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by zucker42 6y ago
For example, I honestly believe the Oculus founder believed the promises that you wouldn't ever need to use a FB account to use an Oculus, just given his public comments.
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What is it about being the CEO of a startup that causes people to believe these promises?
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Hmm, the text of the Creative Commons license is such that I would think such suits would be unsuccessful in court. Specifically, it has a section about reinstating your rights if you fix a violation of the license after you are notified. H
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Collabora is roughly to LibreOffice what RedHat is to GNU/Linux.
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I doubt they want to tie their fortunes to Google, especially given that Google is one of their competitors. Furthermore, Collabora produces mostly (maybe all?) libre software, so integrating with Google doesn't mesh with that. Collabo
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Yes, that's what I mean. They allowed the subs to self-manage. They also explicitly and publicly expressed support for open discourse and admin non-interference.
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They explicitly defended and espoused free speech/open discourse in the early days. It was very much part of the ethos. One of their founders (Aaron Schwartz) was a famous activist in areas intersecting with free speech. They were know
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by zucker42 6y ago
I remember when Reddit was considered a bastion of free speech. It's amazing how the culture's changed so quickly. But it does appear like this particular incident is a mistake made by automated moderation. https://www.
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Huh, I didn't know Thunderbird was financially decoupled from Mozilla. What's the history of the relationship there?
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Why did GPLv3 force the embedded Linux community to drop GNU?
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Given he's the leader of GNU and formerly the leader of the FSF, he's responsible for any failure of GNU/FSF to live up to their potential. Given that free software and open source have only become more popular recently, and
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Not the OP, but GNU/FSF has stagnated in the past 20 years. There's no cohesive vision; GNU is more of a ecletic collection of software packages than a complete OS. The FSF has no huge influence; most of its impact is based on its
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I suggest you look up the history of Kazakhstan's capital move. Capital moves are often used by authoritarian leaders to consolidate their power by using the move as an excuse to punish and reward underlings, isolating themselves from
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What's difference in average cost of an Android phone versus an iPhone?
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System76 doesn't design their own laptop hardware, as far as I know.
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Yes, this very well could be true. I suppose when I wrote "standard" I meant to convey that the ideas can be attacked in standard ways from both libertarian and liberal/progressive directions more than that his ideas were uno
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I've not read any of his books, but I have watched quite a few long form interviews with him, to give you a sense how I've developed this impression of him.
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Every discussion of Sowell online seems to attract fans of his declaring how brilliant he is. It's a bit strange the sort of hero worship he attracts. Personally, I've never seen it; while he seems like a reasonably smart person,
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Based on the comment in the source, the hash table doesn't handle hash collisions. And furthermore, I don't see the code which benchmarks this versus other hash tables, just the claim that it is 2-3x faster. Specifically, comparis
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The amount of data is absolutely insane.
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You're changing arguments. Your first comment was phrased in present tense and was about current Israeli aggression. Now you are supporting your one-sided view by claiming the original settlement was illegitimate. The reality is at som
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That's a very one-sided explanation. I'm not saying that Israel are the "good guys" but there's more to their conflicts with their neighbors than just Israeli aggression.
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By the way, the way she found the "true value" of the integral to verify her method was to graph it on graph paper and count the squares underneath.
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She used the name "Tai's model" in the original paper.[1] I would consider that naming the method after herself. [1] (PDF link https://math.berkeley.edu/~ehallman/math1B/TaisMethod.pdf
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This comment is just wrong. It's still integration even if you only have enough data to approximate the integral. Also, Wikipedia's definition of the trapezoidal rule permits intervals with different sizes.[1] I don't know wh
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To what extent do those needs have no replacements, and what percentage of livestock raised for food are used also for other products?
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I guess the problem is if their calculations are wrong and they are actually allocating more memory than expected. I think a better approach (and one which NASA uses from what I've read) is to only use static memory.
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So it seems like to me you are saying that PoW has energy issues but that's not a problem because of PoS, but at the same time PoW (BTC) will continue to exist and consume at least the same amount of energy as it currently does. It&#x2
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I own a small amount of Ethereum. But I consider it more of a speculative research project that a lot of people believe in, rather than something that you'd be stupid not to own. In general, I don't know if it's a good idea t
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But the sociopolitical benefits of many current cryptocurrencies are not worth it, because they process pitifully few transactions, both in an absolute sense and relative to the energy they consume.

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