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by tovej 5y ago
Would it? What would the threshold be? Twenty lines copied verbatim? Ten lines copied verbatim? What about boiler plate like ten #include statements at the beginning of a file? Or licenses in comments? What if someone has a one-liner that&#
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by tovej 5y ago
An algorithm is maths, you can't patent maths. Patent lawyers and business people have however somehow managed to convince courts/patent authorities that configurations of computer systems are patentable (or some similar argument)
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by tovej 5y ago
Some things are more worth it than others, and you can choose how much effort you put in. Small commits are definitely worth it when debugging. I've lost hours, maybe even days because of long commits that were a pain to bisect. The he
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by tovej 5y ago
Yeah, automatic host discovery puts the MAC address (almost) verbatim at the end of an interface IP, but it's an optional feature. In the vuln report, it turns out automatic host discovery is used after all, but the IPv4 is also based
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by tovej 5y ago
“has been shown to reduce malware by 60 percent.” is hilariously vague. The statement means absolutely nothing! 60 percent compared to what? Is the metric that's decreased the number of infections or the number of infections by unique
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by tovej 5y ago
The automatic host numbering feature in the IPV6 standard (modified EUI-64,RFC 4291) was a big mistake. But I thought that worked the other way? that the MAC was part of the IP, not the IP part of the MAC.
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by tovej 5y ago
Yeah, HTTP should be a protocol that users can use freely (as long as they don't use it for Denial of Service). I don't see why I shouldn't be able to fetch a website, scrape it for information and reassemble that information
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by tovej 5y ago
I totally agree, salaries aren't bad, bonuses are. And pay disparity can be a problem, especially if salary data is hidden. I think most of the time the problem is a lack of openness about salaries and why they are as they are.
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by tovej 5y ago
This is not performance data, this is market share data.
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by tovej 5y ago
Early adopter usage is definitely a valuable indicator though.
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by tovej 5y ago
That's correct, that's why I said financial motivators don't matter _after_ you already have a comfortable life (your needs are satisfied). [1] and [6] both argue that rewards that aren't conditioned on performance (e.g.
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by tovej 5y ago
Any characteristic that is relatable can be part of your identity. Or, put another way, any differences between you and another person which makes your emotional responses different can be part of your identity. People who can relate around
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by tovej 5y ago
It seems I have to qualify "recent", this was already studied in the 70's [1]. But recent material is available as well [2],[3],[4],[6]. [3] provides a view from an economists perspective (incentives), [6] looks at motivation
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by tovej 5y ago
Recent research shows that financial and other extrinsic motivators actually inhibit performance. After a worker has achieved a base level of income that makes their life comfortable, any extra treats they receive will decrease their intere
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by tovej 5y ago
Enjoying the ride is miles better than sabotaging your team.
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by tovej 5y ago
Tangentially related: the book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter is a computer science classic that deals with incompleteness among other things (mostly self-references in formal systems) in a fu
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by tovej 5y ago
The clown prince of Korea, everyone.
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by tovej 5y ago
"Among the worst" is a bad qualifier, I'll admit. Not least because it is vague. However, the US is still worse than Europe when it comes to social mobility. Going back to the original argument that something in the US's
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by tovej 5y ago
So US social mobility is only slightly better (insignificantly) than the two worst countries in Europe. I think that article rather supports my claim. Italy is also rather a troublesome example, because northern and southern Italy are vastl
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by tovej 5y ago
Europe _has_ monetized these thing, through open source companies like MySQL and QT. But even if it hadn't they're still a net positive for society.
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by tovej 5y ago
US upward social mobility is among the worst in the world. US workers are stuck in a rat race that simply doesn't exist to the same extent in Europe.
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by tovej 5y ago
It has potential. But it is better than open source only if you trust all the maintainers in the organization. And previous maintainers who have now left the org. And only if the codebase is routinely looked over and tested, no part of the
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by tovej 5y ago
What's your source for the claim that a typical Roman citizen is white? That's a pretty bold statement. Much bolder than the relatively non-controversial statement that Rome had a diverse population. You also seem to be really cau
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by tovej 5y ago
Libya is still white then? It feels like you're just moving the goal posts to include all people under "white". If the Roman empire had covered all of sub-saharan Africa I wonder if you would be arguing that they're real
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by tovej 5y ago
Not the article, nor anyone in this thread so far has claimed that Roman senators were black. But now that you mention it, Septimius Severus was a dark-skinned Roman imperator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severan_Tond
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by tovej 5y ago
It depends, if you count Armenia as Persian, then all Persians in Armenia lived within the Roman empire for a century. Maybe count Armenians as their own group, that's a safer bet. I think you've hit upon something here with defin
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by tovej 5y ago
Right, I'm wrong about the Turks. I meant to say Persians.
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by tovej 5y ago
It's great that you're engaging in the discussion. You didn't really respond to my questions though. If you could, it would ground your argument, and we could actually talk about something concrete. Also, if you have some sou
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by tovej 5y ago
What does "white" mean? Are you telling me the Romans were British? German? Nordic? It's clear that the Romans were an amalgamation of Indoeuropeans and Etruscans. Gauls, Celts, Goths, Greeks, Turks were all part of the Roman
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by tovej 5y ago
It's a question of information asymmetry. It's always easier to be on the attacking side of cyber security. If the attackers have good intel, and the defense isn't organized, their work is much easier. With (popular) open sou

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