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by akagusu 5y ago
TikTok and other companies only represent the ethos of the modern society: take whatever you want no matter how, give nothing in return.
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by akagusu 5y ago
TikTok and other companies only represent the ethos of the modern society: take whatever you want, give nothing in return.
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by akagusu 5y ago
No code, no hope.
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by akagusu 5y ago
Of course "open source" is not broken. It works exactly how it was intended to work and it perfectly models our economic system where a lot of people do essential work but are underpaid or not paid at all. tl;dr: "open source
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by akagusu 5y ago
Of course "open source" is not broken. It works exactly how it was intended to work and it perfectly models our economic system where a lot of people do essential jobs but are underpaid or not paid at all. tl;dr: "open source
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by akagusu 5y ago
The real world is like this but people come here to get into a bubble.
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by akagusu 5y ago
All this crap is not maintainers fault. Companies do not want to pay, this is the reason they use FOSS code in the first place. Do you want to force every single company that rely on FOSS to pay? Change your license. Stop using permissive l
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by akagusu 5y ago
The truth is we are not better than China or North Korea, we just hide our shit better.
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by akagusu 5y ago
So is it OK for you if we sacrifice you for the greater good?
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by akagusu 5y ago
Covid is the goose of the golden eggs. As long as the Big Pharma is making money, Covid is here to stay.
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by akagusu 5y ago
Probably yes, but I think the market does not care about anti competitive practices anymore because everyone is trying to do the same thing, the difference between Google and them is the scale.
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by akagusu 5y ago
Microsoft used these same anti competitive practices with Windows and Internet Explorer and they got an antitrust lawsuit.
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by akagusu 5y ago
Users don't care.
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by akagusu 5y ago
The real problem of Firefox is one that nobody cares about: distribution. Let's say Firefox is the most advanced browser of the universe. How can you get people to install Firefox? Chrome has the advantage here because it is preinstall
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by akagusu 5y ago
It is not specific to Rust of course, and it happens all time with open or closed source software, but it get interesting when people start to rant in public. It is like marriage. Everything is fine in the honeymoon, even when it is not, bu
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by akagusu 5y ago
And the honeymoon is over.
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by akagusu 5y ago
while crabs and others will receive more welfare protections, people (as citizens, workers and consumers) are getting your protections slowly removed, one by one, bill after bill, staying at the mercy of corrupt politicians, ruthless employ
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by akagusu 5y ago
You can face fines or jail for simple possession of pot, because, you know, the government need to protect you from "hurting" yourself and ONLY yourself with pot, but you can trust a big corp with no moral or ethics to keep a dead
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by akagusu 5y ago
I really like sr.ht for all the reasons that people usually like it: lightweight interface with 0 Javascript, the workflow, the design etc. But beyond that, I love sr.ht because the whole thing: their interaction with the community, the way
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by akagusu 5y ago
There are good companies with good jobs out there, but they are exception, not the rule.
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by akagusu 5y ago
Nobody. You don't need to go far away to see how companies care about employees, just search here on HN to see lots of articles about wage theft, unpaid work hours, unpaid benefits and a lot of other stuff. There are good companies out
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by akagusu 5y ago
Good work.
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by akagusu 5y ago
Maybe you are right, but nobody here in HN will agree with you because they are quite happy with the generous free tier provided by Cloudflare and because they think they can easily change providers if thing gonna bad with Cloudflare.
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by akagusu 5y ago
There is no such thing as easy jobs anymore because the job of your boss is make your life miserable and get you bored and frustrated until you break. Once you are broken, your boss will fire you and hire another person to replace you as if
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by akagusu 5y ago
Best post ever. It's rare these days to see people challenging the status quo for whatever reason they have.
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by akagusu 5y ago
Ouch!
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by akagusu 5y ago
Nefarious intent? This is Google. People should avoid Google like the plague.
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by akagusu 5y ago
This is America.
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by akagusu 5y ago
The so called gig economy was built upon a unsustainable business model that depends of exploitation of workers. It's not just Uber. All companies in the gig economy work like this. It's not only about paying minimum wage and bene
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by akagusu 5y ago
Google has Go, now Amazon has Rust, and Amazon will not let Rust go away. Amazon has enough money (and no moral or ethics) to take Rust and twist the reality to make people believe Amazon is right and Rust community is wrong. Let's wat

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