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by worik 1y ago
> For most proprietary desktop software businesses, porting to Linux is not profitable. True, but mostly because they see software as a binary number on a disc. If they saw software as an artefact to build, as Free Software does, this wo
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by worik 1y ago
RMS as a Cassandra?
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by worik 1y ago
> It's truly shocking to live in a world where linux is a better option in every category over windows. For people who have been using Linux for decades, it is not so shocking. Definitely frustrating it has taken so lone.
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by worik 1y ago
> But then again, anything beats writing C for a living. I love that. My happiest professional programming has been C I guess diversity of taste is a wonderful thing?
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by worik 1y ago
> That said, I mostly just use Deno + TS for my shell script needs beyond simple bash. Mostly in that JS is hands down the language I know the best (28 years), close would be C# (24 years) for me I sympathise, but in 2025 that is a terri
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by worik 1y ago
That list of firms is a wall of shame, period
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by worik 1y ago
That was part of it The Universal payments to over 65 year olds is the Universal part
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by worik 1y ago
About time! This is good work
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Mexico's welfare policies helped 13.4M people out of poverty(theguardian.com)
12 points by worik 1y ago|6 comments
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by worik 1y ago
Universal benefits are an effective poverty reduction tool. Well, duh!
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The Cat(mwl.io)
4 points by worik 1y ago|0 comments
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Starlink tries to block Virginia's plan to bring fiber Internet to residents(arstechnica.com)
58 points by worik 1y ago|12 comments
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> the folks who equate new borrowings with income
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by worik 1y ago
I have a comment above about access to capital, which is much easier if you already have it, so the rich have more access than the poor to the main tool of capitalism. But another example, equity: If I am raising money for my startup, and
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by worik 1y ago
Where do you buy shoes? That is the exact opposite of my (and Cpt. Vines) experience
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by worik 1y ago
Totally and utterly wrong, a complete misunderstanding of capitalism Let me explain. Access to capital is key. If you have it you can do business, if you do not you cannot, in general terms There is more than one way to access capital, deb
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by worik 1y ago
Even better personal experience You estimate a factor of two for over estimate, believable, but higher than I would have thought. Makes sense with the context of getting more revenue. Thank you I caution you against the "I looked at sa
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by worik 1y ago
Sigh. Personal experience Vs. looking at pictures from the basement.... I expect it to be USA policy soon.
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by worik 1y ago
> And where did Musk's money come from? No body (?) is contending that in a free market wealth is not created. The contention is that when wealth is created it tends to head to other wealth. When a bank lends capital and has a choic
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by worik 1y ago
> In a free market society, wealth is created, it is not "concentrated" That is incorrect In a free market wealth has a definite tendency to clump together, to concentrate. A moment's thought will make clear why.
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by worik 1y ago
> the average number of years a woman spends being educated; Have you a recent reference for that? I think even that correlation has broken down, but I do not know
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by worik 1y ago
> Windows 7 was pretty cool, and XP was practically unbeatable That is very puzzling... Did you compare them to anything else?
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> because they're not trying to sell my data Are you sure?
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by worik 1y ago
No. Linux is better. That worm has turned, at least five years ago
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by worik 1y ago
....and their tools are very flash, bright colours and buttons...and they mostly work "Mostly" is not good enough. The user experience of Apple is still good, the developer experience is woeful
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The Kindness of Strangers(theguardian.com)
2 points by worik 1y ago|0 comments
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by worik 1y ago
A lot of work to evaluate these models. Thank you
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by worik 1y ago
I understand. I get the point. I disagree Privacy absolutely does not matter, until it does, and then it is too late
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by worik 1y ago
...and red car means "warning! outrageous jersey at the wheel" Wait, no it dose not....
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by worik 1y ago
I just use the number of peta-seconds since I was born....

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