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by zpallin 7y ago
You should contact Human Agenda and join their Mondragon Trip ( http://www.humanagenda.net/tour-the-mondragon-cooperatives/ ). Mondragon, as you probably know, is the home of the world's largest worker-coop federati
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by zpallin 7y ago
Agreed, completely. I support unions, but I see the best way forward to both increase equality and reduce corporate corruption is the Mondragon model of worker-owned cooperative federations. Unions are not an advance in this direction at al
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by zpallin 7y ago
> Generally speaking for well run, ethical companies, whose management actively try to do the right thing, unions add unnecessary redundancy and bureaucracy. The only type of "well run, ethical companies" where unions are redun
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by zpallin 7y ago
Right, we shouldn't jump to conclusions. Although, I'm not jumping to conclusions about Ajit Pai. I am simply pointing out a fact: that a former Verizon employee is in a major position in the US government. You decided to make thi
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by zpallin 7y ago
I don't know, and I don't think there is a rule for that. It depends on what sort of impact the people at that company had on you and your career. I had a job years ago that I held for two years that I think back fondly on. While
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by zpallin 7y ago
Agreed. We can't just break apart Google and call it a day. There are plenty of gigantic corporations who are probably looking forward to eventually acquiring parts of Google. I wouldn't put it past Verizon, who has not only partn
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by zpallin 7y ago
Sprawl does not help with lowering the cost of living, so no. It doesn't all help.
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by zpallin 7y ago
Fair enough, but even considering that, the other states at the top of the list are a grab bag consisting of some of the worst states in terms of environmental regulations. My point is that there is no absolute correlation with environmen
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by zpallin 7y ago
CEQA requirements are exempt from affordable housing developments. And developing Coyote Valley has never been about affordable housing. Essentially all of the proposals to develop Coyote Valley have catered to high-income home owners and
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by zpallin 7y ago
While Environmentalism is definitely classist, and CEQA has played a part in preventing affordable development in cities, there are so many other factors that boiling it down to environmentalism is absurd. If anything, CEQA and other envi
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by zpallin 7y ago
The article does not mention whether or not Firefox will also be affected. Does anyone know if Office365 ProPlus already does this or are they just ignoring Firefox?
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by zpallin 7y ago
We should all move our homes into the nearest data center. I call the locker next to the Layer 3 drop.
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by zpallin 7y ago
Well, no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_maintainer
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by zpallin 7y ago
>> "If that's the case, then why open source it at all" > This is the part which made me feel you disagreed with it. I am aware, and as I already explained, this is a rhetorical device which you mistook for my own p
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by zpallin 7y ago
It is enough, and I don't disagree with "the notion of someone publishing their work under a free software or open source license being useful for the world." I have simply no idea where you got the idea that I would disagree
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by zpallin 7y ago
And I agree completely. Except when you claim you're a "maintainer." If you do, that is supposed to mean something. And I think it means you're going to maintain the code. That's the only responsibility I am talki
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by zpallin 7y ago
Intentionally doing a crappy job is harmful. And if you're intentionally doing any of the things you listed above, then you're not a maintainer. That simply is not what maintaining means.
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by zpallin 7y ago
You might not believe this, but I agree with you! Doing something to the best of your ability includes the right to be able to suck at it also. I am pressing for absolutely no standard of quality, yet you somehow think that's the case.
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by zpallin 7y ago
If you post random code on the internet at your leisure, sure. When you have a marketing campaign for your open source tool... then yea, it's a sales pitch.
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by zpallin 7y ago
I disagree here, but only within the confines of the language I used. A maintainer of open source code is willingly submitting their own work to be used for free by others. They have no responsibility to extend it at all, but to maintain it
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by zpallin 7y ago
Then why open source at all if there is not some interest in helping others who have "aligned interests"?
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by zpallin 7y ago
If that's the case, then why open source it at all? Just make people pay.
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by zpallin 7y ago
Agreed. I think there is quite a lot of entitlement on the internet and as Klabnik pointed out: on reddit. And while it's definitely a maintainer's responsibility to make their code serve the interest of its users to the best of t
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by zpallin 7y ago
One stop shop? Even with an assumed "unified system" there is absolutely no way that even an incompetent group of IT engineers would be able to construct a single unified network with a single doorway into it to make a "one s
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by zpallin 7y ago
This is the wrong takeaway. The article states pretty clearly from the interview with Senator Mark Warner: > “To my knowledge, Health and Human Services has done nothing about it,” Warner told TechCrunch. “As Health and Human Services ag
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by zpallin 7y ago
Or, perhaps https://www.transformca.org which already has a track record of working with local governments and successfully implementing transit policy.
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by zpallin 7y ago
You should look into supporting https://www.transformca.org which works with Bay Area governments already to solve transportation policy. They have already contributed immensely to transportation accessibility in the region, and
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by zpallin 7y ago
Special interest money absolutely does not need to outweigh the "democracy dollars" contributions in order to be effective. It just needs to be enough to sway the vote of the politicians. Most of the time voters aren't even a
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by zpallin 7y ago
As you pointed out, special interests will just raise the value of a politician so the $100 disappears in value. That or buy out ads to convince people to spend on their corporate sponsored candidates rather than the ones seeking direct sup
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by zpallin 7y ago
Great points all around but I've got a nitpick about the second to last paragraph. In fact, China is not going it alone. It is something like 9 unique nations that have within the last few hundred years gone through considerable change

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