jpetso

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   by jpetso 10y ago

   So under the hypothetical assumption that you regarded RMS's problems as valid, what would you consider as the right ways to solve them?
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   by jpetso 10y ago

   Is it not notable how, among all of these examples and thought processes, not a single word was lost on the value provided to the totality of customers, in addition to how much is monetizable? Obviously the ability to pay quality journalist
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   by jpetso 11y ago

   Companies tend to stick to their own ecosystems, and in this case Facebook's folly library has already bought into libevent, for better or worse. Hopefully once asio gets standardized more libraries will switch over, but until then the
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   by jpetso 11y ago

   Looking at the patch, it doesn't appear to tackle the sleep state coordination issues that mjg59 was talking about. Which doesn't mean that the impact of this patch on power savings isn't still nice to have. I figure it'
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   by jpetso 11y ago

   While it's clear that p2p is going to face an uphill battle to demonstrate its value to the average Joe, I would also argue that federation doesn't address the underlying issues with user control of data. Email is federated. Does
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   by jpetso 11y ago

   I wasn't arguing for lowering the top end, I think it's fine as is. A broader bottom end may mean that it gets a bit harder to make it to that point, but in practice that's not where most of the resources for providing more&#
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   by jpetso 11y ago

   I think the question we should ask ourselves is not how to eliminate inequality, but what baseline level of services and opportunities we want to give people at any stage in their life, regardless of their competitiveness and productivity,
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   by jpetso 11y ago

   I signed up with an email alias specifically created for LinkedIn, and it still managed to associate my Facebook friends as possible connections. What the frick.
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   by jpetso 11y ago

   > Sure there is, but it's not the purpose of companies to provide that, but should be done by the society (government) if the society decides there's value in that. I like how this contrasts really nicely with a different view,
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    by jpetso 11y ago

    I think there is some value in providing jobs to 10,000 people (currently more, soon a little less) even if there's no extra profit for shareholders on top of that. Maybe these kinds of companies should just be given to employees for f