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Post by jamiepinelive » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 6:44 PM UTC

Melatonic wrote: post #26

Fauntleroy wrote: post #12

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Can you explain how simply having a mask on in his profile picture is "propaganda"? Furthermore, how is having a github profile picture "anti-scientific"?

Hilariously thats not even the owner of the Github. Just a contributor !

Post by api » Mon, May 02, 2022, 1:21 PM UTC

vineyardmike wrote: post #43

api wrote: post #4

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All economic incentives for the past 20+ years have been away from "personal" computing because people flatly refuse to pay for software but for whatever reason have less aversion to paying for services. I have to repeat just to emphasize how irrational this is. People will refuse to pay $50 once for software but will happily pay $20-$50 per month for a service that offers less performance, no privacy, worse security…

> People will refuse to pay $50 once for software but will happily pay $20-$50 per month for a service that offers less performance, no privacy, worse security, no continuity if you stop using it, fuzzy ownership of your own data, and a system that utterly vaporizes if the company goes away. Daily reminder for HN that if the service you buy is an ongoing service then paying once doesn’t work. If the company has a mon…