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by zajio1am 6y ago
How do you handle CI to ensure portability to big-endian systems? Running in emulator or on real hardware? Does anyone know about some reasonably priced big-endian linux hardware that could be added to build system to run CI tests on big-en
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> The survival and progressive sophistication of human society and culture has always depended on the effective function of community-level values -- whether understood in terms of duty, honor, shame, mores, rule of law, or other mechani
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> What about tragedy-of-the-commons collective action problems, like pollution ... I (and OP) wrote about (informal) duties defined by society as a whole, not (explicit) laws approved and enforced by government. Laws are necessary minimu
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Duty defined by society and not individuals themselves is a mark of a non-free society. In free society everyone is responsible for choosing their fate and their commitments, externally imposed commitments are kind of oppression.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
While it is true that many people are preoccupied with shame, it seems to me that shaming is primarily an external, relations-based action (attack on shamee's social standing) more than internal, the psychological effect (inducing sham
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by zajio1am 6y ago
I checked the webpage and i must say that i am totally confused. First, it says buttplug is a library. Then, in architecture overview there are 'protocol' and 'client/server', which does not make sense for a library
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> If I end up going back to the country I was born in and leave the US what benefit do I have as a US citizen? You have a benefit of a right to return to the country of your citizenship and to live there. You also still could vote in a c
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> To the extent mandatory quarantines are justifiable Mandatory quarantines are justifiable, buth their enforcement using surveillance technology is not. In free countries we trust citizens to uphold laws and only punish those who trespa
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Taiwan (and some other countries) used phone surveillance location-tracking to enforce quarantines: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan... That is like using ankle bracelets for tracking people
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by zajio1am 6y ago
If the light bulb has the same intensity as the light reflecting from the book then i do not see much difference. Monitors have brightness setting.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> By external LED light you mean the lightbulbs in your home? Yes
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Benefits: Zero distraction Zero eyestrain No Bluelight Why should there be difference? 'Distraction' is a question of applications, not monitor type. Eyestrain is a result of long-term near focus and insufficient blinking lea
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by zajio1am 6y ago
It is not just tax-paid insurance. Main point is that single-payer is essentially monopolist buyer and can use its market power to push prices down. Which is good to get cheap and good medical care, but may lead to systemic underfinancing o
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by zajio1am 6y ago
You do not need death, just discount rate preferring near experience to far. Thinking about what if you only had 1 year to live just encourages short-term gains to long-term ones.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
In electric cars particulates from braking are also hugely reduced, as most braking is done by engine / recuperation.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
This reminds me an affair from 2006, where National Security Bureau of Slovak Republic (NBU SR) used on some servers password "nbusr123".
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Well, this is what conferences are for.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
One can ensure people have their due representation without making DC state. e.g., giving DC special senators and representatives in House (with regular voting powers) without making DC state (and thus keeping US congress exclusive jurisdic
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by zajio1am 6y ago
A friend of mine has similar issue and solved that by running Linux in a Virtualbox (and doing most work there).
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by zajio1am 6y ago
The advantages of social hierarchies seem straightforward to me: 1) Tree structure minimalizes communication complexity. It minimalizes both latency and total cost of communication/decision process, which has usefulness for both busine
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by zajio1am 6y ago
That is also true for religious groups.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> That’s insane. If this were to hold up then any royalty obligation could be shuffled off to a shell entity?! Why would this be surprising? If that was hired work (instead of licence for IP) for company A, then IP owner is company A and
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Hot take: HTTPS-only mode is a bad idea if it is not paired with first-class support for self-signed certificates authorized using DANE+DNSSec. It just forces everyone to use broken/redundant CA model.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Non-repudiation over time is a truly powerful property of DKIM'd email for a great many uses outside of blackmail. Exactly. If one enters into an contract using an e-mail, then DKIM can be used as a proof to the court of law that
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by zajio1am 6y ago
There is TLS client authentication, unfortunately it never catched on, probably due to not good and uniform UX in browsers. Imagine if web-browsers have automatically generated password-protected self-signed certificates that could be used
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by zajio1am 6y ago
The interesting part here is that there is a record of public discourse that lead to the US Constitution. So you do not see just the product, but also the process that preceded it. Also note that people do not just write constitution to sat
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by zajio1am 6y ago
If you just show worst bits of one side, make them define the side as a whole, and then show idealized version of the other side, that is pretty much propaganda, even if these worst bits are described accurately.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> There's a similar author in Russia, Nikolai Nosov [1] It is worth noting that he alse wrote Dunno on the Moon - hardcore communist propaganda for children.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
This is a common pattern how to break pricing mechanism and prevent competition - separate choosers of the service from payers of the service. In this case free hosting is offered to publishers, they choose to host their images there and th
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Unless it is a printer+scanner combo, which requires some proprietary part that is downloaded by hplip package from HP web, and causes random breakage during upgrades.

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