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In the company I work for the GPL is classified as high risk by legal. MIT and BSD style licenses are preferred because they don't have the viral effect that the GPL has.

The first thing I install on every fresh desktop OS...

Also went looking for an alternative and moved everyting to mailbox.org...

Some people around me are wine enthusiasts. I once put a label from an expensive wine on a cheap bottle of wine. That was a fun little experiment that works with switches as well...

To me material implication makes much more sense in the context of three-valued logic where you can also have 'null' values. Don't think they will accept that when I have do my exam though...

Really curious what those places are. Because for me it's the other way around. I live in a Dutch city where you can get around easily by walking, biking or public transport. And for those rare occasions I need a car, I use a car sharing service. Don't know if you live in car-dependent suburbia(most people do), but that doesn't sound appealing at all.

I can relate. Even though I own a smart phone, I've turned off all notifications and sounds that can distract me except for incoming calls. Never used Facebook. Don't want a car.

Booking.com is the only big website I know that still uses Perl...

I always have great success doing anomaly detection with basic standard deviation in some SQL queries...

My guess would be that it's the fate of all publicly listed companies. They tend to focus on short term shareholder value. A lot of family owned companies focus more on the long term.

We use Kafka a lot within the company I work for. I think it's great. The only thing I miss is fast lookups based on some key and/or the ability for subscribers to only receive messages for certain keys.

Maybe a bit off topic, but is Mixmaster/Mixminion still a viable option? I can still remember playing around with Mixmaster many years ago but mail delivery was not 100% reliable.

I'm no expert but I also lean toward superdeterminism. It's either that or the universe is not deterministic at all. Believing that the universe is only partly deterministic is the same as believing someone can be partly pregnant.