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by cheph 5y ago
> But, is it just me or has it become rarer for open source project maintainers to feel free to let projects go? I think it has always been rare. I generally avoid projects which are under a person's own github account because to me
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Apple suppliers linked to Uyghur forced labor in new report(theverge.com)
3 points by cheph 5y ago|1 comments
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by cheph 5y ago
And bawolff would be summarily fired.
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Seven Apple Suppliers Accused of Using Forced Labor from Xinjiang(theinformation.com)
2 points by cheph 5y ago|0 comments
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by cheph 5y ago
> Those numbers aren't normalized btw. They don't need to be, they are what they are. 40.6% of all income tax is 40.6% of all income tax. No normalization needed.
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by cheph 5y ago
Representative democracy is a kind of democracy. So yes really.
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by cheph 5y ago
> 88% of the cost of the US Fed gov is paid for by taxes by workers (income taxes). Less than 12% comes from all corp/business taxes combined with capital gains (taxing the rich 1%). "the rich" pay income taxes as well: h
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by cheph 5y ago
Is Ireland not a democracy? Can't they vote to change their own tax laws if they have a problem with them?
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by cheph 5y ago
Google considered harmful. Just stay away from it.
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by cheph 5y ago
Its an intense simulation of what I'm sure having brain damage or a stroke must feel like.
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by cheph 5y ago
Europe has consistently been a bigger trading partner with Russia: https://oec.world/en/profile/country/rus?subnatTradeValueSel... And can't Germany do anything right without US holding their hand? But
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by cheph 5y ago
Yeah, arstechnica.com is blatantly lying with the "hilarious and intense". This is garbage.
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by cheph 5y ago
Maybe Russia can get it's shit in order?
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by cheph 5y ago
So anything goes as long as Germany comes first? And really, is it in Germany's interests to support dictatorships as the wave of illiberalism rolls further west? How exactly? Germany and it's neo empire, AKA EU, is spineless and
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by cheph 5y ago
And this: https://neveragainrightnow.com/ And this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_China#Peo...
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by cheph 5y ago
Came here to say this, I avoid giving money to Amazon like the plague. I will go out of my way and invest my personal time as long as Amazon gets nothing. Don't give them your money.
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by cheph 5y ago
Pretty sure it would but good luck when the tax authorities come for you.
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by cheph 5y ago
> under Swedish law What statute in Swedish law prohibits them from selling the network to someone who "totally gave his word" for a pack of beans?
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by cheph 5y ago
> With a DAO as the nominal owner, selling property simply becomes a matter of executing a smart contract transaction on the blockchain. Except legally speaking that means nothing unless you go through the legal process of transferring y
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by cheph 5y ago
> It is meant to be a drop-in(ish) replacement for freenode A drop in replacement for a place that was run into the ground by the people who now will run the drop in replacement. Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.
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by cheph 5y ago
I give it 2 years max until they sell libera.chat to the next "totally trustworthy guy who gave them his word" for a pack of magic beans. Count me out of this scam.
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by cheph 5y ago
And at this point, people pushing blockchain for representing real world ownership is either scamming you or stupid.
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by cheph 5y ago
I dunno who the "We" is in "We are founding a new network with the same goals and ambitions to support foss and likeminded communities: libera.chat." But if it is the same people who mismanaged freenode into this joke th
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by cheph 5y ago
So the racket in US, as far as I can tell, is basically this: Bezos and friends (e.g Bill Gates) push for higher taxes and other policies that are supposed to balance the power between business and "the people", this results in mo
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by cheph 5y ago
Either Google doesn't care < this one IMO Caring removes money from them, at least in add case, so better to shift the bullshit to their "users", who are really the product being sold to advertisers, so who cares. Customer
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by cheph 5y ago
Putting this here because Google won't remove it even though it has been reported multiple times.
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Microsoft Authenticator Chrome Extention is not from MS and is phishing(chrome.google.com)
469 points by cheph 5y ago|212 comments
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by cheph 5y ago
The site is horrible. Like really really bad. Hard to read, ugly, confusing. I mean I don't want to be negative, I want to give good feedback, but I can't even copy what i want to respond to.
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by cheph 5y ago
I had this option for a while, it went away after I reported a couple of adds. Now I can't report adds anymore.
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by cheph 5y ago
I get outright scam ads on YouTube, from YouTube once a week at least, and nothing ever happens to make them stop because I don't care enough to invest the insane amount of effort it will take to reach someone at YouTube that would car

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