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Comment · 3 years ago
I like Win31 UI. Sure MDI was an error and hot corners would be very useful but I like how unclutered it looks and the absence of a taskbar and other always-there elements is positive. I dislike the idea of a taskbar. It takes screen real estate that would be better used by apps and when I do need the taskbar's features, those are all cramped at the bottom of the screen. Give me a hot-corner-activated win31-style program manager over a win95-style start button please.
Comment · 3 years ago
A few words toward the end for the ellusive ai menace, but zero word for the real, already existing, open source fonts. Nowaday I'll consider IBM Plex, Mozilla Fira or even Google Roboto before Monotype Anything.
Comment · 3 years ago
Let me rephrase it so the meaning of what you just said impregnate my mind: you were denier money because their records showed you badly needed it. Sound to me the credit agencies aren't the only evil.
Comment · 3 years ago
A non profit is "trust us, we know what's best", while a cooperative is legally controlled by it's member on the basis of one member, one vote, and profits, if any, are distributed between members. I wonder how different would be a cooperative Wikipedia versus the non-profit Wikipedia we got.
Comment · 3 years ago
leading cause of death in some African countries
Comment · 3 years ago
Jambo mouzugu. Mambo vipi!
Comment · 3 years ago
This is called "The great man theory": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory

For another perspective, an iPhone looks a lot like a Newton with phone capabilities. Maybe without Jobs returning to Apple, Apple would still be in the phone market.

Comment · 3 years ago
Everytime the subject come around, someone repeat this like it's a fact but nobody care to explain. Is criminalisation really the only hammer the gov has? What are the goods of saving people against their wishes? Are these goods higher than the damages caused by criminalisation?
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Comment · 3 years ago
Don't build this. Don't bring it to school. Don't show it to anyone.

This is the kind of thing that get you expelled, jailed, or shot.

Comment · 3 years ago
An industrial revolution is not a single event but a journey. Somebody innovates, then somebody else get the innovation better, then yet somebody else innovates again using what previous people did, etc. Romans could have had their IR from their starting point but they didn't. I don't think it's because they didn't have roman numerals or cast iron. Those could have been part of their revolution. Needs is the prime factor for innovations and this is what they lacked: needs.

They didn't need to innovate because they had abondant and cheap labor in the form of slaves and whatever machine someone could come up with was more costly than slaves so the journey did not began. This is why the aeolipile stayed a novelty and the roman didn't have an IR: they didn't need it.

Comment · 3 years ago
> illegal

Seriously, stop using that word for things that aren't actually illegal.

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