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In my case, I’ve been disappointed many times at work because some library I wanted to use was GPL. I don’t want anyone to have that experience with the stuff I build.

The parent may agree with you, but they said that in a somewhat obscure way. I believe their point is that companies have many distinct contracts with other companies (good) that c…

I think productivity is better conceived as the first derivative of value wrt. time. So productivity growth is the second derivative. It’s good news if that number is positive at a…

A depressed person will find a way to be depressed about religion, eg. obsessing over whether they or others are committing various sins. I think the problem is a type of thinking …

In the context of this particular case, it sounds like the ruling by the majority protects non-citizens from having their property taken by the police, while Justice Thomas’s concu…

If thoughts like these are making you suffer, there are other ways of thinking. Whether the object you are working on is an engine block or the Chrome debugger, you are working on …

Wonder what happened with that profit in Q1 2018. Odd that the article didn’t mention it. Was that Uber proving to investors that they can turn the spigot and generate cash? Or som…

And to expand on that a bit: It seems that transit in the Bay Area serves multiple purposes. 1) Getting you from point A to point B. 2) Mobile climate-controlled shelter for homele…

After being assaulted by that stranger I thought about him a lot: 1) He probably has been abused and harmed many times, perhaps in his childhood. 2) He probably expects the worst f…

I’m just describing an event that happened to me. There are a lot of problems with Uber, but one thing it’s not is the cheapest and most convenient climate-controlled shelter for t…

UberPool Express has some things in common with the bus, although I’ve still never been slapped in the face by a homeless man in an Uber.

I’m responding to bookmark this thread and check for any responses later. The article only mentioned a social pressure to buy as a prerequisite for marriage.

Isn’t it a colossal shame that in China we have thousands of empty high rises, and in the Bay Area we have a housing crisis where you can find a dozen people packed into a single f…

The service Plastiq will send a check to your landlord funded with a credit card for a 2.5% fee. It’s not worth it to buy miles, but definitely worth it to earn a signup bonus wher…

Wow, sounds like a clearly anti-growth policy. I wonder if they have some expensive accounting in the backend or something.

It seems relevant - if company leadership is attempting to act in the best interests of the shareholders, the fact that the shareholders also own their competitors would tend to bi…

I don’t love submodules, but I think the difficultly comes because they require experience to use properly and you have to learn the gotchas, like everything else in git. IMO a wor…

There are so many ways to have fun where your money goes to support creative expression, or fitness, or some other positive end. Gambling is about extracting money from people who …

Sure, if you can go once in a while, having a good understanding about how much money you will lose and can keep yourself from losing more trying to get it back, good for you. But …

The whole gambling industry is a really a utility black hole. Human risk-taking impulses evolved so that we could decide to look around that corner, explore that dense underbrush, …

I responded to a particular comment in the thread.

Attorneys who work in civil and criminal law can be defending the powerless, keeping the powerful from facing justice, or somewhere in between. It depends on the particular case.

Civil suits are the main route regular people have to get compensation when abused by corporations. Or just small companies that get abused by big ones. Citizens almost always lose…

I think the way git supports this workflow currently is to have a super-repo containing all the other repos as submodules. You can bundle all those changes together as updates to t…