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by rue 16y ago
Some of us just like programming enough to do it on our spare time. Me, I am not at all certain the Web would have yet progressed beyond a 1998ish level without open source software and, perhaps more importantly, open standards. It is all b
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by rue 16y ago
> 'Be Passionate' is great advice. It is awful advice. Find your passion is somewhat less so.
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by rue 16y ago
Sounds like you hang out with the wrong kind of communists? I think anarcho-syndicalism is gaining ground.
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by rue 16y ago
I think I did "better" with the small images, the large ones leading to overanalysis perhaps?
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by rue 16y ago
> Let's consider just the kissing portion and nothing beyond that. I did not get that she had a problem with the just kissing part: everyone might get the wrong impression in some situation, it is somewhat understandable (plus movies
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by rue 16y ago
Formulating for terseness, I think the responsibilities fall as follows: 1. The community to ensure that such things do not happen[1]; and 2. The police to ensure that a specific person does not do such things. Dunno how useful the propos
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by rue 16y ago
> The problem is the impact that the unreality of the Internet has on people's psychology, and what happens when Internet psychology crashes into cold, hard reality. I am not sure you can call it unreality anymore, except maybe for pe
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by rue 16y ago
I am not sure when open source became this magical unicorn but I suppose it is good that someone tries to guide would-be contributors - even if I wish they rather had an itch to scrath than viewing it as merely a box to check for the resume
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by rue 16y ago
It makes a funny quip, sure, but there is really no way to tell at this point. Certainly most modern communists acknowledge that the totalitarian and undemocratic efforts in the USSR, China and elsewhere were misguided, to put it kindly.
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by rue 16y ago
> What you describe is the core of Marx's assertion that capitalism would collapse, […] No "final collapse" is asserted. A concerted effort is required to bring its demise. (Nowadays this is attempted through peaceful means rather tha
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by rue 16y ago
Actually Marx never asserted that capitalism would collapse, just that it was naturally a boom-bust cycle with a general trend toward ever-bigger busts.
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by rue 16y ago
Marx called it in 1867. This is how capitalism works.
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by rue 16y ago
It is hard to argue with someone who creates their own definitions for words. For clarity: theism is a belief in a god or gods[1]. A theism is lack thereof, both in modern usage and normal latin meaning of the a-prefix. (Ideally of course
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by rue 16y ago
It is a lot simpler and cheaper to buy or coerce some poor bastard to smuggle for you.
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by rue 16y ago
Quite true, but I specifically wanted to get the standard combined "fuel efficiency" figure to compare against other vehicles easily. As has been demonstrated, it is quite simple to convert to simpler figures.
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by rue 16y ago
> No I do not believe in a god, […] Ergo, you are an a theist. > […] I also do not believe in blind faith of which you blatantly have in the non-existence of god. There is no proof of such beings existing, no phenomena require
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by rue 16y ago
I do not think we should really presume anything. > That she hasn't pressed charges is still above and beyond the call of duty on her part, […] This I disagree with. A public outing can be just as, if not more damaging to the allege
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by rue 16y ago
Do you believe in a god? If not, you are an atheist regardless of whether you are open to the option of one existing or not.
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by rue 16y ago
That is a very interesting interpretation, and very charitable; but it could just as easily be explained by malice because justly or not, the revelation has pretty much destroyed his reputation with a very, very small potential of successfu
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by rue 16y ago
Reading through the comments here, they for the most part strike me as coldly analytical. Knowing our "breed", though, I think mostly everyone is also upset about the situation, genuinely sorry that it happened and interested in ensuring it
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by rue 16y ago
> Before today I would have gladly recommended to my daughters to follow a tech path. But after tonight I've lost my innocence on that. This type of thing is, unfortunately, by no means exclusive to or even at all more common in tech
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by rue 16y ago
It consumes about the same as 5500 mid-sized cars?
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by rue 16y ago
Tone, putting words in someone else's mouth and conflating a very specific action with doing anything at all.
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by rue 16y ago
That is the problem. It is somewhat being obscured by arguments about her having named the alleged assailant, as now evidenced by some 1/3 of this thread. Edit: The currently top-rated comments would likely be nonexistent or with very lo
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by rue 16y ago
You are misreading the GP. The sentiment, as I understand it, is that the legal framework is most important when one is personally involved, even if the case seems very clear to oneself and even other observers.
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by rue 16y ago
Yes. Report it to the police and certainly write a blog post to bring attention to the matter! I assume sexual violence is a problem at any gathering with a large (intoxicated) mixed crowd. Perhaps the thought was that it was not as common
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by rue 16y ago
> The numbers you just put above mean nothing to me. And they will continue to mean nothing because not even sciency articles bother to use SI. Save a concerted effort to learn, obviously. A meter is about 3 feet or one yard and a lit
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by rue 16y ago
So, 12,8m/3,78541178l or EU standard combined: 29573,53l/100km? I wish at least sciency articles used SI.
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by rue 16y ago
> See, this is what we get when we confuse science and activism. Should a "researcher" have any more weight with the public about what they consider "morally acceptable"? There is something to be said about a scientific approach to mo
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by rue 16y ago
That is only possible if you completely subvert the actual meaning of "open source". Feel free to argue that you think MIT/BSD gives more freedom to the downstream developer but please do not play around with words. GPL is open source, and

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