GreyEyedGhost

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[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I wonder why? The funding increased somewhat in the last decade, which probably had a handy in the new milestones that were achieved, but now we have a state of global uncertainty that is going to impact a lot of major research funding for the next 4 years or so, so I don't expect major changes in the next 10 years.

And so the cycle continues.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago

They're wrong, but it happens.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why not just add a door on the Canadian side?

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure why you would buy an open-source company/product, particularly a GPLv3 one, if you didn't understand or agree with the premise. It's probably the stupidest decision he made. I'm not saying I agree with his other decisions, but most of them made some kind of business sense. With this one, he would have saved a lot of time and effort and received the same value if he'd just spun OO.o off ASAP. The linked timeline kind of says it all.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 64 points 3 months ago (10 children)

You're talking the CEO of a company who sued Google on the premise that header files, a descriptor file for what commands can be used and what parameters they took, should be copyrighted? The CEO who poisoned the OpenOffice community so thoroughly that the fork, LibreOffice, was founded by the leaders of OpenOffice and became the de facto standard instead of the original, and it happened overnight? That guy?

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

It still doesn't answer the question of who is allowed to use certain bathrooms.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Which isn't a bad philosophy if the rewards match. If they don't, why would you do more than the minimum?

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I absolutely agree, which is why I gave an example of a factor that is almost entirely ignored in those calculations.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

That is needlessly vague. I not only think protests should occur at some schools, notably universities, I think it should be encouraged. I don't believe an institution occupied primarily by adults who are mostly healthy and mobile should be considered vulnerable. (No mention about whether schools included universities was in the article, but those are the only schools with Pro-Palestine protests that I heard about.) I also question whether certain streets should be precluded from protest routes, as opposed to stationary picketing, due to certain institutions being there, e.g., I'm against protests operating in front of abortion clinics for hours, but I don't think protests about non-abortion issues should be prevented from having a march on a route that includes an abortion clinic or hospital.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Oh, I agree. "Let's factor in this one externality on the more responsible choice while we ignore all the externalities on the alternatives."

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Road wear is a 4th power formula to weight. So for a car that weighs 1.25 times the average, it would do 2.44 times the damage. These formulas may be fair. They would be vastly different if you included the damage from burning fuel in populated areas, though.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

I had a cat with similar habits, but it was always empty balloons. She'd even try to catch them out of the air. I'd try to throw it in such a way that she would have to do flips to catch it, and I did get a few full flips. This was mostly a morning game while I was lying in bed. It ended when we moved and she had access to birds instead of objects vaguely like birds. It was also way less fun for me when she would bring the dead birds to our bed.

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