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by sgift 6y ago
Yes, since you cannot not participate in politics in reality. What you can do is not participate in active politics if you are happy with the status quo. What is far more popular is hiding your politics behind some more lofty words (like
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by sgift 6y ago
Honest question: Do you expect these topics to go away when the "elections are over" (let's say at latest on January 21th)?
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by sgift 6y ago
Good and compelling games do not even make my top100 when thinking about dystopia. Or is this some kind of "amusing ourselves to death while the world burns around us" comment?
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by sgift 6y ago
One point of unions is to make sure this kind of "shopping around" for people who are sufficiently desperate is not possible for companies: You pay x or you get no one. And that's a good thing.
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by sgift 6y ago
"Why didn't he stay at home" - I recommend reading the fine article, the reason he didn't "just stay at home" is in there.
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by sgift 6y ago
Of course they are. That's the reason Google "won" in the first place after all. They had a algorithm which better fit what people expected.
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by sgift 6y ago
This is not a theoretical problem, it has been researched and the results are not encouraging even for "modern" C++. Either some of the biggest software companies (Mozilla, Microsoft, Google) are all incompetent or there is a prob
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by sgift 6y ago
Ogre3d is written in C++? What do you want to tell us?
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by sgift 6y ago
From what I can gather (from the outside) this has changed over the years. Games are not monoliths anymore and some parts have to work for successors or other games based on the same tools, so "things work for more than the bare minimu
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by sgift 6y ago
That's 50k more than most open source projects make, also: No one forced the owners of qdos to give Microsoft that license for 50k. Sellers remorse is a thing, but I'm not sure why we should feel sorry for them.
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by sgift 6y ago
There are a ton of information available about the Cato institute online. If you "don't even know what is wrong with them", don't want to post about them and don't want to inform yourself that's on you.
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by sgift 6y ago
Especially since both parties are more or less in one part of the political spectrum (as defined here: politicalcompass.org)
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by sgift 6y ago
Because that's a wish list vs. a "we assume this will happen/are actively working on it list"? I'm pretty sure the CIA also shortlisted every Eastern Bloc state in the 80s for regime change. Doesn't mean the SU
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by sgift 6y ago
> the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. From Oxford dictionary. Terrorism absolute includes the political struggle. The point is that terrorism uses violence and in
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by sgift 6y ago
Or we can take what the author writes the way he writes it: CoCs are not bad, not following your own process for enforcement of CoC (which also has problems in this specific case) is bad. The answer to "this type of enforcement is bad&
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by sgift 6y ago
We will see - this is exactly Facebooks strategy with Instagram right now: Arguing that they have invested so much effort to integrate it with Facebook services (which they were prohibited from) that it would be far too expensive to force t
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by sgift 6y ago
The myth of all "new" IKEA things being shit is as old as I remember. People said the same thing 20 years ago and when I asked my parents they told me people also said it 40 years ago. Each time IKEA changes to a different product
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by sgift 6y ago
The Afghanistan war is a UN security council sanctioned action (Resolution 1386, creating ISAF, later succeeded by Resolute Support). Since the resolution was unanimously adopted by the security council it would be quite a leap to try to sa
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by sgift 6y ago
There are more than enough games not fitting that description. But there's also a reason some of the most popular games of all time fall into these categories.
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by sgift 6y ago
> as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion Which we cannot do the way Youtube worked until now. The way YouTubes algorithms worked rational argument gets drowned out and public opinion
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by sgift 6y ago
Okay, here is the data point: If you get treated by some of the best doctors your country has to offer in an absolute state of the art facility in record time (i.e. almost no delay between outbreak of covid and detection) the given drug coc
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by sgift 6y ago
Conditional approvals are only valid as long as the conditions are held. It's the same as using open source software: You are bound by the license and if you break the license you loose the permission to use the software and maybe even
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by sgift 6y ago
> The idea of GPL is to move towards better software, better rights of users of software and developers of software. Maybe that's the idea of GPL, but certainly not the reality. As long as it more enforcement won't help. But I&
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by sgift 6y ago
> Ditch the 'Hub, its userbase, and what is considered "best practice" there, and then many of these problems get dialed back a lot. This sounds like "Without GitHub you will get less spam", which is probably tr
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by sgift 6y ago
Courts are easily tricked, the hacks needed are just different from what most programmers assume them to be. The whole job of lawyers is hacking the court to get a more favorable outcome. If this wasn't true it wouldn't matter whi
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by sgift 6y ago
For the most part it's that Europe always considered very big companies a problem and the behavior of tech companies in the law few years has increased the perception that this was correct. So, now they adapt the existing legislative o
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by sgift 6y ago
Between JDK8 and 9 there was the introduction of the module system, which broke many systems, cause they did somethings they weren't allowed to do in the first place (and which wasn't included in the backwards compatibility guaran
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by sgift 6y ago
There is a note at the end of the article: "The proposed transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals for the U.K., China, the European Union and the United States. Completion of
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by sgift 6y ago
Russia is a dictatorship, the EU isn't. Two can do the same thing for different reasons.
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by sgift 6y ago
I don't see how GCC (or copyleft in general) would help here. If they don't do the work cause they don't need it there's nothing to release.

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