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zygimantasdev

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    Comment #21480470

    I think your point about a choice of taxes is very close to my argument of involuntary taxes. While I agree there are some things that you must contribute to have law and order - t…

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    Comment #21472253

    I think your goal is impossible. Even in soviet union that wasn't the case. The best specialists (let's say top surgeons) will always have more influence. If you know that your sur…

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    Comment #21472225

    If you are taxed involuntary - isn't that stealing? Well technically by law it is legal and enforced for everyone, but it still is stealing. For example: if everybody is under the …

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    Comment #21344946

    Gitlab reputation went down quite a bit from my perspective. No time given to migrate.

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    Comment #21324357

    I guess we grew up with stories which gave us +5 resistance to socialism. Stories about how in almost every group were people who would report you if you talked about some "threat"…

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    Comment #21323889

    Well there is no difference. If majority oppresses minority (democracy) - how is this different from Bolsheviks. You kill/take assets from the rich, make private entities illegal a…

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    Comment #21323828

    >After the 2008 recession, President Obama and the Democrats effectively saved capitalism from itself; a more radical leadership would fight to replace it with a better system. Thi…

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    Comment #21282598

    Thank you for reply, it is extremely interesting. Can you recommend books/any type of articles on this topic?

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    Comment #21280720

    Personally my thinking changes from Turing Machine to more math like with each year I do functional programming

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    Comment #21280710

    Maybe Elm itself is a killer app, but certainly not elm-ui. I don't think Datomic is a killer app too. Its certainly not comparable to Rails/OSes at scale

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    Comment #21279020

    I would argue all currencies are unreliable ,because they go down in value due increase of supply. Throwing 2-4% every year sounds awful

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    Comment #21222273

    What is your point of reference? Since software before electron apps was result of capitalism too

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    Comment #21221890

    All this China censorship made me think. Starting to get this feeling that more and more choices made by me (to buy/to use/endorse) are becoming more like a political votes. Just h…

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    Comment #21200292

    If every humans wants to protect earth and "Selfishness of individuals triumph over long term global cause" - how come selfishness doesn't fix this problem? Seems like a contradict…

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    Comment #21200087

    If you paid for the game client(wow) it is not illegal to play in private servers

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    Comment #21190564

    I guess what I meant - I looked at these issues differently, others probably too. Apple, Google "selling out" to be in China? Oh well - that seems reasonable since its a big market…

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    Comment #21190462

    South Park is spot on this season. You could say they are good with predictions, but I think they just gave different perspective to something that already has been happening (epis…

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    Comment #21122498

    "climate change and environmental degradation have serious effects on human health" - can you elaborate? Do you mean mental health?

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    Comment #21100543

    On the top post on that link: "Red Hat urges the FSF board to seize the opportunity during its current leadership succession by appointing a president and members of its board that…

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    Comment #21056974

    FP enables better concurrent/parallel code. I would say that is more important when CPU core count is increasing

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    Comment #20936830

    This is how U.S traffic looked - https://i.imgur.com/X10kmms.gifv Source: reddit

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    Comment #20788245

    What's bad about java in 2010? Java is still alive today, while Ruby with Rails were overtaken