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by sdiacom 4y ago
It is very dishonest to frame it as the suggestion that "your family members should get a lethal injection like the USA gives to criminals", as it strongly implies a lack of agency and consent on their part. What's happening
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Historically (before China's manufacturing boom) it was used cars that made their way to developing countries, and the infrastructure was built for those cars. Which is to say, nobody made cars for them , but cars made their way there
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Faster charging times (fast enough that your vehicle is charged in the time it takes to enjoy a coffee and a bagel at the coffee shop adjacent to the charging point) would also be an acceptable solution in many cases.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Clearly someone is paying for additional investments into security. GitHub, that is.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
This is all misinformation. OneCoin was never a cryptocurrency, it was a pretty website where you PayPal-ed your life savings into a black hole. We can't even say that its price crashed, because there was never a market for it. It&#x27
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I agree that it makes no sense to discuss this as if it was a cryptocurrency, as it was only co-opting the language of cryptocurrencies to push a scam. No coin or blockchain ever existed, and nothing could really be traded, so it makes no s
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Of course some tech companies are bloated, and of course some other tech companies must grow further. But the tune about what the tech industry as a whole must do seems to suddenly shift, depending on whether it's pump season or dump s
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Just last month, he was passionately defending Elon Musk's decisions running Twitter, on Twitter, from all those annoying plebs who dared to speak their minds about it, not even having ran any companies themselves. The topic of "t
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I think that, by leaving Twitter alone, he already has. If we've learned something about Elon so far, from previous episodes of the cursed news cycle we all inhabit, is that he's vindictive and petty to an irrational extent (calli
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by sdiacom 4y ago
It's interesting how VCs suddenly seem to believe "tech companies are bloated and need to layoff staff", now that they can't just show up at a bank and get literal buckloads of other people's money with no justifica
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by sdiacom 4y ago
This is such a weird article. Ostensibly, it's about Bluesky, but it spends most of its length on deriding Mastodon, seemingly with other people's hearsay and tweets as the only source of (mis)information on the matter. It doesn&#
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I'm done with replying to this, but just to be clear, none of this is an ad hominem, and a generalization is not a straw man. You should probably look up what those words mean, they're not just magical words you sprinkle on a sent
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by sdiacom 4y ago
To be clear, I never said that PHP developers don't know any other languages, and I don't believe that is true. My comment was in response to you asking whether the other user (who as far as I can tell was not posting any false in
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Something that is extremely common in the PHP community, and pretty much absent in any other programming community, is this knee-jerk aversion to the idea of learning another language, and this sort of derision to those who do. Have you con
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I may be irony-poisoned beyond repair, but I genuinely can't tell if this comment is intentionally a parody of a Hacker News comment.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
You have a point. A related question is, is being useless at being evil equivalent to being neutral? And is profiting of such useless evil, in turn, also neutral? That is, if the VCs are intending to do something evil by turning a company i
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Perhaps it's interesting to consider who the bad thing is being done to. Consider, for example, working for outlandishly impractical VC-funded ideas, where the main "evil" that's being done is conning venture capitalists
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by sdiacom 4y ago
The code base certainly looks the part.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Generally I would agree, but in this case, "Crystal user" isn't that much better.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Especially if you're already prefixing it with "GitHub-". Like, you're definitely not going to step over the HTTP standard headers any time soon. That said, the overall concept is deprecated: https://www.rfc-e
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Sure, but you can't use DeFi to trade fiat for crypto. You can use DeFi to trade crypto for crypto, or for crypto that pretends to be fiat. Saying "centralised exchanges bad, DeFi good" misses the point that the main use case
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by sdiacom 4y ago
It's the American dream. Always has been.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
It's hard to tell, and it's certainly possible that this person genuinely enjoyed working with Musk and believes him to be a visionary. But if I spent half of my working years pursuing the erratic whims of an egomaniac, I'd h
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by sdiacom 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I think a big part of it is that COVID has become an attention point in our lives, it entirely dominated the media cycle for months. There's something everyone wants to hear about and _we just don't know that much about it_, so th
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Six hundred euros a year gets you a no-copay plan for one person, all emergencies included. This is the top of the line, the most expensive individual plan available at this insurer. A regular no-frills, some-copay insurance plan would pr
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by sdiacom 4y ago
The vast majority of people who have so-called "good" health coverage in the US are paying one to three orders of magnitude more for it, compared to the price of private health insurance in countries with a public health system.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I don't think OP's comment is in any way representative of the fediverse.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Please elaborate? I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. My perspective is that advertising sets a perverse incentive to create content that is indexable and clickable (machine-translated Stack Overflow answers, recipes with twelve para
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by sdiacom 4y ago
What happens if we don't "fund the internet"? What if we let projects with genuine usefulness flourish on their own, being funded directly by those who want them to exist, and we let the advertisement-funded internet fall by

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