frenet

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by frenet 4y ago
You can certainly have your opinions. They just aren't very relevant when the entire premise of this discussion is false. This clearly isn't being reported by a US or UK mainstream publication but what looks like a one man operati
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by frenet 4y ago
Fundamentally I agree with you. But I also think it easy to get the idea that "no responsibility" is a prevailing view. Or at least that it has to be. There are plenty of people who want to do their best. I would certainly conside
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by frenet 4y ago
Sure, but then who does the work? No one is an answer but not much of a solution since the problem still exists. Index or package maintainers could do the work but would often also be unpaid and burdened even more. An organization could do
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by frenet 4y ago
I do think this is a bit of a billion dollar question. The way Linux distributions mostly does it is some form of long-term support release which gets less updates but still security updates. Burdening the maintainers more than the develope
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by frenet 4y ago
I don't think it is impossible. If I did I wouldn't have made the argument I did. I also didn't say anything about the government. The same situation applies to for example a company. A company that wants to find out how thin
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by frenet 4y ago
There is however a big difference in the legitimacy of restrictions. The reality is that their are many unreasonable people on the Internet. Most unreasonable people however think of themselves as reasonable and other similarly unreasonable
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by frenet 4y ago
That is just because most people leave when they don't like something. In a bad environment you would expect the majority of those who stay to still find the environment good and themselves rational, with only a few outspoken against i
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by frenet 4y ago
I don't see how minimum wage is the problem. Engineers aren't better compensated in other markets because of low minimum wages but because they are expected to deliver more value. The Internet tells me that the minimum wages in Po