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That was the beginning of what I came here to say (to be followed by some other stuff that already got said). step 2 of any analysis: project forward You did this well.

This also seems like a great way to get everyone to leave. If what I wanted was a B2B platform, I wouldn't choose one with a history of suddenly changing its policies and only givi…

Okay, solution: teach the person to use a computer first

I've had great experiences with pair programming (and also bad experiences, but this is assuming a great experience), and I'd still want code review. The benefits can actually stac…

EPUB would beat the shit out of PDF for that. (EPUB is basically a subset of HTML with client-oriented context.)

Turning PDFs into the replacement for HTML would change the incentives around PDF authoring, and PDFs would then acquire the same problems identified with HTML. The solution to the…

You can write HTML pages to be self-contained and offline-friendly. You can write PDFs to include resources that are not part of a single, self-contained file, and to be quite unfr…

> why not have the option for something static You have the same option with either HTML or PDF: - PDF files can be dynamic or static, depending on how you write them. - HTML files…

PDFs are capable of the same issues.

It's possible to write PDFs that don't "work" (for some useful definition of "work" similar to the case with HTML) offline. Please stop pretending that's not true. The reason offli…

Why does it seem like almost everyone doesn't realize that PDFs can easily be made to support all the horrors we see in HTML? No, it's fucking well not impossible -- or even notabl…

I actually dislike HTML per se, but the only two benefits I see for PDFs in the general case are: - In my experience, it's a little harder and rarer to make PDFs utterly incompatib…

> > Sure, you can write good HTML. A key here is that it's easier to write good HTML docs than good PDF docs, and much harder to deal with the harmful aspects of PDF docs given pre…

"A bad remedy to a genuine problem does not yield a solved problem."

Those points can be trivially met with static HTML and something like IPFS, and you can still download HTML for local storage and viewing. You can even print to PDF if you really w…

It seems to have been 2017 (hopefully I recall the year correctly), by transfer of legally owned/registered assets (all that comes to mind immediately that was under non-volunteer …

I guess that makes her closer in time and space .

Just for the sake of those who might misunderstand this comment: She wasn't a "Civil War widow" per se. She was not widowed by the death of her husband in the Civil War. She was se…

From some of the discussions I've seen, it looks like part of the MobileCoin strategy is to shit-talk Monero as a way to build hype for MobileCoin, and claim all prior art came dir…

I'm pretty sure that's just a buzzword for "revenue model", which is to say a plan for how it will make money. The charitable interpretation in this case would be "how to keep devs…

Ideas, protocols, and (except perhaps in the post-Oracle-Java world) interfaces can still be copied. A lot of open source software actually does exactly that with ideas, protocols,…

The real complaint from the surveillance police state is that people use encryption for privacy -- whether it's basic communications privacy (end-to-end encrypted text and voice) o…

That's exactly what GNU did. GNU can take changes from software produced by others under copyfree licenses and wrap it in a copyleft license, then the projects from which it borrow…

How about "copyfree"? https://copyfree.org https://copyfree.org/standard (I also consider anything that fits the Open Source Definition to be "open source" and differentiate things…

> It isn't clear neither What?