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by zizee 9y ago
I'm not one to defend our pollies, but these same "utterly devoid of morals" parties are the same that put in place home solar energy subsidies that have resulted in Australia being the world leader in rooftop solar uptake.
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by zizee 9y ago
Australia is the world leader in roof top solar PV installations per household. http://theconversation.com/factcheck-qanda-is-australia-the-... And now that the technology is cost competitive, there are many plans afoot: h
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by zizee 9y ago
> The result was an extra 2 million orders a year. Does the author actually believe that the change of the form setup was solely responsible for the increase in orders? Or was this just a poor choice of words? It is a pity that they did
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by zizee 9y ago
It's not even a fair comparison. One is construction/installation vs running. I would be interested to see how many deaths have occurred during the construction of nuclear plants. How many deaths occur from solar once it is built&
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by zizee 10y ago
I think Reason077 is arguing that it is quicker and cheaper long term to invest in wind/solar rollout and storage solutions than nuclear. i.e. it is a better solution all round. It is a valid point. Once batteries are cheap enough, it
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by zizee 10y ago
Does anyone have any numbers on what battery prices need to get to before Wind/Solar are cost competitive with nuclear? Double internet points if you account for direct/indirect subsidies given to both Wind/Solar/Nuclear
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by zizee 10y ago
No cafe worth its salt (in Australia) would be caught dead using UHT milk. Perhaps it is a cultural preference (and what I am used to), but I hate it when I am overseas and see them pull out the UHT milk to make my coffee. It just tastes ho
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by zizee 10y ago
I think the grandparent was trying (rightly so) to avoid giving a spoiler by being ambiguous. Perhaps you could put a [spoiler] prefix on you post.
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by zizee 10y ago
Here here. I really don't get the fascination with aeropress on HN . Perhaps I am not yet at the ultimate level of coffee snobbery, but whenever I have had aeropress coffee i am always disappointed with it. Espresso all the way. I se
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by zizee 10y ago
Correct me if I am wrong, but none of those other devices sound like an espresso machine, so to comparing the product produced by them with the product of a pod device produces is apples to oranges. Perhaps I am a bit particular, but I&#x27
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by zizee 10y ago
Bit late replying, but another couple of points: If a class of resource is cheap and abundant, evil dictators/1%ers don't really have much motivation to prevent people accessing those things, unless they feel it somehow undermines
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by zizee 10y ago
Some throwaway thoughts: Having all production automated will result in falling prices, including the cost to automate something. This should result in a lot of competition, driving prices down even more. In this scenario, it is difficult t
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by zizee 10y ago
I run a curated newsletter builder platform^, that includes subscription/delivery component. After reading this, I'm going to survey my users (email publishers) to see if enabling RSS subscription is something they are interested
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by zizee 10y ago
As a side note, that episode left me wondering why the original seller didn't open their own eBay store, listing the product at their desired price. I would have thought it would have effectively undercut the resellers and gain a large
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by zizee 10y ago
> the derivative works aren't really relevant Um... why not? If I am the end user of a work derived from some GPL code, then having the freedom to see/modify and re-distribute that code is valuable to me. From the very start of
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by zizee 10y ago
> What's stopping the end user from just downloading the source code? Ah, the ambiguities of the english language! You are talking about the original code, whereas I am talking about the derived work. If the Publisher of a derived
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by zizee 10y ago
> GPL is ironically one of the least free licenses This is a common misunderstanding as you are talking from the perspective of a publisher, rather than that of an End User. GPL is about enforcing the rights of End Users, not Publishers
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by zizee 10y ago
Absolutely correct on all points. I do think it is worth clarifying your statement: > The MIT license gives less rights than GPL The MIT license gives less rights to end users than GPL. The GPL gives less rights to publishers than MIT.
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by zizee 10y ago
> Of course you can, but that's pretty pointless. The moment someone tries to use the wrapper the wrapped GPL library must also be present, so then the whole thing becomes GPL. It may be pointless (I don't agree), but I wasn&#x
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by zizee 10y ago
Oh, I understand what Mullenwegg/WP is doing, and where his incentives lie (hence my selfish comment). I also understand Wix/Kol are in the wrong and need to take corrective action. I just think (maybe incorrectly) that Mullenwegg
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by zizee 10y ago
Exactly. I believe copyright infringement is wrong, but it is not stealing. Words have meanings! If you use the word "stealing" in these discussions, you either want to push your case dishonestly by ratcheting up the stakes, or yo
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by zizee 10y ago
Well, Wix does appear to be in the wrong here. I believe the code in question is for a mobile application, which means that they are distributing GPL'd code without GPL'ing the entire application. This is a clear infringement of t
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by zizee 10y ago
His comment in the other thread was NOT essentially the same as this one, as this comment makes a single point. Copyright infringement is not "stealing", whether it being downloading a movie or not adhering to the terms of the GPL
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by zizee 10y ago
I don't think your point 3 is correct. Wix did not re-apply the MIT to WP's code. Wix only applied the MIT license to their own wrapper code and pointed people the the license of the "dependencies" in their readme. That
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by zizee 10y ago
Wix's library appears to be a wrapper for Wordpress's GPL library. I am not a GPL expert, but I believe that Wix has the right to publish their wrapper code using any license they like. Publishing their code as MIT is not the same
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by zizee 10y ago
Some people believe that copyright infringement is a morally acceptable response to copyright terms changing from limited to effectively infinite duration.
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by zizee 10y ago
> The people in charge exist for the sole purpose of making people unhappy Are you saying that all business owners (including small businesses) are sadists? Either you have worked in only really bad workplaces or you have a really dist
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by zizee 10y ago
99 points! No comments... Is this being voted up just because people like ruby?* Or is is something awesome that everyone thinks everyone else should know about, but is not worthy of discussion? * I like ruby
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by zizee 11y ago
it's like saying horses beat all human running records Not to detract from your original comment, but human's are pretty competitive with horses over long distance running https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_v
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by zizee 11y ago
Well, at the rate solar panels and battery storage is improving (read cheaper), by 2040 solar will be cheaper than coal by a country mile. I wouldn't be surprised if on grid solar is already cheaper than coal, if coal wasn't massi

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