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Post by neoromantique »

phoenixy1 wrote: post #319
oleks637 wrote: post #158

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It looks like Denis is actually supporting russian government and their lies about this war - https://twitter.com/roman01la/status/1625254253156528147 . He literally spreads russian propaganda points and blames Ukraine for being attacked.

I understand that his perspective is not consonant with Western views and that he does place some blame on Ukraine, but he literally says "I'm against war. I'm against the current Russian government." which I hardly think is fair to represent as supporting the Russian government and the war!

Yeah, he is against war and government because it affects his personal income and wellbeing, not because of tens of thousands of civilians killed.

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Post by robocat »

politician wrote: post #247
robocat wrote: post #155

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Patreon Inc and Open Collective Inc (non-profit) are both US companies. You can let them worry about any potential sanctions. He gave you three options: https://opencollective.com/core-js https://www.patreon.com/zloirock or Bitcoin bc1qlea7544qtsmj2rayg0lthvza9fau63ux0fstcz Or are you just posturing?

You are welcome to look up my contribution via OpenCollective. It’s dangerous for individuals to take liability on themselves by using Bitcoin to send funds directly. The OFAC sanction search above is for compliance officers at financial institutions. If, as an individual, you take it on yourself to send funds via Bitcoin and you’ve misunderstood the scope of sanctions then you may find yourself in violation. OpenCol…

Awesome! I intend to match your $1k, but to other open source developers that I judge need it.

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Post by nevernude »

imiric wrote: post #170
nevernude wrote: post #33

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At this risk of some self promotion, we developed StackAid ( https://stackaid.us ) to help fund the long tail of open source because of the exact problems you mentioned. People only tend to remember the popular/direct dependencies.

This is a great project, thanks for creating it. Am I interpreting it right, and your service acts as an escrow? Even though you seem to solve the payment headaches, I'm not sure I'd trust a middle-man to do the right thing in these matters. Would it be possible to use your tool entirely offline and just get a list of dependencies, and suggested payment per month for each depending on available funds? And then allow…

Yes, we do hold payments for projects and pay them out monthly. However if you don't want to claim your funds on StackAid but do accept donations elsewhere, we will use those service to pay you out instead. Running the tool offline would be challenging because we a large index of dependency->repository mappings across various ecosystems so we can resolve your dependency tree. You would also still be stuck manually paying out to possibly hundreds of projects. FWIW we are completely transparent about the payments we make to each project as well as how much goes to us.

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Post by bilalq »

SergeAx wrote: post #328
bilalq wrote: post #327

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> His son will soon feel a taste of state fascist indoctrination, it starts in kindergarten now in Russia. While I certainly don't know any specifics about what things are like in Russia, I suspect this is not so different from most other countries in the world. Here in America, children are made to pledge their allegiance to the flag of the US every morning with a hand over their heart. This is before they have any…

Can you remind me when was the last time US waged a conquest war under the pretext that neighbor state has no sovereignty right because people there are not a real nation? And to strengthen that point killed tens of thousands of civilians?

Maybe not that exact pretext, but I can certainly point towards similar things done by the US military and intelligence agencies. Look at Iraq and "enhanced interrogation" in Guantanamo Bay. Go back a few more years, and we can observe cases where unethical experimentation was done on America's own citizens (e.g., MKUltra, the Tuskegee experiments, etc).

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Post by SergeAx »

bilalq wrote: post #334
SergeAx wrote: post #328

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Can you remind me when was the last time US waged a conquest war under the pretext that neighbor state has no sovereignty right because people there are not a real nation? And to strengthen that point killed tens of thousands of civilians?

Maybe not that exact pretext, but I can certainly point towards similar things done by the US military and intelligence agencies. Look at Iraq and "enhanced interrogation" in Guantanamo Bay. Go back a few more years, and we can observe cases where unethical experimentation was done on America's own citizens (e.g., MKUltra, the Tuskegee experiments, etc).

I would like you to do two things for me, please. First, find some materials describing mandatory out-of-curriculum patriotic classes, introduced September 2022 in schools in Russia. They call it something like "Important conversation" or "Talk about important things". It would be better if you get to it yourself, also I read about it in Russian and not sure which English sources to recommend.

Second, make sure that you are not engaged in a textbook case of whataboutism[0]. Then please tell me what you think of our conversation, concerning these two topics. Thank you!

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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Post by armini »

hiccuphippo wrote: post #323
armini wrote: post #121

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Maintainers like Denis shouldn't be asking for donations, they should be sponsored the same way Nike sponsors athletes. If you're a burnt out open source maintainer or know someone who is, I'd love to talk to you. My job is to help create awareness about the issue with companies that depend on your package. I reached out to Denis because we all know he deserves better. Appreciate any leads you could additionally shar…

Quick idea: make a post on HN every few months so people can post projects that need maintainers/sponsors.

That's a great idea hiccuphippo! Consider it done :)

Re: So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill)

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Post by bilalq »

SergeAx wrote: post #335
bilalq wrote: post #334

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Maybe not that exact pretext, but I can certainly point towards similar things done by the US military and intelligence agencies. Look at Iraq and "enhanced interrogation" in Guantanamo Bay. Go back a few more years, and we can observe cases where unethical experimentation was done on America's own citizens (e.g., MKUltra, the Tuskegee experiments, etc).

I would like you to do two things for me, please. First, find some materials describing mandatory out-of-curriculum patriotic classes, introduced September 2022 in schools in Russia. They call it something like "Important conversation" or "Talk about important things". It would be better if you get to it yourself, also I read about it in Russian and not sure which English sources to recommend. Second, make sure that…

My point here was that patriotic indoctrination of children is not out of the norm in any country. You may be right that Russia is exceptional in that regard, but you haven't shared any information in what way.

As an aside, I personally consider dismissing points as whataboutism to be an overly and unjustly used deflection in discussions. It's an easy word to throw around when meaningful hypocrisy is called out, for example. Or in the case when the argument itself specifically is about the non-exceptional nature of something, as in the current case. I would also remind you that it was you who had specifically requested examples of similar behaviors in the US. Dismissing the response as whataboutism when you specifically asked for it is a bit unfair.

In the end, I don't have strong opinions or insights to share on this subject. I just wanted to voice my issue with the characterization of my reply as whataboutism, but that itself is a tangential topic on a tangential topic of a tangential topic, so the discussion isn't really worth furthering here.

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Post by criminowrong »

The actual details of the killings he committed are different to what he claims. The girls were on a pedestrian crossing and he ploughed through them anyway. I have no sympathy for this guy and I hope he gets what is coming to him.

Reminds me of that other guy who flashed his penis at children multiple times over many years and then expected us all to feel sorry for him and give him advice.

Both of these abusive criminal scum can fuck off, I hope they rope themselves.

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Post by jacooper »

slowmotiony wrote: post #244
webknjaz wrote: post #237

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It's a misconception that people hate him for being r ssian. It's more like people dislike finding a consistent genocide apologist who has been publicly supporting the mass murderers for many years. This is a systemic position of his. In his late post he suggests that the murdered Ukrainians are somehow the same as the ruscist rapists who killed them. In the past he was shifting the blame for the r ssian fascist ethn…

Aside from supporting killing innocent people he actually engaged in the practice himself.

Your source being?

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Post by throwaway290 »

zacharycohn wrote: post #311
throwaway290 wrote: post #267

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Did he look though? Maybe he is not aware this is a possibility. Even if he cannot leave Russia there are likely russian companies that would pay him and be even happy if he contributes to OSS. I know Qiwi, Yandex publish and maintain packages

If you read the article, you'll see he did look, extensively.

Not enough because how come I could do it but not him.
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