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headhasthoughts
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Comment #39141926
billionaires constantly complain about overpopulation and some complain about underpopulation either a bunch of people die or a bunch get poor and either way one half of these comp…
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Comment #38840294
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6562018/ > Lifespan and metabolic health are influenced by dietary nutrients. Recent studies show that a reduced protein intake or low-…
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Comment #38691403
You both should do the bare minimum amount of research before asking these questions or insulting the project. It would take you one whole click to find the server code. https://gi…
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Comment #38620030
It is correct; the binary is AGPL, and Snap is a binary distribution method.
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Comment #38619463
You, too, are wrong. From Canonical's actual announcement: > Canonical has decided to change the default contributions to the LXD project to AGPLv3 to align with our standard licen…
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Comment #38424011
How has it been a huge boon to the GNU ecosystem? Clang is slow, the code generated is not consistently better than GCC for most of the software I personally run benchmarks for, an…
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Comment #38419486
Pretty sure EMACS beat Kubernetes to the punch. This Helm, too, is pretty old now. Complaining about names is ridiculous. There are only so many names to go around, and there's alm…
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Comment #37291723
> “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do no…
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Comment #35389908
r5rs is significantly smaller than Janet.
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Comment #34644024
In your opinion, was O.J. Simpson "cancelled?" Hans Reiser? At what point do we draw a line and accept that a person can be judged negatively for harm they cause?
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Comment #34189298
Have you considered just getting him a gaming console? If he's got the degree, he's prepared enough. After he gets a job, you'll be in a position where he won't really be practical…
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Comment #34130685
This is a satisfying and well-considered answer. I apologize for being a bit rude to you elsewhere in the thread; I do want you to succeed, but your avoidance of pointing out the m…
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Comment #34130615
A very basic IRC client can be made literally with pretty much ten lines, netcat, head, echo, cat and a named pipe. It's not bollocks. IRC is super easy to develop for. Even doing …
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Comment #34130497
Would it be accurate to say that you value trust & safety less than any other part of the project? You praise the UX designers, who apparently were not laid off. Is UX more importa…
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Comment #34130371
Why in the world would anybody use Matrix if you made it closed-source (as you've so cleverly disguised it, """open""" core)? I use it daily to talk to pretty much everyone I know.…
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Comment #34066315
Bezos got three hundred thousand dollars from his parents to start Amazon. Gates only got the DOS deal because of his mother's connection to IBM. Zuckerberg's mother was a doctor, …
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Comment #34004544
Dworkin had to prostitute herself in order to survive in the 1970s. I think you're barking up the wrong tree. If anyone was sympathetic to the struggle, it was Dworkin. She just ac…
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Comment #33988639
It is impossible for the stock market to be irrational, but individual actors within are often irrational. Within the game, "the stock market," it is rational. The game is "What do…
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Comment #33988262
Stock prices are speculative. It makes sense because the market wants to buy and sell it at that price.
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Comment #33759114
My view isn't that accounts tied to real people are bad. It's that your lack of ability to think of cases where what you propose could be harmful points to a total lack of critical…
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Comment #33757347
What could possibly be the harm in allowing people to harass others based on posts they made decades ago? What could possibly be harmful in making a person who for whatever reason …