thehardsphere

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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Not just a company in the US, but the right of any group of people who are not the government to freely associate in the US. Free association has implicit within it, the right of people to choose who they do not wish to associate.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
It would be unconstitutional, though a version this question is going before the Supreme Court right now in that case involving Christian bakers and gay wedding cakes. I think the baker's lawyers are basing their argument on that sort
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
It was run by literal neo-Nazis, I think. Pretty sure the literal Nazis were either put to death, sent to prison, died of old age, or ended up hiding in Argentina somewhere never to be heard from again.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
More crucially to your point 2, NPM allowed people to remove packages once they've been released, and for others to release packages with the identical name as a previously-existing package. I'm not aware of any other package mana
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Which approach is "more realistic" depends on whether you are evaluating the decision between an electric car and a gas car at the margin , or not. If it's you as a consumer buying the next car to be produced, then it is ent
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
People downvote unpopular opinions, even if those opinions are relevant to the discussion and expressed politely. Though that would be strange in this case because it seems like most of the expressed opinions are positive with regard to sys
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I don't care today; I don't have a daily driver using this stuff today. I care for my future self who might have to deal with this. It was my understanding that the major mainline distros adopted it because Red Hat coerced Gnome i
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I stopped using Linux for personal before this systemd thing was an issue, but I was considering it again now that I might get a new computer and because I've got an app running on a pre-systemd Linux VPN. Since I have very little firs
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Because it's not merely an init system anymore. That was the initial pitch for it; now it controls everything, including things that were not broken to begin with.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I'm guessing in the ensuing 14 years this offering did not continue. I wouldn't know; I'm part of the generation that swore off buying software or computers at Wal-Mart when they were selling Duke Nukem 3D with the parental c
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Part of the way we go from "un-supported conclusions" to "well-supported conclusions" is by the optional nature of belief. Because belief is optional, the proponents actually have to go to the effort of supporting their
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I'm confused by what you've written here. When you say they "left out the petrol", are you assuming that a better analysis would assume that the petrol is never made in the first place? I mean, that might be the wish but
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
> They are. Remember that you also have to factor in the whole chain of crude oil underground -> wheel rotation if you want a proper comparison. Transporting and refining gasoline isn't free either. Do you? I mean... we're s
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Because the "pay gap" comes from the fact that men and women in aggregate make different choices with respect to how they develop their human capital. When you compare groups of men and women who make the same choices with regar
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
The US did not arm the Taliban; the people who formed it were too young to fight in the Afghan war against the Soviets.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
No, actually the article clearly assumes that North Korea would have multiple shots, but not enough to eliminate the US. The strategy for them would be to hit Guam first to degrade American conventional war capability and then explicity for
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Minor correction: Saddam Hussein did not "play along", he pursued a policy of nuclear ambiguity. The resulting ambiguity is what caused his regime to get kicked over. Libya's Gaddafi did play along though, and still got kille
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
> Pyongyang can’t affect the US’ ability to respond in any meaningful way. Even if Guam sinks into the sea, there’s still South Korea, Japan, ICBs & the US Navy. On top of that, there’s no guarantee that North Korea could even hit Gu
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
> So your argument that what makes a person a good software engineer is the whiteboard coding algorithms? No, his argument is that what makes a person a good software engineer is the ability to think about an abstract problem and come up
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I've seen other studies that have suggested lower divorce rates than would be expected for police officers, and that divorce rate varies based on specialty and experience. More experienced police officers are less likely to divorce, as
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Industrial sabotage?
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Are you sure the webdevs discussing every language and the webdevs spawning MySQL are the same people? I mean, speaking purely about languages, there are lots of webdevs who just love PHP and will never consider an alternative to it, even i
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
As said in many other comments, the idea that there is even a "strict mode" which was not on by default for many years is itself a problem and a red flag for other problems.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Communism as originally described by Marx is essentially an anarchist ideology. The idea of having a state attached to it before the complete transition to classless society worldwide is complete and how powerful that state should be, are a
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Thank you for this link.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I think that very much depends on what your communist society looks like in practice. If you actually somehow managed to create somewhere a successful communist society that actually succeeded at completing the revolution without a powerful
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Really? I know scientific publishing is terrible in a myriad of ways, but communism? Communism? We have to throw out the underpinnings of modern advanced civilization because Elsevier makes too much money?
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I think your rant would be more interesting if you stuck to complaining about the topic at hand with more brevity.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Given that the python controversy was basically a guerrila marketing ploy to sell his revised book, I wonder what his angle on this will be.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
There might be an insight, but it's not particularly valuable.

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