by radiator 8y ago
Why are you referring to the male developer as "she"?
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by radiator 8y ago
Who is Magnus Carlson?
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by radiator 8y ago
It is a surprise, since he was already a FreeBSD user, that he did not use its facilities like for example jails + perhaps a program to manage them or bhyve for VMs.
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by radiator 8y ago
- COMMON LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (1990) - Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (1991) - Common Lisp Recipes (2015)

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