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by sedachv 9y ago
> In this case it is google's code running on google's computers. Which is mostly based on Free Software, starting with GNU/Linux. The Affero General Public License is intended to disallow this loophole of "it is only
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by sedachv 9y ago
This is called retargeting and is even worse from a privacy perspective: now your data is going through multiple layers of ad buying tools, analytics, ad exchanges, aggregators, ad networks, etc.: http://2bd2y2367xnj3kpntjsifzmf-
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by sedachv 9y ago
> No money would make most of Americans working 110F strawberry field for any prolonged period of time. Anecdotal counter-point: there are plenty of Americans making decent money in similar conditions working marijuana farms on the West
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Marking a "Install from unknown sources" checkbox provided by the OS is not illegal, nor is downloading properly licensed APKs. If the applications don't (legally) permit themselves to be used without being downloaded fr
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Many of the older phones can be rooted and custom roms installed "Rooting" is exploiting security holes, which is illegal under the DMCA in the United States and under other laws in other jurisdictions. The only reason that i
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Phones have advanced much more rapidly than computers in the last 10 years. That argument is irrelevant. If you have something, it does not matter how old it is, you should be able to continue to use it. > You are free to continue u
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by sedachv 9y ago
I am typing this comment on a Thinkpad T43, a model that was released in 2005. It does not matter that you think 7 years ago is a long time. There is nothing "perfectly reasonable" about planned obsolescence. If a thing is still u
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by sedachv 9y ago
This kind of user-hostile and environmentally destructive and unsustainable planned obsolescence is exactly why you should use GPLv3 and the AGPL as your Free Software licenses. Apple and Google's current software offerings have been b
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by sedachv 9y ago
> You can worry about the presence of these additives and drugs in plants and plant-based dishes that you eat. Do you understand the difference between plants and animals? Animal antibiotics and hormones are not applied to plants. Plants
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Please, a lot of things like hormone and antibiotics fed vs non of that are not a gimmick, maybe just say you are reserved on the health benefits. Worrying about hormones and antibiotics in meat and dairy while being concerned about he
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by sedachv 9y ago
The last time I touched BASIC was Visual Basic 6. VB.NET is a great example of my point - from what I understand it was a huge pain to move VB6 applications to VB.NET
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by sedachv 9y ago
I use elisp for scripting occasionally (very handy when you need to script on some server but the administrator does not want to install a Lisp compiler, and quite usable with the cl- libraries), and the biggest annoyance is that you need t
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by sedachv 9y ago
That is actually a great comparison and a very strong argument for not using JavaScript. BASIC was big in the 1980s; where is BASIC today? Elisp code from the 1980s still runs or can be trivially ported to Emacs 25. Lisp is not a fad and Li
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by sedachv 9y ago
80 character line wrapping is IMO more important on larger and wider-aspect ratio screens. Even the smallest 16:9 aspect ratio screen can be split into two columns, one being an 80 character column for code and the other left wide for a web
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Would be great to open up a van-dwellers Mecca to the public as well. RV parks have been around for a very long time.
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by sedachv 9y ago
Arcologies have nothing to do with videogames, they were a concept for a three-dimensional city invented by the architect Paolo Soleri. Soleri's 1969 book Arcology: The City in the Image of Man is worth reading. This project has nothin
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by sedachv 9y ago
The most famous financial criminal of the 1980s United States, Michael Milkin, is now a wealthy philanthropist living large in Los Angeles. The disincentive for large-scale financial crime in the United States is just not there.
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by sedachv 9y ago
> That temporary result has been going on for a few decades now. That really was not the case before the Netscape IPO or for about 5-6 years after the dot-com bust.
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by sedachv 9y ago
creepydata suggested that you should appeal to the IRS. There is an appeal process. Talk to your accountant about doing that.
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by sedachv 9y ago
That is an excellent point. I recently switched from Google Docs to Org files with Unison and ediff for syncing. Having everything work offline and on, over multiple machines, and being able to review and merge changes really makes things m
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by sedachv 9y ago
My original comment was to point out the cultural inappropriateness and onerousness of late stage capitalists' demands for emotional labor. Your response was to suggest that it is actually my fault and that I am behaving inappropriatel
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by sedachv 9y ago
Have you considered the possibility that maybe it is you who is misunderstanding people? For example, my comment about eye contact and body language was actually an insult meant to imply that you lacked the ability to read either. On the ot
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Back in the day, every new immigrant was one more able body, able to help colonize the rugged expanse, as well as work the farms, factories and railroads. You need to stop relying on television shows for understanding history and read
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Taking US as an example where this sort of thing is a controversial political topic today - in most of the 19th century, if you had access to any means of transportation necessary to get there (including walking across the border from,
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by sedachv 9y ago
> That you find it "inauthentic" may say more about you than it does about the service workers you're encountering. As would one's inability to understand eye contact and body language.
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by sedachv 9y ago
If you visualize nested scopes as indent levels, the labelXYZ: sits in an indent level above where it is visible. Not only that, but labelXYZ: does not come before the statement that it transfers control to, but two statements before. I
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by sedachv 9y ago
Labelled break is strictly less powerful than gotos, and IMO its implementation in Java is far inferior to the block Common Lisp special form ( https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node85.
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by sedachv 9y ago
Many European cultures consider the inauthentic cheerfulness that is expected as part of emotional labor in Anglophone societies distasteful (I have been living in North America for many years, and still find it distasteful), and workers in
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Wage fixing is not a "reasonable level of protection."
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> I was using Emacs and had all of the various language support modes configured, but go-to-definition and cross-references barely worked. Searching was slow, and if I wanted to discuss a piece of code with my CS lab partners, I couldn&#

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