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by zajio1am 6y ago
> I never understood the concept of "optional" library. Either your program requires a library or it doesn't. The program may have an optional feature that requires a library. It does not make sense to force everyone to in
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Roma from Romania are not illegitimate. They are free to move across Europe. Note that freedom of movevement inside EU/EEA is not unrestricted (like, say, inside USA), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Which makes me think... why did I just sit through that long "configure" script run, and why did the developer bother messing with autotools, if this project isn't even going to bother targeting anything but Linux with t
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by zajio1am 6y ago
0-based arrays/indexes are also based on abstract concepts. 1-based ordinal numbers (in both maths and language) are just tradition from time before 0 was generally accepted. Set theory (as a clean design of math foundations) also star
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> It's pretty swift in a number of European countries, days not weeks. Unlikely. After election, coalition negotiation starts and that took weeks or months. Only after a new coalition is negotiated then a new government may be voted
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> For example if I was a father and somebody killed and raped my daughter. I'd like to think of myself as someone who'll kill that person if he receives anything less than a life sentence And then some relative of that person w
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> It still makes a huge difference if money is distributed through the hands of the government, or dedicated 1:1. Not really. You can make it mandatory government expense by law, so it is not controlled by the government and its change w
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Sanders here mentions similar policy in Germany, but forgot to mention differences between US and german corporate governance models (one board vs two boards). In Germany (and many other EU countries), companies have executive board and sup
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Yes, but these parties use 'social democratic' after a split of socialist parties in 1920s into social democratic parties and communist parties. So no need to use 'socialist' instead of 'social democratic' unle
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> GNU's "four essential freedoms", which imho are a little naive in retrospect, don't say anything about this. "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose." That clearly includes purpose of
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Isn't that handled by multiarch support?
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> (which everyone outside of CS does) In set theory (math foundations), ordinals also start at 0.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Well, i started programming in Pascal (with 1-based indexing) and later switched to C. I remember that after switching to C off-by-one errors magically disappeared.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
I wisth they do not put up funds to signal. It is closed ecosystem. Even traditional phone calls are more open (having federated independent operators and interoperable implementations).
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Seems to me that there are two factors: 1) If you are weird, then you have mismatched expectations about relationships (and other social obligations) than majority society. Not providing something that is expected would be 'neglect&#x2
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by zajio1am 6y ago
PC Engines makes a long-term series of pretty open router boards that works with vanilla Debian, current iteration is APU2: https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm It is pricier than low-end router, but they are high performance
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by zajio1am 6y ago
UK is bit of special case, as although it has parliamentary system, because of single-member districts it gravitates to two-party situation with clear winners. That is rarely case in other countries, where PM often depends on fragile coalit
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by zajio1am 6y ago
French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen expressed freedom of speech at roughly the same time as american Bill of Rights, and used formulation that is more general and does not restrict just the government: "The free
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> She was not elected by the voters. The voters were told that the winning party's candidate would be the commission president. Now von der Leyen is. She did not run in the election. Well, this is true for prime minister posts in mo
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Having businesses dictate who they want to serve seems like censorship but having the government dictate it seems way worse. Leaving B2B aside, for B2C it is basic consumer protection laws common in EU. If a service is offered to a gen
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by zajio1am 6y ago
The thread is not about First Amendment, as a specific legal protection, but about general societal principle of freedom of speech.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
The pivotal book about freedom of speech, 'On Liberty' from J. S. Mill, is predominantly interested in freedom from societal suppression, not just government suppression: "Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> I think software works well with “benevolent dictatorships” as long as there’s no lock-in or requirement to use it. Communication systems have implicit lock-in due to network efffects. That is why it is important to support federated s
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by zajio1am 6y ago
It is sad to see this push for yet another centralized client-locked comm-tool, being justified that this time it is OK because backing corporation is non-profit. Ther real problem of centralized, closed systems is not profit, but concentra
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Why do you think that compensation should have anything to do with 'deserve'? There is no 'deserving' value for work, it is just about balancing demand and supply for work. The only realistic way to raise average wage is
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Signal requires phone number in order not to store your contact list on their servers. That does not make sense. There is no relation between 'using phone number as id' and 'storing contact list on servers'. E-mail
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Do not they have e-mail? That seems like safe default.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Well, due to limitiations in supply, housing is market based on scarcity. There is no way to fix that without fixing the fundamental issue of insufficient supply.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> why can we not agree that the people who do the job deserve to be compensated with a living wage Living wage based on locally inflated housing prices is just fundamentally broken concept. It is just ideological cover for wealth transfe
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Watching TV stations was the only purpose of TV set, while social network apps are just one of many purposes of mobile phones. Many people do not use such apps, but still use mobile phones.

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