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by bruce511 1y ago
You have equated a basic income with equality. That's a misunderstanding. I'm not suggesting equality or communism. I'm suggesting a bottom threshold where you get enough even if you don't work. Actually Norway gets most
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Personally I think your basic premise is false, hence your conclusion is false. >> We all need jobs to afford living In many countries this is already not true. There is already enough wealth that there is enough for everyone. Yes, th
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I appreciate the idealism but your argument has some flaws. Firstly the "theft component" isn't exactly new. There have always been rich and poor. Secondly everyone is standing on the shoulders of giants. The Beatles were inf
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All completely true. And something you can clearly take into account when you decide what to do with your code. You may decide its worth people using it, reading it, learning from it, exploiting it, or you may not. It's your choice.
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There are different actors in play here, and each one has a different perspective. That's OK, there's enough room in the world for different perspectives. For the company, making use of Open Source code is free labor. That's
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To be fair, LLMs are just the most recent step in a long road of doing the same thing. At any point of progress in history you can look backwards and forwards and the world is different. Before tractors a man with an ox could plough x field
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by bruce511 1y ago
I have no idea why FF bought it. There are lots of reasons why things get aquire, and it seemed like a good idea at the time. That's somewhat irrelevant though. Clearly it couldn't survive forever losing money.
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In the article I read the passion of a user. Unfortunately users don't pay the bills - customers do. For VC funded startups, the VC is the customer. Thus the company optimizes for customer satisfaction, not user satisfaction. The cogni
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As one using tech mostly laid down in the last millennium, I also smiled at this. But I think what the poster meant was that the AI is not always "up to date". So if my C compiler is a 2025 version, and my code makes use of featur
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It helps to formally understand who is who. Every company has staff, customers, suppliers and product. If you go the VC route then the VC is the customer. Since any good business is focused on customer satisfaction, a VC funded business is
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Simplistically yes, because many see copyright as the thing that protects corporate interest from the social hacker. The reality of course is more complicated. Without copyright there's no GPL. Which I guess is fine if you're in t
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Very much this. I can see some number of people are happy to pay a few cents to read something. I'm guessing it's a minority, but hey it's something. Problem though is that the first transaction is really expensive in time
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In order to answer your question, you first need to understand why you wrote the code, and why releasing it as Open Source is attractive to you in the first place. Only from a point of understanding this context does your question make sens
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by bruce511 1y ago
Oh, right. Yes I agree. We don't get employees to sign NDAs, but the signal about talking about previous employers is definitely something I notice. So yes, if you get employees yo sign an NDA then this is a filter as well.
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I've no argument with the severance cash, I'm saying that you can't just revert to a hobby because you have an "income for life." The uncertainty means you're still out on the job market looking for a real job.
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I'm not sure I'm understanding your point. Can you elaborate?
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More interestingly is the timeline. Broke ground in 2022, finished in 2025, and likely operational before the end of the year. Now sure, it likely took some years in the planning as well, but it shows that infrastructure can be built in r
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That's funny. Some NDAs I've signed prohibit you from mentioning any contact with the company involved (thus you're not allowed to mention the NDA) so my answer would be; "Under the terms of NDAs I have signed I am not f
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by bruce511 1y ago
Except it's not "for life". It's until they feel free to lift the non-compete. My guess is that most information you take from a company is irrelevant in a couple years. Maybe 5 tops? Plus it'd almost certainly end
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Clearly different markets have quite different requirements and comparisons to air travel. For example a "night train" maxes out around 12 hours. A train from 6pm to 6am is functionally equivalent to a 8pm flight, arriving at midn
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When traveling I often consider trains, and especially overnight trains. It's by far the most comfortable way to travel. Innovation in this space is a good thing. While I'm aware that feature creepy is the enemy here, I would sugg
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I see your thinking here. Lots of people have ideas, or desires, and if they want the same thing they can validate a market. People looking to make things can pick a known market. Logically it makes sense. Practically though it won't w
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I don't use a lot of apps. The ones I do are "not optional" (like my banking app etc.) Frankly, I couldn't care less about the UI looks or whether it's native or whatever. I get in, perform a task, get out. As long
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I hear you, and your concern is real for your context. But to be fair, not every product has to perfectly fit every context. To be successful a product can fill a small niche, or it can appeal to a large market- it doesn't have to sati
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>> I do not want to download another messaging app. I mean, how annoying is it that your friends and family didn't download that last three apps you told them were better than WhatsApp Um, you want to communicate better, but you
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>> Let's define censorship as the suppression of speech, ideas, communication, and information in general. I feel like your definition and mine are too far apart to meaningfully determine if HN is censored or not. By your definit
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I seem to recall one or two doing this. But i suspect the reason they don't is cause they don't need to. They all have a pot already. The benefits of more pots seems low. Conversely the calorie cost seems high (if only just collec
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by bruce511 1y ago
It might help to define censorship and specifically who is doing the censoring. For example, a govt can censor things by imposing restrictions on media, or media access. Documents can be classified etc. In that sense, no I font think Dang
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The difference between gas and electricity is that gas is a liquid. Meaning that it has to be transported and stored. We have gas stations only because gas needs a "last mile" delivery station. Electricity though is already last m
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I feel like you're somewhat viewing this from the wrong direction. Let me paraphrase to make a point. I went into my supermarket yesterday. They have thousands of different products on the shelves. Worse, the products run out and I&#x2

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