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I find it quite amusing that so many self-defined "Linux power users" can't use anything that isn't pretty much an exact copy, UX-wise, of Windows 95.

> Since the article talks about "social value" it almost implies that our commodity will always have some value to the society (it's called "social" after all), but that is often n…

> What he missed is that if you're putting labor into making something nobody wants (the classic example being toothless combs for bald men), you are not only failing to producing …

> When talking about a fair world, people usually mean a world where everyone is equal, which is not tit-for-tat fairness. Citation needed.

I generally agree with most of what you are saying, but honestly this litte-s socialism, fascism, communism thing you are doing is making me gnash my teeth a bit :) Socialism was a…

And some people argue laissez-faire capitalism does not naturally lead to concentration of capital and oligopolies/monopolies. I guess they should play MMOs ;)

What's the alternative exactly? Sell your resources as cheap as possible to avoid being corrupted by money? Surely there should be a way of capitalizing on your natural resources t…

I've seen some estimates saying that the total percentage of waste coming from households can be as lows as 2%, depending on how you count. For example, this cites an EPA study: ht…

It's a necessary condition for a functioning capitalist economy. I can go into more details if you want, but the fact that the key economic indicator is GDP growth and that all eco…

> What is the end result of growth that makes societies "better"? The need for constant economic growth is just a side effect of how a capitalist economy works. That's why they all…

Well, it's not complicated to do the math...

I quote from The Article(tm): "What is the worst-case scenario for Fukushima Daiichi? It's difficult to be definitive, because information is limited and often confused, and the ou…

It's amazing that you can know the accident was minor when it's not even over yet. Seems like you are not really using reality to form your opinions.

I never said it'd easy, or that it wouldn't cost money. Everything costs money. Nuclear power plants are expensive, and they have vast hidden costs that are offset to society (how …

What potentially devastating consequences would there be if instead of a nuclear plant a windmill had been hit by an earthquake, tsunami and explosion? I honestly fail to be impres…

There's a tension between making software fast, reliable and attractive and making it completely configurable. The current culture in GNOME, as far as I understand it, is that the …

What does that even mean? How could GNOME do what Apple does if all the code is open source? Anyone can come, change whatever they want and ship it as their own. This is what Ubunt…

You are still saying the same thing. "A socialist country would have freedom restrictions in place". Who says that? Norway, and many other countries, have had socialdemocratic gove…

Who exactly gets to define that only authoritarian regimes with freedom restrictions practice anything that can be properly described as socialism?

Fixed, thank you!

We are looking for good hackers with experience in free software. We work on WebKit (maintainers of the GTK+ port), networking, multimedia, javascript, etc. Working remotely is per…

Capitalism and free enterprise produced everything good? A bit over the top aren't we?

Why would an animal sacrificed at an extremely young age in a farm need to receive more or less the same amount of antibiotics (normalized to its weight) in its life than a normal …

Solving a particular instance of a noncomputable problem is not the same than solving the problem itself. Eg, the busy beaver problem is noncomputable, but it's trivial to make a m…