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by zeth___ 8y ago
More like 30 years ago. But yes, now would be good too.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
I know scientists are terrible at PR, but why not say: "Used as foundational block of the Sage library, used in the following papers: [...]" then list every paper that used sage. No one can't prove that Singular wasn't c
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Sounds like the old "linux isn't linux, it's gnu/linux/x/firefox" debate. If people use sage to get the work done, they are using sage. I don't see intel wanting recognition for every scientific paper
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Funny, funny story. The US used graphite and paid ridiculous amounts of money for it. The USSR greased pencils or out right crayons instead.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
This sounds exactly like the middle ages. Royalty would pay the equivalent of millions of dollars today for spices because they would balance your humors.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
That we have a standard of living that high is a historical contingency. Industrialization can work with slavery just as well as it can with 1970s style welfare states. It is politics and struggle that determines which version of industrial
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Mass starvation is inevitable from the climate change we have already locked in the system alone, not counting unpredictable events like WWIII, a revolution in China, or any number of other low probability high impact events. The only quest
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by zeth___ 8y ago
You are indeed wrong: https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/09/economi... It wasn't until 50 years after the end of the first industrial revolution that living standards increased, and c
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Point per point you're saying what the rich of yesteryear said about their society. The poor overthrowing the rich wasn't viable in 1913 either. Lenin himself said that it would be generations before a revolution could occur. And
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by zeth___ 8y ago
>when robotic physical labor and the cognitive tasks capable by automated software eliminates the ability for the bottom 50, 60, 80% of the population to compete economically, what's going to happen? The same thing that happened the
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by zeth___ 8y ago
There's the olimex fully open source computers that have everything documented and don't need binary blobs to run. https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/open-source-hardwa...
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by zeth___ 8y ago
I'm talking about the 4th Crusade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(1204)
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Look at those whiners in the Holocaust. You haven't seen oppression until the Mongols come and build a pyramid of skulls from your whole country.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Much like the child that cried wolf, calls that Venezuela is doomed any day now, have lost all potency. If the media hadn't discredited themselves in the 00's with the coverage of how terrible the place was we could actually belie
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Venezuela will surely fall apart any day now. American economists have said every day since 1999.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
And managed to do it for 1000 years until religious extremists destroyed Constantinople in a terrorist attack.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Given that you're comparing two non-interchangeable products the above is wrong. If we had one firm control 90% of oil reserves and a free for all for coal that the fossil fuel market was free.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
The free market is a market where no producer or consumer can manipulate price. It needs as much regulation to run as any Soviet Bureaucracy. The reason why it's efficient is because the price computation is distributed.
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by zeth___ 9y ago
I believe in the free market. And the first assumption of a free market is that no single supplier is large enough to significantly affect the price in the market. The smaller the firms get, the better the products.
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by zeth___ 9y ago
Anyone who was alive in the 90/00's can't be happy with microsoft, anymore than anyone who was alive in the 70s/80s can be happy with big blue. Are they different companies now? Yes. But not by choice, the market beat th
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by zeth___ 9y ago
Linux has better legacy windows support than Windows for windows apps already. As you say, it's not user friendly, but when your boss tells you 'get this working or else', wine will get you there eventually. Now if this was p
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by zeth___ 9y ago
Facebook is a mirror in the same way meth is a mirror. That everyone has self destructive tendencies is pretty clear, it's only when you get a reward for following through with them that you have a problem. That the reward is likes or
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by zeth___ 9y ago
Any system of rules will have a utility monster. Be it the Politburo, or Wall Street.
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by zeth___ 9y ago
Have you had a look at org-mode babel? It's extremely interesting how they have managed to create an all plain text environment that is in some ways[0] better than the current notebooks. Of course it's not as user friendly and ne
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by zeth___ 9y ago
Jupyter isn't a foil for mathematica. It has completely different use cases. The straight one to one fight is between sagemath, or their rebranded cocal site, and mathematica. In terms of ability to do things sagemath is the glue betwe
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by zeth___ 9y ago
>It's not clear to me why it's not troubling to European citizens for their government to be in charge of what information is and isn't relevant to the public. Whenever I ask people about this, I get the response "wel
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by zeth___ 9y ago
Laws have very little to do with sense. There is a reason why PGP was going to be published as a book of source code to get around the munituons export ban thay affected crytography in the 80/90s by creating a first amendment issue.
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by zeth___ 9y ago
[[citation needed]]
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by zeth___ 9y ago
When you hand write you need to switch hands on the reverse line. It's quite difficult to teach people to be ambidextrous.
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by zeth___ 9y ago
>What I don't understand is how the important leaders and influencers of the world, like Obama, or Bill Gates, or others, are not ashamed to show themselves near Zuckerberg. Because they are just as shity as him. They just hide it b

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