supremesaboteur

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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
> Microsoft's wins are hard fought and fair Was giving Internet Explorer away for free along with Windows and bankrupting Netscape fair ?
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
The rest of the world is behind Java in some developments like container-style isolation of different applications in the same runtime environment. However people still mock Java in things the community is behind. Wait till the cool kids di
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
Yeah. The link in the FTA takes me to Skype download page and trying to install the deb file says that the version is 5.3.0.1. The notice on that page only says : > All Skype for Linux clients version 4.3 and older will be retired on Jul
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
> You don’t have to be that old to remember the dark days when Internet Explorer strangled the web by its utter domination. It is not the same thing. Chromium ( upon which Chrome is based ) is open source. If Google abuses their power it
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
So since state interference is the cause for unaffordable tuition costs, more state interference will fix the problem ?
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
I disagree. I got indoctrinated with left wing ideology here. It wasn't until I actively went and looked at right wing arguments to consider them seriously that I realized that those ideas are being misrepresented here
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
> Ewa Klobukowska who was stripped of an Olympic Gold medal for "failing a chromosome test" (ie, exactly what the OP is claiming should be the arbitrator of gender) Chromosomes are the arbitrator of sex. We know about intersex
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
Can you open a socket or write to the file system with WASM ?
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
Crony capitalism is captitalism, but it is not free market capitalism
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
The charge against religion is unfair. It is not necessary that religious people must embrace ignorance. Jesus himself said 'I am the way and the truth and the life'. There is an argument to be made that Christianity's focus
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
Are you asking a company to short it's own stock ?
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AWS Signs Java ‘father’ James Gosling(venturebeat.com)
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
There are many problems with Google's dominance. 1. The Filter Bubble. The idea that you can be shut in your own bubble, not being exposed to new ideas or ideas that contradict your own, is pretty bad 2. The idea that a for profit comp
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
> This battle is starting to get ridiculous. The "let the market decide" shills don't seem to understand there's no market Why is there no market ? This is the kind of statement a shill would make > Until then, let
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
> Any organisation which attempts to do so will fail very quickly, due to the fact that (i) workers must be kept employed, not disposed of when machinery that does a better job becomes available (ii) workers would have to be paid much hi
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
> but they don't have to work for someone else who extracts surplus This surplus is profit, which is the motivation for setting up businesses. Take that away and there is no good reason for taking the risk > They can organise the
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
Someone has to work to produce the goods and services we need In slavery the owner is creating the conditions of oppression. In free market the employer is paying the wages which could potentially lift the employee out of poverty Equating a
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
If the employer created a famine to help recruit cheap labour, I agree, there is no consent
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
> Have you found the government trying to control how you think via the long history of the public library system? I was talking about government controlled education system. > As for caricaturing a point, there is of course a vast di
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
I don't like the idea of any government controlling how I think. Also I feel that governments are not very good at their jobs. If those problems can be addressed I am OK with the policies you put forward. But my main problem was you ca
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
Disagree. Slavery requires lack of consent. If you were taken by force and sold to a master who is entitled to your labour by law, that is an oppressive situation to be in and it must be abolished. This is not the same thing as someone volu
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
Yeah, we should have "free" books. Government should produce and distribute books. It saves us the time and effort from having to think for ourselves too!
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
I suspect you will be able to write an installer that enables WSL and installs your application as a Linux app on Windows
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
Some more edge cases : http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
I usually have high confidence that scientists will do their jobs. If a Republican controlled EPA confirms the catastrophic effects of climate change, you would expect more bipartisan support to tackle the problem. As far as I can tell, con
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
Why do they expect a lower number of peer reviews ? If there is a legitimate reason, then cutting the funding in proportion seems reasonable
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
This article does not support what you are saying. > EPA spokesman J.P. Freire said in an email that “no one has been fired or terminated,” and that Pruitt had simply decided to bring in fresh advisers" > “We’re not going to rubb
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
>Replace 'most' with 'a slender majority' if you want to retain the fig-leaf of objectivity and rationality that you seem to covet Would the argument still hold water if he did ? > Politics is littered with example
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
> We compare the energy consumption of various scenarios run on bare-metal Linux—that is, the applications are running on one kernel, without any virtualization at all—in contrast to Docker-managed containers, using “off-the-shelf” Docke
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by supremesaboteur 9y ago
> many of their services are free (users pay, in effect, by handing over yet more data) Not just with loss of privacy, they also pay with increased cost of goods and services that are used to pay for the advertisement > Governments co

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