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by addicted 3y ago
I’m not surprised. I’m not a major OSS contributor of any sort, but I am a lead of a closed source product within my company, and if I got the kind of pointless destructive criticism that usually makes it to the top of HN comments on someth
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by addicted 3y ago
> Does spotify need 20x more employees than Valve/STEAM? The difference is the person you’re responding to doesn’t claim to know the answer to something it’s almost impossible for either of you to know the answer (unless you have in
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by addicted 3y ago
Pay very much brings happiness. Even the research that shows that happiness does not grow with your income/wealth shows that it grows up to a certain income level after which it levels off.
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by addicted 3y ago
Most homeowners own a single home. So a seller also has to be a buyer. If this is not a good time to buy, you will also see fewer units listed for sale because the seller is unable to buy the new house they would want to live in before list
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by addicted 3y ago
Yeah, that can absolutely still be fraud. If you make someone sign a contract promising a product and you strongly indicate it will be delivered by a certain date, it’s still fraud if you know it won’t be delivered by that date even if the
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by addicted 3y ago
A company not living up to what it promised when it is telling you to buy the product on the basis of that promise meets the first condition of fraud. It absolutely can be fraud. The only question is whether the company or company represent
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by addicted 3y ago
That’s the estimated price for delivery in 2025. Things could change by then. Also, we’re talking about a new industry here because of which a lot of costs are also likely facing downwards pressure (so, for example, batteries are almost cer
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by addicted 3y ago
No private entity is gonna solve the trillion dollar mess that is the US healthcare system. However, they can completely solve the problem that is people who are almost bankrupt because of medical debt and have that bankruptcy hanging over
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by addicted 3y ago
You are right about the quality of life being different between the two. You’re probably not right about which one is actually better. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/cities-depression-lower-rate... And this is in the
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by addicted 3y ago
Another way to put that is you live in a house that is the right size for you which minimizes the amount of stuff you need to buy just so it isn’t filled with cobwebs, and can actually keep it clean and maintained without having to spend in
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by addicted 3y ago
If this was an Alpha software that was created a few months ago and is rapidly changing then sure, link back to the original. But we’re talking about curl here. MS could have an intern copy paste the curl document, delete the stuff that doe
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by addicted 3y ago
I don’t avoid a GUI. I just use it for what I find it efficient (complicated diffs and merges, complicated history, etc) but use the CLI for other stuff I find the CLI more efficient for (simple history lookups, diffs, merges, staging chang
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by addicted 3y ago
There’s a lot of evidence that larger vehicles are massive threats to pedestrians. I’m not sure what the evidence for huge A-pillars as a threat is, but if it’s worse than larger vehicles it does not in any way change the fact that larger v
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by addicted 3y ago
I think there’s a few hundred programs that cost more and had fewer returns (and many with negative returns) before we get to man on the moon being a problem.
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by addicted 3y ago
It’s “Russia made no efforts to contact” and “Russia made no efforts to search” both of which indicate it was because Russia was up to no good. Funny how you ignore the reasons the commenter you’re replying to gives to indicate Russia did i
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by addicted 3y ago
The standard argument against Mozilla has been that they haven’t funded enough non Firefox projects. The classic example being Thunderbird.
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by addicted 3y ago
> Dietrich Bonhoeffer argues that stupidity is worse than evil because stupidity can be manipulated and used by evil This pretty much refutes the headline . It’s a false dichotomy to begin with, but if stupidity’s biggest issue is that e
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by addicted 3y ago
You almost certainly didn’t come up with it. I’ve heard it being used in the 90s at least and its usage was rampant in the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Here’s a Google trend: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date
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by addicted 3y ago
There’s very little to learn from the chaos least of all because we don’t even know what actually happened. It’s a bit ridiculous to say one should change their entire worldview about a potentially world changing technology based on innuend
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by addicted 3y ago
You normalize auto deaths per mile traveled, or per capita, etc in order to eliminate discrepancies when comparing groups that might have different sized populations or different amount of car travel. But nearly every other similar country
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by addicted 3y ago
Yeah, there’s a lot of evidence that we may have grossly underestimated the feedback effects. On the flip side, we also underestimated the ability to switch to renewable sources (predictions of the cost and spread of renewable energy have b
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by addicted 3y ago
I’ve found using FlatSeal eliminates my issues with flatpak. And that’s despite me running flatpak on an Ubuntu install which I try hard to de-snap (yeah, I should switch to another distro but I’ve been using Ubuntu off and on for 2 decades
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by addicted 3y ago
To the point, I completely agree that snap seems to work quite well for server software. Which makes it additionally frustrating that Canonical is insisting on forcing it on all the desktop users. No one is installing server software throug
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by addicted 3y ago
Are there any advantages to using snap instead of docker for server software?
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by addicted 3y ago
I don’t understand. So they did get “controversial content”. What’s the argument then? Further, how is this not free speech anyways.
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by addicted 3y ago
This sounds like a difference without a distinction assuming non apocalyptic scenarios.
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by addicted 3y ago
Sports betting, or gambling of any form, for that matter, wasn’t a fraction of the problem it is today.
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by addicted 3y ago
It’s entirely possible that in-house offerings aren’t up to the task largely because the last 15 years have seen tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars invested in the idea that SAAS is cheaper and better? Now that the VC subsidy is ov
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by addicted 3y ago
Your logic seems backwards. The poster you’re replying to is saying: Kids screaming and throwing tantrums when their screens are taken away implies that screens are bad for the kids’ development. So, kids screaming and throwing tantrums whe
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by addicted 3y ago
and there are wacky for profits. The OP was clearly implying not being solely focused on getting the highest bid is loony and wacky. Which may be true, but let’s not pretend that’s not what they’re saying.

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