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sobkas

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About sobkas

It's only illegal if you get caught and find someone willing to prosecute you. Also if penalty for breaking law is a fine, then this law only applies to poor people.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49110802

    Water: https://www.dw.com/en/danube-water-levels-hungary-romania-cu...

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    Comment #49108930

    Not doing anything is also an alternative, theoretically it can be worse than other alternatives too...

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    Comment #48899745

    > It's easy to say these anti-capitalistic platitudes, but do you really want to live in a society where the concept of private ownership is not supported by the state? > There is …

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    Comment #48667236

    > I don't get it. > > Qualcomm has almost no products in the high-end inference/training market. The industry standard is the NVIDIA Hopper H100/H200. > > What could they possibly …

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    Comment #46995170

    Just because something is in do-or-die situation doesn't mean that they have some kind of magical advantage over fat cat. Being in that situation means there is very real possibili…

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    Comment #46994561

    Also Theranos was do-or-die and we know how it ended.

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    Comment #46913965

    Easy way is not doing charter schools. Why are they bad? Charter school can choose what children they will teach when public schools don't have that choice, then people point at ch…

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    Comment #46905859

    And how many people would have been saved if he didn't forcibly extracted that money from society to begin with? Because it's almost impossible to not help someone if he just throw…

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    Comment #46905733

    His "charitable" contributions are only in place to charity wash his awful actions in the past and now. And it worked, everyone thinks of Saint Bill and his supposed good deeds whi…

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    Comment #46905683

    >They've admitted the US education work was a mistake. They are hardly alone in making that mistake, improving education in the US is hard. It's only hard if you don't want to help…

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    Comment #46905562

    He uses philanthropy to force his ideology on everyone and his ideology doesn't work. His philanthropy makes things worse not better. At some point it stops being a philanthropy wh…

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    Comment #46905449

    >The kind of piece of shit who donates basically his entire fortune to charity? So he is no longer a billionaire? And donating to what charity, The Gates Foundation? The one that h…

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    Comment #46849229

    Language or the way we use it is often used to exclude "undesired", so there is a point in using them. Not a very nice point, but a point nevertheless.

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    Comment #45821202

    > I am surprised no one has started a go fund me to make a fund just to bribe politicians to fix tax filing. > > It would be cost effective VS paying for tax prep! It will not work…

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    Comment #45159889

    You mean free speech zones...

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    Comment #45068085

    Proper term for it is Computer Assisted Plagiarism, CAP for short. Also, I really hope that Google doesn't claim it created sites it crawl for search their engine.

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    Comment #44755959

    Point of friction is to have it as a filter against people who really need your help. Helping people necessitates taking some action, spending resources, potentially making some er…

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    Comment #44267016

    Google doesn't provide "entire operating system source code", it provides some parts, while other they keep closed. Also they are continuously removing parts that are essential fro…

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    Comment #43732083

    Licence also prevent you from modifying generated code.

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    Comment #43732046

    First you can download specifications in either PDF or doc(x). Second doc(x) are simple enough that simple doc(x) to ASCII/text is good enough to produce working ASN.1 definition. …

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    Comment #42582006

    > A homelab with an useable uplink can be sufficient for many services like blog, DNS, mail. I always felt like you are painting target on your homelab when you allow outside acces…

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    Comment #42423355

    If death is a suicide it doesn't automatically means that third parties weren't involved. It's possible to push (temporally) vulnerable people over the edge, even if when helped/le…

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    Comment #42192463

    How about government is paying for treatment of people too poor to pay themselves and everyone is paying their share to finance that spending? And as a bonus everyone else will als…

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    Comment #41873160

    > Why non-LTS out of curiosity? Based on my experience, more recent kernel versions have more fixes/better support for recent hardware(or sometimes not so recent). LTS doesn't back…

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    Comment #41873113

    > Qualcomm showed Linux working in October 2023 yet here in October 2024 Linux does not work. I don't get it. Curse of Android, Qualcomm lived for so long with permanently forked k…