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by thu2111 6y ago
I think there's an implicit assumption here that there will be a definite end date to this. I really hope there is, but there's another possibility that looks more likely as time goes on: lockdown has permanently broken the brains
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by thu2111 6y ago
Of course it's relevant. It says a lot about the local government, about their priorities and perhaps about the people who live there that led to it. Their attitudes on this are reflective of their attitudes on other things. The exodus
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by thu2111 6y ago
The bosses only have power if they are willing to exercise it in order to fire the people who are 'scrutinising' them. Is that really what these people want?
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by thu2111 6y ago
The reaction to COVID is not within anyone's living memory. COVID-like events definitely are. 2009 Swine Flu, predicted to be hugely deadly, WHO changed the definition of pandemic so they could declare it one. Ended up being a non-e
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yeah, but there's also a very very close to zero percent chance that people labelled as "deniers" are actually saying the Holocaust never happened. The sibling comment seems to reinforce this intuition and in fact the article
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by thu2111 6y ago
This is the public face and leader of the company that publicly advertises a certain set of values Presumably you're arguing they should stop advertising that set of values. But then that'd be used to condemn them as well. why
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by thu2111 6y ago
Good for the firm, bad for activist employees. That data point will be used against them by people like Cirne. Clearly we're starting to see firms separating into "we just get work done here" like Coinbase/New Relic and
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by thu2111 6y ago
Hmm, you might want to rethink that. Just this morning I was reading this: https://www.city-journal.org/california-race-coding-criteria... Public health authorities in California have unveiled a “Blueprint for a Safer Econ
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by thu2111 6y ago
Well, not really. That page is a collection of current events but they're essentially random, with no filtering or ranking for relevance to the reader. So there's some incident in Azerbaijan related to some conflict with a neighbo
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by thu2111 6y ago
But anti-trust law is vague, and violations are often in the eye of the beholder. A sports game is also the wrong analogy because sports games have very clearly defined rules, specifically to avoid referees picking winners. Governments are
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by thu2111 6y ago
The fact that the people who built Reddit ads didn't care if it worked and now blocks ads might explain why Reddit isn't profitable.
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by thu2111 6y ago
The concerns people have with unions are not particularly amenable to statistical analysis. However at some point a sufficiently large collection of anecdotes does become data. Pretending people can hear stories of union-related BS so man
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by thu2111 6y ago
Only with some restrictions. I can't remember what they were but it was something like a circular dep between two interface sections wasn't possible, but between two implementation sections was.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Worth noting that JetBrains was founded in 2000, at a time when Borland Delphi was at its peak.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Worth noting that Java has this too now, it's called the "jimage" format. However it's not used for redistribution of compiled artifacts, that's still JARs. Instead a jimage file is created when JARs are "jlink
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by thu2111 6y ago
Don't forget the most irritating restriction of all - no circular dependencies between PAS files. That one could get really painful later on in bigger projects. The Delphi compiler was really great, but it was meant primarily for GUI b
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by thu2111 6y ago
Thanks. Having had many years of being downvoted on HN I can assure you it doesn't matter how specific you are, if you aren't leftist here then leftists will downvote you as much as they can. Sometimes an especially aggressive lef
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by thu2111 6y ago
There are ways of copying APIs that do not violate copyright Are there? That's exactly what's being litigated. Two inventors build the exact same thing Patents don't cover APIs, by the nature of their form as a patent typ
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by thu2111 6y ago
No they wouldn't. MS would only be able to sue people who reimplemented the NT kernel API for their own projects, which is basically just Wine and ReactOS, but those projects have no money. This case is not about using APIs to build
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by thu2111 6y ago
The standard GUI toolkit for Java SE at the time was Swing. That would never have been appropriate for mobile, but they'd have had to support it anyway. Also the Android team believed that HotSpot wouldn't work on heavily RAM cons
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by thu2111 6y ago
No, it's pretty clear. Relatively minor changes in behaviour (Swedes were famously out chatting in cafes and shopping at a time when many other places were under universal curfews and business closures) cannot explain the huge deviatio
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by thu2111 6y ago
I don't think it's a numerical bias. Rather the extreme left are just hyper-aggressive in ways other parts of the spectrum aren't, especially libertarians are not aggressive and they were traditionally a big bloc inside tech
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by thu2111 6y ago
They already switched to OpenJDK a while ago. I think this case covers historical damages back from before they did that.
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by thu2111 6y ago
IIRC it wasn't purely about money. Sun had a mobile platform at the time, J2ME. If you wanted to use Java on mobile, it had to be J2ME. There was no option back then to just pay money and pick'n'choose which bits of Java you
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think what you'd see instead is a widespread destruction of some kinds of creative industries, combined with a retreat to technology platforms that enforce copyright with technological rather than legal means. See: the video games in
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by thu2111 6y ago
Tortured analogies like this is why the whole software industry is going to be making a surprised pikachu face when Oracle wins (see my comment a day or two ago on the prior story for substantially similar sentiment). Heat transfer to a pot
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by thu2111 6y ago
Where did I claim unionising is extreme? I claimed that Kickstarter specifically unionised because of extremism, namely, the belief that it's essential to help fund those advocating violence against conservatives (or really, anyone who
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by thu2111 6y ago
Oracle's argument isn't legally circular or anything like that. It's actually very strong, which is why it's problematic: the industry status-quo consensus that you can't copyright APIs has no obvious basis in copyr
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by thu2111 6y ago
But what we're slowly learning is that a huge percentage, perhaps most of that "millions upon millions of dollars and man hours" ends up producing terrible papers that don't replicate (in science) or don't even say
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by thu2111 6y ago
That's called election hacking No it's not. This term has already been widely abused and I doubt many people take such claims seriously anymore, but widening it still further to mean "making pledges designed to appeal to vo

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