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by apotheon 17y ago
To the extent that's true, paying the worker doesn't change that at all.
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by apotheon 17y ago
The truth, of course, is that the law is the only thing keeping corporations alive .
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by apotheon 17y ago
I think he was talking about a "rule" of dominant ethics or morality, and not the law, with that question.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Coding is a much different situation in many cases, specifically because of the availability of open source projects -- which serves the same purpose as an internship opportunity sometimes. Alas, there's no such thing as "open source devel
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by apotheon 17y ago
Internships can also teach someone who has never worked in a given industry before how a given company manages its operations. This not only provides a minimal "experience" benefit, and possibly a foot in the door for getting hired on at t
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by apotheon 17y ago
> By that logic Ponzi schemes should be legal. They should only be illegal to the extent that they involve fraudulent deception. Otherwise -- treat the "victims" like mentally competent adults capable of making their own life decisions
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by apotheon 17y ago
> It's not a knee-jerk response. How else would you describe a response that doesn't even take into account the possibility that one could avoid government regulation when there's apparently no solid proof that regulation is better th
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by apotheon 17y ago
Something tells me I'd be able to tell it's not a real person in person.
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by apotheon 17y ago
It shouldn't be up to the government. All getting government involved would do is create new opportunities for corporate corruption to hose up the whole mess. As long as this doesn't prevent any private efforts to do the same thing, the f
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by apotheon 17y ago
It's a lot too early. Until they look human, there's always the "meet in the flesh" test. When that happens, I'm not sure it'll matter much.
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by apotheon 17y ago
> was thus able to officially call that version of Linux "UNIX(TM)" FTFY Being "UNIX" is about passing tests and paying money. Being "Unix" is about the ancestry of the code and the design philosophy. Being "a Unix clone" happens wher
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by apotheon 17y ago
So . . . the only way someone can be "unbaised" in your view is to say "What I use sucks."
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by apotheon 17y ago
If the guy's generating statistics for the purpose of determining where it needs to improve, I think his stats are more likely to be useful.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Wow . . . Linux must be ready for the Enterprise, because the Enterprise buzzwords are being used to tout Linux superiority now.
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Will it > - support all my hardware including printers and external monitors? That depends on what hardware you're using -- just as it does with Ubuntu, MS Windows, and MacOS X. > support all file and media formats? Applicatio
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by apotheon 17y ago
You don't have to care about the quality of the code. It affects the system whether you care or not. . . . or: "You don't have to believe in the devil. He believes in you."
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Also, Linux developers are getting treated better than BSD ones, because Linux has the GPL. Please prove: 1. that Linux developers "are getting treated better" 2. that it's because of the GPL I'm afraid I don't believe you. > This
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by apotheon 17y ago
Even if you didn't ban contraception, I'm sure birth rates would rise -- because people who wanted to get off and couldn't get fellatio might still not use contraception all the time. > We're talking about "private acts between consenti
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by apotheon 17y ago
While I'm not particularly fond of kingkongrevenge's example, I don't think you're faithfully representing it. He didn't claim it created the disease -- he claimed it created the epidemic .
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by apotheon 17y ago
You still wouldn't be allowed to have them do actually useful work for you.
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by apotheon 17y ago
> If the internships are paid, everyone is better off You're assuming that the cost of providing internships is essentially zero. When the likelihood of internships being offered at all (based on cost) is factored into things, your arg
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by apotheon 17y ago
I could speculate about that all day. Maybe it has the potential to become beneficial. Maybe it has secondary effects that would be beneficial to his sports franchise, but he can't justify the expense to shareholders. Maybe he would li
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by apotheon 17y ago
What were they promised?
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by apotheon 17y ago
I find it disturbing that when "both sides of the debate have perfectly reasonable arguments" the knee-jerk response is "Let's regulate the fuck out of it!"
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by apotheon 17y ago
> You can argue about the efficacy of minimum wage laws, but it seems like real empirical studies (instead of just theoretical arguments) have been pretty inconclusive. Absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence. > A
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by apotheon 17y ago
If it were possible to ban all non-procreative sex acts and all forms of contraception, it definitely would affect how many children are born.
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by apotheon 17y ago
> People frame these unpaid internships as some great act of heroic entrepreneurial spirit, and they're not. I'm not calling them "heroic". I'm just annoyed that other people are casting them as "evil". They can be mutually beneficial
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by apotheon 17y ago
. . . and, as he pointed out, in some jurisdictions at least it doesn't have to be someone within the company suing. A competitor could sue, or some ridiculous do-gooder who can't stand to see people "exploited" (like some of the people in
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by apotheon 17y ago
> He doesn't like to leave money on the table, and he's peeved that the government will prevent him from getting the best price possible. Actually, from what I read, it seems like he's peeved that the government will prevent him from cr

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