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by xunn0026 5y ago
This is sadly somewhat correct. The power is have in the real world is about the same but the illusion of power in the real world is higher.
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by xunn0026 5y ago
> I think we can all agree, we ought to have an expectation of privacy when we send an email directly to one of our contacts. We ought. But in my country I once received a piece of physical mail from a more important institution in a mor
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by xunn0026 5y ago
In my experience historians are quite interested in politics and many end up going into politics. Studying history is almost like a macro study in politics.
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by xunn0026 5y ago
I was just wondering if a web page that counts visitors is idempotent. Not?
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by xunn0026 5y ago
> I don't know how the breakdown of society makes itself felt for you There is no 'safety net' anymore: many things are either closed or handling Corona. This is what I mean by breakdown of society.
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by xunn0026 5y ago
I've worked remote for over a decade but this past year has been harder because you had so many more chores around the house plus less options to go outside plus school closures. So, I am basically quite tired . I am kinda considering
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by xunn0026 5y ago
For starters, the vaccines were anticipated to create herd immunity. The fact that we are debating about the conclusion of a study showing multiple vaccinated healthcare workers infecting themselves shows we are pretty far away from what wa
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by xunn0026 5y ago
> And I hate to brag, but I have a (light) cold right now. :-) LOL
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by xunn0026 5y ago
Did you have a cold the past year? I did not. All because of the social distancing. Turns out if you personally avoid people and crowds (social distancing) and if indoor places are closed there's fewer situations to get any virus. Unle
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by xunn0026 5y ago
As if it wasn't obvious the mass isolation and sedentarism will have massive mental and health impact.
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by xunn0026 5y ago
I have just read the article and the title is spot on. It's a digital law hidden in a law about highways and it is a privacy and regulatory disaster.
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by xunn0026 5y ago
"Society" has not clearly chosen such thing. Governments LOVE this power, but don't confuse governments with society. I would also LOVE to see each and every transaction my state does but all I see is high-level budgets with
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by xunn0026 5y ago
We noticed a month ago a few water snails crawling upside down the water surface.
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by xunn0026 5y ago
So they are migrating to an internal Atlassian Cloud and the production deployment (after 1 year of development) is hitting some performance issue. Seems to be expected. Things rarely deploy flawlessly. Sadly BitBucket isn't what it us
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by xunn0026 5y ago
The good thing about this is that within a decade there will be no more corruption, no more forced prostitution, no more corporate abuse. It will be utopia.
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by xunn0026 5y ago
It's not a different issue. You used academic papers as the standard we could use for open source and it's provably worse. Even copyright... isn't Elsevier a major copyright holder for all academic papers and thus causing all
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by xunn0026 5y ago
Have you heard of... patents? Why is an idea written on paper so valuable? Why can't people just use it (or, as it often happens, independently rediscover it) and just cite the patent if recognition is required? As for scientific resea
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by xunn0026 5y ago
> he was bullied into using the GPL and not the BSD license. No he was not. He did believe it was a good pick but in retrospect it wasn't. He was not 'bullied'. The nerve...
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by xunn0026 5y ago
Sure, you enter a pool with a trillion % APY and then wonder why it collapsed!? Oddly, the article doesn't mention the LINK Oracle they used rounded the price to a number of decimals and since TITAN went too low the price returned was
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by xunn0026 5y ago
Because if it's somebody that has to push boundaries it's not the plebs it's trillion dollar companies.
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by xunn0026 5y ago
Not really. Back when free software was strong, it would have been a good thing for society since Microsoft was selling software in boxes on actual store shelves. Now 'the edge' is already mostly open source. All the lock-in and v