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Their statement was something like “hey, thanks for finding our stuff. Please let us know when we can have it back.”. You gotta admire the chutzpah.

I loved this post. Congratulations, really cool tiny projects, I'm jealous.

Very cool

I would argue two thing:

1) foreign policy doctrines exist.

2) It does serve developed nations interest to keep some other nations in the role of natural resources suppliers and nothing else.

There's no natural right to artificially ban copying something.

It's not the whole society that is murdering their neighboors. If that were true, all americans should be considered criminals.

I came here to say this. I read it 4 times before giving up.

We sterilize everyone but them?

This is what Graeber writes:

"Historically, human work patterns have taken the form of intense bursts of energy followed by rest. Farming, for instance, is generally an all-hands-on-deck mobilization around planting and harvest, with the off-seasons occupied by minor projects. Large projects such as building a house or preparing for a feast tend to take the same form. This is typical of how human beings have always worked. There is no reason to believe that acting otherwise would result in greater efficiency or productivity. Often it has precisely the opposite effect.

One reason that work was historically irregular is because it was largely unsupervised. This is true of medieval feudalism and of most labor arrangements until relatively recent times, even if the relationship between worker and boss was strikingly unequal. If those at the bottom produced what was required of them, those at the top couldn’t be bothered to know how the time was spent."

You are right, we are selling our labour. But the idea that that means that we are selling our _time_ is a recent development in human history. Most societies in the past would have a hard time even understanding the idea that one's time could belong to your employer, es explained by David Graeber in "bullshit jobs"

A command line client for the firestore DB, because there was none:

https://github.com/sgarciac/fuego

And also that people are starting to seriously worry for the energy consumption of something that provides no useful value.

That's wrong. It's only if you distribute the software you modified that you need to share those modifications. If you dont distribute it, you can use it without any restriction at all.

Exactly. They refuse to accept that what was said about Stallman was false.

It's exactly the same attitude Trump has about truth: it doesn't matter.

Wow, that's great

Popsci about "nootropics" and QI.

I came here to write this, I was surprised it was not even mentioned.

The whole example says the opposite of his conclusion.

Bleh, if you really want to mix JSX and Markdown you should expect at least some syntactic idiosincrasies

I wonder about those "controlled conditions"... I know its anecdotical evidence, but this really contradicts everything I have ever seen after years ans years of interacting with immigrant families (and being a immigrant myself). Kids are usually perfectly fluent after a couple of years of school while parents are still struggling, even if they are also totally immersed. It really surprises me this is considered a "myth".

As far as I understand it, from the point of view of the FSF they are neither free nor non-free, since, according to their terms, the software is not being "distributed" (you are not running it in your own computer).

Why? That's a total non sequitor. Free Software is not about being paid or not, its about how software is distributed.

"you can only query one document per-second".. uhm, that doesnt sound right, it would make firestore useless for all intents and purposes. The only limitation I know that sounds close to that is 1 _write_ per second for the _same_ document.

"use"

What's with the downvotes? All of this is absolutely correct

Oh my. Vendor central is such a pita one can't help thinking they do it on purpose. (Also, I had to write several puppeteer based scripts for different reporting web apps that don't expose an API and vendor central was definetly the most painful to write)

I don't find there is that much convenience on having "hundreds of books in your pocket". Unlike music or films/series, most people are never reading more than two or perhaps three books at the same time and most books take days or weeks to finish (unless you are reading full time). Carrying a kindle is not that much more convenient than carrying a pocket book...

Another version of "guns don't kill people, people kill people"

He has to release the code because he is distributing an application (as in, distributing the binary files) based on GPL code. If you don't distribute anything, you don't have to share anything, that's the point of the parent comment.

It comes from the same latin origin, I don't think we can link it to one language more than to the other.