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by plmu 4y ago
I have netflix, but also a usenet server account and many TB of disk. I might cancel the first, if the added value becomes too small.
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by plmu 4y ago
Excellent. I hope more and more people start to see how absurd and evil the concept of "intellectual property" is. It should be totally rejected and any form of keeping useful information for yourself should be shunned and tabooiz
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by plmu 4y ago
If impulse control is an issue for you, I think weed is one of the lesser issues. Alcohol or other substances or habits are much more of a risk for those with little self control.
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by plmu 4y ago
Another data point here: 2 kids, the one who uses (a lot) of THC is more successful, got a physics masters degree and had a 40% side-job during most of bachelor/masters phase.
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by plmu 5y ago
I can only assume that, just like "made in germany" in the 19th century, after a while the "made in china" will transform from a sign of inferior, into a sign of superior quality. I think we're already seeing that.
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by plmu 5y ago
And the arguments in favour are often based on feelings and/or the vested interests of the current owners of "intelectual property". I think that basically it is immoral to prevent the progress of global useful knowledge of s
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by plmu 5y ago
Indeed, it is one of the proposed solutions as listed in the corresponding wikipedia article on the St. Petersburg paradox. There is a table with quite low expected values, mapping the wealth of the bank to the expected value.
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by plmu 5y ago
Most European countries, including Switzerland, still have them. They do work with some limits. And they are absolutely necessary to prevent that, once you have made money, you can profit for the rest of your life including future generatio
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by plmu 5y ago
Google might be doing this to show the negative aspects of the current copyright system. Maybe they want to annoy enough people so that something might change.
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by plmu 6y ago
It is a distro of enigma2, see https://git.opendreambox.org/ Written in python.
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by plmu 6y ago
Just use something else for your root file system, and zfs for the rest. I've been running Zol for 10 years (on arch) and had to recover a few times, but it was never difficult because of the totally standard setup except for the data
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by plmu 6y ago
It depends. Once the coronavirus is defeated, it will have accelerated the economic cycle downturn, we might see a very deep and long recession, maybe even one like we have not seen in recent centuries. And since the world is progressing in
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by plmu 6y ago
The US was and is one of the driving forces behind the UN convention, however.
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by plmu 6y ago
There have been reports of huge overdosis, e.g. by miscalculation by a factor of 1000 or even more. The physical harm was little to none. The mental harm varied greatly, there were even some people who got improvements in pre-existing menta
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by plmu 6y ago
The article pleads for more workers rights and bargaining power. While I think that is a noble wish, it is an illusion, and they know it. The article describes "out of the box" thinking, but it is still hopelessly trapped.
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by plmu 6y ago
As far as I know, you need grpc-web only because there is no direct grpc implementation for javascript. For rust, c++ etc. you would use grpc natively.
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by plmu 6y ago
I was thinking exactly this, 8 years ago. I moved from an imac + mbpro to linux only. It took longer than expected. I even intended to buy put options, but someone I trust told me otherwise and to invest in equity instead, which I did, bec
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by plmu 7y ago
Real criminals won't use such platforms anymore, but use custom end-to-end encryption. They'll find people to make them something, if need be by using steganography. This will only hit innocent people or low-level criminals, the r
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by plmu 7y ago
It depends on the language. I've used debuggers in java, much less in c++, and hardly in go. I feel there is not much of a need in go for debugging, writing good tests and the occasional log/print statement do fine. Java, often ha
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by plmu 7y ago
It would be even better if there were just and progressive taxes, so that the state can take its responsibility, and charity is not required.
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by plmu 7y ago
Agree, I'm wondering too.
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by plmu 7y ago
Thinking about dark energy and the renewed controversy about it, e.g. https://www.space.com/dark-energy-not-debunked.html . We have grave inconsistencies in cosmology, yet very bold conclusions are made, assuming that our th
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by plmu 7y ago
It is not good to make implicit assumptions that are not generally shared. Your post is either a cruel joke, or you assume certainty about something like reincarnation (another life). That might be "obvious" to you, but if you hav
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by plmu 7y ago
Reminds me of the thought experiment where I can duplicate myself with a robot. Who would benefit? Me, having eterernal vacation and my robot doing my job for me, or my employer who lays me off and uses a robot instead? Clearly, if the latt
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by plmu 7y ago
Shorter and less meetings were mentioned. Maybe they also included more efficient meetings, and teaching employees to not print stacks of paper to prepare or use in meetings anymore. Some details will be missing from the article.
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by plmu 7y ago
Installation with yay/crate can be slow. This small tool took 4 minutes of compile time, the Rust crates seem to be very fine granular (like node.js vor example) and require much compile time. 204 crates needed to be compiled. I found
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by plmu 7y ago
It is open core. More and more parts are removed from the open source part and require a licencse. IMHO open core is a truely treacherous model that should be avoided at all cost. Better completely closed source than the evil mixture.
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by plmu 7y ago
I worked on developing a module last year. I see a number of issues, most are shared with many "platform" applications. Somehow you see especially "enterprise" software being written as a kind of proprietary platform, of
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by plmu 7y ago
Indeed, but the ACM is not (purely) a publisher. It should represent the interests of its members instead of betraying them.
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by plmu 7y ago
Just read the article in full. Mylar is even contrasted to core memory.

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