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by sgift 6y ago
Since they don't do that (it's right there in the announcement, which no one in this thread seems to have bothered to read) that whole point is moot: > The ISRG's approach of working directly with maintainers to support re
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by sgift 6y ago
So is go and people told us "computers will never be good at this, cause the brute forcing used for chess won't work." -- AlphaGo showed that to be wrong.
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by sgift 6y ago
> vocal about not policing any of the speech there. It's also been a lie from day one. Parler policed things that didn't fit into their definition of free speech. Just like Twitter et al.
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by sgift 6y ago
> It’s not comparable... China isn’t a democracy and free speech isn’t a thing. And that makes it right? Or are we on the "it's their culture, so we aren't allowed to be critical of it" bandwagon?
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by sgift 6y ago
False assumption: "Higher performing workers" are good at bargaining.
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by sgift 6y ago
> We are in Ukraine now, where the talent pool is abundant and economic conditions are favorable. They are probably routing for the Russo-Ukrainian War to continue as long as possible. Makes for more "favorable" conditions too.
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by sgift 6y ago
Not anymore: https://drewdevault.com/2020/10/23/Im-handing-wlroots-and-sw...
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by sgift 6y ago
The problem is not that Google couldn't pay them. The problem is that Google is arrogant as hell: Why should we pay you when we give you the privilege to be part of something we, the masters of the universe, introduce? They fail to und
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by sgift 6y ago
Truly "free" competitors financed by VC that will certainly not lean on them the moment one of their financial buddies starts loosing money to people talking on their "free" platforms? I don't see it. And in the cur
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by sgift 6y ago
> I generally oppose Apache, MIT and other non-copy left license exactly because it allows Amazon and other large companies is leech off the work for their own commercial offers while giving nothing back Like Elastic "leached"
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by sgift 6y ago
That the monetized IRC clone is unhappy doesn't convince me that Microsoft has done something wrong. But we'll see what the EU commission decides.
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by sgift 6y ago
Doing something morally wrong is not a natural response. It is a natural response option . To paraphrase Jurassic Park: [Clinics] were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. Not everyone ch
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by sgift 6y ago
That's why searches are only allowed in very specific cases. You cannot institute a blanket search policy.
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by sgift 6y ago
IBM still exists. Microsoft still exists. Apple still exists. Notably, AMD also still exists and flourishes again. All of these companies were at one time or another considered dead in the water. Did every big company survive? No. But I don
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by sgift 6y ago
Decide for yourself: https://archive.is/0BTU1
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by sgift 6y ago
> even as she continues to support terrorism against Israel. Which terrorism does she support? Wikipedia only says that she supports BDS.
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by sgift 6y ago
Or it could do the opposite by making better decisions. I don't see why your version is more likely than the opposite.
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by sgift 6y ago
Can you show where Horizon2020 squandered money? Or gave any other reason to bash the EU?
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by sgift 6y ago
Allowing cannabis is not a position unique to libertarians. The mixing with the other topics you wrote is tasteless and unwarranted.
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by sgift 6y ago
We had this when game consoles were very dominant: PS3/Xbox360 era, start of the PS4/Xbox One era. Games were developed for consoles and then "touched up" for PC. It sucked. Starting from good machines and pushing them i
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by sgift 6y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/dec/16/cyberpunk-2077...
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by sgift 6y ago
That's not what the flack in various reviews is about. Read some of them on metacritic. The GP is right, those who rated it low often didn't do it because of the bugs, but because of "this near-future dystopia shows people ha
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by sgift 6y ago
So? Keanu Reeves is in the game. That's not hype, that's a fact.
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by sgift 6y ago
> I don’t know why people are being so defensive. Probably cause the experiences differ wildly between people. I'm over 20 hours in, had one relevant bug (couldn't use my weapons anymore, which I found a workaround for), love t
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by sgift 6y ago
Nature doesn't care about us. Natural is not inherently better than synthetic. Maybe you have a better point to support your position?
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by sgift 6y ago
What's also endemic is people not bothering to participate in the lawmaking process and then throwing a tantrum that laws are bad. If you don't bother and the other side does: guess whose suggestions end up in the law. Democracy i
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by sgift 6y ago
We tried this with Brazil. Result: They continued to remove forests and said "and if you don't pay anymore we will accelerate it". So, sounds good in theory, is not in good in practice.
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by sgift 6y ago
We know better than evolution all the time. Else: No medicine, no operations, no science (random list of things, more can be added). Doesn't sound like a very good world to me.
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by sgift 6y ago
> Why would I then base a development project on Rust, if there's neither a spec nor an alternate implementation? This is strictly worse than what we have now. How exactly is having one compiler defining what is okay and what is not
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by sgift 6y ago
> think about why US and UK are so hell bent on banning huewei. Because the US has a trade war with China and tries to rope other countries into it?

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