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by vovavili 4mo ago
>a tax on tech funding a subsidy on independent studios Forcing consumers to subsidize an expensive taste sounds like a peculiar idea.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
Open source in general is notoriously difficult to easily monetize.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
>most of those costs are construction with very little of the regulation You would be surprised.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
>I have yet to read a comprehensive overview of how this happened and how we get out of it Allow me to introduce you to Bryan Caplan - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1952223415
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by vovavili 4mo ago
Buddy, this is far from three days a year in some specific Dutch city. We have this happening all over the continent. You're just out of touch.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
>Air conditioning is not needed in most of Europe Uhh... https://imgur.com/a/MTTMKDr
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by vovavili 4mo ago
Microsoft must be quite nervous right now.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
And that's why you want to start paying for GMaps?
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by vovavili 4mo ago
Yes, that's precisely the thought which lead me to the "overwhelmingly likely" hedging.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
The best way to learn is from other people's mistakes.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
A person maintaining a sizeable open-source project is overwhelmingly likely to have all three.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
I am not sure how any of this follows.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
These are exactly the kind of companies that have enough data and analysis to avoid bleeding money.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
Legislating costly support for a free and accessible service is how that service stops being free and accessible.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
That's the unfortunate outcome of running a business at scale.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
I think it's best to leave these educational matters to tech journalists or Internet commentariat. UX is the priority.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
The cohort that is concerned about this almost certainly runs some sort of a blocker.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
Not surprising. All the Yandex people that moved over to here to the Netherlands that I know of are astounded about the insane difference in the tax burden between what they had in Russia and what they have in Western Europe (when their 5 y
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by vovavili 4mo ago
>I don't see how any self-respecting Hacker could choose anything else Brave and Vivaldi strike me as being at least not worse.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
>BTC is useless, unless your trying to buy child porn, buy illicit drugs on the internet The market has long shifted to "buy Litecoin with cash, swap it to Monero" for these kinds of activities.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
Nothing scares a cartel of coercive monopolies extracting rent from trivial administrative work more than competition.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
For me it's not so much laziness, as more of a lack of desire to rely on a framework that Zed core team still feels to be not ready for a general release. Electron just happens to be the least worst way to make an aesthetically pleasin
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by vovavili 4mo ago
The way I see it, a government led by an adult toddler and his sycophants has decided to punish a firm that refused to cooperate with it's military when it was embarrassed by a militarily weak adversary. The model strength spin strikes
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by vovavili 4mo ago
>_foolishly_ think that staying out of politics is some kind of virtue Sounds like a very bold assertion to me.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
The concept of a common-pool resource has nothing to do with awkward radical political ideologies.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
I'd gladly pay for software that demonstrates craftsmanship, quality and care for the user. Not a very common phenomenon unfortunately.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
I don't really see how this applies to Anthropic. Claude Code _is_ their integral money maker. Their point above is a three-way neck-to-neck competition where they won't be able to become a near-monopoly any time soon.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
Having a five-year plan dictating which publicly owned b2b SaaS AI service you will be provisioned sure sounds like a dream of mine. I wonder what could go wrong.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
Being alienated from the outcome of your labor is far from my idea of heaven.
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by vovavili 4mo ago
In a landscape like that, good luck proving to a hyper-cautious employer that you actually are a skilled software engineer and not just a larping ticket shuffler. In the near future, I fear the person who will decidedly be able to prove tha

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