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by holri 13y ago
You obviously did not read it thoroughly. For example does he not say that e-books are bad per se: https://gnu.org/philosophy/the-danger-of-ebooks.en.html
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by holri 13y ago
Reasons not to buy from amazon: https://stallman.org/amazon.html
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by holri 13y ago
important clarification: it is free as in beer not as in speech.
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by holri 13y ago
Actually commuting with the bicycle makes me more happy. Because it combines several of his positive points (exercise, be outside etc.) and avoids the stress of driving a car in heavy traffic.
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by holri 13y ago
This means that I will never allow a phone with a proprietary system into my WIFI.
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by holri 13y ago
> fixing the issues you raised means starving people to death. No not everywhere.
487.
by holri 13y ago
Is there a reason you only pickup up one point?
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by holri 13y ago
This is not theoretical. Ground water is contaminated due to pesticides. Small farmers are loosing there farms and income because of the economics of scale and competition from food industries. Farmers are getting dependent on foreign compa
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by holri 13y ago
Every lock can be cracked, but nevertheless I am locking my house.
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by holri 13y ago
Well if you name someone a friend you have talked to 3 hours and you are sharing FB links with, than you have a totally different understanding of the meaning of the word "friend" than me.
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by holri 13y ago
It is always a failure to interpolate the future linear from now on. History was never linear. It is more like waves between extremes. Therefore my estimate would be a new Biedermeier period. You obviously did not study history. Look up Ger
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by holri 13y ago
3 x 1h exercises a week during 50 years is approx. a year lifetime. It is likely that if you do this you add more than one healthy year to your lifetime. Therefore exercises are saving life time.
493.
by holri 13y ago
I am using a NoMachine NX remote session to a my server through ssh for this purpose.
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by holri 13y ago
On the Happy Life Seneca (First Century A.D.) http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Happy.html
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by holri 13y ago
you do not lock your door at home because the police can open it?
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by holri 13y ago
Well for me, sharing my beliefs with friends makes me happy. If someone does not share or respects my beliefs, then there is no sharing and understanding each other which is the essence of a friendship. No matter how strange your beliefs ar
497.
by holri 13y ago
If you are not going to be happy if you are not honest to your beliefs.
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by holri 13y ago
People that don't understand that I do not like FB are not my friends.
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by holri 13y ago
Freedom is not only the selling point to customers but also and more importantly to the telephone companies. It seems that they appreciate that freedom a lot. They have the marketing power to make the phones a success in the mass market.
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by holri 13y ago
Don't you think that the NSA debacle makes ordinary people more and more people sensitive about there freedom? Trust is the baseground of any purchase.
501.
by holri 13y ago
I've played with the low power developer Firefox Geekphones and the UI was very responsive. Also an iPhone is the opposite of a free phone, so this is no competition for Firefox OS.
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by holri 13y ago
Enterprise Software is hard because the modeled enterprises are complex and very different to each other. This is a completely different beast than your toy App on your phone.
503.
by holri 13y ago
In medicine excess growth is called cancer
504.
by holri 13y ago
I have 3.2 dioptres and have no problem at all with the hasselblad manual focus.
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by holri 13y ago
The type of content that would be siloed behind DRM does not fit in a free peer to peer network of equitable peers anyway. TV is probably a better medium for that. The Web is not a one way irrigation medium. It is about freedom. DRM is the
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by holri 13y ago
One should never deal with the bad guys.
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by holri 14y ago
A interface that makes things easy is comfortable and probably profitable, since most people are lazy. But convenience does not correlate with quality.
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by holri 14y ago
I make better photos with my old manual Hasselblad from the 1970ies. Because the interface has massive cognitive overhead. No automatic at all, all manual, clunky, complicated. It forces me to think slowly. Therefore it gives my head and h
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by holri 14y ago
Yes, because the great value of freedom is independent of the company size.
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by holri 14y ago
freedom is more valuable than features

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