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by rlpb 5y ago
Also, this setup means that the banks have to compete against people choosing not to use them. This shouldn't be hard (because most people don't want to run their own bank), but it does prevent rent-seeking. If people are able to
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by rlpb 5y ago
In Ubuntu, both MySQL and MariaDB are available. MySQL is in the main component, unlike MariaDB which is in universe. Reverse dependencies in the Ubuntu archive are built against MySQL, not MariaDB.
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by rlpb 5y ago
My exception to the "also" rule of thumb is that if the split changes would cover separate areas of the code such that each piece could be easily picked out by "git add -p", then splitting them out isn't required as
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by rlpb 5y ago
> ...I always thought the argument here is if the manufacturer stops supporting the device, you can always get support through the community via custom ROM's. That doesn't apply for kernel support. Custom ROMs generally use the
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by rlpb 5y ago
I think another way to state this without getting into philosophy or semantics is that viruses are capable of evolving methods of being more successful at infection. Prions are not, because their method of operation involves remaining singl
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by rlpb 5y ago
Note that the statement seems to be referring to disciplinary action to those responsible for the incident itself , rather than anything to do with failure to disclose.
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by rlpb 5y ago
Notably the article says "The DGCA is investigating the matter and said that it would take the strictest action against those responsible for the incident." This sounds like regular Indian culture and the statement may be there ju
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by rlpb 5y ago
This is the first I've heard of it - but is this perhaps a straightforward avenue for conventional price discrimination? Businesses that want the 100 MHz may well just pay for it because they don't want the hassle the hack might l
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by rlpb 5y ago
Then publish a paper and cite it from the Wikipedia page? I find it astonishing that you seem to be arguing against the current body of documented research into the topic and without citation. Do you not think that the existing literature h
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by rlpb 5y ago
Indeed - my self hosted email now gets the majority of its spam from (not forged, DKIM-validated) @gmail.com addresses. I'm on the verge of blocking everything @gmail.com except for known contacts.
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by rlpb 5y ago
> ...I see no reason why you can't buy an item (with full rights) while also agreeing to pay a penalty to the seller if you modify it. It's fine to arrange that if that's what both parties want. My argument is simply about
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by rlpb 5y ago
> * ~~Force~~ Encourage people to have github accounts I switched from git:// to https:// and it worked fine. I didn't need to authenticate. So there's no forcing to have accounts going on here at all, as
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by rlpb 5y ago
It is not. Merely that there is no "sale of goods" component if the buyer doesn't end up owning the goods, where I define ownership as meaning that there aren't contractual restrictions on what the owner can do with them
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by rlpb 5y ago
Either I own it or I don't. If you don't want me to tamper with it, then you can't sell it to me. You can give me use of it under some other kind of agreement, but then you can't misrepresent that as a "sale".
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by rlpb 5y ago
It is explicit: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscript... There's also a handy summary in the same policy document: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-
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by rlpb 5y ago
Previous health condition status is part of the dataset, so you don't need to guess. If you want to take that into account, then use the data to make your point.
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by rlpb 5y ago
> ...knowing that they’re essentially hosting CP images and why this isn’t being cracked down on See "What Colour are your bits?" https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 Essentially this is the "nonsense c
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by rlpb 5y ago
According to https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59895598 , over 500,000 people in the UK are still suffering health issues a year after catching Covid , and nearly 900,000 are still suffering after 12 weeks. The UK popu
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by rlpb 5y ago
Sometimes I think people care more about what distribution something is, or is based on, or uses, than really matters. For example: as a distro user, I generally don't care what language something is implemented in. If it's in the
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by rlpb 5y ago
Here in the UK, I'm protected by the GDPR and by the Consumer Contracts Act. I was coerced into choosing "Agree" (or whatever the button said) without any other practical option (I accidentally touched it when it appeared for
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by rlpb 5y ago
When I used to play, I also found that people otherwise at a similar level to me were really bad at endgames. Perhaps they resigned too often, and therefore got little endgame experience? Anyway, that meant that it was worth pushing to the
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by rlpb 5y ago
It's important to understand that while people might think that the pop-ups are required by the law, this is not true and most pop-ups today have no legal effect regardless of what you click. The GDPR requires express consent. If the p
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by rlpb 5y ago
The problem is not the EU directive; it's the lack of enforcement. See https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-422-formal-gdpr-complaints-ner...
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by rlpb 5y ago
Sometimes you need to deliberately not quote, though. For example, an output of a program might be a list of files, which I then might want to operate on using "for filename in $files". If I do this then I must have a guarantee th
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by rlpb 5y ago
I had phototherapeutic keratectomy in both eyes (about a year apart) that basically cured my recurrent corneal erosion. I sleep in extended wear contact lenses most nights which help protect the cornea. I also have quite severe myopia so th
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by rlpb 5y ago
> And to that, I'd argue that in the 21st century, not many. The market and communication B2B inefficiencies that drove conglomeration in the 20th century have most been reduced to zero. There's still the efficiencies of mass p
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by rlpb 5y ago
What evidence is there that fish cause ocean currents?
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by rlpb 5y ago
> Why would you want to depend on a central authority when you can have a network of trusted blockchain users all signing and broadcasting their transactions to each-other in real time, without an intermediary? You're already depend
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by rlpb 5y ago
None of these features require a blockchain and can be done trivially by a central authority issuing append-only cryptographically signed ledger entries. > Large value transactions can be done between untrusting parties directly... What&
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by rlpb 5y ago
People conflate clicking on a button that says "I accept" with some kind of moral or legal obligation or agreement. One doesn't necessarily mean the other. In the EU, for example, if there wasn't the option to decline, t

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