ttuominen
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Comment · 8 months ago
Luddites weren't against technology. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-rea...
Comment · 5 years ago
Exactly. The OP correctly argued that libre practically implies free-as-in-beer, but I think the point of the distinction is to argue that free-as-in-beer doesn't imply libre. So it's a useful distinction.
Comment · 13 years ago
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Comment · 13 years ago
I've found emacs-fu useful. http://emacs-fu.blogspot.fi/
Comment · 13 years ago
According to the article, that's just part of it. They specifically pointed out cases where identical resumes with different names yielded different outcomes. (Where the names had strong associations with different ethnic backgrounds.) Now, statistically, different ethnic backgrounds will have an effect on people's lives, but for an individual, the parent's question might still be relevant.
Comment · 13 years ago
This reminds me of the time I bought an old 1972 issue of Rolling Stone magazine on eBay to be able to cite the Spaceware article (also available online) [1] in my bachelor's thesis on Smalltalk as evindence that the culture at Xerox PARC was somewhat unorthodox in the seventies.