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by ralfd 7y ago
Does him changing his mind change anything for you or is that a sin he can't erase? https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September... > Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong
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by ralfd 7y ago
Still does for me.
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by ralfd 7y ago
If you lost your iPhone or it was stolen it was just a worthless brick for the finder/thief. Think about what a big peace of mind that is! This changed now for older hardware.
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by ralfd 7y ago
He said age "17 or 18" is a minor detail, which from my perspective, coming from a country which has an age of consent under both, I agree.
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by ralfd 7y ago
> If I save a hundred lives as a doctor and then murder one person, does the calculus go in my favor? It can be. A sharpshooter killing a terrorist and saving 100 lives would be lauded as a hero.
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by ralfd 7y ago
Do you think RMS argument is wrong here though? Why? Age of consent in my (European) country is 16. Do you think we are all rapists here? And looking up the law 14 is permissible (with a few caveats), even if the other person is over 21. In
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by ralfd 7y ago
Wiki: > [The film] initially offended some Viennese inhabitants, as it focused on the disgrace of the destroyed city. Vienna's newspaper critics hated the film, except for its music. I understand the sentiment of the time, but I fou
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by ralfd 7y ago
> "Beowulf" would later tell Wired magazine that the coin idea came from a December 2009 Wall Street Journal article that talked about how several people were able to generate frequent-flyer miles at no cost by ordering coins f
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by ralfd 7y ago
In what picture are stains?
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by ralfd 7y ago
What is the difference between money and currency?
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by ralfd 7y ago
Okay, I bite: [The most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing] to make the first move to get rid of him. that means she must have been aware of her potential for trouble. " " you're ri
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by ralfd 7y ago
In the email thread RMS actually argued that point.
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by ralfd 7y ago
But Stallman replied to an email advertising a gathering to protest MIT's handling of the Epstein scandal. I have no idea if that sort of political email is common in the mailing list, but if it is appropriate to share/advocate th
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by ralfd 7y ago
What does forgiving mean?
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by ralfd 7y ago
> If one were to run the numbers of just 2% of the population in China owning some fraction of Bitcoin, this could raise the single Bitcoin price to above $10,000. I mean ... faulty reasoning or not: Bitcoin is currently at $10,240. Of c
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by ralfd 7y ago
r/Wallstreetbets expertise discussion about this market index: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/d1edm4/jpmo...
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by ralfd 7y ago
We have two conflicting pattern matching algorithms: Being attracted to females (smell, sound of voice, body composition) and being attracted to males. A "male gay gene" could evolutionary surivive if it leads to boy crazy girls.
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by ralfd 7y ago
Slatestarcodex has a good roundup of different arguments and metrics (world lead production): https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/15/were-there-dark-ages/ > Although I sympathize with the feelings behi
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by ralfd 7y ago
It is comfortable though to lock/unlock a car from a few meters away.
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by ralfd 7y ago
But the article also states: > Wind is even cheaper at the moment because of a tax credit given to renewable energy generation. But that credit is in the process of fading out, leading to long term uncertainty in a power market where dem
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by ralfd 7y ago
Immediately a twitter archive would pop up though.
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by ralfd 7y ago
It is a repost as YouTube removed the original.
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by ralfd 7y ago
1 Mega = 1000 Kilo So a price of $9000 per MWh is $9 per KWh.
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by ralfd 7y ago
> You seem to believe that the oil industry consists of vicious subhumans or something that need to be forced to do the right thing even when the right thing co-incides with their economic self-interest. Their economic short term interes
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by ralfd 7y ago
Was that sarcasm or is there really (public) porn on Flickr?
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by ralfd 7y ago
That reminded me of Slatestarcodex excellent review of „Albion’s Seeds“: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/27/book-review-albions-se...
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by ralfd 7y ago
> Skirting regulation is not ok if you believe in rule of law. If the law is bad, then money can be spent to improve that law. I don’t want to snark on that idealism, but it is noteworthy that this didn’t happen. Instead everyone suffere
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by ralfd 7y ago
> It's fascinating to watch how a company without any high margin business, insane losses and zero assets to their name balloons to a 80 billion evaluation, all on the promise of some vague future business model that does not exist
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by ralfd 7y ago
Name of the App?
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by ralfd 7y ago
Stupid question, but what is the advantage of having this as a hardware device instead of an iPad/Phone App?

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