justinjlynn

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by justinjlynn 2y ago
At Intel, nobody pays the grad student proportionally for their massive contribution to the bottom line.
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by justinjlynn 2y ago
Yeah, people - in general - tend to do this with anything novel, sadly - especially novel design. See what Steve Balmer said about the iPhone for a commercial example. For Engineering examples, well, see the controversy around anything by P
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by justinjlynn 2y ago
Are you certain that you're not playing with words to arrive at a predetermined conclusion? What is this "I" to which you're referring and how can you demonstrate that "I" does not or cannot exist within system
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by justinjlynn 2y ago
I use AI systems to keep up with AI research. The telescoping has begun... and we're still near the bottom of the (super?)exponential curve.
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by justinjlynn 2y ago
Indeed, it's _you_ who are the human "resource" HR is managing.
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by justinjlynn 2y ago
Pratchett really got technology, imo. Sometimes it really is high energy magic, but most of the time it's just labourers you can't see being exploited. I especially enjoyed the line "money dangled is far more effective than m
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by justinjlynn 2y ago
Scale-free infinity.
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
The statement "(A)GPL" probably should've been written "GPL/AGPL"... apologies for the miscommunication.
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
Yes. The (A)GPL is there for a good reason (in part, this one - ensuring one's work and other's work on it remains free and open source and commercial freeloaders can't get a free ride), and trademark law ensures you retain c
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
Boils down to: if they want to make an example out of you, they will find some way to do so.
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
Lobby to socialise or externalise all the costs. Work to privatise only the profits. Typical mode of operation.
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
(it's not a basket case because it's nationalised, it's nationalised because it's a basket case - thank the automotive industry - and it's a national security asset)
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
Insufficient and negligent quality control systems design permits a single point of failure in manufacturing process specifically designed and funded to prevent such things - calling into question the trustworthiness of the manufacturing pr
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
Journalists with articles and Politicians with laws... yep.
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
IIRC In git, the earliest possible commit date/timestamp is the Unix epoch. Interestingly enough, for this application (the .gitignore file) I'd imagine the offset from the epoch is set to zero. This would result in the commit tim
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
What's wrong with that? They are. We can always make the finer distinction of "Von Neumann architecture inspired digital electronic computer" if you wish to exclude the examples you've given. After all, anything which tr
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
Apple rarely delivers on promises that involve allowing people out of their walled garden. Remember that, for the longest time, just disconnecting your phone number from iMessage was... very much not easily done or guaranteed to work at all
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
The beginning?
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
The massive prevalence of physical junk mail would refute your argument that even a significant per message cost would dissuade abuse.
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
Yes. The employment of which is also euphemistically known as a "kinetic military action".
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
Because capitalism is a bad thing for rich people when poor people also get to do it like they do.
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
Maybe shouldn't have been given advanced notice at all, since it was during trading hours.
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
There are a lot more sheep than farmers...
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
If I recall correctly, it was the resulting cash flow that needed to be laundered, and the potential of those operations to eventually result in the funding of terrorism, that was the alleged concern.
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
Oh, just the death of the planet through waste heat buildup. That's all. Just a small matter of code should fix that.
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
If people phrased it as what it was "doing psychoactive drugs with co-workers/competitors in a non-work setting" ... the activity would seem as dangerous as it always was. It's just that now people, rightfully, have high
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
Is there any better embodiment of entrepreneurial capitalism than stealthily appropriating an entire planet, privatising it, and then naming it after one's self? ... I'd be hard pressed to think of one.
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
Huge respect for making that work in the first place! Would love to hear some kind of retrospective about what wa involved in that - I'm super curious.
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
In short, backups aren't actually taken until they have been verifiably restored.
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by justinjlynn 3y ago
> most large Tech companies have a blanket ban on AGPL sounds like it's doing its intended job well then?

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