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It was a special volume license key that didn't require online or phone activation, so presumably an OEM that got a release version couple weeks early

Customers, who would've paid nothing anyway, presumably

And is usually a matter of funding, famously Hagia Sophia was built in five years

They are, and aren't that expensive. Our IT support team has one for workstation drives in a company with around 1000 employees.

Castling is a king move in regular chess

TBH legendary issues like mails failing over 500 miles [0] or recent reddit post about MRI disaing all iPhones in the hospital [1] take the cake

[0] http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles [1]https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9mk2o7/mri_disabl...

You could sell, or even better lease it out

>As the cost of sensors and radio chips goes down, we might reach the point where we do put a GPS sensor on everybody. Law enforcement would love it and on the small scale it would probably save lives and reduce crime.

GPS chips are already cheap enough (single digit dollars), that it's an issue of policy\public perception, not cost

Those cheap Amazon keys are still not legal, so you might as well pirate Windows

Well, it might've been a honest mistake of someone who believes in horseshoe fallacy, but calling Nazis and Hitler socialist or left-wingers is a very common far right tactic, designed to muddy the waters and distance themselves from a very problematic person, so that's why I was confused about the point you were making.

Do you really need an explanation, how Hitler had nothing to with socialism, or are you just spewing far right talking points without regard for fact or reason?

Gell-Mann recently died, so it probably skews the results

The article is paywalled

> but almost no distro actually supports it

Ubuntu supports it officially, so does Fedora. From my experience it works more or less fine on CentOS, so probably RHEL too. For Suse there is kGraft, so basically >90% of install base supports live patching.

> literally the best automobiles ever

I'd call that a huge exaggeration.

It's the year of Linux desktop the same way there is 10 billion devices on the internet running Linux, because Android and IoT.

Doesn't really matter for Linux people, non-Linux people won't care. Hell, there is an argument to be made, that it is typical MS "embrace, extend and extinguish", so net negative.

Technically you can download audible .aa files and convert them to whatever format you want, default ffmpeg can handle the conversion.

To add additional entropy, you can do, multiple passes, use different sets of languages every time you write or even use different translator than GT

He was abusive toward people, who made mistakes. There are ways of providing feedback, that don't include belittling people, questioning their mental health or straight up name-calling.

This specific scenario didn't happen. But still, Linus has been downright abusive towards contributors in the past. It might have influenced some peoples decision to stop or to never start contributing to Linux.

Get rid of market capitalism and nobody has to

While I do agree with some concerns about quality journalism, and I want it to survive, I find the specific argument you used to be disingenuous. We're dealing with perfectly and infinitely reproducible 'product'. Any scarcity here is artificially imposed. It's not like with groceries, where we have finite amount of goods, that can only be consumed once.

I know, that reality of dealing with non-scarce goods doesn't gel very well with free-market capitalism, but I think limiting access to journalism (and IP laws such as copyrights and patents) is a net negative for our society, so we shouldn't resort to bending our only post-scarcity type of good into a scarcity driven economic system.

Because, as with groceries, you're depriving someone else of content by consuming it. You wouldn't download a car.

It's the most disingenuous argument against free media (or piracy etc) that's being thrown around.

From the top of my head there is Soviet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmonavt_Yuriy_Gagarin

In principle this isn't that different from ships designed to track ICBMs, and I've seen designs both with spinning parabolic radar antennas in radomes and regular antennas on gimbals. In fact many of those tracking ships were used in space programmes, but I'm not certain, whether just for one way telemetry or two-way comms