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by somatic 7y ago
People have reasonable expectations of privacy. They expect their phone calls not to be recorded. They expect that their emails are treated with the same inviolability as their letters were. They expect their letters to be as they were befo
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by somatic 7y ago
> When the spacecraft is about 2,000 ft (610 m) from target, it switches to the landing phase. This is when the computer hands over manual control to the Commander, who guides it in for final touchdown. Slowed to a hover, the module can
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by somatic 7y ago
So hang on, let me rephrase this: Lockheed has basically fired most of its most highly experienced engineering talent? Is that right? What did Lockheed hope to accomplish by this move? Do you know what the total realized effect was?
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by somatic 7y ago
If our military-industrial complex is so concerned with protecting operational capabilities, then why have they facilitated the offshoring of industries to China, especially industries concerned with the manufacture of some of the world’s h
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by somatic 7y ago
> I worked at a large tech company that had How big is their finance department now?
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by somatic 7y ago
NYT, WaPo, and the rest are just aliases for particular groups of people. It all starts with those people, at an individual level. What sort of person is going into “journalism” these days, and why? Would you? Do you know anyone who would?
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by somatic 7y ago
APT is written in C++ and YUM is written in Python. Besides the Python2->3 thing, are there actually any practical advantages to using a lower-level language for managing packages?
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by somatic 7y ago
> and now every site out there takes 20 seconds to load with 10 little spinner icons while all the HTTP requests go out to their microservices on docker clusters, and everything requires a hundred-library-deep build stack That’s just the
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by somatic 7y ago
If there were no JS, how would anyone make billions of dollars of ad revenue?
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by somatic 7y ago
What is old is new again. Brutalism for President 2020.
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by somatic 7y ago
Yeah, I see what you mean. You know, it’s pretty interesting that IBM was painted as the devil, but that they made this standard, interoperable computer system that you could touch at such a low level. Now it’s all Windows 10 and MacBooks a
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by somatic 7y ago
My observation is fundamentally that if open source can be cannibalized by profit-seeking entities, it will be so cannibalized. It’s true that I haven’t comprehensively studied the GPL. Mostly I’ve observed companies using hundreds, thousan
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by somatic 7y ago
It’s true that I haven’t comprehensively studied the license.
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by somatic 7y ago
Like, because there are so many more unknowable levels of abstraction now? Hyper-specialization?
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by somatic 7y ago
The flat-Earther 9/11-truther astrologer probably really is primarily motivated by "intellectual curiosity", he probably just has poor priors. Which is to say, he's seeing that world as he's seeing it, it's jus
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by somatic 7y ago
never relax
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by somatic 7y ago
Here's the text of #6: "The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for geneti
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by somatic 7y ago
What if there were a license that made all hobbyist and educational use free and open source, and all commercial use propriety with kickbacks to devs? Would that resolve your hemispheric conflict?
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by somatic 7y ago
Will do, thanks.
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by somatic 7y ago
I’m all for good governance, and I’m glad that most people in government are trying to do the best that they can with what they have available. But I think that it’s pretty clear that they’re not running the show, where it really matters.
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by somatic 7y ago
If I had to guess, I’d say that most of these people are aligned in factions, most of which probably have roughly similar interests and so are working fully or partially independently towards roughly the same things, probably with no little
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by somatic 7y ago
Yeah, but what if the marketing isn’t for consumers? What if someone at Apple was smart enough to figure out that the rampant abuses perpetrated by privacy-monetizing Silicon Valley et al. were ultimately time-limited and would blow up even
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by somatic 7y ago
>As a software engineer, I'm just an entertainer for rich people. What do you mean by this?
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by somatic 7y ago
All freedom is a relative proposition.
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by somatic 7y ago
Sure they are: they’re all things which normal people wouldn’t do to other people, and in which the perpetrators weren’t punished. And by “normal people wouldn’t do to other people”, I mean “stark raving mad”.
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by somatic 7y ago
I don’t know about you, but the Snowden Revelations dramatically shifted my baseline of “paranoid schizo”. Before, I thought the prospect utterly bananas that “the government” was tapping every phone call, strong-arming ISPs, and intercepti
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by somatic 7y ago
By that standard you could say that every decision made by everyone is made in pursuit of a better life. Which is true, sure, but it obfuscates certain arguably important points.
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by somatic 7y ago
By that standard, existence is something forced on you in a way, not a matter of actual choice. Newsflash: you are your biology. Your biology demands its continuation. Defy nature at your own peril.
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by somatic 7y ago
If you want plants to die, starve them of carbon dioxide.
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by somatic 7y ago
You have cash, good health, and free time. Take up an “extreme” sport. Skiing, SCUBA diving, mountaineering, surfing, windsurfing, paragliding. Become a de facto member of your chosen activity’s local scene. Or just find a girl, ???, propag

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