Frondo

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by Frondo 9y ago
Interestingly enough, those do exist, sort of. I toyed, long long ago, with starting a food business, and looked into commercial kitchens you could rent for a few hours a week; they do exist! They're a great service for people who can
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by Frondo 9y ago
That is not a violent reaction. "We need to kick you out of the country" is a violent reaction. "What are you talking about this is dumb" is not a violent reaction. You shared your ideas, they obviously weren't take
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by Frondo 9y ago
Calling people out on nonsense isn't hatred. "Black people are stupid, we need a white ethno-state" is hatred. "You're wrong and your ideas are wrong" isn't hatred. Calling people out on bad ideas is a nec
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by Frondo 9y ago
Hey thanks! The other thing is, I don't just apply this to international politics, I'm a firm believer in working to change your local politics as much as possible above all else. How your city runs is both more accessible to the
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by Frondo 9y ago
As an American, my interest is in seeing the quality of life for my fellow citizens improve first. Yes, people in other countries are people too, etc., but they also have their own governance, their own resources, their own economics system
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by Frondo 9y ago
You were saying "make it de facto illegal to operate a multinational" and that is not on the table and has never been anywhere close to it. Are you walking that back, and want to talk about loopholes now?
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by Frondo 9y ago
No one is saying the US would make it illegal to operate an international company. They're looking for ways to close some of these loopholes that are keeping a ton of tax money out of the coffers belonging to We the People. Please don&
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by Frondo 9y ago
I will support in any business that ascribes to the 3 Ps: people, planet, profit, in that order. If a business maximizes its dividend payouts by stiffing its workers (i.e. potentially my neighbors, friends, family), it's a shitty busi
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by Frondo 9y ago
We The People don't have any other suitable mechanisms to reign in businesses. I'm a citizen first, and a buyer of stuff and owner of shares a distant, distant second. The laws, that I get to, in at least some way, help craft as
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by Frondo 9y ago
You do "actually" own your property, even if you have to pay a tax on it. I think you're playing word games, because you're using an idiosyncratic definition of ownership and rent that no one else (except maybe in libe
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by Frondo 9y ago
No system of taxation? If you can show us a modern functional large-scale (i.e. nation-sized) society that has no taxation, then I'd love to see how they do it. I can't think of any examples, though, so would welcome your thoughts
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by Frondo 9y ago
Of course not. You still own whatever you own, and can still sell it, destroy it, modify it, whatever. You do pay tax on owning it, in a system that taxes wealth, but that does not mean someone else owns it. Calling it rent and calling the
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by Frondo 9y ago
I welcome adding Emoji to Unicode. I also welcome adding different skin tones to Unicode. I welcome everything that invites more people to engage with, appreciate, and feel included by technology. I welcome a world where you don't
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by Frondo 9y ago
Programmers are smart systems thinkers, or they can be. And they (we) have a tendency to think, "here is a system that I have derived from first principles, and now I can apply it" ... which is, frustratingly, not how the world ty
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by Frondo 9y ago
OK, but you're basically saying, "my techniques work, except the example I'm presenting is entirely fictitious" -- and I know that it is a totally nonsensical example that simply has nothing to do with reality. My poin
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by Frondo 9y ago
I get what you're saying, but it's also clear that you haven't ever talked to a food truck person. They're not paying you $1000 for a wordpress site, and they're never paying $1000 on retainer. The rest is also a
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by Frondo 9y ago
Aren't a lot of us already doing what matters , but just not articulating it the same way? I collaborate on a team, so we use one documentation standard and one coding style. We've stripped down our coding and commenting styles
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by Frondo 9y ago
Yep. I receive newsletters from several merchants whose stuff I regularly buy. I like getting coupons and information about new products. This is stuff like coffee and chocolate, mostly foodstuffs that I consume regularly. I delete most
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by Frondo 9y ago
Here's mine: fix income inequality and the staggering inequality in the distribution of wealth worldwide. How is that a startup? I dunno, maybe there's a small part of that big problem that you can start tackling. Maybe it has
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by Frondo 9y ago
Fun hip dev shops can call them Rustaceans. Stodgy old conservative shops can call them Rust developers. Everybody is understood, everybody wins!
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by Frondo 9y ago
Agreed, and well said. I'm very much a pragmatic kind of person, and my unpopular opinion about code is that Lisp is the greatest single language ever designed, if your goal in designing a language is to produce articles proclaiming it
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by Frondo 9y ago
Why not? Housing is a human right, and lots of US cities have all kinds of regulations around affordable housing. I think we're not far at all from "you do have the right to buy a house at a particular price," we just dress
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by Frondo 9y ago
American here, and I'm all in on the idea that we live in a society and our choices and decisions are constrained, to some extent, by the people around us. The challenge for every generation and every society is to decide where to stri
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by Frondo 9y ago
More than that: make it your second job to persuade your friends and loved ones to pay attention to this stuff and vote, too. The whole "never discuss politics or religion" trope is one of the things that gets society in a place
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by Frondo 9y ago
I am reluctant to accept an anti-regulation message from someone whose name seems a likely riff on Ayn Rand, but setting that aside... I'm also reluctant to look at deregulating hearing aids without looking at some of what the regulati
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by Frondo 9y ago
This is kind of the right answer, even though it's obviously not popular. The real problem is, right now wireless headphones aren't nearly as convenient along a number of axes as wired headphones. The real solution is, get them to
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by Frondo 9y ago
As a counterpoint, the last SaaS product I developed, I got my first 10 customers almost entirely through cold contact (emailing and asking for a meeting). I was able to easily and succinctly describe my product and how it solved a problem
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by Frondo 9y ago
RSS feeds aren't social. Social functionality might not be important to you, but it is very important to many, many people. (Services that graft social functionality onto RSS feeds could satisfy the same need, but then we're not t
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by Frondo 9y ago
I don't think "politically correct" means what you think it means. Your use in this context doesn't make sense (e.g. a person's preferred sexual partner is not a matter of "political correctness," nor is
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by Frondo 9y ago
You got it, Dan. Thanks for the heads-up.

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