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   by rewqfdsa 11y ago

   Any programmer worth his salt can implement one with a few lines of JavaScript and Greasemonkey.
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   by rewqfdsa 11y ago

   You're saying that I can do whatever I want with OpenJDK until it cuts into Oracle's revenue stream, at which point Oracle will sue me and keep suing me until they find an argument that shuts me down? No thanks. Free software is b
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   by rewqfdsa 11y ago

   Okay, so can I modify it so that it doesn't conform to the Java specification? Can I modify it bit-by-bit until it's bytewise identical to Harmony? Of course I can't. Because if I do, Oracle will sue me. Oracle is lying. They
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   by rewqfdsa 11y ago

   Of course, if you don't conform, Oracle will sue you into oblivion. Java is free software as long as you use it in exactly the way Oracle wants, right? It's for this reason that Java is poison to any of my projects. I'll choo
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   by rewqfdsa 11y ago

   Thanks for ruining my holiday season. What's the precedent situation if they do settle it? Is Oracle's latest victory binding even if the final resolution of the case isn't decided by the court?
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   by rewqfdsa 11y ago

   What prevents gene drive techniques from working on humans? The implications are disturbing, considering that humans have numerous ancestry-specific markers.
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   by rewqfdsa 11y ago

   Because programmers graduating today literally can't imagine a world full of non-HTTP protocols.
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   by rewqfdsa 11y ago

   The last thing we need is a tax on children in societies with sub-replacement fertility. A world without growth is a terrible place. (Before you object: yes, economic growth isn't the same as population growth. But to get economic grow
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   by rewqfdsa 11y ago

   There's a certain strain of environmentalist that sees deindustrialization, technological regression, and human population decline as the solution to the world's problem. This perspective misses the mark, I think.
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    Smallpox is the best example. Today, it exists only in closely-guarded labs. In prehistory, we also wiped out all the megafauna outside Africa --- partly because they were delicious, I'm sure, but also partly because they found us de
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    Sure. We don't need extreme specificity though: I'd be content with wiping out the whole family if that's what it takes to hit the ones that prey on humans.
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    We need to make mosquitoes extinct, just like we made smallpox extinct.
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    > Hierarchical systems do NOT scale well. Ahem. Ever hear of DNS?
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    > The task was designed to produce Nash equilibria that would fit story they wanted to tell. Unfortunately, this kind of malarkey is common in the social sciences today. In fact, more than half of the results are non-reproducible[1][2].
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    There is no such thing as "hate speech". What you call "hate speech" is merely speech that you find disagreeable. Free speech is valuable not when it protects those who already agree with you. "Hate speech" is
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    Thanks. That scene convinced me to give the show a chance.
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    How about kill(2)? Why does the POSIX committee endorse murder?
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    I don't accept that we can't use words that accurately describe a concept merely because some people find that concept unpleasant.
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    Concepts don't stop existing merely because you ban the words used to refer to them. Masters and slaves have always existed in human history and will probably always exist. When we use the terms in software, we draw a metaphor from thi
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    > What is the reason? Maybe men and women are different
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    What specific agreements require the US to place faith before science?
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    It's one of the best places on earth for astronomy. It's a very high mountain near the equator with suitable weather and clear skies.
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    Please define "unsafe" --- because I feel plenty unsafe as work due to my race and gender, and I feel that going to HR would only exacerbate this risk. If I may be so bold, I don't think, however, you would consider the dange
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    Correlations with race are _facts_. Impartially collected data collated with robust statistical methods results in race falling out of the mix as an important correlate with all sorts of things; we then publish these correlations. Which par
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    One of the organizations the Koch brothers fund is FIRE, which is dedicated to free speech on college campuses. It's really hard to find fault in that. I really hate the Manichean judgment common in modern public discourse. Everyone is
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    Yep. Firefox is still a great browser. I'm looking toward the Servo-based version.
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    This idea that certain political positions are about "rights", so we can't talk about them, vote against them, or donate to organizations opposing them, is sickening. Imagine your being ousted from your job for donating to
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    No organization can simultaneously satisfy SJW strictures and be good at its original mission. What's happened to Mozilla is very sad, because its nominal mission is one I believe in too.
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    Google wasn't fighting fair. To allow the Chrome team to run free advertisements on the world's most popular website and to allow them to install their browser by default on the world's most popular mobile operating system, w
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    by rewqfdsa 11y ago

    Mozilla died the day Eich left. That's the day it became clear that the organized cared more about posturing than results.