Frondo

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by Frondo 6y ago
I have not once, in all the years of hand-wringing over "cancel culture," seen a rich person made poor, or a famous person made obscure, by "the mob" finding old tweets and publicizing them. Not once. For all the power t
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by Frondo 6y ago
I also don't say controversial things online or over the phone -- secured channels okay still -- but not because I give a shit about "digital mob" (give me a break!); What worries me is how the three-letter agencies vacuum it
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by Frondo 6y ago
They're fine, as good as anything else right now. PHP can be very high-performance, and MySQL/MariaDB, when run in the strict modes (usually enabled by default now) it's ACID-compliant, fast, and still easy to administer. I w
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by Frondo 6y ago
Among my friends who are laid off from the virus, I've seen a great deal more of them painting and recording music; they're not aspiring to "make it," they're just doing more of their creative projects. Very small s
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by Frondo 6y ago
The postal service is in fact the only agency explicitly mentioned in the US Constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause Whether it operates like a business now, it was absolutely intended to be a functio
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by Frondo 6y ago
When I saw that Jeff Bezos increased his wealth by $13 billion in a single day recently, when 28 million Americans are facing potential eviction, I just thought...we have kings again.
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OpenSSH dropped “slave” and “blacklist” from code(twitter.com)
2 points by Frondo 6y ago|0 comments
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by Frondo 6y ago
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Microsoft did extensive user testing in the course of development of the Ribbon UI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23797590
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by Frondo 6y ago
Some people are also so good at compartmentalizing that they believe this, but ask the right question and they realize they do in fact have (deeply shameful, at least to them) things to hide. Of course, you have to know the dirty secret. Ca
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by Frondo 6y ago
Precisely no one wants to replace Linus Torvalds with a woman or person of color just to have a woman or person of color maintaining the Linux kernel.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Taipei's intracity transit, both buses and the metro system. Taiwan's intercity buses, rail, and HSR. Clean, very frequent, gets you everywhere.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Yes, like dijit said, something modeled after the Screen Actors Guild. You rockstars get your million dollar salaries, no one gets overworked.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Did it? did he cause any of the mayhem you're saying did happen?
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by Frondo 6y ago
In true libertarian form, this is a platitude and a non-sequitur. Maybe you should go surfing instead, the waves follow the NAP.
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by Frondo 6y ago
It's actually pretty horrible to suggest that, now that you're learning about white supremacists attempting to start a race war, that you might go participate -- "streisanding boogaloo".
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by Frondo 6y ago
Oh, I am all in favor of unions, and you're absolutely right. It's a tragedy, yet an unsurprising one, that business co-opted government to restrain union power the way it did. In fact, in the "small government" vein, I&
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by Frondo 6y ago
Don't worry, it isn't true in theory either. Courts don't give a shit about that sort of high-minded honorableness. Why, the existence of anti-SLAPP laws comes directly out of courts not caring how they're weaponized by
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by Frondo 6y ago
The libertarian argument generally goes that competition will keep them all in check, but history has shown again and again how it doesn't work in the general case. If you want to see what small government/strong corporate control
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by Frondo 6y ago
Those were all local municipalities, responsive to their electorate - if the surfers in a community wanted Google fiber huts, they could elect councils who would allow them. I think it's reasonable that people should have local control
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by Frondo 6y ago
I could ask any surfer on the beach right now and even they'd be able to identify that you've now entered a kind of argumentation where, if government is at all involved, government is the problem, no matter how it's involved
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by Frondo 6y ago
Large businesses use government as a tool to suppress competition, sure. Take away the government's power to suppress competition, and they'd still have and use many other tools. Attacking the government is a distraction that&#x27
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by Frondo 6y ago
I was reading this this morning, on the subject of "who controls the police," seems legit (the answer is, the economic elites, absolutely represented by Gucci patrons): https://plsonline.eku.edu/sites/plsonlin
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by Frondo 6y ago
The 3rd Brandenburg is the song that got me into music -- I first heard it in MIDI form when it was included with Windows 3.1 (or wndows 95?) ages and ages ago. Inspired me to pick up the violin later in life, and a few years after my first
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by Frondo 6y ago
How are ordinary bike companies immune from this kind of lawsuit?
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by Frondo 6y ago
If we're just thinking of ways voting can be corrupted, in-person voting can be coerced too. Boss forces you to take a photo of your ballot as you vote in the booth, etc. In reality, several states have had mail voting for years- Orego
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Virtual Minecraft protest demands MS address the game’s sexual predator problem(mashable.com)
4 points by Frondo 6y ago|0 comments
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by Frondo 6y ago
You said: "I'm not aware of any social problem that has been adequately resolved by any organization, government or private. There's always someone who thinks it's not good enough." If you think that 500 people out
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by Frondo 6y ago
There are 12 US cities that have achieved "functional zero" homelessness -- no chronic homelessness and no homeless vets. The country of Finland has done the same, with a plan to reach absolute zero (nobody staying temporarily wit
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by Frondo 6y ago
Charity has never adequately addressed social problems in America. signed, a surfer
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by Frondo 6y ago
I think you either haven't thought about this hard enough or you're embarrassed at being asked to spell it out. Again avoiding any kind of actual answer isn't nearly as clever as you seem to think.

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