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> Does the social credit system ever charge higher prices to low scorers rather than banning or shaming them?

That sounds like the system here (US). Low scorers receive much higher interest rates -> significantly higher final prices charged

Parent probably meant e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth

> It is a sad fact of life that the best outcome for everybody is to let the economically productive take first pick of any available resources

That is not a fact of life, it is simply a hypocritical way of legitimizing monopolistic advantage. What one defines as economically productive will unequivocally align with the groups one favors over others.

Power is not natural, it is created and reproduced, and naturalized beyond the realm of critical thought by false claims to the facts of Life.

Does life really as facts? Which life?

Comparing it to galago pro 13", Librem 13 seems to be $200-$400 more expensive with half the memory. Is there something extra you get with Librem that you wouldn't get with a galago? Is it about the company, the hardware, the software, something else?

Asking out of actual curiosity. I'm not familiar with puri.sm

Not affiliated with system76 but I do own one of their laptops.

Similar story here.

Got mine since 2010 or 2011. It's my only machine, is used daily and regularly, and works without issues.

That touchpad though; it does acquire sentience sometimes :) [I don't care, tbh; it's something I can easily tolerate from a small retailer doing Linux-only work, versus e.g. Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.]

Do you know where the new elves are?

Clickbait title, it was a battle simulation.

> two professors emailed sixteen philosophers in the U.S., England, Australia, Germany, Finland, and Brazil, asking specifically for "ten of the most important and influential philosophical books after 1950." "They received recommendations,” writes Ho, "from twelve philosophers, including: Susan Haack, Donald M. Borchert (Ohio U.), Donald Davidson, Jurgen Habermas, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Thomas Nagel, John Searle, Peter F. Strawson, Hilary Putnam, and G.H. von Wright." (Ho was unable to identify two other names, typed in Chinese.)

A lot of lobbying money is spent by the likes of Intel, Apple, Microsoft, etc to create that impression abroad, just like it is here.

(Doesn't matter where "here" is.)

I agree on these reservations, especially in terms of silent errors (which get compounded through minor ways in which backwards incompatibility can sneak in to the existing scripts) and dependencies.

As a half-solution, I ended up restricting myself to a very few libraries in this family (mainly dplyr, lubridate, stringr, broom) and to using packrat to consistently freeze the library versions for these.

Apparently it's funny to most hn'ers. I'm guessing they aren't clear on what it takes to teach helplessness.

I doubt the horses had a real say in this, and the deliberate use of active tense to legitimize the "sacrifice" is very annoying.

One grows a pig, not a pork. Once you kill the pig, its name is supposed to change to pork, though why, I never understood quote well.

Hi, do you happen to have the list of absolutist and non-absolutists words you have used? I couldn't find it in the publication and the comment below (by slig, which lists the absolutist ones) does not give its source.

MSO works very well in a closed environment with only MSO users, but it doesn't work to share documents with Office users.

That is because LO actively uses a standardized and well documented document format while MSO created it's own that has dependencies that only MSO resolves.

I am guessing the author would get arrested without that tacit acknowledgement.

> ... is a CBC News correspondent based in Istanbul.

> I pledge to give $20 to Mozilla once: - they apologized for the fuck-up - they pledge to stop doing that kind of stupidity - they reconsider the employment of those really responsible for it.

I was indeed considering making a recurring donation after their work on Quantum. But I won't bribe an organization into abiding by its own mission statement and I won't give money to an organization that cannot keep its promises.

I wish the technical folk at Mozilla, who are literally building the browser, would split out, join in with FSF or EFF, and create the fork that we all would switch over to in an instant.

This is really cool! Is there a source repository we could explore?

It's all good and what not but how do you buy bitcoin without either giving away all sorts of private information about you to a website or having to meet strangers?

> I see so many of them in homes of people who are in the tech industry.

I resisted having one until everyone in my house started turning on their "assistant"s...

I have 4 smartphones in my home, all with assistants running and listening continuously (plus guests' smartphones). It's no longer "it might be listening" but "we told it to listen".

I noticed after a few months of this that I kept forgetting there were devices listening on in the house (and sensing things).

Alexa, partly with its physical presence and partly with its frequent false positives, is an excellent reminder (to you but also to your house guests) that something(s) is listening in on you.

The next best one is Google's AIY Voice Kit where you can so very easily keep the red led button always-on.

How does everyone here buy/exchange bitcoin without giving every little bit of detail about themselves (e.g. bank account, driver's license, etc) away? Every time I look into it to buy online, I'm amazed by the sheer amount of PII information I would have to expose.

Apart from the actual set up to include org-capture in it, not much.

Shortcuts to open a file (C-x C-f), close it (C-x k), and closing emacs (C-x C-c) would be the emacs shortcuts you'd need to learn. The rest would be org-mode shortcuts, like setting something as done (C-c C-t d) etc.

You will have to get used to being in Emacs though, that's for sure :)

Emacs Org-Mode, along with its org-capture mode and the ability to clock in/out, is a perfect tool to implement this, btw.

https://emacs.cafe/emacs/orgmode/gtd/2017/06/30/orgmode-gtd....

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-gtd-etc.html