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by ric2b 3y ago
I don't get where the equivalence of "iPhone user" and "rich person" comes from. It's $1000, most people have acess to that kind of money, even if they need to finance it and even if it is a terrible financial
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by ric2b 3y ago
But at least there are alternatives, even if Google is dominant in the space.
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by ric2b 3y ago
Ok, but the argument is that people should have options, not that you should stop using the Apple store.
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by ric2b 3y ago
So you use exclusively the Apple store, problem solves?
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by ric2b 3y ago
iPhones are not expensive enough to signal you are rich, most people are able to buy one, the question is if it makes financial sense to do so.
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by ric2b 3y ago
Right, so you'd use the app store by choice, so why should Apple force you to?
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by ric2b 3y ago
WSL is a Linux VM
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by ric2b 3y ago
If you're talking about SpaceX, it was prominently funded by the US government.
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by ric2b 3y ago
Yes, the most accurate comparison would probably be comparing public and private rail across different countries. There are probably other factors that would need to be controlled for as well, though.
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by ric2b 3y ago
I just gave up on the games that didn't work and ditched Windows. There are enough supported great games to last a lifetime, the few that don't aren't enough of a reason to deal with Windows.
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by ric2b 3y ago
It was a problem that workers were getting a bigger share of the profit?
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by ric2b 3y ago
They are satire: > The "Law" was first formulated as ten rules in Sandemose's satirical novel A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks
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by ric2b 3y ago
This is like saying that open source fails its purpose if it is also used by companies.
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by ric2b 3y ago
They produce financial services. Miners have cash flows from the transaction fees.
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by ric2b 3y ago
It is nearly free.
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by ric2b 3y ago
The tulip bubble is wildly misunderstood, it's actually quite an interesting story about the origin of futures contracts. It lasted only a few months, there was no long term investing on tulips.
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by ric2b 3y ago
I think they mean CPython, yes.
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by ric2b 3y ago
GitKraken
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by ric2b 3y ago
I think this is the wrong take, for the following reasons: - There is no reason to assume that the learnings from the 50 crashes weren't also applied to the newer model. In fact you'd expect that they all were. - Faults in a new d
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by ric2b 3y ago
You can do the same with any integrated GPU on an Intel or AMD processor. Actually you can go well beyond that amount of memory.
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by ric2b 3y ago
They do crash much more often than the average driver, though.
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by ric2b 3y ago
XML is not web scale though, if you want to serve lots of users it has to be JSON in MongoDB.
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by ric2b 3y ago
Is there no way for the app to check if the PIN is correct?
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by ric2b 3y ago
The FSF will sue companies on your behalf and has done so in the past. Companies pirating GPL software should be aware that no matter how small the developer they are opening themselves to a slamdunk court case.
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by ric2b 3y ago
It is working great, Apple doesn't want to provide freedom to their users so they don't get to leech off of GPL software.
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by ric2b 3y ago
No it doesn't, that's what the AGPL is for.
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by ric2b 3y ago
- Thunderbird is probably the best e-mail client around - Blender is one of the best options for 3D rendering - Linux is the best kernel around - Firefox is for many the best browser you can find There are several examples of OSS being bes
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by ric2b 3y ago
I also want more open-source code to exist, and that's why I want modifications of my code to also be open-source, at least to whoever is using those modifications.
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by ric2b 3y ago
It might not be technically incorrect but it certainly isn't very useful information. What does it matter if there is one backup of a 1GB file or 100 deduped backups of the same file? Telling me that the backup of that file takes up 10
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by ric2b 3y ago
Building a web backend with C++ is a very dangerous and complex ordeal, you're extremely likely to expose memory based vulnerabilities to the entire world.

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