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These excuses just keep getting funnier. App developers: make sure you file your patents, or else its YOUR fault if Apple decides to participate in blatant 90s style Microsoft anti…

As someone who spends their time maintaining every aspect of my cars (oil, brakes, bearings, everything), Toyotas were by far the easiest, simplest, cheapest, most reliable and lon…

And anyway, certainly the appreciation of the value of your home is more dependent on the plot of land and not the condition of the structure.

Sorry, no. I was with you on your comment on doing. However, "working class" is an actual term [1] that does not fit your intended message. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workin…

Why is it weird to preserve and strongly regulate natural landmarks?

> The references I shared make it very clear that Instagram is losing market share. Not sure why those dots were difficult to connect. I said that in the context of breaking up G/F…

I am not exactly sure what you are trying to prove here. As far as I am concerned, Google and Facebook have not been broken up into pieces of YouTube and Instagram yet. How does th…

If we were to break up Facebook or Google, it would be of the granularity of YouTube or Instagram, which is actually what TikTok competes with. I cannot see how YouTube or Instagra…

Not many people realize, but Longyearbyen is very accessible during the season. There is a fully operational airport only a few miles out that services multiple passenger flights i…

Collaboration and competition are not mutually exclusive. Competition does not always result in self-determination. For instance, people mentor others because they might learn some…

Where do you find the balance between spending time maximizing your child's entry into a safe and secure future versus entertaining their passions? Not that being passionate about …

People need incentives, and being competitive in school-like activities provides them. Universities have been moving away from evaluating candidates from raw academic or scholastic…

Yea, we may never know. If Replit just went ahead and filed a lawsuit and presented their case in front of an actual court, that would shed light on the legitimacy of their claims.…

I am not sure I agree. The topic of intellectual property and trade secrets in software, or if IP laws should even apply, is probably another discussion entirely. However, there's …

No, lets be honest, this did not "change" for the reasons you listed. Mainboards are all manufactured in China. Right to repair advocates are not looking for manufacturing processe…

I used to think it was fair. Then I learned that Apple provides exceptions only to some Apps through some sketchy backroom process. [1] Apps that don't directly compete with their …

Yes, opt-in informed consent from maintainers and reviewers of the patches.

You are free to disagree. Obviously, not every scenario can be navigated using an arbitrary policy for conduct, which was what clearly happened here. 'Informed consent' in the cont…

> If UMN’s ethics board has approved this experiment in cooperation with Linus/Greg No, informed consent must be with all participants and maintainers reviewing the patches. Why do…

Perhaps why she did not explicitly call out rape in her message. However, it's a very realistic abuse and harassment claim, that in itself is already extremely problematic.

Nope. Lets say IRB made the correct decision and demanded informed consent. Then informed consent must be requested from ALL participants, maintainers, and reviewers of the study. …

I still do not get your initial point. You argue that firing would be justifiable in industry, e.g. non-academics, yet we don't hear Google or Facebook [1] scientists getting fired…

> Non-academics get fired for doing unethical things entirely unrelated to their jobs all the time, just to avoid bad publicity. Yes, only if it's unrelated to their jobs. People g…

> The ethics around research that involves deception have been pretty well established and are are several good comments here explaining them. Ethics in computing research remains …