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by zajio1am 5y ago
Similar results here in Czechia, girls outperform boys on teacher-assigned grades, but boys outperform girls on standardized tests (high school final exams).
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by zajio1am 5y ago
It is not really question of OS vs library, but question of standardized API vs ad-hoc API. Most basic networking API is standardized (sockets in POSIX API).
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Czech activists cut giant Pac-Man into rapeseed field(expats.cz)
2 points by zajio1am 5y ago|1 comments
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by zajio1am 5y ago
As a non-native speaker, i rarely have an issue with advanced vocabulary or idioms from native speakers. The thing that is hard to me is understand heavy accents of other non-native speakers or local accents. Also some ungrammatical constru
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by zajio1am 5y ago
About year ago, i started to run Firefox in memory-limited cgroup (to 4 GB), so when it eats all the memory, it just locked itself (by thrashing pages at full SSD speed) and not the whole machine. It is done by: In /etc/rc.local:
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> There are two sets of contradictory facts being reported in this whole saga. One of the groups must be lying. Or both have different interpretation of the events which emhasizes different aspects. There are still some key facts in the
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> It is useful to ask what you are trying to achieve with an UBI? Remove poverty trap and improve dignity in social programs. Many social programs already offer equivalent money but they are means-tested. Effort to get more income may le
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Gatekeeping is relevant only when there is scarcity. If there is a pair of people (A, B) where A's desire for sex is three times bigger than B's, then although both A and B have full bodily autonomy (that nobody disputes), in prac
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by zajio1am 6y ago
EU alredy regulated interchange fees for cards to 0.2% for debit cards and 0.3% for credit cards: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/lt/IP_15_...
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> If UMN’s ethics board has approved this experiment in cooperation with Linus/Greg, there would not be anything to be outraged about. I do not think that would help. This was done on public mailing list and deceptive behavior was a
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> I'll be the odd one out and say that I see nothing wrong with their study. There are much more skillful, much better resourced actors who can do what the UMN did much more discretely. Puting these patches under false pretense is d
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Which part's ignorant? Statements like: "In a typical transaction, no value is created." > If I pay $10,000 for land and $50,000 in materials and pay $90,000 in labor to produce a building that I sell for $200,000, di
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Exactly. This is just a level of ignorance that for me makes whole article not worth reading.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
If you rolled your own, you invest your time to learn about the problem domain. If you use third party libs, you invest your time to learn about its interface/behavior. That is usually much more ephemeral knowledge. It is good tradeoff
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> FTP does not play well with the current way the web is set up. Any firewalling or NAT is a pain unless you have the firewall introspect the FTP commands, That is true only for active mode FTP. Firefox (and many other clients) already u
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> I fail to see how any of this is intolerant, or transphobic. Yes. RMS argued for gender-neutral pronouns since more than twenty years ago. Just because it is a different set of neutral pronouns than is popular today, some people mark h
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Row for option 2 is: Option 2 137 168 165 239 227 199 222 222 voted for option 2 over "we should talk about this further" (default position), which is ~53% (222/420).
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> 2/3+ of voters in Debian supported calling for RMSs removal 2/3+ is overestimate. About 52% (228/439) preferred one option from 1-4 (anti-RMS) better than neutral options (7-8). If we ignore winning option 7, then 63% p
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German constitutional court strikes down Berlin rent cap(politico.eu)
86 points by zajio1am 6y ago|91 comments
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Why should not? Deepfake technology is just a tool, that has both legitimate and illegitimate usages. Can be used with consent of displayed person, or e.g. in political satire.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> If you take a filename in C, and then have to display it somewhere, you're facing the same problem If you have such problem, it is often better to ignore it and pass data around without any conversion (to force data to be valid ut
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Yep. GNU Taler should be enough for all needs of a decentralized payment system. Not really. Unfortunately GNU Taler has distinct customer/merchant accounts so it is more alternative to specialized service-payment systems like vis
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by zajio1am 6y ago
But OP does not contain discussion about sex with minors. That discussion was (in the past) on his personal web stallman.org .
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by zajio1am 6y ago
So do not read his private webpage (which is full of his personal political opinions). RMS clearly separates his free software-related activities and other personal opinions.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
It is fascinating to me how humane and sincere his statement is (compared to empty phrases of corporate leaders and predictable rhetoric of culture warriors), considering his putative issues with tone-deafness and social clues.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> In many places this makes Minsky a rapist, whether or not he knew i) she was trafficked or ii) she was coerced or iii) her age. In most places rape, like most crimes, require both actus reus (victim was coerced) and mens rea (perpetrat
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> You are not taking into account that in Europe you get free healthcare Single payer health care is not necessary 'free'. Here in Czechia one pays mandatory 'health tax/insurance' in addition to regular income t
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> You do not pay the government VAT. You collect VAT on purchases on the governments behalf, that amount was never yours in the first place. While technically true from the legal and accounting point of view, but from economic point of v
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Most western countries that were part of communist bloc can say that.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Once that happens, it seems to me we'll basically stop being human. People are going to want to feel whatever emotion is convenient in that moment. I would say it is the other way. Many animals have emotions. It is sophisticated a

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