kazagistar (u/kazagistar)

kazagistar commented on We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0 terminusdb.com/blog/2020/... · Posted by u/vivek9209

chimeracoder · 5 years ago

> Not everyone agrees that the freedom to start a SaaS business with GPL software is a "loophole".

Neither GPLv3 nor GPLv2 prohibit this.

You're thinking of the AGPL, the first version of which was based on the GPLv2 and released in 2002, years before the FSF announced that they were even beginning work on the GPLv3.

kazagistar · 5 years ago

Thats wrong too. If you use an unmodified version of AGPL software, or just host any modifications in a public repository like github, then you aren't in violation of AGPL, even if the rest of your stack is proprietary and your service paid. How does it prevent SaaS?

kazagistar commented on “I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews” news.efinancialcareers.co... · Posted by u/mooreds

bluedino · 5 years ago

I was hired in at a company a couple years ago. My soon-to-be manager asked, "What should I order you for a computer?"

I responded with, "Whatever you guys buy - Dell, Lenovo. A 14" laptop and an external monitor would be fine."

He torted, "I've never seen anyone be productive on a laptop. Nobody here uses laptops. I'll get you a desktop with 2 monitors."

After I started, I notice he did almost all of his work from a conference room, using a Surface Book remoted into a desktop in his office.

kazagistar · 5 years ago

Side note: In an open office, people quickly learn to cheat and claim unused spaces like conference rooms for working undisturbed.

kazagistar commented on The new 'gold rush' for green lithium bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/clouddrover

naringas · 5 years ago

I am pretty sure that evo morales was quickly kicked out of there because he wasn't gonna easily let global corporations mine in a "cost efficient" way. so now that he's out is only a matter of time before there's cheaper lithium in the global market.

kazagistar · 5 years ago

The people forced another election, and elected his party MAS (movement towards socialism) more overwhelmingly then they elected Evo Morales in the election last year where he was couped.

On the other hand, MAS intends to exploit its lithium. It just plans to do that in a way that grows a high tech domestic industry instead of just exporting raw product. They also plan to keep the profits local to fund social programs and such, which rubs the neoliberal free market imperialists like American foreign policy goons the wrong way.

kazagistar commented on The new 'gold rush' for green lithium bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/clouddrover

cheschire · 5 years ago

Isn't that the actual definition of extortion? That sounds like threatening something of value to the whole world for personal gain.

edit: clarity.

kazagistar · 5 years ago

All the first world countries already despoiled and continue to despoil the resources of the world at an alarming rate. They owe a debt, and this is asking them to pay that debt to those who haven't done so.

kazagistar commented on Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-c... · Posted by u/m1

b0rsuk · 5 years ago

Best games don't tell stories - they generate them. There's no need to make games more like movies or graphic novels because we already have movies and graphic novels.

kazagistar · 5 years ago

There is room for many types, and when it comes to more traditional storytelling, games can create more direct emotional connections by making you the character, rather then the protagonist just being someone you watch.

kazagistar commented on France is about to become less free theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/cwwc

shrimp_emoji · 5 years ago

>An amendment requiring that academic research hew to the “values of the Republic” was scrapped only at the last minute, after strong pushback by scholars who feared that its intent was to restrict freedom of inquiry.

>Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has bemoaned the influence of American critical race theory on the French social sciences, blaming them for undermining France’s race- and ethnicity-blind universalism, and for giving comfort to “islamo-gauchisme,” or “Islamo-leftism.” That term, coined by the French far right, blames progressive intellectuals for nourishing radical political Islam through their work on structural racism and Islamophobia. “The fish rots from the head,” Blanquer quipped.

Wow.

kazagistar · 5 years ago

Critical race theory is so obvious its just boring. The boogeyman the right makes out of it just feels dumb.

kazagistar commented on Indian government blocks access to forty-three mobile apps pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa... · Posted by u/nithinkashyapn

cookieswumchorr · 5 years ago

on small scale, consistently ignore and boycott all attempts by governments to do so. They are not allmighty, they cannot place an armed cop behind every single citicen. If you are in a country that has some functioning democratic institutions, you may also try using them

kazagistar · 5 years ago

Also, work to increase the democraticness of institutions in your country so that it may be changed in the future, and work to change people's thoughts on matters so they grow the will to change things.

kazagistar commented on Ethics in Strategy Gaming, Part 1: Panzer General filfre.net/2020/11/ethics... · Posted by u/doppp

RandomNick · 5 years ago

"For your actions in Panzer General will also lead to the deaths of millions, at only one more degree of remove at best."

No, my actions won't lead to a single death, no matter how many degrees you move away. It's just moving bits around in a computer.

"Or am I hopelessly overthinking it? Is Panzer General just a piece of harmless entertainment that happens to play with a subset of the stuff of history?"

The answer is an emphatic yes, you are really overthinking this.

kazagistar · 5 years ago

The fact that the consequences are cleansed away makes it not remotely historical. You aren't playing a subset of history, you are playing a subset of propaganda.

kazagistar commented on Ethics in Strategy Gaming, Part 1: Panzer General filfre.net/2020/11/ethics... · Posted by u/doppp

CapricornNoble · 5 years ago

>>>Panzer General takes pains to completely ignore the evil present in the actual history. You're not asked to engage with the darker parts of your psyche at all

What is the alternative, from a game design perspective? Every time one of your units takes a Victory Point on a town, a window pops up: "You captured $townname! Do you want to execute all of the civilians here? [Yes/No]" If you click YES, it shows you a real image of a mass execution from WW2? Can you imagine the uproar THAT would cause? I suspect that players would either click YES on all of them, or click NO on all of them, so as a mechanic it adds no meaningful choices. If you just want to force exposure to the brutality, you could throw in a random "You clicked 'NO' but your soldiers disobeyed orders and killed everyone anyway" and display some shocking content, but all that will accomplish is to turn off some segment of your customer base. The point was to sell a product, after all. If people really want to understand the nastiness that happens during a conflict, they'll find it via other mediums anyway (VHS snuff films before the Internet, BestGore et al. now).

Rome: Total War doesn't let me grapple with the moral issues of crucifying Christians and Jews. Is that omission also a problem? Why/why not?

kazagistar · 5 years ago

Whats the point of setting it in a real war with real consequences if you are just going to erase all those realities? So many games seem set up so people can play war without consequences, but if you do that at least do it in a setting where you aren't insulting the real victims.

kazagistar commented on Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/aarghh

admiralspoo · 5 years ago

It's not capitalism, it's simple game theory and the economic system under consideration is quite irrelevant.

Monopolies of all kinds are bad. Including monopolies of government.

kazagistar · 5 years ago

Monopolies (or even high concentrations) of power are bad, whether that's financial or legal or whatever. However, democratization can redistribute that power back amongst the people. The goal should be to work towards nearly even power, which prevents the abuses in power. If the government was controlled by the people, its "monopoly" wouldn't really be one, because it couldn't be abused by those who wield power within it.