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by sverige 7y ago
You forgot nearly universal use of pesticides across the Midwest, creating a green desert with massive loss of insects, which also affects birds and other animals. My opposition to wind turbines has more than one basis, and my concern for b
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by sverige 7y ago
Most wind farms are located far from where the electricity generated is used. For example, Facebook is building a wind farm in Nebraska for facilities in California. The loss in transmitting power that far is ridiculous. Why aren't th
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by sverige 7y ago
The relatively recent political pushback against building turbines on farmland may encourage more of a push to develop offshore turbines. Development there was stopped early on by political resistance to having the gigantic, ugly, bird-kill
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by sverige 7y ago
I've sometimes wondered what would happen if World War 3 mainly involved the destruction of the internet and/or the GPS system. Would it inevitably lead to a hot war? Would modern economies really collapse? I have no doubt that I
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by sverige 7y ago
All that money apparently paid for good lawyers, and the social connections he probably has didn't hurt either. It's a lot better to be rich than poor of you're going to commit crimes.
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by sverige 7y ago
The point is that no existing libc is part of the LLVM project; i.e., under that umbrella. What's different about Google wanting their own libc and following what Clang and musl do currently?
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by sverige 7y ago
I agree that I was out of line, which is why I posted a more civil reply (I hope) afterwards, since at that point I wasn't able to delete it.
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by sverige 7y ago
My concern is that if Google's libc becomes part of the LLVM package, it will push out Clang and musl and any others. It should be a separate package like the others.
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by sverige 7y ago
They are great examples of poorly-designed replacements for existing open source software being pushed into widespread adoption solely because the largest Enterprise distribution of Linux willed it. And also great examples of software devel
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by sverige 7y ago
Snark aside, Google's desire to own the de facto non-GPL libc is worthy of a discussion in the broader community. Your expressed desire to limit the discussion and unwillingness to directly address the issues raised by Rich Felker sp
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by sverige 7y ago
>And I'm not sure that HN is super representative of its interests either. The email was aimed at LLVM folks, not HN. >On a more meta level, I also think it would be good for lots of folks (HN, twitter, etc.) to be a bit less har
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by sverige 7y ago
Great examples. What happens if Google botches up LLVM? They're far more powerful than Redhat.
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by sverige 7y ago
Honestly, "smart" appliances are the worst idea since . . . I can't actually think of a worse idea.
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by sverige 7y ago
Actually, the story I hear from people under 35 or so is that Facebook is for old people like me (mid-50s), though I've never used it. My wife does, though. It seems awful. My daughter and her friends all use Instagram and Snapchat, or
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by sverige 7y ago
This was the moment that I ditched Gmail and made my first vanity domain for email. I have a few Gmail accounts now, but they are separated: one for Maps, one for YouTube, etc. I don't use any of them for actual email.
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by sverige 7y ago
Probably true in some ways, yes, though I grew up with relatives who came here from Sweden. And I definitely identify more as American than Swedish. At the same time, though, should we then say that all English-speaking Americans have mor
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by sverige 7y ago
Yes, it was a joke. Yes, I know jokes are hard to discern without the "/s". Yes, that's why the scare quotes.
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It's funny because I have been ridiculed for calling myself Swedish or Swedish-American instead of white. Somehow some people have even thought that's racist. But it is a strong identity in my family, and, for example, I really do
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by sverige 7y ago
Settle down, Nigel. No one's seriously suggesting a law mandating class diversity. Focus groups will be good enough.
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They also misspelt "emphasize" but no one even noticed. I guess the missing 'i' became the "centre" of attention.
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by sverige 7y ago
Oh man, I just remembered that day ten years ago when I wanted to kill myself because of Citrix.
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by sverige 7y ago
I have a distinct memory of two of my friends in college in the mid-80s talking about this. One was reading the paper. He announced without looking up that there is a new Ice Age coming. The other guy jumped up, looked out the window, and s
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by sverige 7y ago
The trouble is that the Hong Kongers who could do something about it relocated to Vancouver twenty years ago.
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It is if no one else has guns.
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by sverige 7y ago
It's interesting that this was sufficient to entertain the troops. There were enough GIs who played and enough who could sing and a book of songs they all knew from memory. I was raised that way, but many people my age and younger can&
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by sverige 7y ago
I think most discussions about the GPL have this feature.
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by sverige 7y ago
Why not time cards that are punched by a machine? The tech to scan them in for payroll already exists, I'm sure. Reminds me of the push for replacing paper ballots for no good reason.
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America's Marine Highway(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sverige 7y ago
But the majority of that 30% with a net worth above $250k have most of it in the form of their house, not CDs.
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by sverige 7y ago
Unless we're talking about FAANG, in which case it is "providing the best possible online experience."

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