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Researchers have found that software piracy is directly linked to intelligence on a national scale. This study brought to you by The Association to Try Stopping Piracy Through Compliments (TATSPTC)
Next study: software pirates smell bad, get fewer dates.
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Potential confusion of correlation with causation here ?
Do countries with "high intelligence" (whatever that means) also happen to have more highly evolved political/legal structures which enforce anti-piracy laws down on the "mean streets" ?
What about China ? Software piracy rampant, lots of very intelligent people. The rest of S.E. Asia: oh yeah, laws on the books, yearly ceremonies of token busts of pirates and destruction of confiscated goods ... on-the-ground reality: you can buy a cracked version of anything you want at any time. Russia: don't ask.
"Intellectual property" is a culture-bound concept, and for many countries "digital intellectual property" is an undefined twilight-zone: that is not to say that people dealing in copied software are not aware they are "taking something that other people pay for."
Singapore: there's the good counter-example for Asia, and you can thank, or blame, your choice of Confucianism and/or Lee Kuan Yew, and British colonialism, for that.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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It could also be that high iq countries got higher wages which makes people more inclined to buy original software.
But in general I think you are right. A country with controls and enforcement will have companies that make sure they got the correct licenses and software to avoid legal trouble.
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Member 11683251 wrote: A country with controls and enforcement will have companies that make sure they got the correct licenses
Only for as far as required.
..and yes, a country that can spend more will also be more inclined to spend on licenses 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I'm curious how much of the correlation goes away after adjusting for affluence. (Malnutrition and lack of medical care are correlated with reduced IQs.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Forget piracy. Look at the IQ scale and which countries are being considered stupid.
This sort of propaganda is disgusting.
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Most of Android's problems stem from the fact that it is an open source operating system. They're forked?
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Think most of the problems described in that article are caused by OEMs wanting to spend minimal amount of time/money pushing updates yet they insist on their bloatware layers being added. In another words, this is a problem caused by OEMs and not necessarily an "Android" problem.
As to taking Android and making it proprietary, not sure those big companies relying on it would sit back and let that happen. It's too easy to fork an open-source project and the large companies that depend on it have the resources to continue on with or without Google.
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This is already being accomplished by Google through componentization of Android so one can load from the Play Store, not just Google standard apps, but also whole os components that replace or override the ones on the phone.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The Docker platform is one of the most versatile means for developers and IT to create and test their application software through multiple devices. Now everyone can do whatever it is that Docker does
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Where's the catch?
Quote: minimum specifications require a Windows 10 Pro
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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This is cool. However, whoever wrote this article is a tech moron.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Docker is a container based OS virtualization application. Essentially allows developers to test on multiple OSs (multiple distros and releases) with the same hardware. It's lighter and faster than a traditional virtual machine. It can also be used to "sandbox" services and users for security reasons.
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If you’ve ever turned to the interwebs when feeling sick you may have started worrying you had a deathly, flesh-eating virus instead of the common cold. Google aims to eliminate some of that anxiety and confusion in the following days with a few tweaks to the Google app. What does this rash look like to you?
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The Monaco Editor is the code editor that powers VS Code.
For all your web-based code-editing needs. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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To make sure you’ll be able to jog your memory quickly, you might want to go for an actual jog a little after learning something. Does "getting out of my chair to get coffee" count as a workout?
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That would be great if I could remember what it was I was supposed to be doing four hours after first intending to do it!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Defense Department-funded researchers at the University of California, Davis, and IBM have built a 1,000-processor chip that they say is the most energy-efficient many-core processor ever built. Yes, I imagine it does run Crysis
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I really don't care about 1000 cores, just give me one with 16 cores that can last at least a week on a charge.
I'd rather be phishing!
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So why does the picture show those heavy duty cables that look like what you'd use to jump start a car and can handle several hundred amps? 
Marc
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Because there is theory, and there also is practice. In theory, they are equal, but in practice...
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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I "love" articles like this; the hidden gem is that to make the chip where it "could" run off a AA battery they took it from "1.78 trillion instructions per second" to "115 billion instructions per second." In other words, they reinvented SingleStep.
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ECMAScript 2016 has limited new features due to the new philosophy of providing smaller, more frequent updates. Now ready for your cross-browser workarounds
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Using a power efficient browser is one of the best ways to get more out of your PC or tablet – whether you’re checking email, shopping online, playing games, or watching movies. Because that's definitely what I look for in a browser
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"There is no U.S.-made system that comes close to the performance of China's new system, the Sunway TaihuLight. Its theoretical peak performance is 124.5 petaflops, according to the latest biannual release today of the world's Top500 supercomputers. It is the first system to exceed 100 petaflops. A petaflop equals one thousand trillion (one quadrillion) sustained floating-point operations per second."
"TaihuLight, which is installed at China's National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, uses ShenWei CPUs developed by Jiangnan Computing Research Lab in Wuxi. The operating system is a Linux-based Chinese system called Sunway Raise." [^]
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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