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by igorkraw 9y ago
So this is like GApps, but FOSS (I assume?)? It's missing a license file I think
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by igorkraw 9y ago
Mozilla makes bank mainly as a non-profit company , not via donations: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2016/ Which i am very happy about, they are still on the right side of histor
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by igorkraw 9y ago
And let the micropayment dream rise in it's wake! With classical stuff like Liberapay, patreon and buy me a coffee and more fancy stuff like Cryptocurrencies, we should finally be able to fund our stuff differently.
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by igorkraw 9y ago
Oth: it's a calibration process. If the regulations are to onerous, we can loosen them again, or companies will spring up that make compliance easy. https://www.chargebee.com/ solves the European VAT nightmare for exam
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by igorkraw 9y ago
>Tax avoidance is not a negative externality, since it does not impose a cost on any party. If you don't pay the taxes you are supposed to pay, you use public goods without paying for them. This is stealing from society. Unless you
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by igorkraw 9y ago
See: Rhine Capitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy
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by igorkraw 9y ago
The negative externalities here are (nonexhaustive) * tax evasion (kindly fuck of with "it's legal so it's avoidance", it's evasion even if it's legal. Spirit of the law) * money laundering for $CRIME_YOU_DESPI
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by igorkraw 9y ago
That is really nice of you: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3e69Wu54k changed the link to: https://buymeacoff.ee/igork
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by igorkraw 9y ago
Which directly contradicts some of the basic tenets of most religions which state that god is the sole source of truth and HE is unfathomable...
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by igorkraw 9y ago
First thought I had: We finally have scheme running in the browser: https://brendaneich.com/2008/04/popularity/ Then the comments pointed me to this http://www.biwascheme.org/ ah well
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by igorkraw 9y ago
I am familiar with Rojava (which in my opinion is not a good showcase if you want people to reevaluate anarchy, since it is still an active warzone with a common uniting foe, teters dangerously close towards cult of personality and has yet
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by igorkraw 9y ago
>In my opinion, an economy is too important to leave to governments to run and tune. But isn't that decision itself a governing decision, just one where we decide to tune for competition (for example)? It seems to me you can't
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by igorkraw 9y ago
Very neat project. Since you are one of the contributors, I'd like to ask a philosophical question: The wiki has this quote (emphasis mine) >Tribler is a Bittorrent-compatible alternative to Youtube. It is designed to protect your p
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Tribler: an attack-resilient micro-economy for media(github.com)
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by igorkraw 9y ago
Honestly, I don't think that ever becomes a problem in a sufficiently transparent and competitive democratic system. If there is true selection pressure, skill rises to the top. It also seems to me that if people are "superior&quo
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by igorkraw 9y ago
In Germany we still learn the poem of the 'Schlesian Weber', the weavers that lost their jobs to the mechanical looms. The misery comes through very strongly. All of your examples caused the same misery, then lots of people died,s
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by igorkraw 9y ago
Glad to see more "mainstream" recognition of the political threat of AI supercharged surveillance and possibly manipulation
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by igorkraw 9y ago
* Pay attention to your dreams * "Take time to spend on leisure" or "allow yourself to 'waste' some time" * say what you think * cultivate friendships * be happy
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by igorkraw 9y ago
Is the book actually called "non violent communication"?
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by igorkraw 9y ago
Some people like to reward ethical companies. Most hackers I know are among them
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by igorkraw 9y ago
>The only really bad thing about the reMarkable is that the software still sometimes crashes, leaving you for ~20 seconds with a notebook that you can't write on. Interesting, in 3 months I haven't had a single crash
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by igorkraw 9y ago
Page switching can take a bit,depending on how much there is to render. When I read papers, it never takes more than half a second or so, at most. Drawing also doesn't have any painful latency (I say painful because it IS barely notica
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by igorkraw 9y ago
I have this device, and for hackers, this review misses some stuff: * the company behind it is based in norway, so you can be pretty sure the techies got treated well * they abide by the GPL very well * by connecting via USB and flicking a
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by igorkraw 9y ago
Neat, is there something like this for FF as well?
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by igorkraw 9y ago
Except Germany, Austria, and AFAIK most EU countries, Switzerland...for education at least. Healthcare in some of them
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by igorkraw 9y ago
The thing is, I saw a touch screen attending the "embedded world" embedded technology conference in nuremberg a few years ago...multitouch included. Why is this not more common? Especially for "rugged" devices?
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by igorkraw 9y ago
As I said to the sibling, the nice thing is you don't need to rewrite in rust, you can refactor into it slowly
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by igorkraw 9y ago
Well, the nice thing is you don't need to rewrite in rust, you can refactor into it slowly
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by igorkraw 9y ago
I wonder if they will oxidize(oxidate? rustify) it...