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1. 151.▲
   by the_local_host 6y ago

   But it's irrelevant to the quality of the policy, which is what is in dispute here. EDIT: I suppose personal motivations would be relevant if they were part of a conflict of interest, e.g. in cases of bribery or when the public offi
2. 152.▲
   by the_local_host 6y ago

   > Chesa Boudin was only fourteen months old when both his mother and father... were arrested... Perhaps because of this personal history... Even if the author is correctly inferring Boudin's private motivations, what does that have
3. 153.▲
   by the_local_host 6y ago

   I guess that would work, the time and effort involved in getting end-users to link the application makes downloading a large Electron binary seem downright pleasant.
4. 154.▲
   by the_local_host 6y ago

   Productivity is a scam. Jeff Bezos doesn't double his own productivity; he doubles Amazon's.
5. 155.▲
   by the_local_host 6y ago

   Just yesterday I was reviewing Qt, GTK and Electron as possible choices for some GUI exercise, and _at a glance_ Qt sure looks likely to involve committing to GPL, which is a pretty irreversible commitment to have to make at the outset of a
6. 156.▲
   by the_local_host 6y ago

   > It's not always the case that abusive behaviour under one VP... is extrapolate-able to other organizations A company ought to be defined by the worst conditions it allows to persist, otherwise they have less incentive to clean up
7. 157.▲
   by the_local_host 6y ago

   Thanks to the author for this. My amateur-hour electronics dream is to level up from simple Arduino/control voltage hacking to an actual, workable polyphonic synthesizer.
8. 158.▲
   by the_local_host 6y ago

   The author of the twitter thread works for a non-profit. It think it's safe to assume it's a cause she believes in rather than "just another income stream".
9. 159.▲
   by the_local_host 6y ago

   Assuming this combination of tools does work, it may be that it's just too hard to discover, given the large number of competing approaches described in the article and these comments.
10. 160.▲
    by the_local_host 6y ago

    > I'd bet an average person knows more famous [visionary]/entrepreneur people (like Jobs and Gates) than famous fashion designers. I doubt that's the case. Popular music cites eponymous fashion brands regularly. Listener
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    by the_local_host 6y ago

    Is a "legal system that pays for itself" even desirable? Having revenue at all would seem to bring with it all kinds of terrible incentives. Moreover if the full cost of incarceration is borne by the taxpayer, then everyone has a