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by lolsal 9y ago
I genuinely don't understand - how is an agreement for payment of services rendered exploitation? Value is generated for both parties of that exchange.
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by lolsal 9y ago
There is tons of python work available (I weighed the unwritten src myself). Maybe the node/js news headlines are creating a recency bias?
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by lolsal 9y ago
Not exploiting an opportunity waives rights? How does that make sense?
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by lolsal 9y ago
I disagree that it is a form of censorship. I think the title of the post linked is more click-baity than the HN title. I am more interested in this article as it's presented on HN than I would have been if I had stumbled on an article
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by lolsal 9y ago
> Content that isn’t indexable by search engines is not part of the open web. I'm not really sure what this means, but my knee-jerk reaction is that the 'open web' exists without search engines.
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by lolsal 9y ago
It does in whatever amount is mailed out to everyone every month in the form of a UBI check. That is literally money earned without work or without creating value.
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by lolsal 9y ago
Sincere question - wouldn't welfare programs still be needed? I don't think 100% of UBI recipients would spend their money wisely and we'd still end up with people in need of basic services or food.
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by lolsal 9y ago
> What I always find strange is the obsession with "officer safety". Being a cop isn't even one of the top 10 most dangerous jobs in the country, statistically speaking. It's far more dangerous to be in logging, farm
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by lolsal 9y ago
> Theaters are full of people who react audibly at the wrong things How could a reaction be wrong?
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by lolsal 9y ago
The claim was that the generic actor 'pesticides' could not be proven to be the cause of the general decline for these specific tests and locations. No one was asserting that insecticides could not be proven to be responsible for
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by lolsal 9y ago
I think that it doesn't matter if you were or not - it was a low-effort contribution to the discussion.
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by lolsal 10y ago
> The market fails people like him. How? Doesn't this just imply that there is enough supply for those companies that want to pay a lower wage?
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by lolsal 10y ago
> The chances of return are higher than 0%. They are just causally disconnected. You're leaving off an important clause that I had: > 0% chance of personal, direct, return on your investment. Which is the most important part. I a
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by lolsal 10y ago
I think the problem with thinking of it like an investment is there is a 0% chance of personal, direct, return on your investment. It may benefit society and you may even benefit indirectly due to the benefit of society, but you would not b
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by lolsal 10y ago
I am absolutely not advocating that the library author be held liable.
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by lolsal 10y ago
I think of it like the Heartbleed vulnerability - was everyone affected to blame for the vulnerability? Was everyone simultaneously morally obligated to be contributing patches back to openssl? I don't think so.
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by lolsal 10y ago
I agree with you. I don't agree that they have a moral obligation to make pull requests to the open source library that had the issue. Hopefully they will, but there is no obligation there in my mind.
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by lolsal 10y ago
> Many have always argued that it has. Alright, I'm arguing that it doesn't. > Many do. shrug I don't. > Many argue that any company that failing to contribute to the OSS projects they depend upon isn't fair o
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by lolsal 10y ago
I 100% agree with you. Atlassian is 100% responsible. I'm not sure I would not say they are at 'fault' though. Maybe I'm just quibbling over semantics. I don't know the details of the vulnerability - I would say th
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by lolsal 10y ago
To use an analogy, do you blame everyone that has ever used the linux kernel whenever bugs/vulnerabilities are discovered in the kernel?
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by lolsal 10y ago
> Yes, and it always has and it can't be discharged. Pay-it-forward is the right thing to do. Interesting - it may be a nice thing to do, but I don't agree that there is any sort of obligation to the project just for using the
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by lolsal 10y ago
I don't think anyone is trying to shift blame, just to explain what happened. I am not affiliated with Atlassian so I'm only guessing.
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by lolsal 10y ago
Open source code now carries a moral maintenance obligation? Do we say the same thing about any large company that uses openssl or any other open source libs that people use or depend on? That doesn't seem fair or reasonable.
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by lolsal 10y ago
I'm not sure I understand you - You would blame the users of a third-party library if the library was found to have a vulnerability and it was exploited against the people using the library?
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by lolsal 10y ago
What does 'eat the rich' mean?
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by lolsal 10y ago
Unless 60-70k is some sort of regulated minimum salary, that's exactly what the market will bear, isn't it? Seems appropriate.
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by lolsal 10y ago
So don't have meaningful discourse over SMS/twitter. Use email/phone/forums/...
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by lolsal 10y ago
It's not more complicated than this in the US, either.
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by lolsal 10y ago
How would I take advantage of pre-tax money, like contributing to retirement accounts, HSA, ...?
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by lolsal 10y ago
I do not understand minimalism or minimalist culture. When I see rationalizations about getting rid of 'stuff', I can understand some of those things, but at some point for me there is a line where minimalism becomes some sort of

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