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by gentleman11 3y ago
This should be the top comment
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by gentleman11 3y ago
But what if they said “unexpected complications arose” and “the release “got delayed due to a legal situation”? Easy.
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Abusive to think of peoples creative ip as a gold mine to exploit just because we live in a world where companies can change their tos at will, so everyone signs blank contracts to live daily life that say whatever the other party ever want
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by gentleman11 3y ago
On the internet, it’s all network effects so competition and proper alternatives is almost impossible. You can’t say “just don’t choose to use it” as flippantly in these cases
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by gentleman11 3y ago
I’m a full time software developer, the lead programmer actually, but I don’t have health care. I have important unfilled prescriptions because of lack of money. So how exactly does a lack of health care not affect people?
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Yeah. A lot of people I know even have 2-3 jobs! Even combined, they don’t pay well enough to build retirement savings. It’s easy to find work when you’re being paid less than minimum wage as a contractor at 2-3 companies
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Refreshing stylistically. What a nicely written article
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by gentleman11 3y ago
A lot of dismissive comments in here already by people who aren’t trying to make a living doing writing, art, or voiceover. It will be music soon too. Tutoring is probably heavily affected already too “But those weren’t real jobs,” some mig
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Just wait until all these new companies get acquired by American big tech
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by gentleman11 3y ago
This definitely won’t be used for evil
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by gentleman11 3y ago
There’s some libraries, numpy, pandas, and sklearn, that are written in python and highly optimized. People use python because those libraries, plus a few other tools, are python. Plus python is nice and easy to use on any platform
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by gentleman11 3y ago
The root problem is that the legal system is completely inaccessible and non-existent to individuals or small companies. Even to medium companies. Only mega corps and law firms can afford to use the legal system. Even big tech often avoids
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by gentleman11 3y ago
A variant: government of canada/province jobs that re-post your job every season; requiring you to fully re-apply and re-interview over and over with your boss while they endlessly try to replace you, no matter how well you did. Until
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Google basically just surfaces content marketing these days. It killed the blogosphere. Anybody who isn’t promoting their crap full time is invisible now, and so corporations basically generate almost the entirety of the content we get to s
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Bonus points if it’s encrypted enough to not have to worry about being snooped, open source, and/or easy to use
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Or not use chrome. Try Firefox instead
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Because there’s nothing out there but swarms of paperclip optimizer ai drones, converting all the universes mass into paperclip fueled war machines for when they encounter a competing paperclip swarm
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Instead of visiting content creators or information sources directly, you allow google to insert themselves between you and them. The sources get starved and google later has the opportunity to shape what is said to influence you (ie, “adve
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Hasn’t it been the case? Most people make the same or less than 50 years ago, except the upper class, which has captured almost everything
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by gentleman11 3y ago
How long until all those new workers are laid off again as intel goes back to overseas fabs?
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by gentleman11 3y ago
I like the idea of an encyclopaedia company being so profitable and/or valuable
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Imagine that you graduate university with some cool tech ideas. You develop a prototype and want to start building a business around it. You file a patent, hoping it will protect you long enough to get your company off the ground -- often a
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Marvel, or worry about how drastically our ability to make things will break down in a disaster? Eg, a big war or solar flare or certain climate problems or COVID shortages?
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by gentleman11 3y ago
I have never had an experience like this with a taxi in any city
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Do these wave of stimulation cause dreaming as a side effect?
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Does anyone have a list of companies that do not do this?
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Name is maybe a little similar to downpour.fm, a good drm free audiobook site
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by gentleman11 3y ago
How much better was performance? Did people prefer or not prefer the new workflows?
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by gentleman11 3y ago
I just bought a zoom h6 to act as an audio interface for a summer project. Not the best preamps, but a lot cheaper than dedicated interface, portable, and comes with stereo mics. It never occurred to me there might be a proprietary interfac
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by gentleman11 3y ago
There was a recent advertising push for this, wasn’t there? I saw a ton of ads for this recently

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