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by teacup50 10y ago
I'm not sure it's fait acompli (I could be convinced!). My thinking is: there's no requirement that a project not only accept just about any half-baked feature patch, but actually design an entire version control system to op
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by teacup50 10y ago
FreeBSD has always had a centralized development model that inoculates it against the kind of Linux churn that you see in terms of "different developers, different backers, different agendas". Either you produce a careful, general
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by teacup50 10y ago
systemd is quintessential "embrace, extend, and extinguish". If you don't like the word "force", we can use "coerce" instead.
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by teacup50 10y ago
This is not true; just about any relatively non-toxic inert gas other than CO2 can take the place of oxygen without any significant response. We do have a hypoxic respiratory drive, but it is exceptionally weak, and unconsciousness will o
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by teacup50 10y ago
Why on gods green earth would we want Slack to have access to internal government communications?
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by teacup50 10y ago
No joke: "We also collect your typed and handwritten words to improve character recognition and provide you with a personalized user dictionary and text completion suggestions." http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us
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by teacup50 10y ago
Or, solve just what you need to. With floppies getting hard to find, but old industrial systems still working just fine, people designed and built floppy emulators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_hardware_emu
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by teacup50 10y ago
Your reformulation of my claims is inaccurate. Beyond that, I cannot refute an argument when none was presented.
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by teacup50 10y ago
The downvoting demonstrates exactly why the article's well-poisoning is offensive; the tautological ideology of intersectionality leaves no room for dissent in the marketplace of ideas, as any dissent merely proves the original premise
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by teacup50 10y ago
It comes across as offensive and discouraging to those that believe that "intersectionality" is in itself discriminatory, both towards the racial/gender classifications being infantilized, and the racial/gender classific
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by teacup50 10y ago
Used everywhere, with decades old libraries that still function fine?
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by teacup50 10y ago
As a thought experiment, what happens if your liberal non-religious individuals start advancing goals that result in discrimination, because they do not value intellectual diversity?
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by teacup50 10y ago
And yet, Colleges have no problem hiring individuals that believe some pretty scientifically unfounded things, as long as what they believe falls in line with the orthodoxy.
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by teacup50 10y ago
Just consider, for a moment, what you're doing in that last paragraph.
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by teacup50 10y ago
However: - Almost nobody actually used C prior to 1978. - Most C compilers have supported both current and previous versions of the C standard via -std flags. - Other languages with breaking changes, like Java, are similar. Java has alw
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by teacup50 10y ago
Refusing to admit the possibility of being wrong, much less anyone that would tell you so, means you never will be. I'm not sure why you're downplaying this; in an academic setting, that seems just as objectionable as racism.
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by teacup50 10y ago
GPL means I can't use it as a library unless I also GPL. No thanks.
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by teacup50 10y ago
At which point you have a whole bunch of other problems, including not having a garden in the first place. That said, money does solve that problem too -- if a home owner accepts that they're being pushed out by development, there&#x27
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by teacup50 10y ago
The idea that upzoning decreases property values is a pernicious myth that keeps being used to bludgeon these people as greedy NIMBYs. Upzoning in response to demand increases property values. It's very simple: you can charge more peop
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by teacup50 10y ago
So what if there's a "sentiment against OS X"? I've been using Macs for 30 years, including OS X since the 10.0 beta, and the recent changes have left me with a "sentiment against OS X" not unlike the "sen
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by teacup50 11y ago
Dropping POSIX in favor of a syscall ABI implicitly defined by Linux's implementation is a pretty substantial backwards step.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Isn't this just a Linux monoculture? It's not like you can run most containers as-is on a platform like OS X without actually virtualizing Linux itself.
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by teacup50 11y ago
I think the 'vetting' is in buying products that are sourced through Amazon's supply chain, rather than vetting third-party sellers. Unfortunately, there's not a "hide 3rd-party sellers" preference toggle.
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by teacup50 11y ago
It would have been far, far, far, far more difficult to do, and far more difficult to hide. That's the entire point.
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by teacup50 11y ago
> Scarcity caused by NIMBY land use policy is driving up housing costs. The fix is aggressive upzoning. > Source: Help friends who work on affordable housing policy. This is common knowledge. Affordable housing policy advocates ar
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by teacup50 11y ago
He used patsies to claim the winning tickets; that's why he got away with it for so many years.
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by teacup50 11y ago
That's his point. A hardware TRNG's bit stream (plus bias filtering, if necessary) could be wired to flip-flop gates (shift registers) to output lottery numbers, with a component count in the low hundreds at most, no software to c
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by teacup50 11y ago
You do understand that cities build up around industry, right?
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by teacup50 11y ago
You do realize that's not the "wait" in question, right? It can take months or years for a 3rd-party to reverse engineer the hardware in question and produce a compatible replacement.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Accessible, but proprietary. SSD upgrades depend on third-parties producing the hardware -- that can mean waiting a while, if not forever.

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