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by hnaccount141 4y ago
Both tech companies and their users already pay telcos for the bandwidth they use. Where's the free ride?
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
> That doesn't seem to be working at all. Or maybe, just maybe there isn't some grand conspiracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
The part people are taking issue with is the fact that they chose to put out marketing material highlighting his past usage of RPis for covert surveillance like it's some cool hobby project. If it were just a case of a company hiring a
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
I do think that cigarettes in particular are a bit different than previously prohibited drugs, both due to their rapidly declining popularity and their lower effort/reward ratio. I can see someone turning to the black market for mariju
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
From the guidelines: "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombina
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
It's "free as in speech", not "free as in beer". https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
> 1) Any feedback is viewed with the fear, real or imagined, that it could lead to some sort of hiring discrimination claim. My favorite is getting ghosted by the recruiter when asking for feedback after an onsite only to get an automate
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
> Like, how do so many young people have a favorite island in Hawaii? How is everyone out there affording new cars? The reality is that oftentimes they simply can't, at least according to a responsible definition of "afford&quo
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
That doesn't feel like a particularly charitable reading of their comment. I don't think they're suggesting we just burn everything down with no plan for what comes after, they're simply stating that they believe we need
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
You can have free markets without capitalism. Consider a system almost exactly like we have now, with independent companies competing for profits in free markets, but where those companies are worker-owned [0]. Such a system could have the
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
Top 20 language is an, uh, interestingly narrow request. Is being the first computer programmer ever[0] not enough impact? In programming languages there's of course Grace Hopper, one of the early advocates for machine independent lang
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
The difference is that train tracks are designed primarily for trains. Before cars existed, streets were primarily for people and horses. Cars were, as the title of the article suggests, intruders into this space. The push to popularize the
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
Seems like they fell out of favor years ago. Their DAS products were popular back in the day but as NAS became more popular in the SMB space they failed to compete with Synology/QNAP/etc on pricing or features. They also had a pre
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
Maybe referring to the source tarball github generates for releases?
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
This series from Strong Towns does a good job of explaining the idea (with case studies). The gist is that the specific pattern of infrastructure design we've been using since WWII (car-dependent sprawl) isn't financially sustain
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
> We need to form a collective around the idea that all organized social structures are evil! Unite in disunity! Anarchism, as the term is used in this context, is absolutely not about opposing all organized social structures. It's
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
For a long time they were the most complete EVs on the market. The competitors may have offered better QC but oftentimes worse range and performance and were reliant on rather poor third party charging infrastructure. This has really only b
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
Correct. His first involvement was as an investor in their series A. He does, however, say [1] he's a co-founder, so I guess the quote is technically accurate. [1] https://www.tesla.com/elon-musk
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
> This will be proven to be false in the long run. This was the same argument against Linux back in the day vs. Windows. The bazaar will win against the cathedral in the end. Linux is still sitting at ~2% desktop market share compared to
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
Apologies, I didn't mean that as a statement about you personally. I more meant to agree that those are aspects of Trek that many latch on to (while missing some of the healthier lessons).
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
> Technobabble, check. Geniusus saving the day and universe, check. Moral superiority, check. It's a shame that these are so often the takeaways from a show that is at its core about a group of people with different skillsets and ba
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
> Smaller communities tend to be more familiar - people recognize each others names It feels like there's a certain number (maybe Dunbar's like you said) at which people stop seeing a community as a group of disparate individua
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
> So, question to all -- how have you found success at locating the fruits of this "vibrant anarchy?" I've found that live music offers one of the best mechanisms for this. You start out with interest in <major band>
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by hnaccount141 4y ago
I don't think anyone would object to wider usage, it's just that the sysadmin community is the only group to have adopted the term so far.
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by hnaccount141 5y ago
Absolutely. And even among good therapists, good fit is critical. Just because someone comes highly recommended by others doesn't mean they'll be right for you.
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by hnaccount141 5y ago
Qt is licensed under LGPL v3 https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/licensing.html
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by hnaccount141 5y ago
Yeah this is the big thing for me. Technology continues to excite me as the tools to create continue to become better and more accessible, both in software (for music/photography/CAD/etc) as well as in hardware (3D printers&#
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by hnaccount141 5y ago
> You have a very rose-tinted view of the historical business world. Indeed. We're only a few generations removed from a time when we had companies enlisting private armed security forces and militias to violently break strikes. ht
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by hnaccount141 5y ago
> The problem is that meaning is undefined and this leads you down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out what is the meaning of life, which will make you very disappointed and lead to constructing a psychological bubble of "beliefs&
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by hnaccount141 5y ago
> Working around this with creative misspellings or euphemisms makes me feel like a kid trying to swear on Club Penguin or something. It's been bizarre watching the increasing prevalence of these types of behaviors the last few year

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