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I have mixed feelings about RMS's use of language, but I think you exactly illustrate beagle3's point. Perhaps they are just as valid, but if the contrasting term is just as valid and more in tune with your views, then you might object to the dominant term.

> Copy protection protects CDs from being copied.

The contention is of course with the word "protection." It implies that copying is a bad thing and that preventing copying is protection. It's a loaded word, even if in general use. Replacing with "restriction" challenges this this notion with a word loaded in the opposite direction.

> Digital rights management manages the rights of the IP owner.

The assumption here is that the restrictions on use are in fact "rights of the IP owner." There is no a priori reason that there should be. In fact IP rights are a part of law and public policy. That doesn't necessarily mean they should be; obviously Stallman and beagle3 disagree.
I'm the same, if I didn't have my company here I'd be looking at moving but I enjoy working with my business partner and he is tied here due to family.
Enterprise Objects Framework just worked.

Pretty much every other ORM I've worked with has been terrible by comparison.
There is a lot of discussion online. Most of it can be found by searching for "hfs bitrot" on Google.

https://blog.barthe.ph/2014/06/10/hfs-plus-bit-rot/

> A concrete example of Bit Rot

> ... HFS+ lost a total of 28 files over the course of 6 years.
Both the mics in the article have output transformers. It's really easy to saturate a transformer with excess low-frequency sound, so that's part of the reason to have a high-pass filter earlier in the signal path.
I don't think he dismissed the original argument ("Facebook is bad for you") at all, he's just commenting on the use of bad rhetoric and how it detracts from Stallman's goal of convincing people not to use Facebook.

I don't think everyone would listen to a person flinging insult, even if their argument has some basis. I wouldn't listen to a person who rely on bad rhetoric either.
This article is poorly named and rambly. It does not answer "Why Britain left." If you want to write an article explaining "Why Britain Left," then please provide some form of objective evidence, i.e. a survey of the voters who voted to leave.
Nothing you said in your post has actually demonstrated that it's unlikely that reals underly physical reality. It sounds like you just have some sort of aesthetic agenda.

Your entire premise (that we might replace reals in current physical theory with some other structure and get the same result) is trivially debunked. Pi shows up all over the place, and e.g. rationals are not closed under exponentiation by e.

The schroedinger equation applied to physical hilbert spaces is inextricably real-valued.
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> Instead of being able to recover from a mirror or parity data, all you get is "it's corrupt, oh well".

That's exactly what you want – a clean failure which prevents other software from silently propagating corrupt data. Even more importantly, with corruption it's usually much easier to recover from another copy if you notice the problem quickly.

Think about what happens with e.g. photos – you copy files from a phone, USB card, etc. and something gets corrupted on local storage. With integrity checks that means that the next time you load your photo app, go to upload photos somewhere, run a backup, etc. the filesystem you immediately get an unavoidable error telling you exactly what happens. If it's recent, you can go back to the source phone/camera and copy the file back.

With all current consumer filesystems, what you instead get are things like a file which looks okay at first – maybe because it's just displaying an embedded JPEG thumbnail, maybe because software like Photoshop is enormously fault-tolerant – but doesn't work when you use it in a different app or, because you didn't get an error, the underlying hardware file affecting your storage becomes worse over time until something fails so badly that it becomes obvious. By the time you notice the problem, the original file is long gone because you reused the device storage and you have to check every backup, online service, etc. to find which copies are corrupt.
Why is the direction of travel more or less interesting than any other galactic coordinate system, when looking at the Earth from space? I can easily imagine using the center of the Milky Way as my reference point.

Why do you think the Earth moves like Superman, head-first into the void? Couldn't it be falling through space, bottom-first?
You are vastly underestimating the effort required to build and MAINTAIN a "simple version." Usually open source software such as CRMs do what they should and do it well. If they don't full-fill a requirement a business owner has, it is likely that that requirement is a stupid.

In the best case, technical project managers can convince the business owner to drop the requirement or come to some kind of compromise. In the worst case, programmers spend months implementing the required feature which then goes unused as the business owner realizes it was a dumb idea after all.

Also see the Ohloh site (https://www.openhub.net/) for cost estimates for how much open source software costs to produce. Then you can get some kind of feel for how much writing simple versions from scratch would cost.
> Nearly 20 years later, it's clear that Stallman is almost certain to be a historical figure remembered hundreds of years from now.

Hyperbole much? He's not going to be forgotten, but... RMS is a hacker icon, but he's a bit obscure outside the community. RMS is legit hating on Facebook here but there's no Hollywood movie about RMS. Zuckerberg is a household name. I'll agree that RMS has done more net good thank Zuckerberg, but who is more likely to show up in a textbook a hundred years removed at this rate?
The author is comparing the more than 5 million undocumented families already living in the United States and participating in the social fabric for decades while having their humans rights denied (the right to work) with syrian refugees going to Germany, they're nothing alike. Making these comparisons only strengthens the discourse of the likes of Trump.
Great movie. I watched it all. Thanks for sharing. The social media addiction problem is an epidemic. I do not see almost no one talking about this problem.
It's actually the opposite of fraud, because laundering money involves transactions which frequently make a great deal of money for the bank. Look at the fat fees Goldman Sachs earned setting up the 1MDB transactions for Malaysia. There was a lot of speculation around the financial crisis that banks opened their doors to money launderers because it was the only available liquid asset available in sufficient quantity to keep them solvent. So the bank actually has an incentive to launder money, so long as it can do so without being caught and fined or having its employees go to jail.

The point below is true though. Many of the same markers of fraud indicate money laundering, and having a good risk program can reduce both if that's your intention.
As a long time Mac OS X user, yeah, I've lost a lot of files to bit-rot in the last 10 years. Mostly MP3s with a little bit of corruption.
It's not the approaching hour, but the 3-6 minutes allocated to a given interview. I've come to recognise that "in the few seconds we have left" is the cue for "wrap this up in 60 seconds". But with the very wide range of people interviewed, ranging from seasoned professionals (politicians and PR flacks) to complete novices (hey, news happens to random people), and especially given both language and technical barriers (it's really hard to formulate your thoughts and be cognisant of studio realities when you're trying to catch what's being said over a scratchy long-distance link), the awkward cut happens very frequently.

I'd notice it on commercial broadcasts if I listened to those more. I am very well aware of it on NPR and BBC broadcasts. Somewhat less so on CBC.
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Lisp can already be written like C. Most of the Lisp crowd doesn't give into any notion of "purism".

The parentheses of lisp provide a canonical serialization format. What you're actually asking for is "don't represent lists with brackets." Even Python uses brackets (and commas) for lists.
It's worth noting at this point that Australia welcomes migrants with open arms (excluding, for some bizarre reason, refugees). If you exclude city-states (like San Marino), the only western democracies with higher immigration rates are Norway and Spain (Canada is also neck-and-neck with our migration rate). In 2014, 28% of Australia's population was born overseas - if you exclude the British and the Kiwis, it's 21%. This compares to 14% from all sources for the US and 12% for the UK. Australia's population barely has a replacement birthrate, yet it has increased in population from 19M in 1999 to 24M this year - a 25% increase in 17 years, pretty much all due to inward migration. The #1 source of migrants for the past few years has been China. You're also 100% free to move to anywhere you want once you're inside the country, and there's no land travel to any other countries to make something like Schengen work anyway.

Painting Australia as difficult to migrate to is patent nonsense, given the actual numbers. Yes, there is a political problem with refugees at the moment, but we're absorbing non-refugee migrants faster than almost anyone else and have been for years.

The reason why the US and Australia are migration targets for the UK is that they are English-speaking countries with decent climates and economies. Anglos all over the world are monoglots and generally uninterested in learning other languages; it makes sense that they'd prefer to move somewhere that's nice to live and they speak the language.
Yes and?
That's not true. You can criticize that which you respect, in order to improve it.
I have no issues with NPR talent being well-compensated. Really, they deserve what they can get, and they can certainly get more elsewhere.

I do have issues with how several NPR reporters and anchors have been terminated, most particularly Bob Edwards and (though she wasn't even a reporter or anchor at the time) Lisa Simeone (one of the most awesome voices on radio, BTW). Juan Williams, OTOH, should never have been hired in the first place.
In the US, property is already taxed at the state and local level in most states. A Federal property tax is probably not constitutional.
Cool, so we just have to crack the light barrier, too, while we're at it. No problem!
French author/philosopher Michel Houellebecq dedicated a rather [unnecessarily] lengthy science fiction novel "The Possibility of an Island" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Possibility_of_an_Island to this subject, with the grand idea being presented that out of all years humans mainly enjoy a tiny segment of it - when they're young, as it's defined by hormonal overabundance and "seeking oneself".

Older years are spaced out between dealing with problems of choices made in the past (e.g. being young and poor is not a 100% bad situation, being old and poor is rather depressing, as chances of a light at the end of the tunnel are somewhat bleak) and health issues. He dedicates somewhat lengthy paragraphs to the correlation between depression and [lack of] sexual desire/performance, reverting back to the idea that our internal state (happiness/depression) is nothing but a hormonal construct.
Insofar as the logical basis for classifying them as "crimes," yes, I am. Not in terms of seriousness or morality, obviously. Also, conflating money laundering and tax evasion shows a serious lack of understanding. Tax evasion can involve money laundering, sure, but money laundering is often the mechanism used to enable far more serious crimes, including, yes, murder.
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I would even agree that RMS appropriated the term free, but what your statement that RMS says free == copyleft is not remotely true and contradicted by your "source." His definition of "free" is aligned with the OSI definition of "open source" (the term he dislikes). RMS is a waterbearer for copyleft because he doesn't respect proprietary uses, but he includes BSD/MIT licenses under his definition of "free." He doesn't include software that has public source but restricts free commercial use, modification etc.

This notion of free though certainly isn't what most nonhackers/software people would generally associate with the term. It's his formulation.
I use Go for this sort of thing because it's easier than any of the interpreted options. The language itself is very simple, but the killer feature for me is the simplicity of deployment. I can deploy a Go app simply by sending a single file onto another machine, plus or minus some init scripts.
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Hi Peter! I am so glad I found this thread.

I have been in the U.S. uninterrupted since 2002 and would like to figure out what my chances are for an EB-1 (or EB-2) green card. I was first on an F-1 while at Wharton getting my MBA, then on a G4 working for the World Bank, then sponsored on three different H1-Bs (2 corporate and one research think tank, and finally since 2012 on an E-2.

So I have been the U.S 14+ years, educated at a top school, paid taxes in the highest tax bracket, own two properties here,and started a business that has provided employment to 6 part-time American workers. Additionally my business is in career coaching and job search- and so I have helped over 400+ Americans find employment, including for the State Dept, DoD, and the U.S. Foreign Service.

I am trying to explore paths to a Green Card.. thank you in advance for your reply!
Haskell does OO just fine. It doesn't do nominal subtyping, but that's really a misfeature in OO anyway.

That said, persistent doesn't do OO.
Brexit is not a pejorative corruption of a pre-existing name or term. Incidentally, it's a basically neutral coinage used by both Leave and Remain camps.
I recently quit Facebook and felt like I'm free(with my time). It is interesting to note that after you order "deletion" your account will remain for 14 days and you could come back. It is like 2 weeks notice period (before quitting the job) which is a standard in united states. I'd still keep using WhatsApp as long as it stays utilitarian and lets me communicate with my people.
I fully agree.
To clarify, because the original article doesn't really mention this: the photos that were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons were taken by a photographer hired by the museum, not Commons users. The museum is claiming that they hold copyright over the photos because even though the original artwork is in the public domain, the photo taken of it has its own copyright, held by the museum's photographer (and thus the museum).
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There are lots of mechanical options available for the purpose of mounting laptops in cars. The mounting hardware can easily be re-purposed to bolt to a piece of furniture or some kind of rolling cart.

For instance: https://www.amazon.com/Mount-Rotating-Adjustable-Notebook-Ca...

It's a large enough product category that there are multiple manufacturers that compete with each other, driving down prices and increasing quality.
How does this fit with the assertion that there is no evidence that the supernatural interacts with the natural in any measurable (and hence meaningful) way?

It seems related, but stronger:

"I don't know if there exists supernatural, however I have no reason to believe the supernatural will ever effect me."
Are you joking? Every human society had ways of killing off their children, mostly the daughters since they are regarded as less valuable than sons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide

"In many past societies, certain forms of infanticide were considered permissible. In some countries, female infanticide is more common than the killing of male offspring, due to sex-selective infanticide.[3] In China for example, the gender gap between males and females aged 0–19 year old was estimated to be 25 million in 2010 by the United Nations Population Fund."

Also:

"The historical Greeks considered the practice of adult and child sacrifice barbarous,[30] however, the exposure of newborns was widely practiced in ancient Greece, it was even advocated by Aristotle in the case of congenital deformity "

In her Nobel winning novel, The Good Earth, Pearl Buck recounts how the family, during a famine, allows the daughter to starve to death, but then at the last moment the father changes his mind and gives her some food. The child grows up brain damaged, having been deprived of food for several days, when she was only 1 or 2 years old. This part of the novel (like everything else in the novel) has been praised for its realism.

Around the year 610, early in his preaching, one of Muhammad's first revelations from Allah is that parents should no longer leave their newborn daughters to die in the desert. He would not have felt the need to make this pronouncement unless it was a common practice. And remember that his own sister had been set out in the desert and allowed to die as soon as she was born.
A translation might allow for some creativity since you would be interpreting nuances of two or more languages, but transcription is just writing down the words of someone else. No creativity involved at all.
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Filesysytem snapshots are useful for recovery, but it's a very powerful mechanism for it. I.e. I think for a watch it's an overkill.

On the other hand, computers are gradually moving towards miniaturization, so I suppose all this really is quite transitory, and soon enough all such considerations wills simply be irrelevant.
One fitting picture.
Another possible interpretation of "to avoid becoming tainted" is that it refers to avoiding "residual knowledge" that in some circumstances can be used to make a copyright claim. E.g. if someone reads the ZFS source code to see how they solved a particular problem and then goes and solves it the same way that residual knowledge might cause legal problems.

That being said IANAL and have no idea whether residual knowledge has been explored w.r.t. the GPL or CDDL.
> Cell phones didn't introduce a whole new human activity.

Wherever you are, if you are not at home, look around you and tell me that cellphones didn't introduce a whole new human activity.
Don't conflate compression in general with the aggressive mastering-phase compression of the loudness wars. Some degree of compression is essential to pretty much any type of audio engineering. Tasteful use of compression is a real art and is an integral part of some of the best studio albums in any genre (except perhaps classical). Compression is essential for vocals except for people who somehow never move their head ever while talking or singing. Compression also makes drums sound amazing--hard, big boomy, Led Zeppelin-style drums don't just naturally sound that way, thats a compressor working its magic.
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Why is it hard to open source things?
That's a valid point. Seeing as I don't build anything that has to scale well I can't really comment on this, but I don't think it scales too badly. With stored procedures it's more or less just your model in the database, not your whole application logic. Using a database to replace your controllers wouldn't scale so well, but replacing fat models would still scale fine.
Was gonna say "ethnic thing means the same as cultural thing", but apparently these days people are using "ethnic" to mean "racial" rather than, well, ethnic?
Type safety (no strings) and just as fast as Dapper (actually faster in some cases):

https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db
This used to be Altera's "Hardcopy" advantage: an easy gate-array version of their FPGAs could (in theory) be made because: 1. the gate array uses the same gates as the FPGA, just the interconnect is customized. 2. Use Primetime compatible timing constraints for the FPGA design to begin with.
> I was honestly hoping to see a few Lisp, Haskell or Erlang projects.

I've heard that NASA does a fair bit of NodeJS.
GeoIP databases work based on the _owner_ of the IP address. The owner can cooperate with a geoip database and provide more granular locations for the blocks they use. Others, like Google apparently, don't and as such, you'll show up as the registered address for the allocated block.
Is there a list of companies that allow you to nap during the day?
For me, it's a really important factor, and it's hard to figure out which allows you to nap and which doesn't.
This reminds me of the episode where the Q on Star Trek wanting to commit suicide because they were bored of being immortal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Wish_(Star_Trek:_Voyager...

Of course, that supposes such a level of immortality that we actually do experience anything and everything there is to experience. And we're nowhere close to that yet.

Maybe once I get to see attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. Or C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. Maybe that'd be a good time to die.
> You are, indeed, used by facebook when you interact with it

But we're using it too. So maybe, "exchange" would be a better word? Although, with most of nowadays' apps (youtube, google, gmail, facebook, whatsapp, ...), the way they use "us" is really limited compared to the practicality they provide.
I was not using the term 'hate' in the emotional sense. Perhaps a better choice of words would be to say that I find the argument disingenuous; almost everyone these days knows what Facebook does for a living, so to act like Facebook users are somehow being tricked is simply untrue.
The circle around the Indian Ocean, and the 2 near/over South America are inverted. _Inside_ the circle is where you aren't. As such Europe is the place where all circles overlap.
He is not "wrapping" the very language. He is trying to correct the semantic imbalance that is tilted towards the $100 Billion corporation. The thing you need to grok about RMS is that he is a purist.

This fact strikes many people as stubborn, too idealistic, impractical etc - except that from RMS perspective it is the least he could do to stay true to himself.

Also consider this - the world of software has been infinitely enriched by RMS (and the like) so he has the absolute right to put forth arguments with the expectation that software developers pay attention.

Facebook on the other hand has not done so - to put it mildly.
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>why is it bad first to analyze what already exists and to evaluate good / bad sides of that?

It's a legal defense strategy.

ZFS is covered by multiple patents.

If someone who have never read about any of ZFS's designs and patents independently reproduces one of ZFS's patented features, then the courts could rule that that was non-infringement.

That's why the author said of Giampaolo: "...but didn't delve too deeply for fear, he said, of tainting himself". Reading too much about a patented product effectively taints yourself from being able to freely create your own designs.
I was too flippant. It isn't about "shiny toys", it is about being respected enough within an organization to be trusted to self-determine technical direction. It is difficult to hire good developers if you have a reputation for thinking you know best when it comes to very technical decisions like when it does and doesn't make sense to upgrade individual software components. It is definitely a balance, but the grandparent comment struck me as sounding like it was on the too-paternalistic side.
Extremely commonly used by engineers within Apple, however =)
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Yes, I use and love Little Snitch too, but don't you have a rule that says Browser = Allow all?
Sorry, what's a "DAX level customer"?