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by varnaud 4y ago
We'll never make the world perfect, but we can try and make it better. Less exploitation seems like a good thing to do. Don't you agree?
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by varnaud 4y ago
Some people like to post a word or a short sentence or some kind of artwork many, many times, everywhere they can. They enjoy knowing their message is seen by many. For them, it's not pointless. At what point does it become spam and we
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by varnaud 4y ago
>Artists are no different than all the people who tried to destroy the cotton gin or the automated loom. Yes. They are angry that their labor was used to create something new and arguably more efficient, but they don't get a appropr
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by varnaud 4y ago
Snail mail is still scanned for illicit content. Also many times in western history letters were read and then possibly censored at processing facilities. Back in those days, it was a human opening letter/package and inspecting the con
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by varnaud 4y ago
Even their website uses frames. https://framework.com/
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by varnaud 4y ago
Maybe you don't care, but I care and so do many people. I'd argue you should also care. Knowing where the money comes from is fundamental is so many aspect of our society. Getting a loan from a bank will require you to disclose so
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by varnaud 4y ago
>exceptional people Why would you only provide free/subsidized schooling to exceptional people. Why not all people? If you truly believe in meritocracy, wouldn't you want everyone to have a fair opportunity to prove themselves
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by varnaud 4y ago
The chain of events: Step 1: Tweak settings and type text Step 2: Look at the result Step 3: If you like the result, go to step 4, otherwise go back to step 1. Step 4: Save and share the result Feels like art to me. Ultimately it's sti
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by varnaud 4y ago
After further examination of the cat pictures, I do agree with you. I still prefer the dog website design and it has better performance on my machine than the cat one (the scrolling is laggy on FF).
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by varnaud 4y ago
Cute. Clearly the superior version of http.cat
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by varnaud 4y ago
If choose to not make any money and own nothing, you pay no taxes. You can also "just move lol" to another country where there is no taxation. >tax evasion is simply a moral obligation for everyone who believes that people shou
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by varnaud 4y ago
That's a great requirement imo. For short term stay, we already have hotels, hostels and regular BnBs. Apartments and houses should be reserved for long term stay and regulated accordingly. The original idea of AirBnB was to easily ren
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by varnaud 4y ago
A subscription usually imply you lose access to the software when the subscription ends, which is not the case here.
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by varnaud 5y ago
What utility? In the Funded work section of the article, I don't see anything that web3 is making more useful or that could not be done without it. I hope they simply cash out the fund they received and implement none of the IPFS crap.
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by varnaud 5y ago
>despite I'm getting strong "I'm not racist, but..." vibes mixed with "MLK said judge character not skin color".
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by varnaud 5y ago
They're just stating facts. Good or bad, antidepressants help people cope with life just as opioid help people deal with physical pain. Chronic usage can become a problem, but short term usage is unquestionably beneficial for many peop
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by varnaud 5y ago
The homeless issue is in the name. It's people without a home. The solution is to provide people with a place they can call home, like a house or an apartment. Why focus on drugs? Do you believe that some people deserve to have no home
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by varnaud 5y ago
You missed half of parent logic. >it's okay because society is stacked against them. If you can't find a job in the US, you won't go to another country to find one. After all, you're already in the "best country
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by varnaud 5y ago
>For example, saying that a man is a man and a woman is a woman can be considered hate speech against the trans community. If you can't understand why this is the case, then I'm sorry for your lack of critical thinking.
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by varnaud 5y ago
I think that seeing a overwhelmingly positive like to dislike ratio might hide signals that what you're viewing is propaganda. "If so many people like this, it probably has value." "There is always a few dislike from hat
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by varnaud 5y ago
Very nice, I like the concept how easy it is to get things up and running. The obvious problems I thought about yesterday when I first saw this was spam and at some point moderation. I looked the homepages this morning and sure enough, some
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by varnaud 5y ago
Yikes... But no seriously, you oppose social security and the minimum wage? We should let corporations exploit workers as much as they please and provide no care for the ones who can't work? What the conservative libertarian says: >
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by varnaud 5y ago
From the wikipedia article: >The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is an American conservative libertarian economic think tank. >FEE, founded in 1946, is considered the oldest free-market think tank in the United States. An earl
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by varnaud 5y ago
Thank god. If I can get a train to go from A to B, I usually take the train. You can arrive at the train station 5 minutes before departure and make it to the train. It's just an overall more comfy experience, mostly thanks to the seam
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by varnaud 5y ago
I keep my journal in a private git repository. I hope one day someone from my family will read it if I'm gone. Maybe I'll share it with someone I love if they ask. I had the fear that it could be leaked, but honestly I realized I
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by varnaud 5y ago
Tim Cook can pay the Chinese workers rounding errors on his net worth because they and the other workers able to do similar work are not organized. They have no power. They can't ask for better working condition and better salary. Also
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by varnaud 5y ago
>The privacy/tracking aspect of Braves Ads (which you don't have to use) seems to be way, way better than Google Adsense Exactly, "seems". Once again, good marketing from the Brave team. Heck, they even sponsored ches
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by varnaud 5y ago
I feel the author is on point. Brave is all about marketing and surfing the privacy wave to make profit. Take a look at https://brave.com/brave-ads/ Brave goal is to acquire as much users as possible to sell them to ad
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by varnaud 5y ago
I removed Avira antivirus from my grandma low spec laptop and switched to the builtin Windows one. My suspicious was that it was constantly scanning the HDD and running a bunch of processes that overworked the laptop limited capacities. Boo
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by varnaud 5y ago
Totally agree with you. Universities need ways to finance themselves. Tech companies are expert at avoiding paying taxes that could be used to pay for the research and this patent trolling could be an attempt to get some of that money back

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