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It's referring to the distinction between two meanings of the word in English. Free as in no cost, and free as in freedom. If someone said "have some free beer" you would assume the first use of the term rather than the second (although you might be suspicious that an offer of "free beer" had a catch). It's just a slightly witty way of explaining the difference between the two terms with brevity.

With free software, the freedom to copy software generally does mean the software is available at no cost, but that's not the goal behind the philosophy, nor is there any restriction on selling it or encouraging donations.
Is it worth picking up some AMD stock?
If it gives them the capital to start seriously competing in deep learning, then it doesn't matter.
I've worked with many programming environments, and PowerBuilder stands out as one of the worst. I remember exchanging emails and doing phone calls with the developers about some howling bad bugs in their COM support, bad enough that we wound up ditching PB despite the market it represented. Judging from the bugs I was finding and the release notes that I was reading (which covered issues that included how to avoid writing code that would crash the compiler), PB was a mess under the hood.

I don't abide by broken tools, but I do respect humility and realize that bugs and flawed designs happen. However, I will have no truck with companies that ship buggy, crashy products and then do the whole "manage customer expectations" dance in an obvious attempt to avoid remedial engineering. When I used it, the product was several major releases old, and they seemed to think they could trade workarounds and sophistry for fixing bugs.

Hateful? Probably. Undeserved? Definitely not.
But thankfully, we have ultimate frisbee to fill the gap.
Not the answer to your question but just another data source:

Courts have barred companies from negatively discriminating against older job applicants but not against younger job applicants for not being experienced enough.

The best theory/argument I could come up with is: "The elderly or infirmed have reached the end of their productive capacity and even if they wanted to earn more money to afford something, they couldn't. Young people OTOH could."

Conspiratorial theory: Judges are older and power structures always chose laws that favor the power structure.
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I used to own my own business - we were a small software development and consulting shop. It was much cheaper to pay some Ukrainian folks a very good hourly rate. If I commonly had to deal with unionized developers in the US it would likely not ever be worth the time or money.
First, please do not pretend that you know me. I have neither a problem with financial engineering in principle (combined with software engineering or not) or cryptography as such and certainly would not describe myself as any sort of purist.

Not sure what running startups have to do with it (although have plenty of experience with them too), but comparing average startup with any ICO one is disingenuous. As far as I can tell there is little to show for so far if one ignores companies not aimed at cryptocurrencies ecosystem itself.

But more to the point, it has been 9 years since Bitcoin was released building on ideas that were even older. Tech is more complicated than building website mid-90s (although probably not as much as you seem to believe), but again is not that complicated to excuse lack of compelling products.

I am not saying those will not come, but "early days" is a piss-poor excuse.

I do, however, dislike your use of crypto as for an old fart like me this should be used for cryptography.
This is why philosophy is important:

Education has two related yet distinct purposes. The first is to endow us with specific domain knowledge and reasoning. The second is to endow us with general reasoning and critical thinking skills.

The value of natural language philosophy - not formal logic and other mathematically adjacent subfields - is that it teaches us to be as rigorous as possible when reasoning in natural language.

Given that so much of our lives and the events of history and society unfold in natural language and that it is in natural language that we do much of our critical thinking and reasoning, it's important that we hold ourselves to as high a standard as is reasonably possible when talking (either to ourselves or others) as when performing mathematical calculations.

It's often said that one of the benefits of studying math is that it improves critical thinking skills. I believe this to be true, but I also believe that if our primary concern is improving our day to day critical thinking skills, then we would be better served studying natural language philosphy than mathematics, because on a day to day basis we tend to think and reason and debate and engage with one another in natural language.
Despite numerous commitments to India, Apple is performing poorly there
It's not necessary to fork the project. LibreOffice already comes with a way of reskinning/replacing the UI. Let's just say one of my priorities for 2018 is taking this further.
Black friday's riots are on a whole other level than "les soldes" in France...
Part of the reason might be that black friday is a single-day event.
OK, so if that's really what we're interested in, increase its funding. Don't artificially slow the rollout of solar panels with trade barriers.

The atmosphere won't wait for us.
What makes you think Netflix prices at cost?
Need to fix that. We only need email for signup and Publishing permission.
I have an aunt on disability after a false negative for Lyme left her searching for answers over a decade. She has heart damage, blood pressure and cognitive issues. It was devastating.
I think they mean they sent the equivalent cost of an Office licence to the Document Foundation.
My only issue is that it's hard sometimes to find how to do something I'm trying to do. But that's also a problem in MS Office.
It was worth it before the Ryzen premiered. Now all the current and future profits are already incorporated in market price. Currently, you stand a better chance of earning money if you short the AMD stocks. The old "buy the rumor, sell the fact" rule.
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> "you're lucky you even have a job; shut up and stop complaining"

You probably have seen the dotcom crash yourself - there were a lot of developers feeling lucky to even have a job. There probably will be another IT bubble burst, and a lot of people will regret they did not form a union when they had at least some say in the matter.
I always had better luck running Word on Wine than I did using OO/LibreOffice on Linux, but that was a decade ago.

Word 2003, as a self-contained package that could run off a flash drive, was the pinnacle of office productivity in my books.
I think this is actually one particularly good reason why society should be set up in such a way that this kind of help is so 'normal' that it wouldn't even be considered asking for help.

I know quite a few people who lived on unemployment for a year or so, whether between college and their first job, between various jobs, or because of mental health issues. While even here (NL) there's still a stigma attached to 'doing that', I'm convinced that none of these people would've taken this path if it wasn't so relatively normal.
Like I said in the other thread, it's sad this is even legal.

Here in Africa when Authorities allow obscenely rich people/companies to get away without paying their legally-mandated share of taxes it's called "bribery".

Apparently in America it's just "business".

Citizens should be protesting in the streets about this. Their educated, healthcare and infrastructure sucks because of it.
In a tree, any node can be chosen as the "root". That means any non-leaf node is a SPOF.
I actually started working on a Python implementation last year. I have a fully working implementation of the Secret Handshake protocol:

https://github.com/pferreir/pysecrethandshake

I've also implemented packet-stream on top of it (and intend to produce a proof of concept client at some point):

https://github.com/pferreir/pyssb

My time got diverted into other things, but if someone wants to help out, feel free to contact me on SSB (ub|k) or Twitter (@pferreir).
Not to do the c vs c++ thing, I too prefer c. For over 20 years actually I have preferred c to c++; all the while learning and enjoying other languages like rust. c still is missing some crucial stuff in my opinion-- there are times where I wish generics existed, and when you tie that to a trait system like in rust it's really a pity to not have something like that in c. Couple that with really great package managers for libraries in other languages, and a coherent way to use the libraries, makes one long for more when working in c; it's really missing great and easy code sharing that so many other languages have at their front and center.
I am not a lawyer. If your concerns are serious then it is worth paying one. The internet is not a substitute but is a useful proxy for how serious one's concerns actually are.

1. Context aside, it depends on the business and the state and the scale of the business...and also the locality because local business taxes are also a thing in many places. Probably the biggest factor is scale. Someone doing $10k of turnover a year probably isn't worth pursuing even if they are technically violating a the tax code of some state and/or locality. Doing $10 million might be another matter.

2. To me, energy spent on avoiding taxes is often misdirected. Getting more clients -- or even better -- better clients will usually provide much more bang on the bottom line. It's just that those things are hard and following rules and filing paper work is easy and avoiding taxes has warm fuzzies and lets someone brag over beers. But taxes are just a cost of doing business and profits are a better proxy for success than tax rate...I mean if you want to pay zero taxes, just don't make any money.

Good luck.
You can't eat your cake and have it, too.
Realistically, if the government didn't tax and the benefits were available without payment, how many people would voluntarily pay? Many (most?) will accept a free ride when it is available.

The strength of that "unspoken contract" diminishes as you move from personal friend to distant organization.

I agree that this software has value and it would be nice for people to support it monetarily, but it seems unreasonable to get upset when people don't.
I think console market is an unhealthy case, because consoles are sold at loss by big incumbents (Sony and MS), who try to reap the profits through lock-in rather than hardware competition. So AMD can barely profit on hardware there. It's starting to improve lately since it's becoming a bit more competitive and less stagnated, you can notice that the rate of console hardware upgrades is increasing. Their prices will also become more real in result.
There are a lot of examples, but the most notable is the endorsement / promotion of the X60 / X200 with non-free EC firmware and a dial-up modem that requires non-free software to work.

While not a freedom issue, they endorsed PureOS even though it uses a Debian kernel (linux-libre Vs. Debian kernel, not going to get into that here) while another distro was denied for that specific thing.
I'm pretty sure they looked at this before they started the work. There's a number of different approaches out there, all have their advantages and disadvantages. But I also found the reliance on VACUUM at Postgres more problematic than Oracle's or SQL Server's approach.
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> Like smoking tends to _reduce_ public health expense via premature death.

Does it? I thought it increased the costs due to lung cancer treatments.
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Oh cool! This would have been super useful while working on the Python implementation :)
Yup, I agree that IPFS is not the best choice.
When I installed this on macOS 10.13, it wouldn't run at all. Crashed on every document it tried to open, including a new document based on the default template, and then got stuck in a recovery loop. I had to force-quit it.

After deleting ~/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice it seems to be fine. So there must be an issue installing with old preferences in place.
That is more or less how Oracle does commit and rollback: changed items create a version in a "rollback segment". Queries begun during a transaction's life will get the original version of the changed items there. One can run out of rollback space, and so cause a transaction to be aborted before it creates potential inconsistency, though I haven't seen that happen in years.

I can't comment on the legal stuff. But I don't think that Oracle was the only one to manage "read committed" consistency this way.
Get your whole yard sprayed, too

Problem with this is Permethrin is quite a broad-spectrum insecticide and won't kill just ticks but also a lot of other insects (which take care of e.g. pollination and in turn are food for others, etc, the usual picture) and is also not exactly friendly for aquatic life. Also mammals are not completely out of the danger zone, depending on dose. And longer term effects are as far as I know simply unknown. So it needs at least some careful consideration in my opinion.
With ample air flow, you should be fine. Running a card at constant temperature (which is what mining would do), is better than ramping it up and down.

You'd probably make closer to £70 with your CPU thrown in, but it's all a gamble.
It sounds more like humans pronouncing words in a way that killer-whales can reproduce.
It's exactly the same product in France. Nutella once was primarily a hazelnut paste, flavoured with cocoa and a bit of sugar. Over many years it became primarily a sugar and palm oil base, flavoured with a little (13%) hazelnut.

In Italy, however, you can buy many other locally-made brands of hazelnut spread which still contain 50% or more hazelnut. Much tastier, probably healthier, and in Italy they're not all that much more expensive than Nutella!
Are you sure you know what you are talking about?
In the past, the GNU operating system tapes cost hefty money, for what is worth.

Also, I don't see anyone getting mad at people not paying. I only see one HN poster saying it's a shame that organization depending on GNU on their infrastructure don't support the work of the FSF, especially after what emerged in the wake of heartbleed (I know OpenSSL was not a GNU project, but the problem is similar).
I did my master's thesis on authorship verification, which is exactly this problem (deciding if two texts are written by the same author).

I experimented with clustering, SVMs, neural nets, etc for a long time, and got mainly disappointing results.

Even when "modern methods" give very high confidence scores, the problem is very messy and complicated, and usually the training data is different enough from the actual data (in supervised learning scenarios) as to bring the result into question.

I don't have access to the paper, so can't say much more, but I've seen a lot of very good-looking results that are in fact questionable.

Still a fascinating problem!
The Dat project, which is somewhat similar to IPFS, and the people behind Beaker have addressed these things. So you can have a site like dat://9900f9aad4d6e79e0beb1c46333852b99829e4dfcdfa9b690eeeab3c367c1b9a/ or you can access the same thing as dat://fritter.hashbase.io using DNS-over-HTTPS for Dat (which is a mouthful, so I've been calling it DSN [Dat Short Names] instead). TTL is controlled by the publisher, just like with DNS. The main downside with the current incarnation is that while the content network itself is decentralized, short name resolution is not, since it's bootstrapped from the traditional DNS/HTTPS infrastructure for now. Which means the short name works only so long as the publisher continues responding.

Beaker is a web browser for Dat sites. The 0.8 release is supposed to happen sometime in the next month, I think. The same team set up hashbase.io to make it trivial to create a short name for a Dat site, and so that you can have Hashbase act as a fallback superpeer/permaseed for your content.
This is great. It's super important to have multiple market players producing CPUs; obviously AMD is not the same company as Intel, but we also really can't afford to have a monopoly in something as important as CPUs.
Competing on price is a mistake for enterprise customers, they want to pay more. Saying this option is cheaper counts against it.

Make it as reliable as IPFS claims it can be (this has to work in the real world!), and as easy to use as a Twitter account, then market that combo.

Look at the competition for pricing ideas, and charge more since your offering delivers.
That’s sounds really great. Do you mind sharing your work out plan in more detail? I have tried some of the 7min apps, but I’m not satisfied with the exercises.
I agree, but protesting in the streets is not the right response. If we do that, businesses can just smile at us as they go about their business anyway. A better answer is to get involved in public government - instead of protesting, the residents of those cities should be packing their city council meetings and planning meetings, making their voices heard directly with the people who are putting these packages together for Amazon.
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AMD probably used consoles to keep the wafer supply agreement above the minimum threshold.
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> There's also the case though where the Rust compiler isn't helping you, but is just wrong.

Bugs aside, compilers are not wrong, they may be too limited for what you're trying to do. Which is a different situation.
It's a bacterial infection, so I believe immunity just doesn't last as long as it does for e.g. chicken pox. The vaccine, when it was available, recommended rather short intervals between boosters.
The gist is probably "[...] Storage — in far greater amounts [...] over years" (of data that Alphabet might not yet have had access to)
My dad was in the US Army when I was a kid. My family is primarily from the Pacific NW, and not particularly religious. When I was 5, my family moved to Germany. For me, it was a magical place, but and I fell deeply in love with it...but Germans aren't very religious, and we weren't while we were there, either. At the age of 10, my dad was reassigned to Ft. Sill, nearby Lawton, OK. You can probably imagine the culture shock of dropping into the buckle of the Bible Belt from agnostic origins. I ended up attending church services with various friends (which I had trouble making in Pentecostania) around the neighborhood, which were filled with fire and brimstone teachings, to include demoninizing D&D, which was lumped in with Quija boards, drugs, and premarital sex. The Southern pastors did a fine good job warping my young mind.

So, I meet this kid named Teddy at school. I don't recall his last name, and sorry if you're reading this, Teddy. We have what would probably be called a "play date" nowadays, because my mom had to drive me over to his house, as it was too far for preteen cycling. We're having a decent time, mostly talking on the couch in his living room, when Teddy asks if I would like to play Dungeons and Dragons. Believing that merely opening the box for the game would have set loose invisible demons to whisk my soul away to Satan's bottomless HQ, I may have freaked out a little and asked to leave. The stigma of D&D stayed with me for a long time, even into my late teens/early 20s, and I regret never having gotten to play D&D, now that everyone's getting back into it later in life. Even knowing now that the stigma of D&D isn't real, there's still a vague, magnetic force present in my mind, pushing me back when I think about sitting down to play it.
One one hand I agree. On the other hand, how is a state like Indiana supposed to attract a company like Amazon?
Miners are buying directly from the factory floor (for both GPUs and PSUs) or from a retailer the minute a shipment comes in. Fry's told me they have a list of people they call the minute a shipment comes in due to the demand.

I'm guessing the price on Newegg is past what a miner would pay for a card.
"Pony up" must mean something different for me than it does for you. I don't know what it means to OP, in my comment I mistakenly assumed my understanding of the phrase was fairly universal.
Like the above user said.

No package management or bloated softwares distributed.

It's immutable infrastructure. You configure your host once during provisioning, then it can accept container workloads in your cluster.
PCPartPicker does price graphing. Gamer's Nexus also did an article on this.
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Agreed. In my anecdotal experience, imprecise language and simple logical mistakes made in conversation is a pretty frequent source of miscommunication and minor interpersonal conflict. But I can't really tell people to speak more precisely or consider the logical implications of their speech without sounding like a prick
> Red Hat does not give a damn about rkt. They care about Kubernetes, specifically establishing and consolidating a dominant position in upstream kubernetes development.

Yep. Even technical people are used to referring to Linux container tech as 'Docker' so when you ask them what technology they use, they'll mention Kubernetes.
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Makes me think how I've just given up on doing any kind of complicated formatting with word processing software. They give you the tools for it, it seems, but you start adding tables and graphics and equations, the minute you hit enter and go to a new line it somehow displaces itself or some other odd behavior. And it's not exclusive to Microsoft.

If I ever need to do something like that I just pull out a text editor and start writing stuff up in TeX now, which while it doesn't really cause me any distress because I've learned TeX, is kind of ridiculous for the many people who've had no reason to learn TeX because they expected word processors to work as advertised.
"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had accumulated reports of 61 deaths and more than 100 serious injuries linked to Firestone 500 blowouts."

http://www.rubbernews.com/article/19960812/ISSUE/308129970/t...

I might have thought that the Firestone 500 was "The Worst Tire in History."
I like the idea of "Simple doesn't mean it's not hard".

For a newbie in a number of subjects many things may seem complex but are actually quite simple once you study enough of the concepts or theory behind something.

Sometimes to see the beauty of simple there's not other option then learn more. And I'm against of trying to avoid people to learn something that is worth it but may be new just to keep the status quo of any anybody should be able to understand it even without any knowledge of things making it more complex instead.
> ...it teaches us to be as rigorous as possible when reasoning in natural language.

A philosopher should explain to all the natural-language-as-code people why their endeavor is much, much harder than they think it is. If a philosopher isn't available, a lawyer would probably be qualified as well.

Point being, I feel like I'm getting some of those benefits just writing code and talking about it on a regular basis.
Public sector unions are public sector unions, not technology unions. AFSCME does not represent the interests of technical workers. And since when are public sector tech workers (truthfully the bottom of the barrel in terms of technical skill) something to aspire to?
So my advice to you is, experiment
I keep bees, so that ain't happening.