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MoreTuple··on The 9 lines of code that Google allegedly stole from Oracle
Would it be a more fair analogy to say that you read George's work, copied the chapter names and wrote your own story underneath those?
MoreTuple··on “We're considering banning domains that require users to disable ad blockers”
3 should be:

In response to add blocker blockers, ad blockers install ad blocker blocker blockers.

then onto your number 3

:)

MoreTuple··on Michael Bloomberg: Why Safe Spaces Are Terrible Mistakes
As a thirty year sufferer of PTSD, I think I have a lot to contribute here.

As someone who, for a very long time, had to worry greatly about the possibility of being triggered as it could result in hours of lost time or days of emotional turmoil seemingly without cause or apparent reason, the current concept of avoiding triggering others is utterly and completely useless.

What triggers me as a PTSD sufferer is not the same as what triggers others. It could be a phrase or a seemingly benign picture, anything which may be associated with the cause of PTSD and doesn't actually have to have anything to do with violence or suffering.

In my experience I've found that standard NSFW or NSFL markings are sufficient for most as they typically classify things which would cause the kind of mental & emotional echoes that torment PTSD sufferers beyond the little things which cannot be accounted for. Ultimately there is no knowing what can do it for any particular individual.

Last but not least, I find the trigger marking epidemic somewhat offensive. We are not children for you to care for. I am already very isolated in my ability to tell people about these experiences since they are so far outside the common reality as to be incomprehensible and quickly becomes the abnormality to avoid or curse. I do not need to be further maligned by an ignorant society's attempt to fix the world for me. Fix the world for the children who are getting PTSD today and leave me the hell alone.

MoreTuple··on WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge
Do they operate in Brazil? They apparently have no offices there and are only available over the internet (as is true of all websites throughout most of the world.) How can anyone expect to hold what amounts to a random IP address on the internet responsible for anything?
MoreTuple··on The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
Parts of Microsoft haven't let the 90s go, why should we?
MoreTuple··on Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3
I highly doubt that powershell is better than bash, unless you're perhaps only counting bash and its builtins and disregarding the whole environment of binaries around it.
MoreTuple··on I'm Pirating the Next Version of Windows
In response to #1 If I'm paying you to watch it, there better not be any commercials ;)
MoreTuple··on 9.2% Unemployment? Blame Microsoft.
Every person that I know that has considered starting their own business has decided against it for one reason only, health insurance. They have always been the obtainer in chief of health insurance for the family and it is too risky to go without. I strongly suspect that a public health option would blow the job market wide open between folks who want to retire but can't because health insurance is idiotically expensive and those of us who would love to start a business but cannot put a whole family at physical risk for a potential monetary reward.

I start a business means my present job opens up, as well as any additional hires my business would need. Jobs problem gone.

MoreTuple··on What makes US health care so expensive? Hard numbers, no easy answer.
Or we can tell companies to charge amicably across the board else they risk losing patents on drugs sold to Americans at grossly inflated rates. A drug patent should give a company the right to sell/license the drug, not the right to gouge people with it.

Clearly this lacks details, but the concept would work after the first few nullified patents.