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by ralph84 7y ago
FlyHomes is doing something interesting by actually buying and selling houses, not just facilitating transactions. It takes a lot of the risk and uncertainty out of the process. I hope they can succeed at scale.
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by ralph84 7y ago
I agree WeWork is overvalued, but the whole thesis behind an index fund is you can’t reliably pick winners and losers. If you can, there’s no need for an index fund. There were plenty of naysayers calling FANG overvalued at their IPOs as we
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by ralph84 7y ago
Any time I see an article in a "mainstream" news outlet on a topic I'm familiar with, the inaccuracies make me cringe. The more familiar I am with the topic, the more inaccuracies I spot. The charitable interpretation is that
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by ralph84 7y ago
There already are lots of books in the public domain or licensed under creative commons. But in general, yes, the same arguments some people use for removing IP restrictions on software apply equally to books. Or music. Or anything else sub
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by ralph84 7y ago
There are certainly some people who argue that any form of IP shouldn’t exist. Copyleft is a way to work within the existing IP system, but they would prefer IP be abolished. As for why free software took off while free $(other engineering
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by ralph84 7y ago
That's not how asset sales work. The new copyright owner wouldn't be liable for the previous copyright owner's actions. And if the new copyright owner isn't distributing binaries that include the GPL code they haven&#x27
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by ralph84 7y ago
The only way for case law to be developed would be for a copyright owner of AGPL-licensed code to sue a user of their code. EFF wouldn't have standing to sue unless they are a copyright owner of AGPL-licensed code.
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by ralph84 7y ago
The restriction applies to anyone “using Square Point of Sale, Customer Engagement, Appointments or Employee Management, Square Online Store, and any associated products and services”. I’m not sure why you think it only applies to people se
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by ralph84 7y ago
This almost certainly is about keeping Square’s code closed source, not anything to do with Square’s customers selling software.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Square is taking a conservative approach on what a “modified version” as used in the AGPL is. It hasn’t really been litigated so different lawyers have different opinions. Square’s position appears to be combining Square’s products with AGP
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by ralph84 7y ago
In California you can't voluntarily waive overtime if you're entitled to it. And whether you're entitled to it is a question of fact that can't be changed by calling it something different. California law is very clear t
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by ralph84 7y ago
Not only do they not meet the requirements in spirit, an argument can made that developers don't meet the requirements in the letter of the law in places like California. But they've been conditioned to take their stock options an
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by ralph84 7y ago
The privacy policies of Mozilla, Apache, and Linux Foundation say more or less the same thing. Do you have an example of a relevant foundation that doesn't collect information on their users? https://www.mozilla.org/en-
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by ralph84 7y ago
What about GitHub's current privacy policy do you find objectionable?
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by ralph84 7y ago
What's stopping them? There's tons of empty land in the world. Go find a stream in the forest and live a sustenance-level life. Oh, they want everyone else to be miserable too.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Meh, he lost me when he tried to say Microsoft success in cloud is due to Office. Microsoft's success in cloud is due to having a good enough cloud platform and being better at selling to enterprises than Amazon or Google. IBM and Orac
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by ralph84 7y ago
> never experienced a temperature outside of their own What does that even mean? You can experience temperatures ranging from 0°F to 100°F within six months in New York City. Why would you need to travel to experience different temperatu
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by ralph84 7y ago
When cooking I have never needed to know what temperature boiling water is. The fact that it's boiling is enough. Never mind that water only boils at 100°C at sea level and most Americans don't live at sea level.
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by ralph84 7y ago
When it creates a PR it creates a branch which requires write. Maybe it could offer the option to create a fork instead, but that would add awkwardness and friction just to satisfy a very small set of overly paranoid users. If you don'
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by ralph84 7y ago
> I think that GitHub actively encourages the cathedral model Characterizing a site where literally the entire development process can be done in the open as the cathedral model is a serious misreading of the The Cathedral and the Bazaa
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by ralph84 7y ago
Academia has a pretty bad track record when it comes to nutrition advice. "Food science" is mostly the study of how to maximize food manufacturer profits, not how to construct a healthy diet.
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by ralph84 7y ago
ESTA doesn't waive the requirement to prove non-immigrant intent when applying for admission. If he really was banned for life there's more to the story than his inability to prove non-immigrant intent (e.g. fraud, criminal histor
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by ralph84 7y ago
This is one side of the story. There's likely more than just this text message that raised suspicion. But the law is quite clear that anyone applying for admission to the US is presumed to be an intending immigrant and the burden is on
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by ralph84 7y ago
This goes back to Carly Fiorina gutting Lucent (Western Electric and Bell Labs) before she gutted HP. Quite a career to set up the decline of two of the most iconic US tech companies.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Lol, yes the economic conditions with China previous to the current administration were oh so free. Unless you were Google or Facebook and wanted to run a website in China. Or you were a manufacturer and wanted to manufacture in China witho
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by ralph84 7y ago
Craig Bomben is full of shit. If they had told pilots how MCAS worked, almost surely one of the tens of thousands of 737 pilots worldwide would have had a WTF moment and sounded the alarm about it being able to apply trim beyond the ability
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by ralph84 7y ago
Yes. MCAS is designed to make the Max handle like previous 737s when manually flying at high angle of attack. Without MCAS the handling would be different enough to require simulator training.
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by ralph84 7y ago
> Qantas Flight 72 is descending in a nose-low altitude for just over 15 seconds Yes, aviation-ignorant editor, he really did mean to write attitude before you changed it to altitude.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Salesforce launched in 1999 before before cloud was a thing. It's basically just a big Oracle database.
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by ralph84 7y ago
It will become just like credit scores. A whole industry will sprout around gaming the score. There will be "adversity score repair" companies guaranteeing to increase your score in 30 days. There will be "Adversity Karma&quo

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