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Dingdingding, we have a winner. The main use of such a policy is to be able to just close those giant wall-of-text PRs and have something to point to when people start to scream it…

19th century begs to differ. A better answer would be 'not always'. The proposed regulations forcing everybody to use google or apple are ridiculous and very much the opposite of t…

I don't think so. Because the theories about elastic markets and monopolies do have a high 'spherical frictionless cow` smell. And they are posed here as gospel. So while it might …

Very nice. I guess most dutchies would disagree with the decision to pick De Hague as the Main Capital, though :-) While all power is in De Hague , Amsterdam definitely is the Capi…

Still, it was called voxel rendering back then. Not technically correct, sure, but it sounded as cool as it looked!

exactly. and chromium is a good looking space shooter with too few levels!

I strongly disagree. Altavista had exactly the same function as google, but with worse results. Both linked to original sources. Early google had a very good idea with pagerank and…

Google search has been over for a few years already. Nearly all other search engines give better results with less annoying ads at the top. First thing I do when installing a new b…

> what has fukushima to do with storing nuclear waste. They had (still have I think) a rather nasty problem with storing lots of contaminated water in leaking containers on the Fuk…

When a debater makes a lot of bad points, extrapolating to be suspicious of any point he makes is not and ad-hominem. And ad hominem is when you dismiss his points because he might…

I like the top panel in gnome. You need a place for your clock and you status icons. I don't really care much if it's at the top or bottom or sides. As an aside: From a 'clickabili…

But how do you know it's not conscious? It's a very poorly defined concept. I know various people that to this day say that fish do not feel pain (because they want to catch them w…

People having been saying for aeons that consciousness originates in the (mammalian) cortex and not in the brainstem. To justify killing all sorts of animals ;-) The whole thing ma…

My experience is that politicians tend to hand-wave this problem away, while physicists and geologists acknowledge the problem and actually think about it. So imo not really a poli…

I know it's not a green ooze. But thinking it is possible to store something safely for >10000 years is just wishful thinking. The waste is a lot more dangerous than the uranium we…

The engineering side might be a theoretically solved problem, anybody looking at belgium's crumbling nuclear powerplants can help but feeling slightly nervous! I agree we probably …

It might be a scared cow, but at least deservedly so. There is imho a difference between accidental incompetence (debatable, even) and active malice. Microsoft has done a lot of th…

The problem is that the kernel devs (correctly imo) consider all bugfixes security fixes. So the distros need to decide for themselves which ones are important enough to warrant an…

The distros dropped the ball. imho. One of the (main) tasks of the distro is watching the changed of you upstream packages for important changes. This is slightly complicated by th…

You can setup handlers to automatically launch windows executables using wine/proton . This trickery is called binfmt_misc , which is a linux kernel system to associate random bina…

The problem here, and the source of OOPs annoyance I think, is that the governments of the constituting member states have the habit to present unpopular regulations as 'from Bruss…

The eufemism treadmill works bot ways. Eufemisms loose their politeness. Swearwords loose their strength (to be replaced by new ones). Language changes. I don't think people are in…

The linguistics of swearwords are interesting I think. They need to be taboo or they don't work. A certain amount of offensiveness is needed for their function. I think swearwords …

exactly

The second interpretation is nonsense of course. If you want GPL-like obligations, use the GPL. A license is what it says in the license, nothing extra. It's a legal document not a…