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I have netflix, but also a usenet server account and many TB of disk. I might cancel the first, if the added value becomes too small.

Excellent. I hope more and more people start to see how absurd and evil the concept of "intellectual property" is. It should be totally rejected and any form of keeping useful info…

If impulse control is an issue for you, I think weed is one of the lesser issues. Alcohol or other substances or habits are much more of a risk for those with little self control.

Another data point here: 2 kids, the one who uses (a lot) of THC is more successful, got a physics masters degree and had a 40% side-job during most of bachelor/masters phase.

I can only assume that, just like "made in germany" in the 19th century, after a while the "made in china" will transform from a sign of inferior, into a sign of superior quality. …

And the arguments in favour are often based on feelings and/or the vested interests of the current owners of "intelectual property". I think that basically it is immoral to prevent…

Indeed, it is one of the proposed solutions as listed in the corresponding wikipedia article on the St. Petersburg paradox. There is a table with quite low expected values, mapping…

Most European countries, including Switzerland, still have them. They do work with some limits. And they are absolutely necessary to prevent that, once you have made money, you can…

Google might be doing this to show the negative aspects of the current copyright system. Maybe they want to annoy enough people so that something might change.

It is a distro of enigma2, see https://git.opendreambox.org/ Written in python.

Just use something else for your root file system, and zfs for the rest. I've been running Zol for 10 years (on arch) and had to recover a few times, but it was never difficult bec…

It depends. Once the coronavirus is defeated, it will have accelerated the economic cycle downturn, we might see a very deep and long recession, maybe even one like we have not see…

The US was and is one of the driving forces behind the UN convention, however.

There have been reports of huge overdosis, e.g. by miscalculation by a factor of 1000 or even more. The physical harm was little to none. The mental harm varied greatly, there were…

The article pleads for more workers rights and bargaining power. While I think that is a noble wish, it is an illusion, and they know it. The article describes "out of the box" thi…

As far as I know, you need grpc-web only because there is no direct grpc implementation for javascript. For rust, c++ etc. you would use grpc natively.

I was thinking exactly this, 8 years ago. I moved from an imac + mbpro to linux only. It took longer than expected. I even intended to buy put options, but someone I trust told me …

Real criminals won't use such platforms anymore, but use custom end-to-end encryption. They'll find people to make them something, if need be by using steganography. This will only…

It depends on the language. I've used debuggers in java, much less in c++, and hardly in go. I feel there is not much of a need in go for debugging, writing good tests and the occa…

It would be even better if there were just and progressive taxes, so that the state can take its responsibility, and charity is not required.

Agree, I'm wondering too.

Thinking about dark energy and the renewed controversy about it, e.g. https://www.space.com/dark-energy-not-debunked.html . We have grave inconsistencies in cosmology, yet very bol…

It is not good to make implicit assumptions that are not generally shared. Your post is either a cruel joke, or you assume certainty about something like reincarnation (another lif…