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by valvar 7y ago
The target audience isn't people who need to use Skype, Snapchat, or Uber. But I'm sure it will be possible to run some of those android apps through anbox. Spotify has a Linux client, and for YouTube there's the FreeTube cli
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by valvar 7y ago
This may have been a product of Erlang's 'let it crash' philosophy: https://wiki.c2.com/?LetItCrash
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by valvar 7y ago
>Oh so you'd retract saying "pseudo-intellectual hack" then? Definitely not. One can be an expert in one area, and still be completely incompetent while claiming otherwise in another one. Chomsky is just as well known for
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by valvar 7y ago
I'm sure. What do you have in mind?
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by valvar 7y ago
>Academically he has contributed into linguistics and theoretical computer science This is true, but >As a political thinker he forms his toughs and arguments irritatingly well. is something people keep saying, but which I have never
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by valvar 7y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how this pseudo-intellectual hack is taken seriously at all. But I suppose it must be by people who have not really been exposed to any serious thinking before. Leaving aside how unoriginal and trite the things h
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by valvar 7y ago
I never received my issues, so I disputed on PayPal. They never responded to the dispute so I won it automatically after a month or whatever it was. Then, a year later, I received some issues in the mail. Bizarre.
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by valvar 8y ago
>evoking Hitler was a bad way to make your original argument You'll notice that I was reducing to the reduction to Hitler, not reducing to Hitler himself. And this is not such a long stride to take, as the reduction to nazism had al
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by valvar 8y ago
>but organisations and structures defining themselves by those words very rarely practice what they preach Is there some sort of evidence for this? >A meritocracy would never allow harassment of people on the basis of things that have
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by valvar 8y ago
So basically, you are trolling. Thank you for being candid.
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by valvar 8y ago
Should the separation not be between ``low-life scum on the internet'' (the far right) and ``not being explicitly politically correct'' (being apolitical)? ``We need more political correctness'' (the far left)
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by valvar 8y ago
I'm actually not sure about what you are trying to communicate. Are you attempting to mock me for highlighting logical fallacies?
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by valvar 8y ago
Thank you for your well-formulated contribution to the discussion.
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by valvar 8y ago
That is neither here nor there. The GPL is ideological in a way that sits well and has done so for a very long time with, I assume, pretty much the entire Linux community. This also seems to have been the case with the previous CoC, as well
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by valvar 8y ago
And instead one should... Attack the ``status quo''? This line of reasoning is inherently partisan and extremely political as well as divisive. Believing that meritocracy is bad is a fringe belief, and in this case there really is
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by valvar 8y ago
Is it a worry, rather than simply being crass, when the author of the CoC herself has said that it is indeed a political document[1]? [1] https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1041465346656530432
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by valvar 8y ago
It's a well-informed opinion that is based on the fact that what we do know indicates[1] that, probably, P≠NP. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem#Reasons_to...
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by valvar 8y ago
Well, then you're not part of the segment that's targeted by specialist coffee shops.
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by valvar 8y ago
What's your source on this? My impression, without having any particular evidence, but as a Swedish citizen, is that they follow a similar policy as American police if their own safety is at risk. The main difference is that there are
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by valvar 9y ago
They might mean a swan that is black on one side but white on the other, i.e. gives the appearance of being an extremely rare or a very common event, while in fact being the opposite.
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by valvar 9y ago
Or perhaps we should take a second look at the incentive structures (robbery by license of coercion) which cause the rise of such nasty alternatives?
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by valvar 9y ago
Or those who lack the general education required to understand the common reference can simply, you know, Google it?
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by valvar 9y ago
Have you people not heard of Malthusian traps? Either we limit the world population artificially, or we continue having poor people. It really is one or the other.
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by valvar 9y ago
There is no such thing. Every demographic gets discriminated against in some way or another, in ways that are not always directly comparable. Self-victimization, I'm sure, will be of great help.
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by valvar 9y ago
I don't think you understand the conservative objection to 'safe spaces', or else you are intentionally misinterpreting. The problem with 'safe spaces' is precisely that they hinder free discourse and mutual interac
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by valvar 10y ago
But it is. You need those resources and a way to predictably obtain them. The system of currency is the only known way to achieve this, especially in our modern society. Previously, it may have been possible for a large number of individual
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by valvar 10y ago
You'd be surprised how much a vocal minority (which is a lot more than 5% in agricultural states) can push senators around. Still, even 5% of the population constitutes a very powerful special interest.
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by valvar 10y ago
Farmers do! And farmers also vote. And that's the reason for why they are subsidised. Farmers have a special interest in receiving subsidies, and politicians gain far more by pandering to them than by saving a little bit of money for e
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by valvar 10y ago
Why exactly is democracy the best, or shall we say "least bad", option? Have you, or has Churchill, evaluated all of the alternatives? And how does the belief that you air in your last sentence, that government should reflect all
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by valvar 10y ago
I'm not sure if you missed the joke, or if I missed a joke that you just made.

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