tjader

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by tjader 4y ago
I don't know what to say. Someone went to a person who is well known to have the position that nonfree software is unethical and to be an idealist to ask how to make nonfree software and somehow is surprised that the answer is that the
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by tjader 4y ago
> To conflate and compare and equivalate unethical behaviours like theft with true evils like slavery or murder is beyond unhelpful. I'm not saying those behaviors are all equally bad. I'm saying they are all bad, with an unspe
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by tjader 4y ago
> You did exactly that. You may want to reread my original post carefully. > I truly hope that you are wrong and Stallman does not believe proprietary software to be an evil on par with slavery. I can't claim to know the internal
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by tjader 4y ago
I wasn't comparing proprietary software to slavery. I was making the point that for Stallman proprietary software is as unethical as slavery is to most people. Maybe I picked the wrong thing to make the analogy, it could have worked
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by tjader 4y ago
The point is not to compare proprietary software to slavery. The point is that Stallman does not find proprietary software bad for the user, he finds it morally wrong . That means in this case it doesn't make sense to complain and arg
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by tjader 4y ago
No. I made an analogy to another behavior that I hope everyone will agree is unethical. The point is that if you accept Stallman's position that closed source software is unethical his response is not unexpected.
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by tjader 4y ago
Stallman and the FSF see closed source software as unethical. Imagine if someone asked you for help and said "I don't see how to free my slaves while making a living, paying my rent, paying for my children's education".
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by tjader 5y ago
Two years ago the S&P 500 fell 12% in one day. You'd need about $1,250,000 invested in it to lose $150,000 in that day. That doesn't sound like an unlikely balance for a 401K after 20 years to me.
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by tjader 5y ago
I don't believe RL or other modern online games could survive with even a tenth of the player base if they didn't have decent matchmaking, and you can't have decent matchmaking if you depend on players finding each other outs
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by tjader 5y ago
Ah, I understand what you mean now. I can't say that feels relevant at all at my level of play.
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by tjader 5y ago
The Fennec's hitbox is the same as the Octane: https://twitter.com/RL_Support/status/1144311306415157248 As far as I know all custom cars have the same hitbox as one of the freely available cars.
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by tjader 5y ago
I'm not sure, why do you ask specifically about the Fennec? I have bought some items, but only by trading free drops for keys/credits.
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by tjader 5y ago
Anectdata: I have over 2000 hours of Rocket League, never once spent any money on it after purchasing it and never one have I felt that my fun was impacted by the available microtransactions. Nothing that can be purchased in the game affect
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by tjader 5y ago
I use matrix-appservice-irc, mautrix-{googlechat,telegram,whatsapp} and mx-puppet-discord. I don't use Discord all that much and I just bridge a few specific rooms I'm interested in, but I think you can bridge entire servers at on
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by tjader 5y ago
Do you manage to get pictures, audio messages, videos and reactions to work well in both directions with that setup? Also, I use this for personal messages as well as group chats. The people I interact with don't even know I am not usi
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by tjader 5y ago
I've been using Matrix + bridges to fill that gap. I use IRC, Telegram, Google Chat, Discord and WhatsApp all via bridges, so I only have to interact with a single interface and all my chats are in the same place. Before that I used fi
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by tjader 5y ago
> Or, for a more concrete example: I do actually refuse to hire people who are both a) presently addicted to nicotine and b) consume tobacco combustion smoke to service that addiction. My personal thesis is that not quitting smoking in 2
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by tjader 5y ago
They don't handle the trades themselves. You use them to find a person and trade directly with them.
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by tjader 5y ago
Aren't localbitcoins.com and similar markets that?
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by tjader 5y ago
There are such markets in the open, as trading gold and crypto is mostly legal, so where's the demand for a dark market for those?
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by tjader 5y ago
To me that just makes what DST really does transparent. It makes everyone shift their schedules, whether they want to or not. About the meeting example, I don't think GP meant purple who like DST should change their clocks, they should
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by tjader 5y ago
I think a more apt comparison would be requiring farmers to make their farming techniques public, not giving away the food they farmed.
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by tjader 5y ago
That will run on even days. That means that when a month with 31 or 29 days ends it won't run for two days in a row, as the day will go 30, 31, 1, 2.
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by tjader 5y ago
I am also interested in this. I don't understand how it makes sense to talk about "class" in such a discrete way. Is a FAANG engineer who earns $250k/year really an oppressed proletarian? Is the small bakery owner who st
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by tjader 5y ago
I would say it's unhealthy to think of it as only luck. It's luck that you like something that is sought after in the job market. But actually spending years learning about it, and sometimes learning things you may not like so m
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by tjader 5y ago
Isn't individually targeted comprehensible input a large part of a 1-on-1 class? I would expect a good teacher to speak a lot during those 2 hours, and to properly adjust his speech so that's always pushing the boundaries of what
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by tjader 5y ago
He probably meant to say that Vanguard is owned by the funds themselves, not by some external private entity. That makes their incentives be more aligned with making the funds cheap and efficient.
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by tjader 5y ago
Can't that same argument be used to lower the minimum wage when inflation is low?
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by tjader 5y ago
If it's not economically viable, then there's no need to regulate against it, as no one would build it. However we see many governments blocking nuclear and even shutting down current plants. Why is that?
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by tjader 5y ago
It depends on how it's done. If it's just printing the $30 out of thin air and giving it away then probably yeah, but if it's from a better wealth distribution it should have better effects.

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