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You are assuming intellectual property has intrinsic basis when it's at best functional not foundational. It's only useful if the net value to society is positive which is extremely dubious.

I'm assuming human creativity has intrinsic value, or what's the point of being human?

You are assuming that somehow human creativity was born with intellectual property and will somehow die with it. It's just not so.

Ok captain pedant, instead of making vague handwavey negations exclusively how about you say something.

Intellectual property is supposed to feed creativity by securing for creators exclusive rights to benefit from their creation. It mostly feeds uncreative leaches whose business it is to own things in exchange for crumbs for the creativity and drags down both the inherent enjoyment of the fruits of creativity and even its creation. It belonged in the bin back when we first thought of it as is only going to be more unfit for purpose as time goes on.

A lot of the benefit of scaffolding is building basic context which you can also build by feeding it the files produced by whatever CLI tool and talk about it forcing it to think for lack of a better word about your design. You can also force feed it design and api documentation. If you think that you have given it too much you are almost certainly wrong.

Doing nonsensical things with a library feed it the documentation still busted make it read the source


This provides a pretext to murder people and lock shit down. Violent behavior maked the general public prone to accept and even welcome authoritarian behaviour and policies.

We need to fight it on the streets non violently with actions that disrupt not destroy and resist in the courts and ultimately in the ballot box where we can win.


Multiple independent implementations inherently virtuous. After all each individual party may innovate in ways that benefit everyone ultimately.

Also it's tech they can be sure we can't cut them out of or tariff and money flowing from Chinese companies to other Chinese companies which we appreciate the benefits of when the shoe is on the other foot.


In any case have you tested on the same machine for the most apt comparison? Agr may not be the best predictor of performance when io and memory may be more productive of snappiness than the latest CPU.

Input devices and monitors can make a difference as well.


Coming to a forum and pretending that you commit crimes when people insult you is a stereotype of a generic fake internet personality that is incredibly prevalent to the point of being boring.

Was this intentional sarcasm?


So boring you just couldn't help yourself, eh?

But no, I've meant every word I wrote this evening here, just as I do every other word I say or write, ever. Sometimes those words are sarcastic! In such cases there is rarely any doubt.


KDE stuff is prone to fixing bugs in both the supporting libraries and software substantially after the versions that end up in stable distros eg n.0 sucks but n.4 ends up substantially improving the prior issues.

I would suggest a self contained version on stable distros or running on a rolling release whichever is practical.left to take advantage of said improvements.

I would also suggest that performance under Windows may be less tested. I personally wouldn't use it there.


People with legs are objectively superior to people born without legs. This doesn't imply those without have no value but it would be pretty silly to deliberately bring people into the world without legs if you could easily prevent or fix the problem

You can prove there is no purple zebra on earth by actually surveying the population of zebras which is finite.


How do you know the one purple zebra wasn't just walking around in a way that meant they were always not where you were looking?

You can probabilistic say "it's extremely unlikely purple zebras exist" but you can never prove 100% they don't exist. And back to the real example, how can you prove there isn't a bug you just haven't found yet?


Analysis of Terri Schiavo's brain revealed that it was mush.

To put it more analytically

"She had developed hydrocephalus ex vacuo, a condition marked by enlarged ventricles filled with cerebrospinal fluid, because of this profound loss of cortical volume"

Half her brain was gone and it was the part we have identified as the seat of identity.

Her brain was so far gone that believing she still existed requires dualism.


So what? I mean, why would that even matter?

Are you contending that she was simply medically dead?

Are you asserting that she wasn’t worth feeding, because her “identity” had been lost?

You are saying implicitly that Terri didn’t “exist” in some kind of philosophical framework? That is truly bizarre. What physician, judge, or pastor would claim that this person didn’t exist?

Do you even know what “dualism” is? Apparently not!

What are you really trying to prove with “analysis”?


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