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by rvern 10y ago
It isn't because GnuPG doesn't work well or because it is too hard to use that people don't use it. They don't use it because other people don't use it. Why do people use Facebook instead of Diaspora? It's not
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by rvern 10y ago
Income should not be thought of as something that there is a limited amount of that society must distribute between people. That's because both money and exchange of money are never limiting factors in an economy: we can just print mor
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Pentagon told to boost manufacturing engineering education(sciencemag.org)
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Neoclassical synthesis is still taught because, even though it's flawed, we have nothing better. Economists know that the assumptions behind neoclassical models aren't always fulfilled. All science is always done with models and w
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by rvern 10y ago
The license is LGPL 3, not GPL 3.
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The Document Foundation announces a new user interface concept for LibreOffice(blog.documentfoundation.org)
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Rhythm might be hardwired in humans(sciencemag.org)
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by rvern 10y ago
More details on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero .
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by rvern 10y ago
It isn't. Speech that advocates the removal of free speech rights is unlikely to be successful and actually lead to the removal of free speech. Speech is only speech. It cannot do anything by itself. The only way speech can affect the
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by rvern 10y ago
For every Fedora release, the Documentation Project prepares a new version of the System Administrator's Guide[1] and of five other high-quality manuals. These manuals are usually up-to-date, accurate and comprehensive, and since they
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by rvern 10y ago
The GPaste clipboard manager works with Wayland.
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by rvern 10y ago
You can use bangs: https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/user/search_syntax.html . Instead of redirecting you, it changes the engines that are used for the search, so you still get anonymity. Also, you can use smart boo
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Rise of reusable rockets signals a new age of spaceflight(sciencenews.org)
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Five challenges for self-driving cars(sciencenews.org)
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Under 21st Century Cures Act, stem cell advocates expect regulatory shortcuts(sciencemag.org)
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by rvern 10y ago
Usenet. Great newsgroups on every subject. You can get an account on www.eternal-september.org or news.solani.org.
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by rvern 10y ago
I love dogmatists.
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by rvern 10y ago
The burden of the proof is on the people asking for a line to be drawn to prove that drawing a line is necessary, at all. Until I see proof that students using racial slurs with malice causes significant harm, and this specifically because
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by rvern 10y ago
People use Visual Studio instead of Vim or GNU Emacs because there's much more marketing and advertising being done for Visual Studio.
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by rvern 10y ago
The articles on Donald Trump and abortion both seem very factual to me. They might have inaccuracies, but I doubt there exists any more objective source of information about Donald Trump or abortion on the Web.
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by rvern 10y ago
My experience is that Wikipedia articles have been very accurate about every subject I consider myself knowledgeable about.
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by rvern 10y ago
> The invisible hand...this is Adam Smith being misquoted. Adam Smith did use the metaphor of an invisible hand - Smith said the invisible hand was something that blocked free trade, not facilitated it. You're wrong about this: htt
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by rvern 10y ago
What.CD did piracy and this is why it achieved these things. Piracy is a violation of copyright. Copyright is a monopoly granted by the state. Monopolies prevent competition and are counter to capitalism. The shutting down of What.CD is the
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by rvern 10y ago
Qwant does its own crawling and does not provide email.[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant
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by rvern 10y ago
Yes, it has been done.[1] The searx metasearch engine[2] is exactly what you are describing; one of the public instances you can use is https://searx.me/ . It can be run locally, though unless Tor is used that negates the pr
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Project for porting C to Rust gains Mozilla's backing(infoworld.com)
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by rvern 10y ago
The JavaScript Trap — https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html . Who Does That Server Really Serve? — https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s... .
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by rvern 10y ago
Of course, Wikipedia also has a list of countries by government spending and tax revenue as percentage of GDP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending#As_a_perce... .
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by rvern 10y ago
There is an excuse for not "securing" the network: disallowing spoofing is not desirable in the first place. There are legitimate uses to spoofing. What is not desirable is malware infecting user computers and using spoofing for D
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by rvern 10y ago
If the open source tools are worse than the other ones, then sure, they should be improved. But I have no reason to believe this is the case here.

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