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by zanny 8y ago
I think its more that if the owners of software respected you at all they would not be trying to sell it you in a proprietary form to begin with. It should be no surprise that those trying to exploit and abuse copyright in an era when it ma
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by zanny 8y ago
So does Canonical when you download Ubuntu. That being said, you really want money to go to developers making the software. Not to discredit the work of packagers and integrators (mostly at Debian) but actually writing the code at the end o
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by zanny 8y ago
Walmart alone doesn't constitute a significant enough employee base to influence the national economy but I'm pretty sure the behavior of retail in general, where you exploit unskilled labor and the welfare system to use public be
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by zanny 8y ago
Nothing comes back. You are left with a husk where anyone still living there travels dozens of miles to get groceries. Its becoming a legitimate problem across the country, especially when the population that often chooses to stay are retir
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by zanny 8y ago
It is incredibly naive to think any major retail center exists without substantial investment by local and state governments. In many places Walmart made money just building their supercenters in many dying towns across the country.
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by zanny 8y ago
I think the goal should be so have so much factional diversity you never reach a coalition state. It only degrades into the status quo when politicians see a path to enshrining their ideology into law without compromise. Part of the problem
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by zanny 8y ago
By that logic first past the post is ranked choice across the population. The whole point of alternative vote systems is to be able to both designate your preferred candidate while also being able to specify your tertiary preferences so you
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by zanny 8y ago
I'm speaking as someone who is neither a professional chef but one who has cooked homemade meals a majority of my adult life for myself and family when I say its hard. Its hard because its not a sustainable place to put someone in to t
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by zanny 8y ago
Thats what I said? Its a three way tradeoff between diversity, availability, and quality. If you want one you sacrifice the others. The best way for most people to eat sustainable good food on the regular is to eat on a schedule (when chef
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by zanny 8y ago
The thing is we aren't talking about writing "I can cook" on a tinder profile type cooking, we are talking about being able to replace a majority of that take out with cooking at home. And I'm not talking about it being
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by zanny 8y ago
Its a bit of a sleeper but I find Kdevelop to be the by far best Python IDE out there. Theres some arcane magic in its code completion, semantic highlighter, and ability to somehow find documentation from the ether that nothing else can com
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by zanny 8y ago
Cooking is hard, requires a lot of hardware to do, and is an acquired skill that takes a lot of blunt learning of a lot of minute details about how certain ingredients interact. In the same way you don't ask everyone to learn to repair
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by zanny 8y ago
Its not about locality, its about paying as little as possible to get the people you want. If you want someone from Podunk Kansas you could easily pay them a third as much as someone living in a major metro but yours will still be the best
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by zanny 8y ago
For most employers satisfied, happy, and content workers are just underexploited. If they aren't miserable you aren't getting your monies worth. Its a legitimate mindset way too much of the business world in the US believes despit
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by zanny 8y ago
Almost all great empires to some degree planted the roots of their legitimacy of conquest in their own self superiority. Nationalism is as old as the first man who thought some other culture as "uncivilized". Like how, say, the Ro
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by zanny 8y ago
You can make anywhere a habitable paradise with enough energy. You don't even really need specific resources since with sufficient energy can you synthesize elements. A lot of people underestimate what the current projected growth of s
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by zanny 8y ago
As long as Saudi Arabia is one of Americas "greatest" allies there is no leg to stand on arguing any aspect of US foreign policy involves a moral war against totalitarianism.
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by zanny 8y ago
There is no dictator, you are electing a plurality of representatives by rank choice. Even if one bad actor gets in they are still a minority of authority on appointments from your delegation. And if a party were consistently putting in thr
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by zanny 8y ago
A big part of the problem I feel is choice fatigue. Its by design that when you go to vote in a US election you are often voting for sometimes 20 or more different positions, and because of the sheer quantity of people you are supposed to a
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by zanny 8y ago
AMD is still behind per core in both clocks and per clock performance. Intel has demonstrated the ability to just keep pushing cores to match AMDs largest offerings by just jacking up architectures they have been milking cheap for high marg
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by zanny 8y ago
Irony is that if Cali curtailed its absurd zoning laws and codes those single family houses would be worth 100x more overnight once developers can replace them with 50 stories of condos. If most of Cali rezoned a hundred billion dollars of
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by zanny 8y ago
Whats interesting is that there is not much to collect anymore. From a third party vantage point it seems childrens entertainment has been devoured whole by mobile addictive skinner boxes. Between social media and that garbage a lot of kids
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by zanny 8y ago
Its not really about the design. At some point you have to recognize the physical impossibilities of p2p models - primarily availability. The reason why Matrix is more popular than Tox or why we haven't seen any remotely successful p2p
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by zanny 8y ago
Its actually quite rare to have property repossessed for failing to pay back a, for example, credit card. A majority of debts you take on the lender won't go through channels to use force against you because those are time consuming an
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by zanny 8y ago
Seriously, every single one of us being on HN is the product of being stupidly lucky to be born where we were and be typing on whatever we are. Millions of potential Einsteins have lived and died as subsistence farmers or worse throughout
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by zanny 8y ago
It doesn't hurt that you can get a large chunk of the travel experience virtually now. Either watching someone elses travel vlogs (from just phone camera stuff to professional productions on various places) or using something like goog
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by zanny 8y ago
At least a few of those have evolving technical solutions. We can all travel in a more sustainable way if we can do full body VR immersion wherever we want to go. We don't need cars if we have fleets of autonomous vehicles to pick us u
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by zanny 8y ago
The worst part about the industry is its a zero sum game. All you are trying to do is redirect dollars that would go somewhere else to your thing. You don't add value in that process, you simply redirect it. And because its an arms rac
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by zanny 8y ago
There is a substantial difference between owning your people and having a consistent system tracking their existence. My major issue with the thought process that gets you to "having a national is a violation of my freedom" is tha
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by zanny 8y ago
The difference is that every country with any sense actually keeps track of its citizens. Consistently. Because when you say it out loud, it sounds ridiculous to be a government with no idea who your people actually are. For half a century

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