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by santoshalper 1y ago
I think a couple of things are important to remember in a time like this: 1. This behavior, whether legal or not, is profoundly inhumane. 2. No law, statute, or rule requires us to treat anyone inhumanely. The people behaving this way are d
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by santoshalper 1y ago
I think your view of gamergate is absolutely fucking delusional. I watched it all go down in real time like many of us did. Saying Gamergate was about ethics in games journalism is roughly as accurate as saying the US Civil War was about &q
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by santoshalper 1y ago
But there is a survivorship bias because doing what Wikipedia does is almost impossible.
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by santoshalper 1y ago
Citation or you're full of shit.
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by santoshalper 1y ago
That is a really dumb theory, and I'm pretty sure you just made it up.
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by santoshalper 1y ago
Almost everything the government makes IS public domain, including the software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_t...
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Because someone, somewhere needs to see this today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
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by santoshalper 2y ago
I think your comment, while not especially constructively formed, is a good warning about alarm-ism. However, I think you should at least consider a few things: 1. The concerns about D&D were quite different. Most parents admired the cr
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Dude, Marissa Mayer hasn't been at Google for well over a decade. Weird callout.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Where a console rates on the all-time sales leader board is pretty irrelevant, since the industry has grown so much in absolute terms. As when looking at movie box office revenue, you need to look at more than one number if you want to judg
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by santoshalper 2y ago
You're right that we don't know all the terms, but $160M raised is not small and it is very reasonable to worry about what level of control will be given up long term because of it.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Regardless of your political stance, the owner of a newspaper dictating that they will be "writing every day in support and defense” of “personal liberties and free markets." means they are no longer journalism and are simply prop
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Ah... A student of the clown school of negotiating where bluster, threats, and tantrums take the place of compromise. Here's the real deal: Trump is a Russian asset, and it is already a foregone conclusion that Ukraine is getting fucke
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Don't worry, Windows is still far, far more ubiquitous. The bigger reason people don't play solitaire as much as they used to is that it is no longer the only game installed on their PC. So many people in the 90s learned solitaire
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by santoshalper 2y ago
What a thoughtful post. I think there is a narrative that localthunk is a "shitty programmer" (which he might very well be), but that by extension, it also means that he just got lucky and bumblefucked his way into massive success
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by santoshalper 2y ago
People who host their own websites are becoming like vegans in that they won't STFU about it. Having your own website is not a substitute for having a personality.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
If you don't like evil, you should do something not evil. But also, you shouldn't tell evil people that you don't like what they're doing, because that might hurt their feelings.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
I don't think it does invalidate the argument. As a cohort, wealthy people spend a much lower percentage of their total wealth than middle or lower class people do. Any spending-based tax (sales tax, tariffs) will be much better for we
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Or, perhaps he was just lying.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
That legitimate stores of value are typically not that simple to manipulate.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
If you don't want to be a steward of an open technology, why on earth would you become an open-source maintainer?
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Dead means different things to different people, but there is no way in hell I'd start a new project using a niche language that hasn't been updated in almost a year.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Your defense of the Elm leadership team is far more vague than the article criticizing it. He is very specific about limitations of the platform and the behavior of the leaders. You, on the other hand, are very hand-wavey in their defense &
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Yeah, but you know it's not going to the get the coverage it deserves, since it's not a problem in the US, where we use tires instead.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Totally different. You aren't adjusting your development workflow based on a soft drink. If it weren't a rug-pull, why wouldn't they charge for it immediately, or at least tell us the price now? They are specifically hoping y
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by santoshalper 2y ago
They're just telling you it's not going to be $0.00. It could be $5/year, $20/mo or anything else. It's the gentleman's rug-pull.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Pretty much. At some point there is nowhere to go but up. Still, it's nice to see.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Man, that shit is so old. Even if you're right, which I don't think you are, you are adding nothing to the conversation but cynicism.
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Disclosure - I immensely dislike Trump and think Ross Ublricht deserved to be convicted. That said - There is no evidence that anyone was ever killed, there is pretty thin evidence that he actually ever intended to hire any hitmen (though h
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by santoshalper 2y ago
Not China though.

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