yarrel

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by yarrel 10y ago
LOL.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Extend then extinguish.
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by yarrel 10y ago
And if you're charging for the resulting software then objecting to being charged in return is simply entitlement.
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by yarrel 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikilawyering
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by yarrel 10y ago
NIST is agency of the United States Department of Commerce.
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by yarrel 10y ago
That's not a boycott. That's a capitulation.
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by yarrel 10y ago
The entire history of HTML up to and including HTML5. :-)
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by yarrel 10y ago
As the market expands out into the dustier corners of the Modernist landscape and requires provenance for previously low-valued artists we'll see many more articles like this.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Meaning is formless?
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by yarrel 10y ago
You know it's going to happen.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Thereby accidentally improving the privacy of their users in the middle of their current drive to destroy it.
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by yarrel 10y ago
It's not a conspiracy, no. It is harm from a historically bad actor. So it's not accepted with enthusiastic gratitude. And there's no reason why it should be.
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by yarrel 10y ago
You're the ones performing this erasure and making this generalisation. I don't mean you personally, I mean you.
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by yarrel 10y ago
It's too easy to proclaim every failure to shut up and listen to be censorship, sure, but Twitter is a corporation and its users are in a contract with it. Power granted and enforced by the state is at play here at least a little. The
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by yarrel 10y ago
Here comes Mega City One, or the BAMA.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Corporate smart phones, sure. Consumer smart phones are a very different prospect.
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by yarrel 10y ago
A couple of years ago I found Perl was fastest at processing Wikipedia dumps. It also didn't require having a JVM preloaded to make startup times acceptable during development (naming no other tools). I do use shell tools to process da
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by yarrel 10y ago
By original do you mean Frontier?
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by yarrel 10y ago
ETC is a pump and dump scam.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Thank you, this is a great conversation.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Why do you regard UBI as foolish given that real-world context? I'm interested as opinions for and against it do tend to be from 30,000 feet.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Let us know how that works out for you by age 17.
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by yarrel 10y ago
It's not open source. This kind of confusion is part of the problem.
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by yarrel 10y ago
At heart this is a call for several reductions in user freedom. The GPL exists to protect the freedom of users. So these reductions will not be introduced into the GPL, unless there is an extremely good tactical reason for doing so. "B
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by yarrel 10y ago
That one doesn't, as it confuses a code exploit with discrimination against individuals. Refusing service and calling the cops when a customer tries to empty your cash register are similarly different things.
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by yarrel 10y ago
See William Gibson's "The Winter Market", which deals with these issues in a still-interesting way - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winter_Market
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by yarrel 10y ago
They really can't. If the argument is that code is law, the fork was implemented in code, so it's law. If their argument is that the white hat hacks shouldn't have happened then they lay themselves open to the argument that t
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by yarrel 10y ago
There's no default for or against the fork. You have to explicitly choose.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Bitcoin had to hard fork to revert transactions early on due to a bug in the code (not a bug in code written on the platform, a bug in the platform itself).
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by yarrel 10y ago
History.

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