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Money is not a representation of value. It is a representation of desire. I agree that, in principle, an economy does not have to be set up as a zero sum game, and at smaller scale…

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Almost as though open source software isn't a "roll your own government" adventure...

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Yep. Cause this last one just went so well no controversy (allowed) at all...

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Seems a bit hypocritical to write an article critical of "power-over" and then end on a note that essentially suggest giving "power over" others to the supposedly and self labeled …

Sad that we have to waste so much time an energy on something that is fairly obvious

Solar and wind are detrimental to the environment in their own respects, and will never generate enough energy to solve the problem :D

Yes because poor Nintendo doesn't have enough money, they need a perpetual debt slave as well.

Oh now companies want to invoke the first amendment. What a joke.

What a fucking dumbass

Do I have to be retiring? The worst thing about my profession is the historical ignorance, willful dishonesty, egotism and shear cowardice of individuals who have far too much infl…

This isn't going to make anything better, except perhaps the size of your ego. Open-source isn't the reason the world is in a dismal state, in fact it was doing a fairly good job o…

Did you ever consider that public is horrendously misinformed on basically every "social issue" that arises, and it would literally do more good by just staying the fuck out of it?…

Because virtue

If you want a summary I can give you a really quick one. I've watched this bias, manipulative and corrosive moderating action escalate from the moment the team was created. I was t…

I'm not sure if you realize that people aren't as stupid as you seem to think they are, and they are getting tired of this ridiculous rhetoric, and in this particular case, it is q…

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You would have to be able to overwrite a syscall in userspace (which would be a massive security hole) or have some kinda kernel driver (but you said disk encryption doesn't work f…

A lot of people put minimal possible effort in at the gym or other kinds of exercising. I often see people "jogging" that are basically just walking with a bit of a skip, for examp…

I quit social media in 2012, when I was 22 and often, it feels like I live in a completely different universe. GitHub, and a few tech forums, is about the closest thing, and I gues…

I did use git for a long time for just this purpose. I don't even remember the details now, but it worked well enough for a single machine. The main reason I switched to Nix about …

You can intellectualize all you want. Nobody is happy all the time, but there are damn good salesman out there.