door103

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by door103 5y ago
Personally I prefer to be around people who are friendly because they genuinely want to be rather than because I am paying them to fake it.
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by door103 5y ago
I am not involved in suckless, but who is this "they" you are talking about? This is one individual whose only connection to suckless appears to have been starting 2 threads about surf in 2017? https://lists.suckless.or
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by door103 5y ago
Not everything needs to be about money. Software engineers get pretty absurd salaries already. Most of the high quality blogs I’ve seen are pro bono.
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by door103 5y ago
> The "left" elites have forgotten the people, and the left in general is talking more about identity issues than class issues. You mention this in a discussion about Bernie Sanders? Probably the politician with the most single
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by door103 5y ago
From your search, which contradicts your point: https://apexlg.com/are-the-managers-of-traditional-corporati...
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by door103 5y ago
> you have to care about them making a profit or watch them evaporate. There is a difference between making a profit and maximizing profit. A publicly traded company is legally bound to do the latter.
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by door103 5y ago
Bitcoin is not predominantly mined by a ton of individuals running an ASIC or 2. It is mined in huge warehouses, which have to go through state/federal bureaucracy for business licenses, etc etc. It would be hard to enforce a complete
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by door103 5y ago
I’d be interested in what tech companies pay $320k and aren’t ethically dubious
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by door103 5y ago
> China did well after adopting a capitalist economic model. Not so well after adopting a communist economic model. Let's be clear here -- regardless what you think of the Chinese government, they are far from a "capitalist eco
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by door103 5y ago
Public housing increases supply. That's why I said rent control and public housing.
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by door103 5y ago
"A culture of permissive lawlessness"? A studio apartment in San Francisco starts at what, $2k? > Mr Shellenberger thinks they are on the streets in part because of a “housing-first” approach, which holds out for permanent, in
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by door103 5y ago
> SpaceX would not exist without inequality. Nor that supercomputer in your pocket. Neither would exist without massive government-led taxpayer-funded investments, made during an era when inequality was far lower than it is today.