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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> "negative privilege" I think that is called "discrimination"
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> companies can be sincere "sincere", "honest", "hypocritical" usually refers to a long-term pattern. Being able to be sincere from time to time is besides the point. > companies are really just groups of
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Like many other companies, Microsoft loves unpaid labor. Free Software is about giving freedom and security all the way to the end users - rather than SaaS providers. If you remove this goal and only focus on open source as a development me
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Quoting a single study? And with only 12 citations...
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No. If a millions of electric heaters had a bitcoin miner in them that runs "for free" the difficulty of mining would would skyroket accordingly. The "value" of the mining is based on the sacrifice of something else, i
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Bitcoin mining would itself encourage greater energy production Bitcoin does not generate energy - it consumes it. And the world does not benefit from any encouragement to produce and consume more energy.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
All traditional currencies are backed by military might and the constant threat of war. If a cryptocurrency could decrease such centralization of power and consequent waste of human lives, money and energy it would be excellent. However, bi
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Amazing how ethics (especially around software freedom) are shunned on "hacker" news. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic [edit: let's the downvote fest begin...]
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
metadata are leaked by mnm, activitypub, xmpp, matrix & so on
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
...not to mention the leaking of metadata.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Stop encouraging a debt-based economy?
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
I wonder why this is not more common. It should take a (cheap) microphone with a known response curve and a sine wave generator to calibrate any number of speakers in a room.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> You didn't refute what I said at all. And I don't intend to. The topic is big enough for a degree and specialization in endocrinology. I recommend to read the books from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robe
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Why the downvotes? There's been a skyrocketing increase in consumption of junk food in low-wage worker class who often can't find the time to cook and cannot afford more expensive healthy food.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
The fear of phytoestrogens is completely unfounded. Funnily enough, some men that are concerned about estrogen intake through food do stop stop eating cow meat. A female mammal that, unsurprisingly, produces tons of estrogen.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
[citation needed] There is plenty of scientific research on the topic. "Testosterone == violence" is plain wrong. In some papers, partial correlation was indicated. The belief that testosterone is some sort of "manly warrior
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> When I was younger, in the late 90s, getting into physical fight was much more common than today Testosterone is not simply and directly causing aggressiveness. A lot of research shows that human behaviors are way more complex than tha
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Don't give developer ideas. People with a javascript bootcamp and 2 years experience are already called "senior engineer".
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> If you get something for free then it has no value. Do you pay for the oxygen you breathe?
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Have you ever entertained the idea that a similar thing could apply to the side that you support? Of course, and I fully support it because it's foundational to a healthy society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
you mean slow?
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
No
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
freedom of speech was hardly enjoyed in nazi Germany, soviet Russia, WW2's ultranationalist Japan. Sometimes I wonder if certain people are using "free speech" as a stepping stone to authoritarianism to then destroy freedom o
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...or for the "gotcha" tone.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> I think it is a psychological condition. People can have trouble letting go of obsoleted, unneeded object due to some emotional attachment. [Unless you hoard socially acceptable items, like status symbols or plain money, in that case m
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Downvoted for educating people on free speech - oh the irony!
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Chomsky is talking about free speech in the context of academic debate. Death threats and similar do not fit in any shape or form into "free speech".
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Authoritarianism in general. However, the paradox of tolerance fully applies.
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Interesting comparison, in times of militarized trigger-happy police...
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If your Roomba was designed by a weapon manufacturer to gain your trust you should be concerned. If it had the ability to upload detailed maps of buildings you should be more concerned. If it was designed as an initial stepping stone to dev

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