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by toofy 8y ago
To paraphrase what someone else said yesterday: In a world where companies are expected to have growth every quarter, a project like GitHub is one bad quarter away from microsoft making major changes or being abandoned or being completely s
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by toofy 8y ago
Why are people upset that others are seeking alternatives? If other people prefer to seek an alternative to GitHub, why is this upsetting to you? Isn’t it a good thing that people can choose to move to other services?
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by toofy 8y ago
GitHub had the community’s trust because it was a neutral company simply providing a service. I don’t see how most projects and companies can ever see a microsoft owned code repository as a neutral space. I truly hope they keep it independe
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by toofy 8y ago
Part of the reason we trusted GitHub with our projects and our code was they were a neutral party simply providing a service. Sadly, being bought out by microsoft completely removes their neutrality. Whether they will abuse the trust of hav
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by toofy 8y ago
> US citizen who has spent more than a few weeks in Barcelona ... seen how people abuse the commons firsthand Aside from breaking the law, how does one abuse a common area? Not implying this is what you’re saying, but I’ll never understa
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by toofy 8y ago
> At the moment people can publicy and on-the-record spout the most outrageous bullshit and even when they get proven wrong there is no repercussion. none. On a personal level, just cut those people out of your life. Refusing to interac
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by toofy 8y ago
> funded by anarchist ideologues? I could be wrong, but I don’t think the poster above yours were implying the aim was to take down all of society — I think they were implying the goal of some of these networks is to bring down particula
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by toofy 8y ago
> Me, I'd be embarrassed if I didn't tag you as anomalous So it sounds like these types of strategies need to be turned into fashion trends in order to make the anomalies not so anomalous?
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by toofy 8y ago
> You really think the "populists" who want to "tax the rich" are going to stop At the 1%? Yep. Most people are perfectly capable of distinguishing between a middle class 2 bedroom house and someone who owns 15 vacati
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by toofy 8y ago
> we have as close to the opposite of a planned (and thus designed) economy as one can get in the present day. I understand why this might seem like the most obvious answer, but your analysis seems to not take into account things like re
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by toofy 8y ago
> It’s entirely reasonable to expect that researchers who invented e.g. golden rice we’re thinking about the lives it’ll save. Absolutely. I was simply responding to the above poster’s implication that we should never consider motives wh
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by toofy 8y ago
Considering what motivates someone can often be useful. People can behave and make drastically different choices based solely on motivation. People will often pick and choose what information they choose to share or choose to hide based la
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by toofy 9y ago
That’s precisely what I was thinking.. “oh no! What broke!?”
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by toofy 9y ago
> ...where even though there might be strong/reliable federated hosts, YOU fundamentally control your identity and it does NOT belong to a federated host. Yeah, owning ones identity and also your followers/friends/etc conn
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by toofy 9y ago
> It may sound strange today to think of social media, internet search, etc as a public utility, but within a decade or two it will seem like common sense. Google, Facebook, YouTube and others are censoring their way towards nationalizat
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by toofy 9y ago
First thing first, this is a shining example why we should be trying to decentralize and why we should be trying to build diversity in how many providers we use to distribute content. This said, I dont think any of us have some inherent rig
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by toofy 9y ago
Yeah, it will be interesting to see if this was an intentional (algorithmic) response or a failure of sensors somewhere. I go back and forth with thinking the algorithms in things like self-driving cars should be public. Anything which must