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But in democracy you do get to say which government you want.

There is an incredible (alas unfinished) multipart Grothendieck biography by the German mathematician Winfried Scharlau: Wer ist Alexander Grothendieck? Anarchie, Mathematik, Spiritualität, Einsamkeit. I think an English translation exists, at least for the first and in my opinion most interesting volume: Anarchy. It mostly deals with Grothendieck’s childhood and his parents, who lived unbelievably fascinating lives as anarchists in pre-war Berlin.

That is simply not true. The details might vary by jurisdiction and the protection might not be under the exact name of “copyright” but there most certainly are comparable legal protections for the contents of databases (“tables of numbers”). See for example: https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/running-business/intel...

Presumably, being able to use Sora to generate some pictures or videos involving Disney characters does not mean being able to actually distribute those pictures or videos, right? Those are still copyrighted characters.

It wasn’t an election. One of the more prominent youth groups involved in the protests used Discord to organize and decide internally which leader they should endorse and suggest to the president and army leadership. No one was directly elected on Discord.

This is simply not correct. You absolutely DO NOT need to obtain consent for strictly necessary first-party session cookies (such as would be used by an online shopping cart, for example, or to maintain a persistent login) [1].

[1] https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

I am absolutely implying that blockchain tech is fundamentally useless, and cryptocurrencies doubly so.

God this is infuriating. Apart from being an obvious scam, NFTs are actively doing harm to the environment. This is not funny, it's just bad. It’s a net negative for humanity.

As, of course, are any and all cryptocurrencies and blockchain-related get-rich-quick schemes. I can’t wait for this whole pyramid to collapse.

The worst effect the GDPR had was on offline bureaucracy. "Data protection" has become the go-to excuse for blocking every single goddamn thing.

Get enough sleep. [1]

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.02544.pdf

The font change seems like a wash to me. Notice how the decimal points and thousands separators for the balance column don't line up in either of the screenshots? A change that would actually improve readability would be to use tabular numbers, supported by both San Francisco and Inter.

Abstract:

This article presents an overlooked case of research misconduct and violations of basic principles of medical and business ethics. When Bayer's Cutter Laboratories realized that their blood products, Factor VIII and IX or antihemophiliac factor (AHF), were contaminated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the financial investment in the product was considered too high to destroy the inventory. Cutter misrepresented the results of its own research and sold the contaminated AHF to overseas markets in Asia and Latin America without the precaution of heat treating the product recommended for eliminating the risk. As a consequence, hemophiliacs who infused the HIV-contaminated Factor VIII and IX tested positive for HIV and developed AIDS.

Full article: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24785...

Neither of the articles you link to say that unionisation is the reason for the ongoing shift to contract work, or even mention unions at all...

If anything, (stronger) unions are exactly what contract workers need.

What caused the shift to contract work? Greed. Greedy employers who don't want to give up the tiniest bit of profit to pay for living wages, health benefits, retirement plans or workplace safety, and then have the gall to re-brand deregulation as freedom.

Why is there a need to reconcile? Worker’s rights trump ROI. If you can’t run a profitable company without discriminating against and exploiting your workers, you shouldn’t run a company at all.

Also, look towards more socialist countries (e.g. Germany), for practical strategies to keep making money while at the same time ensuring people don’t get exploited. Hint: empowering workers, letting them unionize and collectively bargain, treating them as humans rather than “Human Resources”, will not actually significantly decrease your ROI.

How about he spend it on paying his workers a living wage?

None of this is any excuse if the intent is so clearly to profit illegally off of other people's content. Trying to paint Pirate Bay as this altruistic organization that just wants to distribute some Linux distros is such bullshit. The information wants to be free brigade always seem to overlook the tons of sleazy ads and malware that accompanies all of these file sharing sites.

I know exactly what the first one does, without knowledge of the underlying API. I have no idea what the second one does. Does it replace occurrences of the first parameter with the second one, or vice versa? I assume it returns a copy of the string? What do I need to do to perform a case insensitive search? etc.

> Austria is a notoriously conservative and very bureaucratic country

I would generally agree with this, but just for the record: the city of Vienna has been governed by the center-left Social Democratic Party since 1946. And for the last four years they have been in a coalition with the Green Party.

Btw, on an iPad the scrolling of the docs is severely broken.

Telegram is making ridiculous claims that have the potential to hurt their customers. They are lying and/or incompetent. They absolutely deserve to be made fun of.

He's putting himself on my blacklist by using OnSwipe. How is that shit not dead yet?

I took some of Purgathofer's courses as part of my bachelor's and they were all incredibly good. Apart from being a very engaging lecturer, he did not believe in simple "all or nothing" final exams (as sadly so many other teachers do), but gave us a range of little projects and exercises over the course of the semester, many of which, if the type of exercise warranted it, we could redo if we had made any errors on our first try. Thus we were able to actually learn from our mistakes!

The choice quote being:

Our evaluations show that the new Mio manager improves realistic web server throughput by 6.5x and reduces expected web server response time by 5.7x. We also show that with Mio, McNettle (an SDN controller written in Haskell) can scale effectively to 40+ cores, reach a throughput of over 20 million new requests per second on a single machine, and hence become the fastest of all existing SDN controllers.

Finally I can buy my fake food with fake money.

Generally this is of course good advice, but in Haskell it is common practice to use very short names (e.g. x, x', xs, ...) if the context is clear (which it usually is due to small scope, clear function names, type signature, etc.). This makes code much more concise and readable (it also makes it look very "mathematical").

Actually I'm not, but reading the post again I see how it could come off that way... (edit: at least to an American...)

It is utterly fascinating to me how much discussion there is around this, here on this forum and in other places. In no other country in the world would this even be a debate...

Of course you want to disarm everyone!

That is the only sensible option! There is absolutely no need why anyone, save members of the executive branch enforcing the government's monopoly on violence, would ever need to carry a firearm.

"Self defense" and "liberty" are totally crazy arguments, that are only ever brought up in America and are based purely on historical reasons.

Did you get the idea for this from that one footnote to Bret Victor's recent essay? If so, that's some impressive turnaround time.

Try a few hours...

(And a good thing too, since once again there will probably be no way for this non-American to actually buy the damn thing...)

> a TELEX (look it up if you don't know what that is)

This kind of passive-aggressiveness only reinforces the grumpy-old-man stereotype and makes it really hard to take you seriously.