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by tal8d 6y ago
ugh, I was so excited when my POWER9 arrived... and then I started looking at the OpenBMC stack.
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by tal8d 6y ago
Their letters and journals make it clear that the founders knew that lobbyists would be a threat to the integrity of the republic, but they thought that all the competing interests would largely cancel each other out. They could have used a
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by tal8d 6y ago
lol, the Internet Explorer school of thought. Sure, form a work group for an open init standard with systemd as the basis - chaired by people both inside and outside the systemd project. But before that, rent a home in Malibu and wire it fo
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by tal8d 6y ago
One of these init systems is run by a guy that is openly hostile to POSIX, the other can be found on several different operating systems and has been around forever. hmmm...
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by tal8d 6y ago
If that code were Netflix-centric then that would be a bad thing, but it isn't - so its not.
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by tal8d 6y ago
Gentoo is another one - I use it to make sure that my stuff builds on a bleeding edge cross-platform, but thats about it these days.
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by tal8d 6y ago
I think we've got a pretty fundamental difference on what we're looking for in a community. But we seem to agree on one thing - the political dimension has worsened things (well beyond the point that I'd have thought would oc
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by tal8d 6y ago
> This is a good talk That is not a good talk unless you already advocate for abandoning standards, and celebrate Linux's growing power to dictate how the shrinking number of remaining OSes design things. You might easily miss it if
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by tal8d 6y ago
As somebody who fled Linux to FreeBSD in order to avoid systemd, the prospect of that happening again makes me a little sick to my stomach. Running out of places to go that aren't controlled by people who are openly hostile to POSIX st
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by tal8d 6y ago
Eh, my mother's conduct wasn't totally insane - I'd be a little displeased if my son not only selected a branch that prided itself on combat exposure (right as bombs started falling on Baghdad), but he also intentionally chos
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by tal8d 6y ago
My youngest sister got married young and against the advice of everyone that loved her, more because the groom was a scumbag than the haste of the decision. Well she went full revenge mode and had to be totally cut off from the family once
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by tal8d 6y ago
So I'll just assume that you intended to answer the question, and that your response contains your strongest argument. From what I can tell, the only complaint that makes sense is with regard to community building platforms splintering
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by tal8d 6y ago
Just people randomly stumbling in with zero interest in the subject? Or people who had previously been captured by a rival typeset historian backed by a powerful multinational commercial interest? Because one of those is a search engine pro
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by tal8d 6y ago
And? I mean, obviously if you're going to correct me then you know "zero-sum game" refers to game theory. What game is Mr. Typeset playing here?
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by tal8d 6y ago
These rebuttals always sound like "But if I didn't pay AWS $1k/yr I wouldn't be able to host my family photo album powered by a 15 stack frame deep Nodejs nosql-backed container!" > We want it to be profitable to
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by tal8d 6y ago
Well you're going to have a hard to reasoning about it when you stick with the predator/prey, attention economy, zero-sum game analogies. A man running a site cataloging ancient internally generated IBM typeset documents... what h
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by tal8d 6y ago
That is debatable, but what isn't is the fact that the third option exists - which never gets mentioned in the tired old "If you don't disable that pesky adblocker - you'll be forced to pay!" posts.
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by tal8d 6y ago
heh, I had a little project hosted on an nslu2 wedged between the water heater and the wall of my utility closet. Never had a problem, even after several major sites picked up on it the same day, because responding to get requests for stati
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by tal8d 6y ago
I've been around long enough to remember a time when the web was full of content that didn't originate from profit motive. Just a bunch of people talking about their interests and sharing their creations. Even the stuff that was c
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by tal8d 6y ago
What effect did government backed student loans have on the tuition prices? Why were soldiers targeted by payday loan outfits? How are most lottery winners paid out? Answer any one of those questions and you'll answer your own question
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by tal8d 6y ago
lol, if it is designed to stay a point above the Fed's intentionally set inflation targets - what do you think happens to interest rates? This is worse than printing money - it is more like printing money presses.
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by tal8d 6y ago
Fractional reserve, flat interest rates. Hmmm... I wonder who might stand to directly benefit from an 18 year interest free loan?
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by tal8d 6y ago
Pack it up Identrust, digitally signed documents and timestamping are is just annotations.
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by tal8d 6y ago
The question wasn't "What is the ideal data structure?"
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by tal8d 6y ago
That might be a concern if you try to cram every possible property of the legal code into the blockchain. So maybe don't do that. But if you do, the whole thing is extensible - so it is possible. But don't.
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by tal8d 6y ago
> Voters Just the two? Because it has been a while since I heard anyone ask "Who is John Galt?"
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by tal8d 6y ago
Property deeds. It is amazing how bad counties are at such a simple charge, I know three people (in three different counties) who had to deal with the local government losing records - one of them only learning this after a neighbor tried t
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by tal8d 6y ago
It is closer to "Deus vult" than "Think of the children", one is ridiculously presumptuous and the other is simply manipulative.
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by tal8d 6y ago
Many will unironically justify their actions by declaring themselves to be "on the right side of history". The phrase has an unsurprising origin.
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by tal8d 6y ago
Many will disagree, correctly, because the DMCA exists.

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