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Really, hell banned? Go figure. I assume you at least can still read me. BSD and MIT licenses are Open Source but not Free, they are more concerned with providing a claim of owners…

I'd have to disagree... https://policies.google.com/terms https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/terms/site.htm... Maybe there's some code that at one point was FOSS in thos…

I do teach at high school level and, in general, I am unimpressed by what the current generation of education tech brings to the table. Most of them do the same stuff as the tools …

The point of the work is not to provide closure, but to foster discussion. The fact that we do not know if the princess is telling the truth or not puts us in the very same positio…

In theory, you are right. No freedom can be absolute because sooner or later it will undermine somebody else's freedom. In practice, the particular "but" the GP was referring to wa…

That's what we do nowadays, is it? Somebody walks and say something against our preferred political ideology and we throw vague threats of ruining that person's life with false acc…

Please elaborate. Your complain comes about passive-aggressive if you do not explain why the problem is a problem or how to solve it.

> Most companies use this type of information only when the employee is suspect of leaks or misconduct This opinion based on what? You may not be aware of this management theory ca…

Editor folding is a band aid. You might as well buy a bigger screen.

A program composed of one thousand functions with average length of 1K LOC is jarring and hard to understand. The same program refactored into a quarter of a million functions of 5…

All great things were born out of great effort, but most great efforts do not lead to great things. The problem with these entrepreneurs that feel entitled to demand great effort f…

How did you keep your feet dry one year ago? How often did you go out running in the rain in the last five years? How much more often would you run in the rain if you had those sho…

Your grandparents had the expectation that other people would listen at any time, so they would self censor as needed. Your grandparents also received a direct benefit in the form …

I personally believe that digging itself into a hole (and eventually climbing back up) is the status quo for Humanity. It has been done multiple times before, and doubtlessly it wi…

The "two corners of the White House" part is totally in line with the "heads on pikes". It is all part of the same figure of speech. The part everybody is missing is "I'd actually …

> no one would open a staffed lending library with a collection so small that the staff could keep everything in their head Yes, no one would. Yet the same people pile up technical…

Correct. Your point being?

> Why should any of these people be considered "unemployed"? In general, because governments around the World use doctored Unemployment Rates to claim their economic policies are m…

For what is worth, I think psychological manipulation is the real bad. Machine learning is just a force multiplier.

Go deep enough, and it all becomes meaningless. Of course it is the people. People are flawed. Any Greek philosopher from 3,000 years ago could have told you so. There's no point c…

> The only things that the education system there is geared to do is have kids cram stuff and regurgitate it and create assembly lines of mindless robots. How is any better to have…

On the other hand, your insurance company would have strictly (and wisely, IMHO) defined how many millions worth of chemo your $500/month plan will buy you, or specifically what ki…

> I have never seen a well working, up to date, modern system being called legacy. "modern" being the operative word here. Every year, new systems that will turn awful to maintain …