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Yeah, but I think kibbutzim is really extreme, and not how even socialists would want to live. It's a full commune - more like a cult than normal society. So it's quite a strawman …

But those jobs should be automated so no-one has to do them. And that process should be supported by a high minimum wage - hitting the employers, not taxing productive work to prov…

I'd love to move, but getting a green card is a nightmare. I don't want to work for 5 years trapped with one employer and facing deportation with a matter of weeks if I lose my job…

But what is a "socialist community" in that respect? The only thing I can think of that's achievable is worker co-ops, and a lot of start-ups are like that for early employees and …

I mean economic mobility like making it easy for people to switch jobs, move city, work for startups, etc. So separating healthcare coverage from your employment is one important s…

Seems weird to pit socialism against free markets. There's nothing about disallowing private ownership of the Earth's common resources, natural monopolies, etc. that stops having f…

American engineers are lucky to earn enough to be able to save up and do stuff like this, like on $200k you can save enough to really try a start-up for a year or two. Whereas in E…

But the awesome part is that you can ask it to explain parts and it usually does pretty well. I was using it for debugging WINE - where I have no DirectDraw4 / DirectX6 experience,…

Or even arthritis.

Sad to see people always use tools maliciously, I found ChatGPT quite helpful for rubber duck debugging. Give it some log files and code excerpts, and it can help grab API docs, ca…

Ubuntu Touch and Mobian don't seem so bad. But good support is still far away. Especially since I'd really need Whatsapp and banking authentication on the phone, which both only su…

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I meant even in the case that man is not the child's father. France has this law. The US has it too if the man signs the birth certificate, and there's no way to force a paternity …

While together is much more reasonable than absolutely all of your assets as with marriage though.

Yeah, feminism has gone completely insane. At the moment of marriage all assets are divided equally in most countries, regardless of when they were obtained. And in many countries …

Loads of places where before you'd just have amateur art / no art. We used it for department logos, etc. - it makes sense when it's so cheap. For it to really grow though it needs …

Compare European and US salaries sometime, you have no idea how lucky you are. There's a reason tens of thousands of European engineers, doctors, lawyers, developers, etc. are desp…

It takes more effort to make internal code FOSS (i.e. upstreaming changes, protecting internal parts, etc.) - and often very few other people use it or contribute back anyway. I th…

Wow, even using "Russians under the bed" to attack FOSS now.

Microsoft wanted to control it all with Blackbird and ActivePlatform. Their greed ended up with them losing out (thankfully).

"Open"AI

Because people don't want to pay more for things. It isn't astro-turfing.

It reminds me of the story about the New York beaches where they deliberately designed the transport to try to prevent public transport access to the "better" beaches, so they'd mo…

Like Bill Gates saying he's part of the solution - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/im-part-solution-bill-gates-1... "Billionaire philanthropist" - the definition of an oxymoron.

In the EU private jets are exempt from the new fuel duty as long as they make less than 243 flights every 4 months: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PETI-CM-731622... …