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by rmc 9y ago
> There is no serious alternative to Google maps. Depends a lot on the region, but in many places, OpenStreetMap is better than Google Maps.
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by rmc 9y ago
> And even if you are on a network where you randomly host content you never looked at encryption can provide you some peace of mind ... If neither you nor others can know what flows through or is stored on your node it would be difficu
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by rmc 9y ago
Warning: it has this channel https://www.bitchute.com/channel/whitepower/ which is full of anti-semitic nazi stuff. It's visible on the front page listed above. You may or may not want to visit that link. Cha
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by rmc 9y ago
RMS is basically a Pope of free software. He's ideologicaly "pure", he sticks to what he believes in entirely. It's useful for a discussion "Would this pass muster with RMS? Do we want to make this RMS-approved?&q
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by rmc 9y ago
Have you seen ipfs? It might do part of what you want...
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by rmc 9y ago
I suspect the close association with copyright infringement means that BitTorrent is a little toxic for many corporations.
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by rmc 9y ago
An interesting question is "What did the traveller agree to?" The ToS legalese which says "We have no responsibility" or the FAQ which says they check & validate that the luggage is safe to take. It sucks that compan
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by rmc 9y ago
A lot of the popular fashion designers are men too. It's almost like there's some sort of social factors which will ensure men get to the top!
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by rmc 9y ago
The weirdest was a co-worker who had some simple webserver, which was listening on only IPv4 or IPv6 (but not both). When he went to "localhost" on Firefox it used IPv4 and he was able to see it. On Chrome "localhost" wa
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by rmc 9y ago
But what about the non-gendered "political" things, like trad unions, local political party organisations, universities, other non-gendered clubs, if women are really better at people skills, shouldn't them be dominating thos
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by rmc 9y ago
When people see a tech company that's 90% male, they say "Oh well, men and women are different, that's the explaination." So where are the places which are 90% women? Why isn't politics 90% women. Instead it's
552.
by rmc 9y ago
What about local politics? Surely that's dominated by women? What about the politics of a social club, a trade union, or similar groups? Are they all dominated by women? (Answer: No). I'm not sure how you can merge the two theorie
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by rmc 9y ago
> "Women prefer working with people." IMO the biggest counter-example of the "women are better at working with people / soft skill" theory is politics. Politics is all about who you know, who has your back, ho
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by rmc 9y ago
There are new Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) coming in soon on 25 May 2018, which will allow EU bodies to fine organisations up to 4% of their global revenue.
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by rmc 9y ago
A scaptern! An intern who can be scapegoated. "Oh it wasn't us, it was this intern" Usually happens when a politician or business leader sends a racist/pornographic message.
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by rmc 9y ago
> AirMule are informing the second party (the "mule") that there is no risk. Exactly how is intentionally lying to your customers to the point that you can get them killed ethical? disruption!
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by rmc 9y ago
> Caveat emptor The hell with that, the company should be shut down. Some poor soul will think it's a sweet deal. They're putting people at risk of the death penalty without telling them and implying everyone is A-OK.
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by rmc 9y ago
In some ways, US cultural norms over sex, or nudity are incredibly restrictive. To some US corps, nazi apologism is OK and a defending it a vital part of free speech. But female nipples are the worst thing ever and must be banned.
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by rmc 9y ago
> Reddit does make money though AFAIK Reddit has never been cash flow positive.
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by rmc 9y ago
And to increase confusion, Eircodes aren't areas. Each letter box gets it's own eircode. So Irish postcodes are points, and 2 eircodes can have the same point. Also eircodes aren't similar to each other. "D01 ABCD&quot
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by rmc 9y ago
OpenStreetMap could be a good source of a base map with a very liberal licencing issue, You'd only need to have a "Map Data (c) OSM contributors" on the map (IIRC). The main openstreetmap.org tile servers are liable to block
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by rmc 9y ago
> So how are these contour lines being generated? It depends on the people make the map. That map uses Thunderforest's Outdoor style[1]. The person running that company is a long time OSM contributor, but that isn't "from
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by rmc 9y ago
English is also an official language of Malta as well. And Ireland isn't leaving the EU any time soon.
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by rmc 9y ago
There are at least 3 EU countries which have English as an official language. Even after Brexit, there will be millions of English-native speaking people living in places where English is an official language.
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by rmc 9y ago
FYI OSM doesn't (really) store elevation data. Individual mountain peaks are often mapped, and tagged with the elevation. But OSM doesn't store land contours like that. There are some free, open, datasources for that, like SRTM[1]
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by rmc 9y ago
The video player deciding what quality you want is a good thing. The user wants to watch a video live, as it goes. You don't want to be interuppted every 30 seconds with a "buffering" message, or wait 10 minutes at the start
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by rmc 9y ago
I have heard this was a problem for Top Gear. They'd include a music clip like The A Team jingle in a clip because the BBC would have a licence to broadcast that. And when they want to show that episode outside the UK, they need to p
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by rmc 9y ago
However, if the law says "You must pick up a passenger under [SMALL LIST OF EXCPETIONS]", then you basically are banned from excluding people on the basis of their race, right? *(NB I'm not USAian, and don't know much ab
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by rmc 9y ago
No, you need miners to transfer bitcoins
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by rmc 9y ago
> Without miners there would be no bitcoin. If all/lots of the miners pulled out, then wouldn't the work factor decrease so that regular people could run it on their desktop machines? That is what happened at the start of bitco

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