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I guess I thought integrity was still at least considered an ideal to strive for in the West.

I'm calling my senators and house rep. Holy crap.

I'd fire someone for using Oracle. I'd put it in the employee handbook. I bet Oxide would too.

Wait, Oracle sales reps give decision-makers personal kickbacks for buying Oracle?? Stay classy Oracle. Such a banal depth of evil. Why hasn't this been outlawed? I guess companies…

What I don't understand is why anyone with half a brain would even venture to touch Oracle with a ten foot pole given that they've had this reputation for at least the last 25 year…

I think free society in general absolutely requires its people to be generally moral and civil. Freedom inevitably evaporates as morality and civility decline. And that's why it's …

I think the point of the lawnmower analogy is to subjectively characterize Larry Ellison and Oracle from the viewpoint of someone who has had the unfortunate experience of having t…

How many bureaucracies in history have behaved in deeply misanthropic ways, especially when led by misanthropic leaders? Don't underestimate the power of the desire to keep one's j…

"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the …

> deliberately promotes misinformation I think it deliberately avoids censorship of any kind, which makes it both more open to truth (if anyone posts it there) and more susceptible…

The rumor is going around on X that foreign enemies of the US (especially China) are trying to influence Americans through social networks against building data centers.

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Collectivization is impossible without expropriating people by force. How would you propose accomplishing that without the government's involvement? Central planning also requires …

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I'm astounded that people actually think this is mental gymnastics... would you like the KGB banging on your neighbor's door at 3am and sending them to the gulag for saying somethi…

> every death in communism is communism's fault No. Everyone is going to die sooner or later. I'm talking about wrongful deaths. It is wrong for a government to kill people for any…

Joyent was likely a part of what convinced Brian Cantrill that a new cloud machine was needed. They had their own stack running on commodity OEM hardware in their own cloud - likel…

> it's invariably considering everybody who died due to lack of assigned resources under communism You mean, those who were forcibly starved by their government, those who were for…

I can't think of an outcome that would be more odious to Steve Tuck and Brian Cantrill. Brian in particular still talks about the soul-crushing experience of Oracle's hostile takeo…

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> it's just not solvable Watch out, good hackers find those words incredibly motivating.

CNCDan is working on one right now, here's episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU_02HABZ4s

I think the term "dogwhistle" should be retired. It's only ever used to dismiss someone's argument instead of engaging with them. Bad arguments should be quickly responded to and s…