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Re:Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications
on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:29AM (#14098002)
Well said. Ideas are not scarce, only the physical realm is. Its not hard to envision the coder being paid to code; when no more code is being written, there are no more checks coming in. Nobody is owed anything based on past accomplishments. In the information age, reputation is _everything_.
Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence
on Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:41AM (#14049654)
I actually knew Unity/mir was doomed over 2 years ago. I can also say aptitude is doomed. Nix or a derivative renders imperative system management obsolete.
Re:How Bank of America Gave Away My Money
on Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:22AM (#14049570)
Amazing how much down voting one gets for stating facts.
Re:How Bank of America Gave Away My Money
on Thursday April 06, 2017 @06:58AM (#14049457)
BoA gave everybody's money-substitute-government-credit away, but few have realised it (Even thou BoA says so themselves in their financial statements). So the guy is lucky in a way; he now doesn't trust the thieves. Even fewer realise that the banknotes they are so proudly holding have long ago been defaulted on. It's all running on illusions now. Sell your paper.
Re:Ask HN: What are the OSS alternatives to iOS/Android?
on Thursday April 06, 2017 @06:38AM (#14049387)
The problem isn't software. Let's say I have a dozen engineers to develop a mobile UI on top of BSD. What do we use? Nothing, Nada, rien. There is no real hardware. Even Linus can make a kernel, if there is hardware to develop it on! So software isn't the problem.
Re:The Linux Foundation: Not a Friend of Desktop Linux, the GPL, or Op...
on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @09:13AM (#14032187)
The GPL and openness are incompatible.
Re:Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value
on Monday April 03, 2017 @12:16PM (#14024055)
If I actually trusted the derivative counterparties to remain solvent, I'd reopen a trading to put a long short strategy on this. Everybody seems so have missed the glaring fact that the electric transport isn't going to go anywhere; the lucky ones will have good bi/tricycles, or horse/mules and cart. Motorized transport wasn't a product of humanity's sheer desire for it! It was only caused by the incomparably immense oversupply of energy from fossil fuels, which was a one-off. We can just pray that the transition won't destroy us. Electric lights and computer networks would be nice to salvage out of it. Did you think you'd never use a 100mhz CPU again? The suckless guys have the right idea; we need more efficiency and standardization, not bigger frameworks running on faster chips. I want a 500mW workstation with relatively fast e-ink like display. I'd sell billions of em. Sell your (e)cars, buy yourselves nice bicycles. You won't regret it.
Re:A community on the front lines of the opioid epidemic
on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @06:41AM (#13975467)
It's cheaper to drink pure ethanol than wine.
You can hit me on matrix.
Re:A community on the front lines of the opioid epidemic
on Saturday March 25, 2017 @08:12AM (#13955228)
Opium is the most beneficial plant known to man.
Your solutions are wrong:
If opium isn't banned, everyone can grow poppies and enjoy natural opium latex. Nobody would use fentanyl. It wouldn't even be produced. And, yes, it cures alcohol addiction. Ethanol is a poison, morphine is a medicine.
Re:The end of smartphone innovation
on Saturday March 25, 2017 @08:03AM (#13955193)
When the patents of the piston engine ended, the combustion engine saw tremendous innovation. So as long as the monopoly is in place, only the military will get hand held computers, and everyone else will get toys. IP is fraud.
Re:A response to “How to never complete anything”
on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:57PM (#13941580)
I do seek help, and LSD gives it to me. 'Reality' .. Ahahah!
Quid est veritas?
Re:Is There a Right to Immigrate? (2010)
on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:46PM (#13941457)
No. Ownership of a good is acquired through homesteading.
Re:534 Job Applications: Finding a Life Path During Crisis
on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @10:57AM (#13922720)
Actually the BIS just had a report that put the Canadian banking sector as the riskiest, ahead of Greece. Most leveraged consumer in the world. I moved out; it's about to implode. If I was still there I'd raise some sheep. They're smarter than the legions of Govt educated 33x leveraged owners of the most expensive housing market ever.
Re:GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using comp...
on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @10:45AM (#13922593)
I feel like I'm living an the twilight zone. An idea is not a scarce good! The Pharaoh is not the 'Mighty Son of Ra'. A triangle has three sides.
Re:They Used To Last 50 Years
on Monday March 20, 2017 @02:38AM (#13912206)
Nothing but State-backed monopolies. 'Limited liability' 'State privilege' and 'Intellectual property' hard at work. Beehee!
Re:We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen
on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:18AM (#13856075)
Google doesn't exist. There are only people who work under an umbrella termed "Google". Those people do not agree with each others on everything. So, Yes, we can work with some of them. After all, wasn't Snowden 'The NSA' !?
Re:Is There a Right to Immigrate? (2010)
on Sunday March 12, 2017 @11:35AM (#13851104)
The State is illegitimate. It is up to the rightful landowners to allow whoever they want on their premises.
Re:A response to “How to never complete anything”
on Friday March 10, 2017 @09:15PM (#13843775)
> I think it’s time for you to have a vacation – a real vacation.
Iv tried it all; sail without an engine, tan on beaches 5k miles away, buy all the sex workers (my) money could buy. None if it worked. The only true vacation for me is lysergic acid diethylamide, 250 to 500 micro grams.
Re:The quest to crystallize time
on Thursday March 09, 2017 @01:24PM (#13831572)
Mathematics is also mysticism. 1 is arbitrary. The senses can never perceive 1. So it is self-contained. There is no time without perception, and no perception without division. Consciousness perpetuates itself, but it has no reach outside its self-generated paradigm. Time is created by the witness, and the witness is time. It's a circle the mind cannot escape. If there is such a thing as a quantum computer, the mind cannot comprehend its output. Your hashes won't be broken.
Re:In Puerto Rico, Teachers’ Pension Fund Works Like a Ponzi Scheme
on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @10:37PM (#13826747)
Holding a USD makes you a creditor. A Dollar is 1.5 grams of gold, but it used to be a quantity of silver. So it's all a big ponzi. USD, EUR, JPY, BTC, et al. - sell them as quickly as you get em. There are ways now to hold insured gold that can be withdrawn at ATMs in a jiffy. Or be a sucker.
Re:Ask HN: What books fundamentally changed the way you think about th...
on Monday March 06, 2017 @12:50PM (#13804448)
Rothbard was pretty good, but his student, Hans Hoppe, is even better. One of the greatest minds alive today.
Re:Ask HN: What books fundamentally changed the way you think about th...
on Monday March 06, 2017 @12:44PM (#13804395)
Of course God exists; Man created Him.
Re:Ask HN: What books fundamentally changed the way you think about th...
on Monday March 06, 2017 @12:09PM (#13804070)
- Character analysis (W. Reich)
- Meetings with Remarkable Men (Gurdjieff)
- Courage to Stand Alone (UG Krishnamurti)
Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platforms (2016)
on Saturday March 04, 2017 @11:46PM (#13794647)
They also want to make hardware that doesn't get them assasinated by the King's agents.
Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platforms (2016)
on Saturday March 04, 2017 @11:32PM (#13794615)
So the revolutionary wars didn't happen?