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by wegs 6y ago
Your hypothetical was lousy, I agree, but if you're going to hinge your argument on a lousy hypothetical, I'll push back on that hypothetical. To answer your questions: (1) Yes, driver code can do things like this. If you don&#x27
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by wegs 6y ago
Let's work through this example. You're a manufacturer of devices using FTDI chips. You make an emergency system for airplanes which e.g. releases breathing equipment, or life rafts, or similar. Or a backup avionics system. Due to
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by wegs 6y ago
Neat! In contrast to previous toys I've seen like this, EDEX-UI seems to have a bunch of good ideas. It's not something I'd use yet, but it's close. The idea of showing files in my current working directory is good. Ther
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by wegs 6y ago
All the execs make for-profit salaries, and profits flow back as investments of the MIT/Harvard endowments. They qualify as a not-for-profit on paper, but they're no different than any other investment of the MIT/Harvard endo
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by wegs 6y ago
Plenty of other schools in the area offer better, more rigorous instruction. If that were central to the value offering, no one would go to HBS.
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by wegs 6y ago
I'm not close enough to this situation, but the evidence I have is: (1) He said so. (2) There weren't any allegations of improprieties in the past decade or two in the articles I've read. (3) 30 years ago, likely a majority
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by wegs 6y ago
I think key in my post was "and reformed." There were plenty of, for example, KKK members who then became anti-KKK activists. If you were born in 1915, and your parents were a member of the KKK, odds are pretty good you might have
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by wegs 6y ago
Core to any sort of social progress is the belief that people can change, and people changing. I sure as heck wouldn't want anyone judged for views they held 30 years ago. I don't want to be judged for the views I hold today in 30
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by wegs 6y ago
Mostly, because all that would do is cause is random inflation and inequity. When donating money, you are reallocating resources. That can lead to improved economic growth, if for example you are allowing people to go to school, start busin
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by wegs 6y ago
I think one of the questions is whether microfinance works as a bank, to make a profit, or works in lieu of donations, where loans are subsidized and act as a force multiplier on donor money. If I had my druthers, I'd set up a VC firm
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by wegs 6y ago
What do you mean by advanced nodes? If you're talking about nanometers, you've got TI, Micron, and a few others. Where you have deep voodoo are some of the MEMS and analog manufacturing processes (e.g. ADI). Those aren't nece
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by wegs 6y ago
I'd say it's much more willingness to be a bit psychopathic. Most people wouldn't compromise their integrity to move into the C-suite. The competition is fierce, so the people who make it to the top are the people who /a
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by wegs 6y ago
Because it's not protecting itself from a risk. A badly-written license or contract exposes Goldman to significant and unknown risks. This is why you should always either (a) Use a standard license (b) Hire a good lawyer to draft a lic
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by wegs 6y ago
Fair enough. The original 4-clause license is also in the hall-of-fame of bad licenses. I believe you can also find bad legal code in a lot of the NC licenses, WTFPL, and the Hypocratic/ethical licenses in the same hall-of-fame. I woul
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by wegs 6y ago
The BSD license does NOT contain "All Rights Reserved." See: https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause That would contradict the license t
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by wegs 6y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I have taken law classes focused on business and IP law. I've also worked with a lot of lawyers around licensing issues. My understanding is that copyright ownership grants a specific set of exclusive rights: (1)
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by wegs 6y ago
Absolutely correct. And that's just the tip of the iceberg... "grant to any third party any intellectual property or other proprietary rights;" If I've used this on a web page, a third-party has the rights to view and ma
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by wegs 6y ago
The license was written by idiots. E.g.: b. The User may not use the Licensed Font Software in any “open source” or other code that would create any obligation for Goldman Sachs to: (i) grant to any third party any intellectual property or
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by wegs 6y ago
It was before your time, kid. (1) I think you underestimate the early web by quite a bit. It had a lot more awesome than you give it credit for, and if not for dot-com bubble + bust, it would have evolved in a much more thoughtful way (2) A
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by wegs 6y ago
Much as an argument confusing World War II Germany with the Holy Roman Empire might be called 'well-said.' You're confusing the early web era with the dot-com boost/bust period. The early web were the era of dozens, perh
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by wegs 6y ago
Your timeline is completely confused. ASPX came out in 2002, after HTML4. HTML2 was the era when CGI scripts were dominant. Next, HTML2+SGML were also well-designed, and people weren't just doing regexp. The mess didn't come in un
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by wegs 6y ago
Well, no. As much as I liked SGML back in the days for human-readability, having an SGML/XML/etc. parser is not the problem. The problem is understanding what the document is. Today, much of the web consists of an empty DIV, popul
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by wegs 6y ago
From my perspective, the reason to have a language for static documents is parsability. With HTML5+CSS+JS, there are few organizations at the scale which can sustain making something like a web browser, a general-purpose web crawler, a11y t
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by wegs 6y ago
I'm not complaining about what you're doing. I'm describing what I want. You can accuse me of being unreasonable, but people said the same thing about remote controls. Who'd be lazy to not just want to walk over and swit
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by wegs 6y ago
That's a !@#$ good idea for avoiding swear words :)
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by wegs 6y ago
One big difference is that if I order a parts list and PCB based on your web site, if you've made an error or have a part missing, I'm stuck debugging. If you're putting together a kit, you've (presumably) gone through a
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by wegs 6y ago
I'd buy one if: 1) It was prebuilt, plug-and-play. 2) It comes as a kit. I can do it as a project with my kid. Once assembled, it's as above. Kit is consumer-friendly. Digikey parts list and PCB is a little over my laziness tolera
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by wegs 6y ago
Those are kind of fundamental to multicore / multithreaded CPUs, not just Intel. If I have many tasks running on the same CPU, tasks can interact in complex ways. That can leak traces of information, and a clever enough person can pry
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by wegs 6y ago
Good idea! Your downside is a major concern, but it would take all of 5 minutes to patch sha256sum to have a new output format, and another 3 months to have a PR approved. Ditto for most libraries, except where written into standards (and I
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by wegs 6y ago
This book ruined many hours of my childhood, when I was in high school. I read it. I didn't understand it. I reread it. I still didn't understand it. At the time, I didn't realize I needed to know basic differential equations

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