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by mikeash 7y ago
Gifts in kind aren’t subsidies? If the government gives equipment or resources or labor, rather than money, it’s no longer a subsidy? That sure doesn’t fit how I understand the term. What would you call those?
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by mikeash 7y ago
Can I dump my trash on your lawn?
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by mikeash 7y ago
I didn’t use any numbers at all. Perhaps you meant to reply to a different comment.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s not an analogy at all, let alone a tortured one. Polluters are allowed to dump their trash on my (and everyone else’s) property without paying for it. Now, if you object to it being called a subsidy, fine. (Although I’d like to know wh
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s an unconventional way to use “subsidy,” but I think it fits. Imagine a garbage company. The government pays them so they can buy land where they dump their garbage. Obviously a subsidy. Now, let’s say the government buys the land thems
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by mikeash 7y ago
Which is to say, it’s a subsidy that we pay with people’s health and people’s lives.
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by mikeash 7y ago
The point of the law is that virtually every measure is a proxy to some extent. Finding a measure that exactly matches what you really want to optimize is almost impossible.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I think it’s quite appropriate in this context, where tons of them come out of the woodwork to defend this bullshit.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Now it means “caveat emptor.”
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by mikeash 7y ago
Put another way, they’re giving their part time workers a massive pay cut.
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by mikeash 7y ago
How do you think it would be going if Hong Kong has gun ownership at the level of the US?
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by mikeash 7y ago
How so?
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by mikeash 7y ago
The big thing that sets you apart is how open you are about stuff like this. Don’t feel bad for doing it like this!
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by mikeash 7y ago
When measured in dollars for all the data you have (what Backblaze sells), S3’s price goes up every time you create a file.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Price per byte doesn’t really matter for an unlimited service. As that cost goes down, your users will have more and more data to store, in an amount that will basically cancel out.
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by mikeash 7y ago
And doing so on a work related mailing list .
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by mikeash 7y ago
What should happen is that he should either find an employer who will tolerate his inexcusable behavior, go into business for himself, or learn to shut the hell up at work. We don’t need to worry about his entire life. That’s his job. We ca
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by mikeash 7y ago
Tech bros: “I wonder why tech is so disproportionately male. Must be something biological.” Also tech bros: “I can’t believe RMS got forced out just for going on a crazy rant about rape on a CS mailing list. Why, any one of us could be next
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by mikeash 7y ago
I find this argument to be so bizarre it’s hard to imagine it’s sincere. In what world is writing dumb and offensive rants to a CS mailing list a good way to learn about the legal, psychological, and moral aspects of sex slavery? Where do y
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by mikeash 7y ago
Right, the foundation produces community, and the community produces software. RMS’s role is almost entirely about leading that community, not producing that software.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I could already be fired for far less important reasons. Where’s the slope?
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by mikeash 7y ago
Of course. The American justice system is horrendously evil.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Why do those licenses matter? Because of the community they created. Nobody would care about the GPL if it was only used for the FSF’s software.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I think that’s a facile Hollywood idea of evil. People like that exist, but plenty of evil people don’t care about suffering. A psychologist assigned to the Nuremberg trials put it better than I ever could. “In my work with the defendants (
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by mikeash 7y ago
Thankfully, professional cleaners are not difficult to find.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Most of us are at risk for losing our jobs over far less. Our boss can decide he doesn’t like the way we dress, and we’ll be looking for a new job before the end of the day. Millions of workers labor under threat of starvation just for stan
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by mikeash 7y ago
Evil is fundamentally a lack of empathy and I see no empathy from this man. He’s not a cackling crazy Hitler figure, but he seems to have a difficult time figuring out just what the problem is with having sex with children and with child sl
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by mikeash 7y ago
Nobody’s burning him at the stake or putting him in jail. He can go on living a perfectly good life. What he can no longer do is act in a leadership role in the community and corrupt that community with his crap.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I’m allowed to criticize him after reading what he actually wrote, right? Because I did and came away from it with the conclusion that he’s evil and shouldn’t be anywhere near anything resembling a leadership position.
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by mikeash 7y ago
The FSF is foremost about community, and only incidentally about software. He is, to put it absurdly nicely, not the sort of people person who should be leading such an organization.

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