ruthmarx

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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Huh. I switched away from Windows to Linux about 2 years ago. I actively like Windows. Not so much these days, but it was a substantially better user experience than MacOS for those of us that liked to tinker/didn't want to be n
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I simply disagree. Read the book. I've read plenty of books criticizing capitalism. How about you read some in support if it? > I don't think they fixed the problem either. Twist: They did.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I said a lack of regulation around businesses was the problem, and you misrepresented my point, claiming I said capitalism was the best thing ever. Hence the strawman. The claim that capitalism is fundamentally failed is one that needs supp
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Capitalism is the worst system other than all the rest. This isn't anything to do with capitalism. It's all to do with Republicans bizarre obsession with 'small government'. These kind of healthcare horrors don&#x27
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> when you develop features to distinguish yourself from the competition that stand out and make your own product better, but then the government comes along and tells you that you have to give that away, Crippling a standard to reduce i
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> The thing that EU regulators don't seem to get is that I (and many others) have knowingly and intentionally opted in to this walled garden. The walled garden shouldn't be forced on everyone who buys a device. Having an opt ou
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
The examples to make your point are kind of silly. It can go to extreme, but clearly there is benefit in regulating and requiring interoperability in many cases. It doesn't mean innovation is going to go away.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
No one claimed that. Can you do better than argue against a strawman?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Yeah, sure. You keep believing that. It's not a question of belief, the evidence is clear as day. > The regulation has done so well to reign in healthcare corporations that people are shooting healthcare ceos in cold blood on t
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
So how big is the Twtxt community? How many Twtxters?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Capitalism is not and never was the problem, the lack of regulation around it is. Compare how bad things are in the US for many people, directly due to a lack of regulation in many instances. Healthcare pre-Obamacare is a great example. Com
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I usually installboot and disklabel manually, download and extract sets manually, Why do things a harder way when there is no discernible benefit?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Horses for courses - it's my daily driver for development and administration. Because OS doesn't really matter here. You can install the same packages and have the same workflow on any opensource unix OS.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Alpine and Void are better for this IMO.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I still rock a Latitude E6220 from 2011 or so after my main one broke and I just never replaced it. It had 4gb ram, upgraded it to 8gb for $10 via Amazon, running Alpine with awesomewm and it works perfectly fine, firefox runs fine, compili
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
So...not as you read. It sounds like you claim to read fast, but then have to take extra time to digest, so if we add your digesting time to your reading time and count that total as reading time period, it's not actually that fast at
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
That wouldn't be a better analog at all since it wouldn't be making the point I wanted to make, it would just be rephrasing what they stated using the same metaphor.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Except for above where you say you 'read' but don't 'digest'. Reading implies digestion, if you're not digesting you're not reading 'in full'.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Digesting is part of reading. So you're not reading that fast at all. Imagine if someone said they could eat super fast because they could shove food in their mouth fast, but still took a long time to chew and swallow. Same thing.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Does reading text on the internet not count as reading? I guess it depends on intent. Reading a fiction epub in an app is different from reading HN threads with 500+ comments.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Reading technical docs is closer to reading shop names and street signs than it is to the intention to sit down and consume a work of art.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Huh. thanks.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
If he doesn't have a PC how/why was he motivated to write a neovim plugin in the first place?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Stopping people suppressing votes should not be solved by taking away freedoms.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Nanny state is a term coined by tobacco industry in their lobbying against tobacco laws. Is it really a term you want to use here? Sure, because most people h ave no idea where the term originates from and it now has a life of its own.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
People were already moving away from smoking. The aggressive policies don't deserve all the credit.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
The problem is Australians are fine with it. They might be the population with the most people saying "if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about" in the world, by a large margin.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Australia has always been a nanny state though. Not even letting some games or movies in to the country because they think it's inappropriate for adults to consume for example. Ridiculous.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted. It's a fantastic example.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> It is still better than other forms of governance, that seems like a low bar. It's definitely a problem when you have a huge segment of the population that is ignorant and easily misled. Just look at the last US election. There ar

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