smcphile

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by smcphile 6y ago
They were all over 60: a man (a doctor) in his early 60’s with no apparent previous health problems; a woman in her early 70’s with a major previous problem, a cancer; and a woman in her early 90’s with no life threatening problems, but mob
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by smcphile 6y ago
> Do you know many people who have died? Who have gotten seriously ill? Are you afraid? Do you think the response in your own location is too little or too much? I live in France. I know of three people who have died and of many people w
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by smcphile 6y ago
> I am partial to the idea of someone getting to decide, in advance, who they can see or hear. Letting the mob in, and then muting or banning after the fact can be exploited too easily. I see that that could be done in a private group se
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by smcphile 6y ago
It can be a first step to creating a new distribution, but most people just do it as a learning experience. Here's one example though of someone who went on to create a new distribution: http://www.nutyx.org/en/ T
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by smcphile 6y ago
It depends, there's no simple, standard answer. Layoffs in France correspond with the idea of a "licenciement économique" and the details of how that is managed are presented here: https://www.service-public.fr&#x2
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by smcphile 6y ago
> Also technically I guess (IANAL) you might have to prove that you obtained the source code prior to the license change. I don't see why. If some code is made available under an MIT license and then the copyright owner switches to
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by smcphile 6y ago
> From what I heard France has strong worker protection laws, even stronger than Germany. Do you think this is/could be a problem for startups? Yes, France has strong worker protection laws, but if someone is found to have been abus
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by smcphile 6y ago
No, open source licenses impose no obligations on the copyright holder for their own code. For example, if the copyright holder releases their own code under a GPL licence, no law prevents them from also releasing a modified or unmodified v
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by smcphile 6y ago
> My question to you, gentle reader – are there any licences which compel the distribution or publication of the development history? No, other than that any given project has to give proper credit to code used from other projects /
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by smcphile 6y ago
The submission appears to be available only as a video. It would be helpful to prefix the title with "[video]", if that's possible.
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by smcphile 6y ago
> Ending at-will employment is a legal solution to a cultural problem. Unlikely to work, but more importantly, I’d argue it’s unwise to rely on legal codes to solve non-legal problems. Let me prefix my remarks by noting that I'm not
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by smcphile 6y ago
> But if most employers were to go fully remote, at that point the shortage-driven Silicon Valley wages would drop near the national average, regardless of how much more it costs us to live here. Yes, and, using the same reasoning, at so
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by smcphile 6y ago
> But the arguments I see from Facebook and in this article are about cost of living. That's wrong. Price it based on value created by the employee. Salaries aren’t based primarily on the value created by the employee and never have
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by smcphile 6y ago
The URL given doesn’t seem to be working (404 error). The correct URL seems to be: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/11/fawlty-towers-... Update: The new URL states the episode is being reinstat
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by smcphile 6y ago
The URL given didn’t work for me. The correct URL appears to be: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/walmart-looks-to-remove-all-cash...
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by smcphile 6y ago
> Too much is made of the idea of 'objective facts' and 'subjective experience'. It causes so much linguistic confusion. I disagree on this point. When we think of matter, in terms of physics or chemistry, we think of
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by smcphile 6y ago
> I don't know if that is a helpful way of constructing the issue; it certainly isn't a neutral one. Reading what I wrote again, I agree that it could have been expressed better. Sorry about that. > If you are a physicalist
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by smcphile 6y ago
> But the obvious physicalist response is that consciousness has evolved as an efficient information-processing device in in the course of evolution and so that it is, really, understandable through the empirical investigation of the emp
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by smcphile 6y ago
> Sentience has a subjective quality to it, but it’s not clear it has any power. As I said, I don’t know. I agree it’s not clear. The first book I read on the subject, many years ago, was “Body and Mind”, by Keith Campbell. The book outl
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by smcphile 6y ago
> “Quantum mechanics disproves determinism and therefore disproves free-will-skepticism” is an asinine argument ... I agree, it doesn't disprove determinism. If someone argues that it does, they're mistaken. > The real reaso
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by smcphile 6y ago
I’m in France and I’ve lived here for 30 years. What you’ve written is correct. However here’s the reality: If your employer dislikes you, they can fire you for some false reason. You then take it to court and you win. You will be awarded s
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by smcphile 6y ago
> For the context it is a small business of 6 people. I think the size of the company explains why you were asked to take emails while on vacation. In a bigger organization, with more redundancy, handling vacations would be less of a pro
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by smcphile 6y ago
> This time I'd like to start really pouring my soul into something that can provide meaning to my life, without rushing into the next app/side project/hustle/startup to temporarily calm my curiosity. I'm not sur
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by smcphile 6y ago
> From a taxation point of view I'm under the impression that for a country such as France for example seniors are gonna get _on average_ way more benefits during their pension than the equivalent of their lifetime contribution. Mai
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by smcphile 6y ago
> I wouldn't mind prepping 6 months on the side using cracking the coding interview, leetcode, etc. but I feel like I will be judged too harshly due to my lack of progress in my career during the last five years. I would recommend r
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by smcphile 6y ago
I don’t think an all or nothing approach is necessary. I was too stressed out at one point and what worked for me was just making myself unavailable for certain periods of the day and handling emails, voice messages, phone calls, etc. in ba
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by smcphile 6y ago
> The IP lobby overreached when they got life of author + 70 years / 120 years corporate copyright monopolies passed into law. I agree, but I don’t see why that automatically makes the recent modifications (that brought on the laws
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by smcphile 6y ago
> Do you think people should be allowed to take out any software they want for free for 2-3 weeks for a "National Software Emergency Library". If not, why books. I'm not sure what the IA was thinking when they made that mo
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by smcphile 6y ago
> I don't understand how so many people here are commenting as if giving out books for free was a good idea. I'm not sure how many people are thinking that. Some must be, but not necessarily many. There's a difference betw
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by smcphile 6y ago
> In March, as the coronavirus pandemic was gaining steam, the Internet Archive announced it was dispensing with this waiting-list system. Under a program it called the National Emergency Library, IA began allowing an unlimited number of

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