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No Billionares at FOSDEM
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#162> [...] peacefully prevent the talk from proceeding as scheduled. I am strongly opposed to this idea. We should not be burning books and should not be preventing talks from proceeding. See Tim Urban's book What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies for why blocking speakers is a bad idea. Tim's argument essentially is that it's okay to decide you don't want to see a speaker, it's also okay to decide if you a…
> (…) why blocking speakers is a bad idea. Tim's argument essentially (…)
That didn’t explain anything. You just said “it’s OK to do X but not OK to do Y” with no supporting argument.
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Is it that interesting? I mean he likes anime porn? That's it or like is there actually some proof hes a pedophile?
On the other hand that Stallman report... oof
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#165> [...] peacefully prevent the talk from proceeding as scheduled. I am strongly opposed to this idea. We should not be burning books and should not be preventing talks from proceeding. See Tim Urban's book What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies for why blocking speakers is a bad idea. Tim's argument essentially is that it's okay to decide you don't want to see a speaker, it's also okay to decide if you a…
Yeah. If we feel strongly about Dorsey speaking, just don't go to the keynote? Imagine the keynote has few or even no audience, wouldn't that be strong enough a message? Dragging everyone down for one's own morality is not good for the conference or our society.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you, if he really said that he is one of the best players, that would be a lie. I don't think just streaming a leveled up account is a lie, though. Why do you talk about hours per day? Does it matter if you play less hours per day, but more days?
> Why do you talk about hours per day? Does it matter if you play less hours per day, but more days? Because the only way to level up your character is to grind through a dungeon. You'll get experience for doing so. Every time you level up your character, it takes exponentially more experience to hit the next level. I don't remember the exact number of hours per day that are required to hit the levels his characters…
> This youtube video has a decent breakdown of the whole thing
This one is considerably shorter, and I feel does a good and quick breakdown.
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#167Why not just take the money and skip the talk? He can speak to an empty hall as much as he pleases.
> Why not just take the money and skip the talk?
I don’t understand what you’re suggesting here. FOSDEM is a free event, attendees don’t pay. I doubt speakers are paid much or at all, either, though I wouldn’t be surprised if the organisers covered their travel/hotel/meals.
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#168Flagged why?
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Is it that interesting? I mean he likes anime porn? That's it or like is there actually some proof hes a pedophile? On the other hand that Stallman report... oof
Are you saying that liking loli porn (porn of animated children), to the point of moderating a community based around said porn, is less of a problem than the (very real, I agree) issues highlighted in the Stallman report? Both are super problematic, but being actively into porn that is actually banned in a lot of countries because of its links to pedophilia is even less defensible.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apollo 11 had a three stage rocket and every stage was discarded. SpaceX is obviously not the first company to land something - but landing a rocket booster that just performed an orbital lift is the interesting and extremely hard thing to do. The payload can be entirely designed to land - but the booster has many other constraints (payload weight and its desired velocity and trajectory being some of them). To do wha…
I'm talking about the Apollo Lunar Module. You know, this bit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module that descended to the moon, landed, some guys walked out and grabbed some moon rocks, then they took off again and made it back to earth. That's a rocket-propelled space vehicle gently landing tail first, and ready for immediately reuse. Given that it clearly had been done, I doubt anyone who knew what they…
It's not reused. Only the top half goes up. The bottom half with the legs and descending engine is still in the Moon.