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by virgilp 3y ago
It's also relatively easy to write this legislation. If you: - sold licenses that are no longer usable to access the work (i.e. if you invalidate by any means already sold licenses) - don't put work in the public domain/don&#
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by virgilp 3y ago
I taught a course "in a previous life" and while I wasn't anything close to as strict as you say here, I can tell you the flip side: students would copy, modify superficially (some, less superficially) and then claim "it
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by virgilp 3y ago
How is it a fact? I would argue that most people derive negative value out of Facebook. Is $150 per gram of cocaine "good value" just because some people enjoy it and come back to it?
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by virgilp 3y ago
Which goes to show that the soundbite was stupid, and wrong. You're the product on Apple too, even if you pay.
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by virgilp 4y ago
> Microservices should only perform a single task. If you are not able to achieve that isolation, maybe you should switch back to a monolithic architecture. Do not get fooled by the current trends, microservices are not meant for everyth
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by virgilp 4y ago
Doesn't have a time machine, or else I'm sure by now he would've taken the option of "not invading Ukraine in the first place".
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by virgilp 4y ago
> So maybe over regulated? Doesn't look like FB, Google, MSFT or Apple are anywhere close to exiting the EU market because of regulations so ... maybe not?
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by virgilp 5y ago
Ok, let me retry: > An Arkansas woman says she had no safe place to pull over in July 2020 The Arkansas woman was lying. That's it. I was not defending the cop, and never did I claim he was behaving professionally. Still. The Arkans
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by virgilp 5y ago
definition of "heresy" is quite clear in the article: - the fact that it's heresy takes priority over the question of truth or falsity - it outweighs everything else the speaker has done (I would add that the implication of t
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by virgilp 5y ago
I don't want to defend him, what he did was *wrong*. He should absolutely face consequences for gross over-reaction. I never said his response was reasonable given the circumstances. But the way the story was presented was extremely bi
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by virgilp 5y ago
I think I saw that video - don't get me wrong, the officer was definitely an asshole; but I can see why he was annoyed, there was in fact plenty of space &time for her to pull over.
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by virgilp 5y ago
Since you claim "gender is a social construct" or "immigrants are good" are examples of heresy - can you provide examples of people fired over stating these opinions? I'm not aware of such instances but maybe they&#
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by virgilp 5y ago
Is the Turing test "simply wrong"? Or do we need to further qualify it, as in "a GPT-3 chatbot is human-level only if it can fool any human for a long period of time, not if it can fool _some_ humans for a relatively short pe
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by virgilp 5y ago
Not sure if they do this, but: I signed up for prime for free, forgot to cancel, and got billed. I cancelled when I saw the charge, and then instead keeping my subscription for 1 year (or month, I don't remember), Amazon actually refun
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by virgilp 5y ago
CNN good enough? https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news...
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by virgilp 5y ago
> they haven't sent over the majority of their equipment, Really? I thought they sent in like 75%. Here's their current reinforcements (see the Z letters): https://v.redd.it/qadkws73hwl81/DASH_720.mp4
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by virgilp 5y ago
> The only possible "win" (using the term very loosely) for him is probably to utterly destroy Ukraine. That's not a win insofar as it doesn't guarantee his position at home - it likely further weakens it. For a &quot
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by virgilp 5y ago
Not you, personally; those who choose (or are compelled) to stay .
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by virgilp 5y ago
> And what will this fight be for? For your honour. So that you do not become a citizen of North Korea; so that you do not take part in <this>. Honour systems developed independently in many chaotic/violent societies - not irr
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by virgilp 5y ago
I don't buy this. The NATO message was clear & consistent that they will intervene in case of an attack on a member - there's 0 reason to believe otherwise. In fact, I'd say that current response in Ukraine enforces this
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by virgilp 5y ago
If you're relying on criminals you already have excluded widespread/mainstream use. The question is not if "crypto is a novelty that enables some people to go around some laws" - everybody can readily agree to that. The
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by virgilp 5y ago
But it does not - or, to the extent that it does, it only does as a yet-unclosed loophole. If crypto is not currency, it needs to be converted to currency before use and as such can trivially be blocked with KYC rules at conversion. If cryp
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by virgilp 5y ago
Which is exactly what I'm talking about. Communism = "for sufficient power to influence/accomplish a goal, you must be in the party elite (tens, at most hundreds of persons)". Liberal democracy: "for sufficient pow
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by virgilp 5y ago
When Musk decided to pursue space (or EV for that matter) he had very little power. Wasn't even a billionaire yet. There are thousands of people with similar fortunes that you never hear about.
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by virgilp 5y ago
And you know what tends to happen? Something comes along, that makes it feasible. It might be something surprising. And then, all of the sudden, there's no way to respond - because Oracle the company is so entrenched in the business mo
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by virgilp 5y ago
But it is - they could because the party leadership wanted to/ decided it was important. My point isn't that communism can't achieve anything, it's that you can't have private initiative that's against the part
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by virgilp 5y ago
Yeah but communism as a doctrine will inevitably lead to exactly that, concentrating too much power into too few hands. Because if you want to look for the "collective interest" of the people, then people will disagree. Musk can d
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by virgilp 5y ago
This is unfortunately not a joke. It blows my mind that many people today don't understand that communism can only work in a primitive society (the "pure" form that many dream about) or it inevitably leads to an authoritarian
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by virgilp 5y ago
It makes perfect sense to do what they do! And in all honesty sometimes they grind for a very long time before achieving true success (see: Xbox). That said, people don't always realize how many things Microsoft tries (and subsequently
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by virgilp 5y ago
Microsoft will frequently hype up things only to drop them 1-2-3 years later. Beware of the hype, especially when coming from MS. Also, keep stuff up-to-date, MS will at the same time maintain things forever and drop them mercilessly (look

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