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by jpetso 8y ago
Nah, everybody loves Warren Buffett. The annoying thing with most billionaires is not that they have and spend a lot of money, but that they try to force their values onto the rest of us via lobbying, "charity" and other actions d
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Money is created when debt is taken out. By repaying debt, the allowed maximum amount of loaned money (i.e. arbitrarily created money) is reduced. If all debts everywhere were repaid, all money would stop existing. Therefore, if you give yo
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> Maybe I'm being overly simplistic, but surely building enough dwellings to exceed the immediate demand would lead to prices dropping? I thought Toronto was doing a good enough job at building lots of housing, and it still hasn&#x2
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You also can't easily stop working on your side business if you have paying customers that rely on your product for their livelihoods. Dropping your responsibility on a volunteer charity organization board isn't something you can
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The article also includes "relationships" in "me time", and mentions that you can't do more than about three things seriously. Kids are one such project that people commit to, and not even necessarily because they a
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One may argue that if you expand "for society" to a worldwide "for humankind", it's perfectly sustainable not to have kids at the current population level. I think it's a safe assumption that those with religio
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It makes sense though: The bigger the brand, the more they want to control their brand experience instead of being tied to /associated with another brand, i.e. the native platform. Businesses don't innately care about doing what&#
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The XZ4 Compact should also come out soon(ish), if the leaks are trustworthy as usual.
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Actually, why can't they? Could someone explain the executive thinking behind this hesitation?
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> If we are saving the planet "for" someone else, who are they? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question, but there are billions of people in the world already, and another few billions that will be born in the next little
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Consider Clementine as a replacement for Amarok 1.4, it's a fork that's been doing standard porting work without the controversial UX redesign.
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If we can't find a way conventionally, at least there's always the option of becoming desperate, voting for populists and going to war sometime. After the war is over, there will also be more work because we've destroyed a sh
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Reply to self - apparently the situation has indeed improved and there are some proper docs, plus code in Python, Go and C: https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/
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When I looked two years ago, SSB wasn't documented as a protocol or storage format much, and instead focused squarely on usage from JS code and a million of micro-dependencies via npm, making it hard to tell data formats from implement
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Whether this is your right and privilege is determined by laws and regulations. At the moment, it is. At the same time, there are clearly different opinions as demonstrated by this thread, and your 100% agreement may or may not reflect how
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Agreed. Instead of rectifying this via monopoly abuse laws, there should be regulations applicable to all hardware providers for allowing alternative software distribution mechanisms.
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My laptop came with Windows pre-loaded on the original SSD. No installation medium obviously, other than the recovery partition. I'm curious if it even loads if I tell Virtualbox to load it from that drive, given that the hardware it p
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I think it's interesting that tiny indie projects would often have a Linux port, when their user base isn't all that big to begin with and their Linux user base would be much smaller still. On the other hand, AAA titles which woul
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I still find Netflix a curious addition to that list.
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In response of retirement savings, "accumulate" generally does mean acquiring income producing assets. That's what stocks and bonds are. They just have a lower risk/reward profile than putting all your eggs into a single
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Issues with Gmail IMAP as voiced by other people: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16951363 https://www.dvratil.cz/2014/06/improved-gmail-integration-in... https://productforums.goo
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The counter-argument to that is that the public benefit vs. compensation aspect is massively biased: http://cityobservatory.org/e-scooters-and-paying-for-roads/ I'm really not a fan of companies flouting the law,
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It was meant to replace email, an open standard sporting many interoperable servers and clients, with something that Google controlled, even though it was theoretically federated. After Wave failed, they doubled down on making Gmail into mo
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Amazon Is in a Battle with the Far Left for the Soul of Seattle(theringer.com)
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As a city person, I have to disagree about the lack of alternatives. Walking to the grocery store, or if it's really far, cycling to the grocery store, will do wonders for the gas bill. Yes, that may mean relocating to a part of town w
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Shouldn't I have to factor in all externalities into my choice of transportation, and use the one that's the best choice overall? Why should I pay for the full price of my car but get a discount from Uber for offloading costs onto
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Also note that killing off unsustainable businesses (by whatever definition of unsustainable, which, to a degree, we impose on the business via laws for minimum standards), it's possible for sustainable businesses to grow and prosper.
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In return for not having to compete on equal terms in a giant market for years, that seems like a defensible deal for Google even if the fine is large per se.
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"But I can't make this work unless I squash the competition by abusing my monopoly" is not a good argument for allowing it to happen, even if it were true here. The alternative is not to have no operating system, but to have
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KDE does have to configuration in its system settings, but it obviously only relies on the standard X/kernel drivers and is only a convenience GUI for setting these options.

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