purple_turtle

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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
Why it would be specifically communist?
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
Are you sure? For all of them?
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
That is an absolute nonsense. At minimum, government will be useful as defence against worse government. I know that some anarchist had dream of a stateless world, but it is not viable. And while I am not going to say that any government is
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
> If that is the attitude that you take towards everyone who contributes to your project, then you probably aren't a very good leader. That is, of course, your right. Word "decide" was there deliberately. I am not fully op
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
I guess the worst case is that future Linux will end entirely controlled by Google/Facebook/, Microsoft.
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
Or rather apples and planes. Or oranges and ICBMs.
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
And this is fine! Dying or failed open source project due to bad leader will not result in nightmares caused by unsuitable kings, fuhrers, presidents, supreme leaders and first secretaries.
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
Post explicitly makes request to all project leaders: "I'm begging project leaders everywhere". As one of them I want to state that others, including you, are not entitled to decide how I run my project. I want to express tha
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
> I'm begging project leaders everywhere - please read up on the social contract and the consent of the governed. I do not need consent as I am not governing anyone like king or president governs. If someone is using my project they
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
Open source software project captured by evil people in the worst case results in a lot of confusion and annoyance. Countries captured by evil people in the worst cases that result in millions of dead people. Entirely different risks are a
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
Can you name three of this many alternatives? How they magically manage DDOS larger than their bandwidth? If the plan is to have larger bandwidth than any DDOS it is going to be expensive, quickly.
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
Some communist era enterprises failed (or would have failed) on open market and entirely deserved this. Extreme absurdities included hunting whales to fulfil production quota, then dumping carcasses into sea as they were not needed for anyt
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
That is nonsense. Even if (optimistically) 90% are nonoperational, what it would change?
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
"Robin Williams on Bill Gates" Why quoting Robin Williams is relevant here? He seems some kind of actor. Are you quoting his fantasy how Bill Gates thinks?
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
Having nuclear weapons does not give you immunity to all threats. Quite recently we had a case of nuclear state being partially occupied by a state without nuclear weapons. And even in that case use of nuclear weapons would be unacceptable
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
> internet questionnaire posted to social media sites This has got to have a strong selection effect.
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
It is possible to be right on the main theme but only by accident (with arguments and claims being wrong), communicating in a highly faulty way, with pointless insults, doing it in offtopic derails, being correct on minor point while being
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
Some people deployed Anubis not to stop scraping, but to stop scraping the same page multiple times per second.
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by purple_turtle 11mo ago
> The rest of the world isn't stupid or silly for suggesting these policies I know that. The problem it is evil, not that it is stupid and silly. The whole point is that I do not want to give government power over me like it happene
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by purple_turtle 1y ago
> If you want passengers to want your plane, design it without sardines in mind; People don't like being sardines. In practice people in general vote with wallets for cheaper sardine-like flights. (though more spacious seats typical
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by purple_turtle 1y ago
> > They need both. > No (...) The only reason why economy class exists is because they can’t. in other words, in nearly all cases they need both
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by purple_turtle 1y ago
> The left let's itself get baited into these culture wars. Well, at least some of them left (or some part of it) started entirely on its own.
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by purple_turtle 1y ago
As EU and it's love of regulation demonstrated - you can regulate too much, with harmful effects. Strangling economic growth also kills, as indirectly as PFAS in drinking water. Neither "regulate everything" nor "allow
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by purple_turtle 1y ago
Drop counterproductive and unpopular Culture War issues and instead fight about very stupid ideas pushed by Trump et all. Part of problem is that the most unproductive and unpopular and poor ideas are the most loved ones among their elites.
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by purple_turtle 1y ago
> Some people can eat and eat and stay slim, even without much exercise In my experience people described this way typically do not eat as much. For example they often drink much less calories or eat a lot on parties, but do not snack ma
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by purple_turtle 1y ago
Typical person reading this is overly fat or outright obese or on way to do this. There are people starving but they are not reading hn or are anorexics.
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by purple_turtle 1y ago
The problem is that many people so fat that they unable to move under own power claim to be eating healthily.
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by purple_turtle 1y ago
For typical person reading it, it is a good advise to eat less calories. More and more people are obese or at least fat. There are some starving people, but with exception of some anorexics they are definitely not reading hn.
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by purple_turtle 1y ago
"calories in - calories out" is blatantly true, the problem is how to achieve it with small annoyance and willpower investment. Or with at least disable one. (Like answer "vastly increase your income" is blatantly true a
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by purple_turtle 1y ago
Which claims were verified and which come unverified from token generator? > There is also a thermic effect of various macro-nutrients, which is the energy required to digest them. How large it is compared to their energy? Is it even wor

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