jpetso

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by jpetso 9y ago
The "awkward interaction" here is being physically intimidated by someone who doesn't respect being told No, who is big enough to overpower you and who is in a position. Of power with clear conflict of interest. It's gre
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If we can make a future happen where I can control software and data on a remote device, in a way that works for students, then sure. Otherwise, I wouldn't count pure access to the internet/web as actual victory for GNU/Linux
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I'd add that to the list of free rides for large corporations. Students getting Chromebooks aren't sucked into the Linux ecosystem and open source community that encourages you to improve parts of the system yourself. Instead, it
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Alternatively, you can calculate how much you'd pay and save/invest in particular scenarios after taking into account ROI, rent, maintenance, mortgage interest, property taxes, closing costs incl. risk of wanting to move earlier t
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You're going to get practice where you search out for it, when you're open to and ready for interacting with other people. I can go to baseball practice, work on my game, and go home when it's over. Or I can ask if someone wa
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I don't like the idea that rules can be bent because it causes unfair advantages. And it's not sustainable or beneficial for the greater good if everyone does it. Dozens of cars stop at a red light, yet someone thinks they can cro
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Yeah, that should be much more feasible once the car can drive back to a more populated area for rental use there, until it takes off to pick you up from the trailhead again. I like this line of thinking as well! Higher mileage but also a h
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I'm having a hard time seeing autonomous vehicles significantly undercutting the price of existing rental cars, which is definitely something that keeps me from getting out of town on a regular basis. Sure, renting for a long weekend i
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Correct, giving preference to your own community compared to others is commonly associated with terms such as nationalism, protectionism or cronyism. Racism can and often does happen among members of the same (local) community.
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Even if it doesn't drop off, you can make money by investing into businesses who give you better long-term growth and (related) dividends than the one that everyone else is buying through index funds which you know isn't doing wel
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Drupal is GPL, so a module written specifically for Drupal must always be redistributable under GPL as well since it's a derived work. That places a natural limit on the feasibility of module purchases, since anyone could buy it and th
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With all due respect, "the group" decides what I can buy just as much as they decide who represents me. Remember the time when there was a single phone out that combined flagship performance with a size that fits comfortably in on
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I see this line of reasoning a lot, and find it somewhat bewildering. The people most desperately in need of subsidies are also the people who earn little enough income to pay very low taxes already, or none at all. Reducing taxes doesn&#x2
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Those are the numbers for the second attempt, where the first attempt was 50.3% vs. 49.7%, won only after counting mail votes, and that first result got annulled because of challenged vote counts.
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My Grandma was saying this a lot. With some economic headwinds and constant (but not outsized) inflation comparing against a nostalgia currency that stopped inflating years ago, it's exceedingly easy to blame the Euro for making things
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> And ultimately it's their store and their rules. It wouldn't be as bad if their store weren't also the only store available for the platform. Because of this forced monoculture, the criticisms are well within scope.
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We tax money because we have services to pay for which are important enough that no individual or corporation alone should have exclusive control over, or more commonly, for "the common good". We as a voting people decide (via ele
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Keybase is a VC-funded startup, and this is part of the standard playbook for such companies. Expect more of it from Keybase, and expect it for any other company whose investors are still looking to get a payout on their millions of dollars
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It's made by the same people that ran Kubuntu before they got disappointed in some of Canonical's decisions and decision-making process, so now they have their own OS that works closer with KDE upstream.
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There are a number of people who thought that having a KDE office suite was a good idea, they worked on it, KDE gladly welcomed them into the project and provided infrastructure & announcements. Those same people might have not worked o
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In a functioning society, there are always going to be rules. Rules depend on someone or something enforcing them. If a society decides to adopt 'liberty' defined as the lack of all rules and no enforcement to create the dependenc
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Both of which are indexed by Google, unless you're hiding website content behind a login and avoid sending emails to Gmail users. Not much better?
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It's also Canadian propaganda, and German propaganda, and who knows how many other media sources publish similar information. Personally, I find it very understandable when two countries or cultures have differing viewpoints about what
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My previous company was looking into using it as a place to store the app's public key for that user and find other users of the app (with their public keys) while being able to verify them. At the time, Keybase didn't have the ap
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Suggesting a long-term investment instead of a short-term one is a self-defeating argument? Or the suggestion that convincing people about the value of long-term investments is feasible?
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> If the user cannot be trusted to make reasonable choices because he doesn't understand or want to read security popups, you have to make the choice for them. I would bring up a libertarian argument to counter this view, but unfort
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Suggestion: It would be neat if the job listing didn't just specify the things that you're looking for, but also the things that you're offering. As a collaboration of travel companies, maybe you're offering travel-at-co
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You could also look at it the other way and say you have sunk costs either way, either on rent or on running costs for your (owned) property: mortgage interest, property taxes, maintenance, opportunity cost for your down payment. The questi
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In Canada, there's a capital gains tax exemption for your (owned) primary residence. If I wanted to live in a given place, it would be stupid to buy the place, rent it out, and rent another place myself with the rent money minus the in
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You're not wrong, however the parent was specifically replying to a post that justified home cooking with financial considerations and didn't even go into the quality-of-life aspect at all. I think the takeaway is that if you pref

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