kazagistar

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by kazagistar 6y ago
Thats wrong too. If you use an unmodified version of AGPL software, or just host any modifications in a public repository like github, then you aren't in violation of AGPL, even if the rest of your stack is proprietary and your service
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by kazagistar 6y ago
Side note: In an open office, people quickly learn to cheat and claim unused spaces like conference rooms for working undisturbed.
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by kazagistar 6y ago
The people forced another election, and elected his party MAS (movement towards socialism) more overwhelmingly then they elected Evo Morales in the election last year where he was couped. On the other hand, MAS intends to exploit its lithiu
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by kazagistar 6y ago
All the first world countries already despoiled and continue to despoil the resources of the world at an alarming rate. They owe a debt, and this is asking them to pay that debt to those who haven't done so.
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by kazagistar 6y ago
There is room for many types, and when it comes to more traditional storytelling, games can create more direct emotional connections by making you the character, rather then the protagonist just being someone you watch.
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by kazagistar 6y ago
Critical race theory is so obvious its just boring. The boogeyman the right makes out of it just feels dumb.
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by kazagistar 6y ago
Also, work to increase the democraticness of institutions in your country so that it may be changed in the future, and work to change people's thoughts on matters so they grow the will to change things.
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by kazagistar 6y ago
The fact that the consequences are cleansed away makes it not remotely historical. You aren't playing a subset of history, you are playing a subset of propaganda.
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by kazagistar 6y ago
Whats the point of setting it in a real war with real consequences if you are just going to erase all those realities? So many games seem set up so people can play war without consequences, but if you do that at least do it in a setting whe
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by kazagistar 6y ago
Monopolies (or even high concentrations) of power are bad, whether that's financial or legal or whatever. However, democratization can redistribute that power back amongst the people. The goal should be to work towards nearly even po
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by kazagistar 6y ago
The DNC doesn't have full throated machinery to win. They are specialized in losing and conceding ground. Their "machinery" is a huge number of corporations grifting a profit. They have lots of funds, but they also have lots
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by kazagistar 6y ago
The USA had exactly such laws, before they were struck down in the Supreme Court as unconstitutional in the landmark case Citizens United. The reasoning was that the right to free speech was protected at all scales and all categories absolu
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by kazagistar 6y ago
I meant the plan of "stop emitting carbon, even if it hurts the economy".
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by kazagistar 6y ago
Does that mean the finite duration of a black hole to an outside observer prior to its evaporation corresponds to an infinite duration of an observer within the black hole?
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by kazagistar 6y ago
They would exit as a stream of extremely small and infrequent particles over billions or even trillions of years, depending on the size of the black hole, in most cases ending once all the stars have died and universal expansion has emptied
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by kazagistar 6y ago
There are plenty. They are only unrealistic when people belive them to be unrealistic.
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by kazagistar 6y ago
Thats fine, you can work to support non mainstream ones, or failing that, there are riots to join,
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by kazagistar 6y ago
Christmas isn't an inherent human feature.
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by kazagistar 6y ago
Not that I am in any way a fan of anprim thinking, but anyone with massive vested interest in the perpetuation of present day power dynamics (eg massive wealth) has negative starting authority when it comes to evaluating the quality of that
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by kazagistar 6y ago
Privilege is something good, unequally (and/or unjustly) distributed. Rights are something good that should be afforded to everyone. So there is a lot of overlap but also distinction. Rights are an ideal, privileges are a material real
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by kazagistar 6y ago
What is the proof that one party did it against the will of the people, while the other went with the will of the people? Given how much ongoing violence was continued and expanded even once the democrats has a president and congressional m
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by kazagistar 6y ago
The purpose of many opinions is to gather support for some kind of sociopolitical state, and changes or maintenence of the political status quo cause harm or maintain harm respectively. For example, if I lived in 1800 and stated the opinion
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by kazagistar 6y ago
Individuals might have the right to disassociate, but organizations have more power then individuals, and concentrate power in the hands of a small number of people, and thus should have some democratic checks on that power. Elections are o
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by kazagistar 6y ago
Dehumanization and essentialism are dangerous ideas to be considered carefully. Have you considered that those people might be most people if in the right circumstances?
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by kazagistar 6y ago
You can't go to the police for someone making racist or sensitive insults. The problem isn't the CoC concept, because there exists a domain of actions that strictly speaking are legal but warrent expulsion from a professional comm
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by kazagistar 6y ago
The speed bump in option 2 isn't that big of a worry, right? Its the classic sotuation of once you are big enough to habe the problem, you are big enough to afford to solve it.
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by kazagistar 6y ago
Progressive free speech? Megacorporarions cannot censor, but people on their lawn can? Everyone uses the "would you like it if you couldn't censor your local coffee shop from nazis" or whatever example, but that intentionally
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by kazagistar 6y ago
It makes the most sense to me to default to immutable, but swap to mutable when appropriate.
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by kazagistar 6y ago
Pure functional languages, aka Haskell or Idris or whatever, don't have this property. A closure closes over values, and thus is a value, no state mutation involved. Of course, your point about complex mechanisms to reintroduce mutatio
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by kazagistar 6y ago
For me its easy: haskell was cool for more obvious reasons but a bit much, and rust felt like an interesting yet practical very strongly typed language.

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