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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
No thanks, I want my binaries to use shared objects so that an entire OS can receive quick security updates. And I want the binaries properly packaged with metadata, documentation, manpages to keep the host secure and tidy.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Spot on.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
While I fully agree that job "quality" is crucial and getting worse in many societies, the methodology of that website is pretty bad. They are focusing exclusively on salary and even counting hours per week as a positive thing (!!
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Speed is one of the selling points of dictatorship. Companies (except worker-owned cooperatives) are hierarchical and completely undemocratic, by design. They are also focused exclusively on maximizing profit, not providing social services.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> which seems like a reasonable assumption for anyone Absolutely not. There's plenty of people who live without needing cars.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> brilliant in their field not necessarily are brilliant in "soft skills" You are confusing skill with power. Hierarchies exist to wield power and exert control over employees in order to extract financial value from them. Ther
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Stop using the term "viral". It's propaganda made up by microsoft.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Does a strong argument exists for this? No. At that level of concentration the opposite is true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly On top of that, massive multinational companies can have extremely influenti
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
[citation needed]
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Please learn the meaning of "false dichotomy".
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> I have seen startups racking in seemingly endless funding only to be beaten by much smaller / less well funded competitors that happened to have better strategy or execution The usual rags-to-riches feel-good story. Reality is mor
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> not how capitalism is supposed to work in the spirit of the version that many democratized nations were sold AKA: people were misled.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> I just wanted to debunk > a professional I know Please provide proper sources, not random hearsay.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> People have been reading books like this for thousands of years This does not make it healthy. Besides, it's wrong: very few people had access to books for "thousands of years" and almost always they were kept on a readi
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> the government should be curbed by protests, voting, and so on. The apps not talking to the vendor is just a band-aid This is a big false dichotomy. It's difficult to find an aspect of modern society that is not influenced by a co
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
>> Same gini coefficient, same poverty. > That statement is obviously false. The US and Haiti have about the same gini coefficient. I'm comparing before the doubling and after, not across different countries. facepalm > T
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> I'd argue that you haven't really increased incomes at all if you simply double the monetary amount That's what I wrote.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> I don't like it's the hostile web you uncover with it "uncover" is the right word: the hostility towards anonymous users was already there. We should boycott such sites.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> What if you could increase low end incomes while simultaneously worsening inequality? That it absurd. If you double the wealth and income of every person on the world, nothing changes. Same gini coefficient, same poverty. The sum of al
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Is the Docker daemon actually a huge security hole? Yes. Also the containers on docker hub are a security dumpster fire.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Tor browser does that.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Otherwise, government funding: it's infrastructure In the current political climate it's difficult to remind people that tax money was the main source of funding for semiconductors, early computers, Internet, optic fiber, sat
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
The article takes an absurd angle at "fragility". It assumes that Linux distributions do not exist and we deploy applications by coping an executable around like people did in 1980. In reality I never had such "fragility&quot
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
NNTP, some mailing lists and the peer-based resharing/voting in Google Reader
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
318 comments and this is the only one mentioning federation and decentralization. Nobody mentioned NNTP. It is/was an excellent protocol compared with what we have now.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Because better platforms died off years ago (or have been killed).
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
I've been on lobste.rs a while. It's even worse than HN.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Ansible/SaltStack are far from minimalistic
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Random link: https://www.davidhaney.io/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how... > it's supposed to be the libraries you're relying on When an ecosystem has poor engineering practices and encourages small libraries
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Those that need privacy Everybody needs privacy.

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