tordanik

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by tordanik 1y ago
> Has the last 70 years of productivity increases led to a reduction in weekly work hours? Yes, it has led to a significant reduction in hours worked: https://ourworldindata.org/working-more-than-ever Of course, the effe
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by tordanik 6y ago
One of the main reasons why I find the CC0 attractive is that it can be used, and is widely used, for works other than software. As a result, it seems to have better name recognition, especially outside of programmer circles, and it's
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by tordanik 6y ago
Although I understand that using any external service provider is a potential concern, are there specific issues with Fastly's terms or practices that you consider worrisome? I'd be interested in anything we may not have fully con
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by tordanik 7y ago
The ability to create infinite copies for essentially zero cost changes the utility calculus significantly. If we're talking about physical property like, say, a single-family home, the only question is which family is allowed to liv
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by tordanik 7y ago
There's always Openclipart: https://openclipart.org/ The downside is, of course, the wildly varying style and quality, which means that finding the good images can require sifting through lower-quality content. But at
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by tordanik 8y ago
I would have a lot more sympathy for this effort if it wasn't for the misleading marketing. So you are selling software with a free 32-day trial? Nothing wrong with that. You're also allowing non-commercial users to use and modify
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by tordanik 8y ago
I share the desire to permanently own media. Amazon have been selling music as DRM-free mp3 files since 2008, though, so that option is already available from a legal, mainstream online shop.
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by tordanik 8y ago
Just make sure you don't misremember it as "seasons.sharper.scans" (notice the "s" at the end) or you end up in Russia. One of the benefits of Plus Codes is that similar codes are close to each other. Besides, what3
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by tordanik 8y ago
Firefox search keywords are awesome! They can be much shorter than bangs because there's no need to avoid name conflicts with thousands of sites you aren't using. Plus, no exclamation mark, and you can use them for sites at work w
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by tordanik 9y ago
Business vandalism is certainly a plausible threat for OSM. Something we've also had to deal with are political issues escalating into edit wars, i.e. where the border between countries is supposed to be, which language the labels on a
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by tordanik 9y ago
Exports for countries and smaller regions (in the .osm.pbf Protobuf format as well as some others) are typically provided by third party services such as Geofabrik's download server: https://download.geofabrik.de/ It&#
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by tordanik 9y ago
CC0 can be used for source code. For example, the FSF lists it as a GPL-compatible free software license and states: "If you want to release your work to the public domain, we recommend you use CC0." https://www.gnu.org