yarrel

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by yarrel 6y ago
It worries me that nobody in power at Mozilla seems to have the first clue how to make money from Free Software and so they have made "commercialism" a corporate fetish. Making money and looking commercial are not the same thing,
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by yarrel 6y ago
> Did we apologize? Did we learn anything? Did we work to prevent it happening again? No.
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by yarrel 6y ago
No. We need one for software company executives and investors. A senior executive who wants to push this onto their employees can be safely optimized out of the discussion.
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by yarrel 6y ago
Someone who doesn't want people to speak up.
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by yarrel 6y ago
But if you forgive them why would you not have further dealings with them? After all, they haven't done anything harmful in your revised opinion.
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by yarrel 6y ago
"Forgiving someone who hasn't changed is like encouraging a poisoner."
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by yarrel 6y ago
If that person hears that they have been forgiven, how do you think that will guide their future actions? There's a big gap in all the highly psychologized/desocialized talk of forgiveness in this discussion. That is one of its pr
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by yarrel 6y ago
So not only must we let those who wrong us off the hook and feel for them, if we can't it's because we aren't virtuous enough. I'm perfectly comfortable ignoring that moral claim. If people want to talk about letting go,
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by yarrel 6y ago
"Legal financial services are bailed out by the state when they destroy the economy, cryptocurrencies don't do that" doesn't take 900 words.
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by yarrel 6y ago
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/03/18/understandin... https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/20/16256240/m... https://medium.com/bas
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by yarrel 6y ago
How will those jobs be created without becoming "Bullshit Jobs" and workfare?
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by yarrel 6y ago
Income tax requires income. UBI doesn't. Policing benefits hurts the poor, not the rich. Where people would otherwise have no income UBI will increase spending. Where they don't it has other benefits. But if you want to save that
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by yarrel 6y ago
None of the V3 licenses say "derived". Derivation is a specific concept in US copyright law, so in fact it doesn't need to be derived in the license. But it also doesn't apply elsewhere. So the V3 licenses use the term &
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by yarrel 6y ago
"...the newly amended version of the bill essentially gives state lawmakers the ability to regulate the internet, according to Joe Mullin, a policy analyst with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who broke down the censorship risks po
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by yarrel 6y ago
If people wish to push for structural change, having time to do so is a good affordance of UBI.
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by yarrel 6y ago
Wait 'til you hear about the police!
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by yarrel 6y ago
Because prediction markets are useful tools. They are not the assassination market thought experiment.
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by yarrel 6y ago
It's under copyrightish in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version#Copyright_s...
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by yarrel 6y ago
Yes https://opensource.com/osm
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by yarrel 6y ago
This makes sense. Microsoft are not a retail company. Copying Apple's stores made no sense either economically or aesthetically.
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by yarrel 6y ago
Mozilla loves partnerships. They don't have to be revenue streams. They just preferably have to be hostile to user freedom. Mozilla needs to fix the internal incentives that lead to this situation.
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by yarrel 6y ago
Headline announces opposite of what has happened.
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by yarrel 6y ago
Excepting a minor detail - NextStep brought Jobs to Apple rather than vice versa. Gil Amelio chose NextStep rather than Apple's own Copeland as the successor to System 7, bought NeXT, and never knew what hit him.
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by yarrel 6y ago
Capitalizing "Black" is in response to people who identify as Black doing so, I believe. Doing so for people who identify as capital-W "White" would be very different and hand them a victory that will badly distort publi
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by yarrel 6y ago
"...the way that dissent from the herding dynamics can be an effective way to game the attention economy..." , yes, go on...
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by yarrel 6y ago
Spoiler: they don't.
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by yarrel 6y ago
Microsoft just charges you for math. Historically speaking what they make are contracts with hardware manufacturers and lawsuits over patents on that math. Mainstream publishers lend authors money to write books as advances, edit their writ
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by yarrel 6y ago
MTV decided they wanted to remain historically irrelevant and sent a takedown notice.
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by yarrel 6y ago
The Eco is great. I use it for any long documents I have to write because it's so comfortable and reliable. I do have to clean it more often than other pens due to the ink feed getting gunged up though. Also I accidentally took mine on
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by yarrel 6y ago
I don't think I'm every going to get used to holding the 2000. I love the grip of the Safari, and I know people have trouble with the Studio being slippy but I like that as well. That said, I've come to terms with the 2000&#x

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