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Nobody really sells GPL software, they sell support for it or they sell it together with hardware. I mean, the GPL is perfectly reasonable from a commercial perspective if you're going to charge a one-time fee to release your software and dispense with royalties, but nobody really does that.

You can also guess who writes reviews. There was this one guy who got pissed off at me at a conference for nonchalantly discussing who I thought the reviewers on our paper were... whatever man, it's my review now.

I went through all that but then I started to develop an appreciation for junk food (Coke, etc.) because it tastes like my childhood. I still buy the expensive stuff but I'm not hardcore about avoiding crap the way I used to be, and I find I still enjoy some of it. (I am sipping on a Autumnal 1st flush SFTGFOP Darjeeling from Goomtee Estate right now.)

I look for the D.O.P and/or organic farming mark, along with a production date, a best before date, and the region of Italy. I'm pretty sure it's ok, and it isn't cheap.

I've heard that the best way to understand the olive oil business is to consider the fact (needs citation) that Italy exports twice as much oil as it produces.

Did your business work out? What happened? We bought a very nice AOC olive oil from Aix-en-Provence once.

Wow, this is terrible, common law is just great for tax and separation ("divorce") purposes regardless of orientation, an excellent way to provide a measure of equality.

What's the difference between a food obsessive and somebody that has trained their sense of taste?

Do you mean... "Looking at HN" or do you mean "Reading and commenting on HN and getting into arguments with people and checking your karma and replies and upvoting / downvoting / flagging posts and making observations about the correlation between username and karma and generally not even bothering to read TFA or the front page and just trolling the comments section for interesting things to respond to like this"

It probably doesn't make a difference, so cheers.

I mean if you already have a psychotic disorder, is it a good idea to experience the k-hole (high dose of ketamine)? With or without antipsychotics? What about a low dose?

For example, would you recommend that someone with schizophrenia try it?

Yeah, it's a good point. Carrots might work better than sticks. You can always fire people for incompetence though.

What if you have a psychotic disorder? Prevalence is ~3%.

Penalize them financially for making mistakes or give a bonus for not making mistakes.

To expand, good art should be exactly at the level of anyone who looks at it; accessible to newcomers and rewarding for insiders. Incidentally, this is really hard to pull off.

Good point, but then again ATRAC encoding >> MP3 encoding at typical bitrates back then.

From what I've seen, it's more like there are too many people with great marketing and poor talent that make lots of money, and too many people with poor marketing and great talent that don't. You don't really see a lot of great talent at art galleries and shows because you need good marketing to get into them. But when you start to know artists personally, and you follow their process and techniques, you can witness the development of their talent, even for modern art, which I assume means anything developed post-war. We probably agree that most stuff is crap, but maybe just dig a little deeper and look a little longer?

> It's like they're super-high-tech in everything - except computers, which are very expensive compared to what you can get here in the US.

High-tech/lo-tech and expensive/cheap are different axes. Everyone in Japan was doing the whole text message thing 15 years ago, back when most of us were just coming to terms with email. The same can be said about GPS navigation.

> Artists aren't that special

Good artists are/aren't special in the same way that good programmers are/aren't special.

The purpose cat serves is that it lets you forget about < until you really need it.

Stereotyping is impossible to avoid and even healthy. Humans survive because of stereotypes. We need summary judgments to function; this is the core of translating perception into thought. The problem is when people willfully ignore signals to look past the stereotype.

If you think that every person you meet alone on the street in any city on the planet is equally dangerous or equally safe regardless of what you observe, prior to any actual violent behavior, either one day you're going to get hurt, or you're not going to visit any dangerous places.

Poverty certainly aggravates things like mental illness and drug addiction, and is strongly correlated with homelessness, but I think he means it is possible to be materially comfortable in the sense of food/clothes/shelter, at least relative to places in the world where that isn't possible. But... welfare could stand to be higher, as could the minimum wage.

Right, but the parent was conflating that with HN moderation.

> It would be great just to hear your experiences of the game and how far in it you got.

Post this on the TIGSource forums and ask for feedback. That is where most of the indie game developers congregate.

Only the government can provide legal rights. Human rights are ideals, not actual things.

Regardless, the real point is that property rights trump free speech rights. You can't come over to my house and say whatever you want, because it's private. And I'm pretty sure the UN DoHR says the same thing.

And further, given the leftist thing that it is, I'd bet dollars to donuts that the UN DoHR also says people have the right not to be on the receiving end of speech that incites violence towards them, a.k.a. hate speech. So... property rights > hate speech rights > free speech rights.

It's not limiting free speech unless the government is asking for or compelling it.

https://xkcd.com/1357/

I think it's probably true and that the secrecy is more about cult building.

A lot of people in finance think it's awesome, and generally speaking those guys run in different circles from computer people. Think coke and strippers.

Brute force approaches can work. For example, evolution produced humans.

I agree that it's better not to waste your time believing A if you can avoid it.

I don't think a lack of intelligence of the IQ test variety is what's holding humanity back. I think it's distraction, greed, lack of empathy (or emotional intelligence), lack of information, and lack of communication. (Maybe there are more things.) Basically, I believe we have all the technology and intelligence we need to make this planet a much better place.

Why would it undoubtedly evolve to the same point?

Basically, Autotools is really stable software that has a ton of bugfixes in it. You can't just throw that knowledge away. The overhead of unnecessary tests is negligible compared to compilation costs for anything but the most trivial project. And, I'm pretty sure if you ask the mailing list, there's a way to turn off unnecessary checks for a Fortran compiler, probably by specifying the languages to support with AC_LANG or something.

Yeah, it's clunky and obtuse, but it works to give you portability to just about every system, POSIX or not. And the free support is first class if you ever have a problem.

I agree with your point of view on just about everything. I was just objecting to the use of the word fact. I make a point of doing this. The AGW believers hate me for calling it a belief, and the AGW deniers hate me for believing in AGW. I must be doing something right!

Your words about models and inductive reasoning are helpful. Bringing that up in the future will probably help clarify my position, which is about like yours. Thanks.