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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Any creation of affordable housing contributes to slowing down increasing prices. Many countries do this by putting legal limits against gentrification.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
The distinction between GPL and LGPL seems completely lost on you. LGPL existed since 1991. Also large libraries and frameworks.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> why not go full-oss, instead of retaining control through a restrictive OSS licence? The main point of copyleft is to pass down freedoms to use/modify/distribute all the way to the end user. Instead we got locked-down privacy
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> when the producer knows the limit, they can design the product to die roughly just after the warranty This is a sign that the life spans of components are well understood. The problem is not there! The problem is that legal minimum dur
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> care to give ideas why it's not a positive change? What I wrote above: it's going to encourages 10x more bloated and obfuscated websites. Apart from the security and privacy issues, it will make the web even less accessible t
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Then stay away from electron.
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sandboxing != containers Please stop confusing the two things. Sandboxing is about security. Containers are mainly modern chroots. > And also it seems processes and workflows are stuck in the 1990'ies further preventing progress Qui
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
...and with zero accountability. Any website can push 10MB of obfuscated, debugger-resistant, code on your computer. Obfuscated to resist ad-blockers and anti-tracking features.
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> Letting any website and their friends (and the friends of their friends) run turing complete code on the client PC probably sounded reasonable when the web was created No, it was already very unreasonable, especially as the browsers of
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Nice try, but I expect a security researcher to understand the very basics of security and avoid putting sensitive data on untrusted OSes. People have been using testbeds with dedicated hardware since day 1 of computing.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Additional reminders: - corporate-driven open source was never about user/developer freedom - companies have marketing departments and know how to do astroturfing - any project that follows corporate decisions is not community-driven,
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> They run Windows and Chrome just like everyone else Citation needed.
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> theoretically; this still needs to be actually proven huh??
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> Potentially you can use gravity to recharge the battery Good point. Airplanes waste tons of (potential and kinetic) energy while getting lower, slowing down for landing, and finally breaking. Energy recovery sound like an excellent saf
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> Despite being called "engineers," most decision are pure cargo-cult with no backing analysis, data, or numbers This is the most important part. Most companies don't have a mindset of doing research and analysis before ta
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Pushing people to take uninformed choices is a so-called dark pattern.
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This you have a source for such claims? There's enough to unpack for a PhD in anthropology.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Have you looked at the contents of the site and the driving force of the company behind it? Of course - hence my point about the conflict between hacker ethic and HN.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> I know that this website presents a corporate money-minded version of the Hacker ethos That would be an oxymoron. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic is anti-corporate by definition. > but this level
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
A lot of the answers describe problems that can exist in any human organization rather than being specific to unions. For example: - Prioritizing the organization survival or growth over the needs of those who should benefit from it. Ironic
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Fuzzy boundaries are still boundaries. I wrote "sharp distinction". It's the opposite of fuzzy. > Everything isn't a uniform blob. I never said otherwise. > I don't understand how people can both glorify
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> It really takes a saint to pour one’s heart and soul into a piece software, for free, and then have the commercial benefits go to huge public companies like Google. If anything, a "saint" should be writing software to benefit
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
The article does a lot of cherry-picking papers, adding in some unspoken assumption and then jumping to conclusions. The biggest one is that it constantly confuses nationality with social affiliations.
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> national identity (language, ethnicity, food, architecture, history You are making a lot of confusion between different things. Culture, ethnicity and nationality are not the same thing. For example, you can go live in a different coun
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
No. You are confusing between following FOSS licensing to the letter and following the spirit.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> There are degrees of democracy No, it's not a thermometer. There are many, complex shapes and dimensions.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Why the downvotes!? It's obviously true that being banned from contributing to an important project can be saddening and in rare occasions harm your career, but it happens very rarely. OTOH losing your job can be way more serious conse
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
The word you are looking for is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative Unsurprisingly, dictatorial and democratic companies don't want to cooperate with each other. And in many societies, the latter are
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Speak for yourself please. Respectfully, this level of cynicism is not shared by everybody.
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> HR is an agent between you and the company. No, HR works entirely and exclusively for the company. Just like the lawyer working for the opposing party in a process. If you want an "HR" on the employee side that thing is calle

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