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by vacri 9y ago
> As for installing Debian on various kit -- I'm more than slightly familiar with it. Including doing zmodem transfers of UUEncoded DEBs over serial port in order to get PLIP up so that I could get PCMCIA ethernet running. Bootstra
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With the exception of the desktop space, from tiny embedded machines to the world's top supercomputers, linux installs dwarf any other OS. If you want to compare 'macos' and 'linux' machines at that level, macos is
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> Not at all. I'm not telling anybody how to be happy. Well, you were. You said it's hard to be pursue happiness without property rights. Anyway, you're conflating two aspects of property rights. First, the mere concept
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You were prescribing me an avenue of pursuing happiness when you said property rights were required. This kind of hypocrisy is rife throughout libertarianism. If anything, by showing you additional ways to be happy, I was increasing the opt
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by vacri 9y ago
There are plenty of ways to pursue happiness with little emphasis on liberty and property rights. Check out buddhism, for example, which is big on finding happiness with what you've got. Private property is not a prerequisite for happi
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If I have to wait 3 minutes for a bus instead of 2, I am 'qualitatively worse off', but that extra minute doesn't flip into being 'a tire fire'.
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While that's the official libertarian rhetoric, from experience talking to people who identify as libertarian, they're less about life and the pursuit of happiness, and more about liberty and the protection of property rights.
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The Linux kernel is a massive project with a web of contributors and maintainers, and it's clear which of the senior level members could step in at any given time. Big open-source projects have plenty of meatspace to draw on. It's
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Sparklines are good for at-a-glance monitoring, as they're a way to show travelling-window patterns in a small space. They're useless for numbers, but great for patterns.
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> how indirect the chain of causality is A monkey didn't sneak into his hotel room and take a happy snap. He sought them out and spent days with them, and handed his equipment to them. That's not 'indirect causality&#x27
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You make it sound like engineers are the odd ones out, when in fact they're the norm and sales work is the weird one. Apart from some hospitality jobs and other tipping work, most permanent jobs have a set rate per hour. From the janit
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The artist in this case hiked into a south-east asian jungle for the purpose of taking wildlife pictures, and spent days gaining the monkeys' trust in order to get close to them. Sounds more like the photographer defined a hell of a lo
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It's also worth saying that kangaroo in Australia is a bit like deer in the US: city people think the animal is a bit magical, country people think it's a bit of a pest; some people hunt it for food; you can buy the meat in some b
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On the other hand, Android services everyone, whereas Apple tells the developing world to fuck off. Apple's privacy is only for the social elite who can afford their expensive toys, and they're not interested in providing service
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You're right. Americans should discard Turkish and Chinese CAs in favour of one homed in the heart of their tech capital in Silicon Valley. Clearly those foreign ones are shysters and not to be trusted like a locally-built, trustworthy
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> The user should be the one controlling the list of trusted CAs and servers, not a third party such as ad-supported company or organization distributing a web browser. No, they really shouldn't. Security is a ridiculously complex
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More trouble than it's worth. The current style of lightweight rubber or plastic bumper is already elastic for small collisions and absorbs some energy from larger ones, deforming as it goes. Replacing that with a comparitively complex
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This is different to soft drinks in other countries... how? Change the drink to whiskey, another popular one, and you can be sure that there's a difference between what the American rich and poor drink. > no amount of money can get
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You complain about not waiting for new tech, and then complain about not using current tech. What use is future tech going to be if it's applied with the same kind of people? Also, what kind of tech are you expecting to be developed th
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> particularly of those small, fast elusive ones you barely glimpse How is taxonomy going to help you if you don't get enough identification time and don't have enough herpetology to identify the snake's species and genu
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> Naming species forms the foundation of biology No, it really doesn't. It really, really doesn't. People study biology all the time and get useful levels of skill without ever being aware of species classification. Taxonomy
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Of the 200 or so countries in the world, most of them do not have an effective, fair justice system, available to all. Without that as a minimum, have a defined process is largely meaningless.
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Some amendments are more strongly enforced than others. Also, it's the 6th that's a speedy trial. The 8th is the equally-ignored excessive fines and punishment. At least the 3rd is still going strong!
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Perhaps instead it's time to work on prevention, rather than cure?
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That's all great news to hear. Thanks for the informative response :)
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It's not that 'the poors were duped'. It's that until very recently, a piece of paper was a very effective salary multiplier.
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Did she just do it the once, or was she just caught the once?
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I moved to post-its about six weeks ago during an intense period with lots of small jobs. I am the only one who does what I do here, so the interoperability isn't really required... and I'm not keen on going back to a digital tick
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> [upgrading ELB], in those situations we work directly with customers via AWS Support. This is painful, though. I don't know about Sep 2017, but in 2016 upscaling your ELB involved answering a block of 21 or so questions in a lis
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Confluence used to support a markup language, but they discontinued it for maintainability reasons, as they were also supporting WYSIWYG.

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