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which is to say only gamblers are ever willing to hire me

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very nice, this is how I can now quickly say it and clearly think it: I've only ever worked for gamblers!

the 'cool' thing is that not even the purported 'business owner' owns their own data, what do they actually own? what is even their business? on the modern trend, all businesses re…

I just hope that the notion and traditional cultural practice of "this idea is mine, therefore it cannot be yours" dies soon once it does we can have a new digital renaissance but …

counter example: what is this website called? you're telling me Hacker News is a who?

they did that because they had the petro dollar system this is the same system that allowed most americans to not pay taxes and also downsized the IRS they thought they were going …

my much less informed take on this topic: I considered "why?", "what?", and "how to?" by thinking the types of answers: 'what' expects an answer of a name, or reference. 'how' expe…

this actually may help me clear out a subtle distinction: the documentation has the same socialpolitical problem as any other artistic expression encoded into a digital asset but t…

so long as we can read the source code AND debug the program, it's ok. it may be difficult, but sometimes things are difficult free and open source but private and paid for documen…

do not underestimate the agendas for centralization of power and control do not underestimate the sticky pull of collecting ̶r̶e̶n̶t̶^C ̶t̶a̶x̶e̶s̶subscriptions from people

> Is it even possible to empirically validate such a thing? I wouldn't think so because empiricism implies experience which implies time

my point is that I refuse to adjust my expectations to a technological environment in which we are ok with having to pay per API call to use software. I reject a future in which al…

they're an endangered species, so to say... you should learn about systems software... they may be 'vanishingly small' but they're there in the foundations of the entire computing …

because rent i.e. taxes i.e. licensing fees i.e. insurance coverage i.e. rent is just too good when you're collecting it and nobody would give it up

> Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. the rarity is not the source of the value, but an amplifier …

this is equally applicable to you: to believe you're right regardless of correctness for the sake of feeling well. but I'm not interested in mere feeling well, I want to BE well. I…