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Or throw rocks from bridges into highway traffic. Teenagers occasionally do that

By that line of reasoning, this proposal is great because not only the first but also the second and third candidate are elected, making an even later portion of the voters happy

I can't speak for corporate lawyers, but I treat AGPL v3 similar to GPL v3 (a bit truer to the GPL spirit, but in consequence a bit stricter).

Then again, GPL v3 is on many people's danger list

>A potential patent applies to any implementation. Even if you write a clean-room clone of React, if it uses the same patent, Facebook has a patent claim.

Sure, but that only rules out a reimplementation of React. The question most people face is "React or existing alternative X?". If your chosen alternative is still actively developed, it's probably notably different from React in concept and implementation (why else would it still exist).

Now if Facebook owns any react-related patents, you use all of them by using react, your alternative has a good chance to be sufficiently different to not be infringing.

In terms of your chances of using Facebook patents, any alternative is strictly better than React itself.

What existential issues are you thinking about?

The biggest issue I can think of is oil running out, but we're on a good trajectory to solving that. Other resources seem either abundant or replaceable. The threat of global nuclear war is problematic but not really solvable by throwing more people at the problem. Overpopulation isn't projected to be a problem. Climate change will be a major inconvenience and costly, but unlikely to be an existential issue.

Of course there's lots of injustice, hunger, disease, murder and torture that would be nice to resolve, but it's not an existential issue for humanity.

In any scenario where society or technology breaks down enough for these skills to be useful, the majority of the population still won't miss them. Without industrialised fishing and farming (which relies on oil and huge production chains) we don't have nearly enough fish for people to filet or grain for people to make bread (let alone beer). And statically speaking you will be starved before your vegetables are grown.

I agree that throwing away the physical books would be stupid, but the index is ready enough to rebuild if we ever need it again. And in a post-computer world search times in the order of days or even weeks would be acceptable: when looking up crop rotations a few days more or less won't make or break your harvest

Punishing CAs for bad behavior (ie Security Problems) has more collateral damage the bigger a CA is. Right now, if a CA is bad enough browsers just stop accepting their certificates. After a certain size that becomes unfeasible, removing a lot of pressure from that CA

>Is there any way to ask a gzip file which size it will be once unzipped, without needing to decompress it?

The closest is uncompressing it and counting and immediately discarding the bytes in the output stream.

But of course the proper defense is to give up if you exceed a predefined memory or time budget.

>Id argue you're still at liberty to do it - you just have to be willing to accept any social prices associated with it.

You can say that about almost anything. I'm at liberty to murder my neighbor, I just have to accept the price.

You totally can. Technically sometimes you need a certain conjugation or a linking "s", but usually you just combine the words.

I guess they meant that not every compound word is one that Germans actually use (as you would expect when somebody claims "it's a German word"). But you can totally make up words on the spot that every German will understand

In a way a dishwasher is storing energy in the form of clean dishes. Now instead of storing electricity to run the dishwasher whenever, you simply run the dishwasher when there's an electricity surplus