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Hopefully something falls out of this akin to the military driving our technology. While the planet dies from an overdose of gluttony, but at least we get some cool technology.
Out of curiosity, which vendor do you use?
Got some examples? I never tried WeeChat. I used to use Quassel (I liked the client a lot), but after my server died I figured it wasn't worth the trouble of maintaining it.
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I too have asthma.

When I was in the US, I needed a certain type of inhaler. It cost $150. I kid you not, I was furious! I had to pay knowing full well, the same inhaler cost £5 in the UK. Talk about a serious markup!

Now back in the UK. Before I go back. I will visit my doctor about 5 times and stock up on them. Bring as many as I can in the UK so that I never run out again!
Hopefully with context, which of these you meant will be obvious.

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I don't know about "many people", but I have some examples. The popular book, The Architecture of Open Source Applications absolutely refused to change its title to "The Architecture of Free and Open Source Applications" when I requested it.

There are people who think that "free software" is the loony bin and absolutely refuse to be associated to it. There are examples of that in this HN thread. There are also people who call themselves "free software" and disagree with the FSF, although they don't disagree on what "free software" means. OpenBSD is a clear example (look at their release song lyrics).
In the current economic climate, it is not a good thing. Due to the past 50+ years of policy making, a large part of the able-bodied workforce is excluded from contributing to the GDP. And as long as economic policy (both business and government) is still driven by the myopic vision that GDP is all that matters, all those "old people" are a burden, not an asset.

In itself, having a more reasonably distributed age distribution is neutral (in my view). But it is a consequence of two good things: the population boom is leveling off, and healthcare has improved tremendously around the globe.
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Most places also have data from crime surveys, so it's possible to make decent predictions about how much crime is reported or not.

The crime statistics themselves are very useful, there's no need to chuck them about because some level of crime goes unreported. Statisticians have long ago realised that we can measure this too.
So far it seems to be safer, not more dangerous, than regular driving.
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The mice utopia experiment.. There are a surprising amount of small parallels between it and some of our recent cultural phenomenon.

Interesting thought.
Although the subject matter is different, GitTorrent [1] actually uses techniques you propose, by using BEP 44 to store Git revisions in the Bittorrent Mainline DHT, and Bitcoin to store cryptographically-signed usernames in the Bitcoin Blockchain.

You can look at how that implementation was done and what issues they encountered to see what it would take to implement a distributed [something], where that [something] in your case is a social network.

[1] https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
Public Domain (e.g. SQLite) is the freeest possible license. Anybody can do literally anything with it. Even things that might infringe on some future freedoms, like not ensuring source code versions of modification are available. The freedoms to make unfree, i.e. not right, choices is strictly more freedom than the GPL. The GPL tries to make it so that the only choice is to do the right thing, but in a set of choices (i.e. freedoms), the right thing is strictly a subset of all possible freedoms.

Stallman wants, real hard, for this restriction of freedoms to be viewed as somehow "more free", and is fairly hardline about it. I wish he'd stop using freedom as his motivator and just talk about ensuring information access, which is really what his goal is.
Agree. One could use the word2vec vector space to determine close relations between neutral words, so it would make intuitive sense as well.
The Arab world is literally where civilization--the first development of agriculture, of urban settlements, of writing, coherent state polities, etc.--was first invented in history (note that most of these developments happened independently in a few places). They've had those things for at least 1000 years before anything in Europe showed any signs of comparable developments.
>There are far, far more users in the world than there are developers.

The discrepancy would be even higher if you hinder the ability for developers to earn money through the GPL. Money has to come from somewhere, usually that is non-free software or ads.

I wonder how much free or open source software is truly independent of non-free software. I would argue almost none. Many OSS developers work at a company producing non-free software, enabling them to create free software in their free time. The big foundations are supported by the big software companies. Most companies producing free software do so for a market of non-free software developers.

If you decrease the freedom of developers you also decrease the ability for users to do anything, because there would be much less software. Software would be a small elite circle.

The world is a complex place, fundamentalism very rarely accounts for that.
You know, this is going on a tangent, but I'd like to interject for a moment here.

If you're in a similar situation, i.e. have someone who is showing signs of addiction and skips doing important stuff, DO NOT approach by attacking the thing they're addicted to. If you do, you're invoking tribal instincts and placing yourself in the enemy tribe. You're placing yourself as an adversary to whatever it is that the other person enjoys, which is a surefire way to have them oppose you out of nothing more than trying to preserve their identity and quality of life.

Instead, try to get them to see the positives of doing what you ask for. Show the other person that you accept their hobby. If it's pure addiction or escapism, i.e. a way to deal with emotional or psychological problems, try to attack the root cause.
Hopefully the SJW hoards she unleashed will soon follow...
This is the kind of word twisting I expected to hear. The bottom line is that bsd is freedom for the devs, and gpl is freedom for the users. Devs are also users, but users are not devs.

RMS is going to be looked back at in history and people are going to wonder why so few listened to him, hes a man ahead of his time.

The other thing I expect to hear is "RMS is just so abrasive, nasty, weird, extreme...." Trite and old responses.
irc since -95. Though I use it just for work these days. I don't think irc will ever go away. It would be nice to have it working in a persistent, distributed way without servers, maybe in the future.
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I've wondered this for a while - why are one-person companies usually not selected? Is there a certain risk that's mitigated by a larger group? Or is it just one of those things were the initial phase involves a ton of work and there's a belief that one person probably can't handle it all/might give up?
> While I have no great love for UEFI, it's damn convenient to be able to use the UEFI command line to mount up local filesystems, browse files etc when troubleshooting boot problems. Also to be able to plug in a USB key, see the files there, and try booting from one of them.

So UEFI can to the same as a much smaller u-boot?
But Free Software is open source ;)
I'm not going to deny that many are judged based on their religious and cultural values, and that there are correlations between all Muslims that point to certain trends that some find alarming (eg: irrationality, lack of self-preservation, and strong desire for justice), but I cannot accept that such trends are a reflection of Islam.

Culture shock happens and when it happens on a massive scale then there will obviously be issues, and I think that is what we are witnessing now. It may take a generation but I am hopeful that Western society will co-exist with Islam peacefully, regardless of the negative interpretations some people have.

You could do the same with a billion and a half people anywhere -- give them a unifying identity, tell them to live in every nation on Earth, and make most of the poor and uneducated. There will be a central global point that people call home, there will be culture clashes, and there will be demagogues taking advantage of the situation.
"Making it easier for people to use technology that controls them and spies on them is not a step forward for society."

That was the best quote. He's right, but I don't see the big corporations and governments changing. They know everything about us now and they are hooked and only want more.
Any real look at the history of toppling governments in societies as divided as Iraq should understand the difficulty. The western world has hundreds of years of experience.

The interesting thing is that, when they were successful in 2007 (more troupes) it was completely accidental. They had no idea why it worked at first, and it took them a while to figure it out.

As everybody know, the US could not stay their with this much troupes forever and thus they could never credibly commit to long term stability and peace between the different sections. If you can not stay somewhere for 1-2 generations, don't go there in the first place.
The situation is highly artificial but I guess you can't predict the long term benefits of new technology. Ultimately it's just a faster responding switch :/ Bet that company is going to make quite a bit for themselves at 20k a unit.
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Freenet is remarkably well thought-out and solves a lot of these difficult issues like censorship resistance, deniable encryption, distributed data storage, and mutability; but it doesn't get much press these days.
One huge downside would be that older people tend to skew to the more conservative end of the political spectrum, and can end up drowning out the voices of the young.

See the age breakdown of the recent Brexit vote for one example. I also remember with the Irish referendum on gay marriage in 2015, there was much worry that the older generations would swing the overall vote to "No", despite the legislation having no impact on them.

Worth thinking about: How many Brexit "Leave" voters have simply died of old age in the two months between then and now?
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Only for scalar calculations. Vectorized they take about double the amount of time.
Have you ever heard of Bavaria? Also called Germany's Texas.
Because the bay area was created to be isolated, in a self-centered culture. by design (before the end of WWII, to create technology as far away as the conflict in Europe)

The "cool people" came later, those who were deployed on the Pacific Theatre and decided to stay there. Granted, some of them were there before, because of the cinema industry

They, in a way, thrived on isolation.
Thanks! A few months after writing this article I actually discovered glowing-bear and have been using that now too! It's now the primary way I access weechat, both on my laptop and on my phone.
Right, but how do they expect to get adoption at-scale if usage is tightly constrained and pricing is opaque?
Scrollanim repository on Github: https://github.com/usablica/kissui.scrollanim

Curious about any tradeoffs between Scrollanim and animate.css.
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Glowing Bear is great! I've been using it since a few months after writing this.
Whenever I read things like this. I am reminded of Hans Rosling's "Global population growth, box by box"[1].

The only question is, how to transition to a "steady state economy"[2][3] or "non growth economies", when population really reaches some kind of equilibrium. As growth is the only concept humans for the last tens of thousands of years knew, this transition, while absolutely necessary, will be hard and hurt lots of people I believe.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTznEIZRkLg
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady-state_economy
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrality_of_money
Their "is hft good or is it bad? it's opinion! <but look at all these scary things they are "responsible" for>" bit is really disappointing. I see it in articles all over the place and it's really lazy research and reporting. Isn't this article about the tech? Why are we suddenly having an extremely off-the-cuff discussion on whether HFT is "good or bad"?

Also, I have trouble reading the tone of the article. I hope the "making trades in the past" and "until someone manages to break the laws of physics" are completely in jest. I know it's probably a joke, but it's a poor enough excuse for one that it just leaves me wondering if they might actually be somewhat serious.
Of course. BeeCanvas is different with Realtimeboard in terms of It has limited collaborative white space like MS powerpoint. Realtimeboard is best tool among Unlimited size's online whiteboard. It's optimized for brainstorming I think. BeeCanvas is optimized for collaboration. Limited space help us to communicate with others more intuitively than unlimited space.

It's another way to view visual collaboration. Anyway, Both of them is beautiful&easy tool I've ever been.
"Kicks Pasta Steer" is pretty funny and I would remember it. But there's far more mundane and hard to remember ones. I can remember the number just as well.
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I don't know about arabic countries and how religion affects their development but I tend to believe your comment isn't accurate. I've known personally a lot of muslims originally from those countries (colleagues, students, classmates, friends...). None of them preys five times a day or are hidden in cloth bags.
Any problem caused by an aging population cannot be a long-term problem.
> While the prospect of longer lives is a good thing, problems arise when a shrinking work force cannot foot the pension bill.

Not true.

In EU the retirement age is moving as population gets older. By 2040 retirement age could be around 75 years.
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Fucking USA is scary as fuck. This is IMO a serious issue, but you can't talk about it because you will be called out as child molester or at least sympathisant. Guess thats the Freedom i heard so much about.
To add to what everyone else has said: There's no dividing line between "accent", "dialect", and "language" any more than there's a dividing line between "pebble", "stone" and "boulder".

I'm American, but I've spent about a year in Singapore in various stretches. The Acrolectic Singlish/Standard English that my coworkers at a multinational spoke definitely converges with General American English, and I understood it without hesitation. But the basilectic variety spoken, say, between army buddies? About as comprehensible to me as Dutch.
To their descendants, maybe.
The first point reminds me of Croatian and Serbian. In Yugoslavia they were one language: Serbo-Croatian. Then after the war Croatia declared their language as Croatian and artificially made some changes to it to make it slightly different.
That is not really true. It ignores that in many of the states where this is true, there were very many other cultural differences, and also differences in the laws that they were working under.

I don't think this line of research hold up very well, specially not cross country over long timeframes.
A couple of companies ago I was the lead developer working mostly with people who were early on in their careers, single, and wanting to put in a lot of time. Even then I always advised them that programming and solving problems is fun, but they should find side projects or something and not spend all that extra effort on work projects. Even if they start doing it because of passion it can ruin things at work because it gives the managers a very poor sense of scale and estimation (because it's hard enough to estimate when you don't have to think about how interesting a given developer will find a problem as part of calculating velocity), it sets expectations on them that they really don't want to have (people start to count on your long hours even if you suddenly have something else going on in your life) and finally fresh ideas and new perspectives are the lifeblood of a team, so having people doing their own thing outside of work and bringing in those things is way more valuable than getting that one project done a little early.
The Protestant northeast suffered from being part of East Germany. A hundred years ago Prussia was much more powerful than Bavaria.
> In the short term, it's going to be very, very bad for them indeed

It's not like they would not see it coming. Petrol is eventually going to become too expensive at some point, and they should invest accordingly. But numerous past examples of countries relying on raw resources have shown they usually don't adapt and plan, so I don't have too much hope in their case either.
That's awesome, I'll take a look at that. Do you know if it logs to disk the same way weechat logs IRC channels? Right now I'm a little annoyed that I don't have local logs of the Slack channels I'm in.
I write this because many people seem to have a misconception: that the “free software” somehow does not apply to non-copyleft (some even say non-GPL) software

My 2 pedantic cents: the source code of non-GPL software can still be called free software. But binaries compiled from e.g. an MIT codebase are only free software if the sources are also available. As the recipient of an MIT-licensed binary, you do not have freedom 3 and you'll have a hard time exercising freedom 1.
I wonder how much use there is in putting a lot more effort into any of those countries. My angle is climate change. There is a record-breaking heat wave going on there right now, with temperatures close to making human life impossible. Outlook: Getting a lot worse. They already have water shortages. The population still is growing. The trouble in Syria is said to have been caused with a mismanaged big drought as a major contributing factor.

We would have to create infrastructure for AC-based indoor living in the entire region and beyond on a grand scale, or only for some and see the rest of the population live in a vegetative state during much of the year. If climate change and the predictions are real anything less is futile. Basically, the entire region is becoming Arizona - without AC for most people, much higher humidity directly at the Gulf, with even less freshwater and many more people who also are much poorer.

Just a dark thought: Maybe there simply is no solution. The climate problem is independent of all the human problems, so solving them, already seemingly impossible, would not even help much with this new issue growing stronger.
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Why should we wait for them to change? We should take action.

* Use firefox/icecat
* Install uBlock origin
* Sign petitions on change.org
* Participate in online discussions
* Use GNU/Linux (trisquel is good)

etc...

If there's something that brexit taught me is that masses have a lot of power.
So they pop in and out of existence from time to time but they are all basically front business from what I can tell. support-rx.com is the 'support' site that you get sent to after you order (I've ordered from 5 or so 'front businesses' and always get sent there), but to actually order anything I go to canadapharmacy24h.com currently. Shipping is costly so I buy in bulk, it takes about 2 weeks to get to my door. When I was working as a cook these companies saved my life, this is what capitalism is all about.
Examples for what? There are some screenshots of Glowing Bear on the GitHub page (https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear) and in a blog post I once wrote (https://4z2.de/2014/04/10/glowing-bear, probably outdated). I use it with a sans-serif font on the Desktop, too. The UI is quite hackable, you can add custom CSS rules to override things to your liking in the settings (simply changing the font doesn't require that, though).

Some useful scripts include colorize_nicks.py (colourises nicks in messages, to make them stand out over the text) and grep.py (easily and efficiently search logs). Matrix.lua (https://github.com/torhve/weechat-matrix-protocol-script) allows you to use the Matrix protocol with WeeChat, and by extension Glowing Bear.

Trigger-wise, I have triggers that remove colour from status messages (most of them are just noise) or replace (lenny) with ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) when I send a message, mostly because I can ;)

Getting push notifications requires a bit of setup, but there are scripts for Pushbullet/Pushover/..., or irssi-notifier (which also works with WeeChat) to do that. It's a bit complicated because we don't run any servers (Glowing Bear is just a bunch of static files, everything happens in your browser or your WeeChat), so we can't provide push notifications out of the box. Disclosure: I'm one of the Glowing Bear devs, so I may be biased :)
You can so the experiment yourself and go to open source projects and ask to go with gpl for future contributions and to put free software into he readme :)
While true, this is unrelated to Islam.

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

Mesopotamia, the "cradle of civilization," is in Iraq. Keep in mind that it is just one of many, it is nevertheless an area that is green and not an endless sandy expanse.
Demographic shifts like this and the ensuing competition for limited resources are the kind of things that fuel major wars. It may be the transition that is needed long-term, but we should be very mindful of the way it is actually achieved.
IIRC that was exactly the scenario that happened in Flint, MI in the US.

I don't know enough to comment on how it happened, but the end result was that the PH was too far off and it destroyed something that caused them to leech lead into the water until replaced.

Large parts of the city are still unable to use the pipes in their house.
ConsumerReports rated the Clear2O filter one of the best [0]. I've been using it for over 24 months in Pittsburgh, PA and I can definitely taste the difference. I haven't done the math, but I feel like their filters are cheaper than Brita filters. They have published a fact sheet on their website [1] showing what their filters remove.

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[1] http://clear2o.com/download/PERFORMANCE%20DATA%20SHEET.pdf
> I am just 21

Ah yes, quite. Carry on then.
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Your comment makes no sense. So Hammurabi was "Arab"? That's extremely anachronistic. Prior to then advent of Islam the Christian Roman Empire was much, much more wealthy advanced and sophisticated than the Arabian desert.
praying is not a problem. The biggest problem is lack of debt. Wanna open a new business? You can't take credit. Problems with cashflow? You can go to a debt prison. Forget about mortgage for a house etc.