rmtech

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by rmtech 7y ago
yes but it takes millions of years so no need to worry, and the replacement rate you need is small.
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by rmtech 7y ago
This wouldn't be robust over the long term, which is the main advantage of going down into a gravity well rather than colonizing asteroids and open space. Mars terraforming is hard and will require serious tech. At a minimum you would
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by rmtech 7y ago
So what?
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by rmtech 7y ago
He might but humans have this amazing track record of slaughtering each other. Recently (1990s) with machetes in Rwanda. Very low tech. I don't trust humans to avoid war crimes. Robots could have protections built in in a way that in
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by rmtech 7y ago
A hardware wallet is safe even if the computer is hostile. That's why they exist! However it's possible that some other attack method could be used, e.g. compromising the user's email account and going from there.
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by rmtech 7y ago
It's not cheaper when you take into account the variability of renewable energy. And that's a huge problem that is basically unsolved at the moment.
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by rmtech 7y ago
> simple-minded "let's just use nuclear for everything, it's the saviour of all our problems" approach won't work either mind summarizing why?
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by rmtech 7y ago
I think they fixed it... Still, an AP1000 would be preferable.
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by rmtech 7y ago
I don't understand?
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by rmtech 7y ago
Softwares don't form monopolies for that reason. It's easy for another programmer to go rewrite the code.
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by rmtech 7y ago
> People can and do profit off GPL'd code how?
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by rmtech 7y ago
> that software has a monopoly on the work on that software, and as such can demand monopoly prices. This definitely isn't true.
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by rmtech 7y ago
> All we can do as programmers is attach what some of us feel are ethical standards to the works we personally create, and make adhering to those standards with regards to that software the price of using that software. The GPL gives tha
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by rmtech 7y ago
> You are welcome to negotiate a second license to avoid the GPL. I have seen this in real life a few times. Usually something gets released under the GPL and then the authors ask for $ to hand it out with a commercial license on a case-
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by rmtech 7y ago
No you can use software with an MIT license etc. Because that doesn't cause problems.
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by rmtech 7y ago
If you're a business, the license effectively says "you can't use this software" though, because as discussed previously it makes all the software that it touches into GPL software so you can't sell it, which is the
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by rmtech 7y ago
And how does the company get money?
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by rmtech 7y ago
> Your issue seems to be with copyright itself and not with the GPL. Copyrighted code is fairly simple to understand - you make something, you own it. Alice makes something, Alice owns it. I don't really have a problem with this kin
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by rmtech 7y ago
> but I feel like the GPL is the closest thing that programmers have to a union But unions generally exist to make their members rich. GPL has the opposite effect, it means you can't sell your code so you become poor. It's like
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by rmtech 7y ago
I have a question for the author. How does he pay his rent? Where does the money come from? Is he a software professional?
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by rmtech 7y ago
> You are copying someone else's work without complying with their license. That act, not the fact that it is GPL Right, so the correct conclusion is to never use, never contribute to and never write GPL-licensed software. Then you
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by rmtech 7y ago
> They think that closed source software is "morally wrong", and therefore "allowing closed and open source to exist side-by-side" is not really their goal. OK, that's nice but can these people explain to me how
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by rmtech 7y ago
> proprietary code ... What's supposed to be the difference here? The difference is that GPL is claiming to not be proprietary...
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by rmtech 7y ago
> if you can't obey the terms that someone else has given for the use of their creative work, then don't use their work. Yes I agree, but the conclusion to this is that you probably should never use the GPL. If you want other p
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by rmtech 7y ago
> Courts will determine whether including 10 lines of GPL code make your product derivative or not. OK but in reality that means the cost of including those 10 lines is that you are exposing yourself to an unknown amount of legal risk, a
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by rmtech 7y ago
Can somebody clarify for me - if you write 9,990 lines of proprietary code and include 10 lines of GPL code, the whole 10,000 becomes GPL, right? And then the whole 10,000 becomes public property according to the GPL so the person who wrote
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by rmtech 7y ago
> what is wrong is probably something to do with human nature, and a system might not be able to fix that. haha maybe. But there is usually a trend towards things having interfaces that are more human-friendly, so maybe one day healthcar
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by rmtech 7y ago
> However, I live in the real world, with real patients. I live in a world where I can tell a patient that a mole is completely benign and it still makes them anxious and they want me to cut it out. What I am saying is that things need t
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by rmtech 7y ago
Checkups keep you healthy indirectly. If you tell someone "you have cancer but it's growth rate isn't fast enough yet for it to be worth treating" that will have a very different impact than "you're fine but we
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by rmtech 7y ago
lol ;-0 this is the funniest thing I have heard for a while. Yo there are better quality coffins as well. Gotta get that premium quality wood, luxury liner, etc. Get your priorities right!

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