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by slang800 7y ago
Most people choose friends who are similar to themselves, even at a genetic level: https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/friends_are_the_famil... . Social homophily is well-studied and I would assume that you are an ou
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by slang800 7y ago
Is this DRM free?
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by slang800 7y ago
Yes, Oracle does this with MySQL. If you want to use MySQL in a way that the GPL doesn’t permit, then you are supposed to buy a license. I have no idea if they are making a lot of money from this.
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by slang800 7y ago
I'm not saying that we are literally unable to make money off of free software. We can and donations / advertising / GPL license exemptions / crowd-funding all work to some degree. My point was that even though the &quot
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by slang800 7y ago
That sounds like a very low bar you set for yourself.
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by slang800 7y ago
They do that by selling support, or additional non-free features bundled into an "enterprise edition" (at least in the case of Docker). I don't think that's something Feross or other open source maintainers are intereste
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by slang800 7y ago
Don't violate the prime directive.
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by slang800 7y ago
Well, obviously selling paid software is a well known way to make money. However, it would be really cool if we could give away software for free and make money off it at the same time.
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by slang800 7y ago
There's a good article about this practice here: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.en.html Usually you wouldn't use the MIT license to do it, but it's the same idea.
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by slang800 7y ago
It sounds like the worst thing Cooper is being accused of is yelling at people. That's pretty common and I'm surprised that he would be suspended for that alone. Surely there's more to the story, right?
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by slang800 7y ago
> We’ve shifted the Overton window. That is hyperbolic. Housing development was never outside the realm of acceptable public discourse, it was just less popular.
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by slang800 7y ago
Thanks, I'll give that a shot.
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by slang800 7y ago
Is there a place I can view all the sponsor segments I've submitted? It would be nice to see them individually, maybe with stats about how often each one was used and whether or not it is in good standing w/rt voting.
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by slang800 7y ago
At their core, ads are a form of psychological manipulation. Subjecting yourself to this manipulation just because you feel guilty about getting a "free lunch" is absurd. Tracking and resource usage are also bad, but they're
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by slang800 7y ago
Are they actually running iOS firmware in a web browser, or is this more like an advanced version of BrowserStack, where the firmware is running on a server or a physical device?
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by slang800 7y ago
Whoever came up with the idea of re-marketing children's toys to adults was a genius. It combines the passive consumerism of kids with the expendable income of adults in a way that simply wouldn't have been tolerated more than a f
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by slang800 7y ago
I didn't realize XArchiver was obscure. I use that pretty regularly.
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by slang800 7y ago
Is model/serial number scanning something that the existing machines do? I've never heard of the TSA having that capability.
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by slang800 7y ago
The article doesn't explain how they intend to enforce this ban. A recalled MacBook looks identical to the non-recalled ones, so this seems like a pointless rule.
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by slang800 7y ago
This is just whataboutism. Other companies doing bad things doesn't make Microsoft's bad things any less bad.
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by slang800 7y ago
> Honestly, it felt kind of shitty to delete the repository and unpin the project from my profile. It is kind of shitty to do that. Why not just archive the repo and add a note to the README that you've turned it into non-free softw
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by slang800 7y ago
That's an unfortunate acronym.
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by slang800 7y ago
I use a dotfiles repo in git and GNU Stow. I could automate more of the setup work, but I do it so rarely that just having my config files backed up and replicated is enough.
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by slang800 7y ago
> U.S. states are sovereign entities with their own criminal laws, tax regimes, educational systems, property and contract rights, civil rights, economic growth, industries, natural resources, etc. States can hardly be considered soverei
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by slang800 7y ago
I didn't think it was very ad-like. If Anna Wiener were trying to boost the profile of HN then she probably wouldn't have included all those random examples of "toxic" comments and political discussions that she disagree
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by slang800 7y ago
> That's inserting bias. Are you implying that this article was trying to be bias-free? The author spent entire paragraphs just cherry-picking "toxic" things that have been said on HN to make discussion here look bad.
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by slang800 7y ago
Does anyone know the technical details of how this happened? Did someone just run a spider on the e3expo.com site and find the publicly accessible URL that way, or did they do something more advanced?
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by slang800 7y ago
Are you talking about the idea of a military as a whole, or the wars that were involved in right now?
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by slang800 7y ago
I don't think that paying a monthly subscription gets me news that is any less fake or higher-quality than what I can find from non-paywalled sources. I guess I'm a "credulous moron".
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by slang800 7y ago
> we can enjoy many services free of charge It's not free of charge, you're just paying in a different way. These services are able to operate because they deliver content that changes your mind in a way that benefits the corpo

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