cryptica

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by cryptica 5y ago
IMO, people have the wrong idea about "self development" and "personal growth" - It sounds like some new age self-help, spiritual BS. This is not self development. Self development has nothing to do with positive thinkin
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I like it when other people assume positive intent.
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Is this sarcasm? This license is horrible for developers. Attribution is literally the only thing they get out of open source. Any open source developer who uses this license could not possibly be using it out of their own free will.
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No Google alternative will be able to raise funding because top VCs own Google stock and they have no interest in seeing their Google shares lose value. Secondly, the media would not allow it because many top media executives own Google sha
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Wouldn't all musicians who are good enough to work for a professional orchestra be able to play all of these difficult pieces without making any mistakes? Being able to play difficult pieces without making a mistake is the objective de
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In school, I used to be very shy to the point that I would almost never initiate a conversation with anyone who wasn't my friend. It was awkward but the shyness became my identity and I later became afraid to break that social image, e
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Bribes are not suitable for aligning financial incentives because they are illegal (both to solicit and to offer). On the other hand, if a financial instrument exists which is coupled to a specific economic service, then no solicitation or
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What I'm saying is that all projects NEED to have a shared financial incentive in order to have any chance at becoming self-sustaining and encouraging collaboration. It's orthogonal to the quality of the product. Monetary incentiv
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This is accurate. It is slave labor because corporations go out of their way to harm the developers of open source projects which they benefit from because they view them as competition. They engage in blatant anti-competitive practices whi
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Red Hat was early enough in the fiat monetary ponzi scheme to be able to benefit from its network effects. Nowadays, projects cannot get any traction at all without a blockchain token to incentivize collaboration and create shared financial
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The best way to monetize an open source project so that the whole community can benefit is by launching a blockchain token and then provide a service around it based on the open source project. Unfortunately, the powers that be won't a
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We have to abolish corporations. Nationalize them. The concept of an entity which spares directors from liability is ridiculous... It's a financial instrument designed for scams and nothing else.
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> "they’re promoting the bad people. If you’re doing the right thing, they won’t promote you." I can relate to this. Seems to be an industry-wide phenomenon. It probably explains what's going on with the world.
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IMO, based on their current business models, big US tech companies would be better off financially by pulling out of the EU entirely than by allowing interoperability via public APIs. They will lose most of their users to small platforms if
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This seems to me like a job where the output quality of a worker is extremely difficult to measure; it's difficult to tell if one excellent musician is better than another excellent musician. Surely beyond a certain point, it's su
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Fact checkers have been proven wrong over and over again throughout the past few years. You need VERY intelligent people to check facts but there are too many corruptible, educated idiots posing as intelligent people... Also, there aren&#x2
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by cryptica 5y ago
Babel is now a less-than-useless project. It's a hack; which, like most hacks, was kind of useful when it first came out but was supposed to have a short shelf life. It only became popular because its creator was hired by Facebook and
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by cryptica 5y ago
I stopped using Google search. The only Google product I use now are Maps and Android. I used DuckDuckGo for a while and more recently I switched to Qwant. They're all approximately the same. I don't think that PageRank or similar
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by cryptica 5y ago
I wish that getting fired would not carry so much stigma as it does today. I got fired 3 times in my early career. 2 of those times I believe were completely unfair, only 1 time made sense because I had burned out and lost motivation (also,
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The monetary system rewards compliance and unethical conduct so that may be why many modern movies lack creativity and moral lessons. The people who have the money to fund movies don't have the taste nor creativity to choose good scrip
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Financial assets which are close to the money printers are the most affected by inflation. In the case of financial assets such as stocks, the effects appear to be positive initially, but the increase in stock price adds fragility which mea
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For me, venting is absolutely essential. It's my greatest source of motivation. Once I can clearly identify and describe flaws which I see in the system which are holding me back, I can start to look for alternative paths... At the sam
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This is interesting. It seems to be the way forward. I think it should be extended to everything including hardware and medicine. Free market. Free to copy, free to improve the work of others. Companies need to get creative; be the first on
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The line has to be drawn somewhere. My main point is that it should be much further than where it is now.
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Punishing whistleblowers seems to be a pattern. This might explains why nobody wants to speak up nowadays when they see people doing illegal stuff... Nobody wants to spend 20 years of their lives being mocked, intimidated, fired, etc... for
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by cryptica 5y ago
Sometimes I feel like governments should pay me to stop posting stuff online because I probably mess up their PsyOps on both sides.
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These days, every time the elites do something in unison, I assume there is an evil agenda behind it. I'm usually proven right.
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Internet mostly creates confusion. The first phase of brainwashing. Once the mind is confused and looking for answers, you need peer pressure and social reinforcement to create a sense of certainty around the radical new ideas you want to i
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It's easier to brainwash and gaslight the employees when you control their environment.
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People think in fiat terms because their incomes and their expenses are in fiat... But people do have a sense of how much 1 Bitcoin is worth in terms of real-world economic value but they don't think about it in the same way as fiat. A

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