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Copyleft licenses have restrictions. Now, those restrictions are definitely in promotion of the normative ethics that the FOSS community holds, but they are nonetheless restriction…

GPL licenses also restrict what you can do with it...

This is a great recipe for going out of business.

No I also dodge, because I glance around the entire time I do things. I have ADHD. I feel more comfortable having continual tasks and stimuli, so looking both way, glancing at who'…

I live in cities, and I usually walk around 15-20k steps every day for the last decade in cities. I listen to music or podcasts in my earbuds, and often I read stuff on chat on my …

I never know how earnestly to take any Roko's Basilisk mention

Unfortunately, we actually don't make the kind of general widely applicable gains in treatment that people believe we have. We're not in a much different place for major cancers th…

Supranational regulations limit national sovereignty, news at 11. Across the gamut of regulations the EU has, it's not really the ones that apply to Apple that draw much ire.

It's very often this. Even light core strengthening and glute work can help you stand or walk for much longer.

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As a tourist or outsider, the cost of trains in Europe is going to be much more expensive. In the Netherlands for example, the price of a train ticket without a subscription (such …

I see you don't subscribe to weekend papers. Mild, minor culture articles are perfectly normal and welcome for media outlets to carry for the people who pay to subscribe for their …

Whether it is or is not, is not a function of the cocaine though, but rather idiosyncrasies of the wider ecologies the salmon are in. If roaming more widely introduces them to more…

Trump is the most postmodern politician, and MAGA the most postmodern of political movements

It's crazy how convenient and deep the library on soulseek is. I even use it all the time on mobile.

This is not at all what is meant by fascist corporatism, nor corporatism more generally. Corporatism is more about collective bargaining by professional trades, and is not the sens…

> The challenge with comparing AI to humans is that the bar keeps shifting up. Exactly. There is no standard, humans will adapt and find how to use AI as a tool, and the bar will n…

There really isn't any Bayesian "prior" for us. We exist as agents interacting with an environment qua data stream. Every single moment brings new flows of "data" and as such there…

Not entirely; it's doesn't necessarily involve taking advantage of price discrepancies in different "markets" of the same asset, or contract so to speak in this case, and so it doe…

It is not a good idea for retail investors to get heavily involved in zero-sum derivatives trading against much more sophisticated algorithmic trading models.

Being next to the steering wheel is worse. If the human needs to be in the car, then he should be behind the wheel. Putting him next to the wheel is categorically stupid and only s…

I remember being a young boy spending summers with my grandmother who lived on Church Street. I used to spend whole days in those book shops, good to know they are still a major pa…

I called him a divine being to describe the kind of experience it was. There was a historical human form of Jesus that the chosen apostles interacted with. In Paul's testimony he e…

> His main privilege was that petty local rulers were more reluctant to persecute him than they would a non-citizen It's more than that. Basically everywhere he went local commoner…