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by rStar 5y ago
the current administration has claimed the desire to do many things, but hasn’t followed up. I blame the mediocrity of the claim against facebook on the FTC being directed to bring a mediocre claim sure to fail, and life goes on, and everyo
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by rStar 5y ago
i’ll just continue to work for a company with the ability and desire to deal with those security issues, and whatever other problems my preferred way of working causes, since it makes me a happier and more productive employee. plus, in my e
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by rStar 5y ago
> Instead a co-working stipend just lets me hang out with strangers who are irrelevant to my actual job. doesn’t sound like a good use of your time, but for many people, it’s a third option that definitely has it’s pros/cons
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by rStar 5y ago
is actually forever or is it google “free photo storage for life”-forever?
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by rStar 5y ago
saudi arabia can do whatever they want because of the petrodollar. i’m surprised they don’t take advantage of that more often thsn they do.
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by rStar 5y ago
org-mode is the truth and the light. learn once, run forever.
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by rStar 5y ago
seems to be all lifting.
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by rStar 5y ago
it’s a data black hole. just wait a few years.
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by rStar 5y ago
this seems to be the opposite of what all the regular people getting into crypto are wanting. i will only adopt systems that give me more privacy, on balance, not less. make that decision a few times, even in modern life, and your privacy i
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by rStar 5y ago
this has been going on for years. amazon benefits, so they allow the practice.
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by rStar 5y ago
it means lefties, like myself, who, unlike myself, endorse authoritarianism in service to their goals. for instance many of this type today believe that if they disagree with the views of others enough, those people don’t deserve to speak.
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by rStar 5y ago
i recommend everyone read the book referenced here. ignore the haters in the comments, it will change your life. it will at the very least make you consider how to spend the actual time that we’re alive. it’s up to you to comprehend and the
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by rStar 5y ago
the debt book taught me more about life and society than any other book i’ve read. it also turns out to be a really great help reading people as well, by gauging their response.
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by rStar 5y ago
> So, to be honest, I don’t know what you’re on about. What’s the fairyland alternative to “markets”? idk, whatever we have right now?
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by rStar 5y ago
most economists have bullshit jobs, since they are, almost to a one, stenographers to power.
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by rStar 5y ago
> my friends would be pretty rightfully unhappy with me. most people don’t go to work to recreate, so this is a bad example.
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by rStar 5y ago
everything in this society is good for corporations because they own the politicians and write all of the laws. so it’s a competition between corporations who all want to pay below a living wage. in this case the employees are rational acto
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by rStar 5y ago
>I can't count the number of times I've heard people praise others as "hard working"... in all sorts of contexts, in many different parts of the world, native or immigrant, hard work is praised to the heavens and one
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by rStar 5y ago
some humans are scammers, most scams are repeatable. so if scammers in country X benefit from credential scamming, then it follows that their exist scammers in countries Y and Z that are also benefiting via their own application of the scam
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by rStar 5y ago
->I conjecture that buy-a-doctorate and sing-for-your-doctorate are found in the US only. Why? I conjecture the USA isn’t unique as far as people scamming credentials.
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by rStar 5y ago
because they enjoy it, but also because they see opportunity in whatever set of features they themselves believe are important. Evolution(in this case survival of the fittest regarding developer mindshare) eventually decides.
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by rStar 5y ago
Rust. It appears to be on it’s way to kernel inclusion, which means it’s about to be a lifetime language, like C, a tool you’ll never need to put down.
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by rStar 6y ago
criminal because otherwise competitors could actually compete, rather than be subject to illegal monopolistic forces. Criminals, all.
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by rStar 6y ago
in a functional market, competition for profit exists. because billionaires exist, we know they control their market, squeezing out competitors through artificial and illegal means.
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by rStar 6y ago
money isn’t real my dude, at least while we have that sweet sweet petrodollar scam going. see MMT.
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by rStar 6y ago
billionaires are criminal by definition, and their existence proves the absence of a (econ 101 style) market in whatever industry they came from. we can only fix this problem through efficient regulation of monopolies.
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by rStar 6y ago
drug dogs usefulness to law enforcement, almost exclusively, are as machines to manufacture probable cause on command. As this is how they’re used, “bullshit” is far too kind a descriptor.
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by rStar 6y ago
> In response someone created a Chrome extension that marks repositories owned by a signatory of this support letter with red text on GitHub. why stop there? out with their tongues and off with their fingers, lest they continue to blasph
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by rStar 6y ago
using java 8 and not looking to upgrade unless the license situation is altered
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by rStar 6y ago
i agree with everything you said for our current situation. I can still use homebrew and 3rd party dmg’s to install should I choose to. my concern is for the future, based on how ios/macos convergence seems to be progressing.

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