nebabyte

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by nebabyte 10y ago
Can't see what the advantage is to "paying the curator" though - why give up control of who my support goes to by letting them split it up amongst their 'elites', when I can just support the content creator(s) I lik
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Though it's a lonely frame of mind you describe, it's likely not rare , given modern globalization by the numbers. Even if most reform into cliques derivative of both parent cultures, some small percentage of singletons is still
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> Now it turned out that the warrant was just for some malware-extortion ring, not due to a crackdown on political dissidents, so arguably a "false positive" from the perspective of what most people using riseup for its stated
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> Brutal truth to the author after having read the article is that he Should probably figure out his own issues before giving advice to other people about how their experiences "will go". (I'm sure some people can relate t
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Sounds like the author has personal problems they're mistakenly ascribing to their work. Many of their assertions are simply not true (It's possible to be confident without "being an asshole"; I know several such people)
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by nebabyte 10y ago
That's like saying 'deadweight loss' "shouldn't be a term, because it's basic supply and demand". There's a clear and identifiable trend or pattern resultant of the general model, there's no reas
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Then why bother preaching something they clearly have no intention of following, while supporting an ecosystem which practically goes against it? If we're talking about having to conserve time, that seems like a clear waste, either way
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Eh. Not a big fan of the american reliance on companies to be the ones to "drive change" in the first place. That they're considered 'in the best position to' is only the result of the corporatocracy anyways.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
100k+ signatures = response from trump on twitter
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Going around and shooting people with jobs would be opening up employment for other people too, doesn't make it good policy. Barring employment and immigration to an ethnic group is absolutely disastrous for the country.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Life isn't fiction.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Also be sure to switch it off of "plain text file" or it'll save as file.csv.txt (though if you have 'hide common file extensions' off you'd've noticed this in your file browser) iirc notepad auto prepends
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> Potentially killing their brand name among developers and potentially initiating a slow long decline into irrelevancy certainly counts as not acting in their shareholders' best interests. When google first started, their "don
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by nebabyte 10y ago
regardless
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> They're kind of like startups in themselves, actually Not necessarily - just mention that the project is abandonware/looking for a new maintainer. Having access to the code will be helpful to anyone looking to move forward or