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by sangnoir 3y ago
Because I don't mind people using my software commercially if they are respecting the license. I wouldn't want to be charged for all my commercial usage of Linux, Git, Postgres, zsh, the rust toolchain, etc. I believe if everyone
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Depends on what your philosophy is. You believe in the software commons and the free sharing of software? You would want software to remain as a public good so no one can profit from it exclusively. > Are you a business who made s
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> And, unfortunately, the worse for Ukraine In what way would having the whole of Ukraine annexed like Crimea be better for Ukraine?
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> None of these blogposts (including this one) have any realistic solution to the problem of making OSS software and being able to live from it... Should OSS solve that "problem"? Free software predates billion-dollar OSS &#x
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> But why is that a bad thing I didn't say it was a bad thing - I said there's a better option that wasn't taken. IMO, protecting citizens from bad behavior by domestic and foreign companies is nobler than corporate protec
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> I'm looking forward to more regulation of social media to be honest I'm afraid that's not goign to happen in the US. Politicians never let a disaster go to waste: had the will been there to regulate social media in gener
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Having the US's primary rival, which runs massive disinformation campaigns, also opaquely control the content that US youth consume en masse seems worse than...just about any alternative How is it worse than making disseminating d
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by sangnoir 3y ago
I didn't claim there's no positive ROI. I only noted that the breathlessly promised "trillion+ dollar self-driving market" failed to materialize. I suspect the AI market will have a similar trajectory in the next decade:
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Glassdoor tells me the salaries of JPMorgan tellers ranges from $38,000 - $62,000 with a median of $42,000. So without digging into salary distribution at the entire company, I can yell you with certainty that it's a non-zero fraction.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> I don't see that information on that link. I may have been overzealous is removing what I thought were tracking parameters. If you click on "about us" in the footer and scroll all the way to the bottom or click on 1996 -
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> The potential future revenue from having the best model is presumably in the trillions. I heard this winner-takes-all spiel before - only last time, it was about Uber or Tesla[1] robo-taxis making car ownership obsolete. Uber has since
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Be that as it may - it wasn't started in Palo Alto or Pleasanton. Their about page[1] mentions the predecessor company was founded in New Jersey (1996), before moving to San Jose (1998), then Pleasanton (2000) 1. https://www
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by sangnoir 3y ago
REI competes with corporates just fine in the US, a country so capitalist they still ask everyone it they ever were associated with Communism before they let them visit - more than 2 decades after the fall of the USSR.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> For whom $2,300 / year is meaningful is, dare I say, hard to answer question There were many articles written on the impact of the 2021 Advance Child Tax Credit (up to $1,800 per child over a 6 month period). The impact was very s
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Eh, embedded and sensor-fusion devs are making bank working at Waymo, or VR at Apple or Meta. It's less about the field itself and more about big-tech salary-leveling (and insane profits)
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Mysterious why Germany has no software mega Corp, I hear SAP is kind of a big deal.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> If Meta really believes in the Metaverse, why do they need the Horizon brand? Why not just the Meta OS? Perhaps for the same reason why Apple OS, Google OS or Microsoft OS don't exist as customer OSes - each OS is scoped to a spec
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Non-Google versions of Android have struggled to make much headway in markets like smartphones You may have forgotten about China: Huawei smartphones are doing very well on an AOSP-based OS. Edit: Google was concerned about a Chinese f
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> ...or species out-evolving out food crops and overtaking them. With far more fuel the odds would be in favor of species that can consume nitrogen, and how do you keep those at bay when it happens? We have always had this problem of oth
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Of course, upon all this, they're also strategic. The Chinese government set out to build EVs in 1994 - GM was already well advanced on their electric vehicle (the EV1, which launched in 1996). However, GM discontinued the EV1[1
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> While you may be right, I feel the dynamic is more about the fact that most expats tend to be more educated than the average That's my point exactly! It's not that all Americans are particularly entitled, lazy, uncreative, or
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> I have found the US to be the easiest place to make it (and by far) of any other that I have been to, but they rather remove any ounce of responsibility from their own citizens I'm willing to bet - dollars to donuts - that there w
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by sangnoir 3y ago
I do not agree. Companies have always done brand advertising - Marlboro cigarettes didn't truly care about independence, ruggedness or cowboys - they just wanted to be associated with those themes to sell more product - hence the &quot
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by sangnoir 3y ago
I suppose I should have specified when the pejorative is directed towards individuals. Companies are amoral, and have no values by definition.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
If you cynically believe no one ever is truly empathetic towards an outgroup, or can hold altruistic values on the basis that you yourself do not, then I think it's a sign of something - perhaps not rising to the level of psychopathy
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Some of them end up concluding it's all a cynical manipulative scam, and everybody else is the same as themselves except absurdly dedicated to keeping up the fiction. See most people who use the phrase "virtue-signaling"
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Do you suppose average speeds would be higher or lower without the frequent accidents due to failure to brake in time?
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by sangnoir 3y ago
I suppose the same reason companies get rid of perfectly serviceable laptops and servers: depreciation and chasing after fractionally larger efficiencies.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
It's easier for the public to recognize and be outraged about 237 dead airline passengers compared to 237 dead patients even if both are caused by overtired pilots or "providers" (I hate that word for it's vagueness).
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Yep, imagine an international postgrad student from an NSO client-state who criticizes their home country's leadership online, or is perceived to be a political activist is likely to be targeted by their own government for additional o

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