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Nonprofit doesn't mean anything, since people can just route the profits into salaries. It's just another legacy regulation that may have once once had a societally-constructive purpose th…

> What are those artists successful at? Making money in the profession that they enjoy, rather than having to take up one that they enjoy less.

To upper-middle class people, their job is a religion. Investing in a programming language is a decision to gamble thousands of hours of your life for a programmer. At some point of projects shifting …

This whole thing of shunning bun is a goofy protest against AI in general by a bunch of programmers about to transition from vastly overpaid to mostly unemployed, sometimes thinly disguised as quality…

Read my comment - it is completely irrelevant to the discussion being had about the linked article, and no one on the planet is suggesting a 20% wealth tax. That is my point.

> 20% tax on wealth Thank god no one is talking about this, then. According to Graham, a 20% wealth tax is equivalent to a 400% income tax.

> Running out of money is never the issue with a big company buying an open source project. I'm going to dare to say that running out of money was often an issue before a big company bought an…

Care to explain why, or nah?

More pedantic than > What does "our data" mean in this context? You're just pretending to understand something that you seemingly don't, for the purpose of being rude to a stran…

They "don't." They don't have anything, they're prediction engines. But they predict "emotional" responses just the same as they predict any other sort of response. …

Scihub and The Pirate Bay are not at all anonymous, aggressively police for CSAM, and rely on reputation systems.

He's actually being measured and fair, even in the face of aggressive insults from strangers.

You don't understand. All they have to do is repeat what you've said with a snarky tone, tag it with an extreme insult, then imply that it makes you unfit to be employed, even if you are sel…

> So same thing ad-block users have been doing for 20 years now? Ad-block users didn't mine Pokémon Central for content, then remove them from search listings. Changing the specific criticism …

There's no possible way it means anything. You'd only start talking about "style" when you ran out of argument. The next thing is a mention of a random thing they were "remind…

Do you think the US was holding back on bombing Iran? It doesn't work; they have always prepared for an American attack, because they are a government that was formed by overthrowing the dictator…

> I mean, you can fund your own wallet and give money to Iran but you've technically committed a crime and a pretty serious one. Other countries aren't subject to any US laws. The threat …

These objections seem confused. The person you are replying to is not attacking Iran, but you seem to be defending Iran. They're saying that attacking Iran was a stupid idea, because it caused Ir…

Seems like you're actually agreeing. What you're attached to is all the work you put into learning Photoshop, not the particular UI of Photoshop. Learning GIMP is throwing hundreds or thousa…

I really hate [edit: the necessity for something like] this. I deeply disagree that Photoshop has better UI than GIMP, it's just that GIMP is no professional's daily driver, you were paid …

This article is pretty awful. It's almost impossible to extract any information about the paper and its findings within the endless litany going through the NYT's enemies list and calling ea…

> We don't need to submit a history of our social media accounts before crossing a border Americans don't have to do that when crossing between states either. Are you saying that American…

They're not doing it to increase margin. "Enshittification" or "rug-pulls" aren't when things get worse or things change, they're when the conditions that were used …

> the problem here is that many of the submissions are not "make-believe work" but actual existing security issues Not exactly, the submissions are reports about actual existing securit…

> these mega corporations The US would "bow" to the requests of Kuwait, too. Because it's less "bowing" than that they don't care about you, and Kuwait now owes them a…

It is when it comes to petty street robbery. Nobody with anything would find what the average person is carrying these days worth the risk. People don't even carry cash, just phones that you'…

> Security professionals generally recommend avoiding reliance on any single encryption system and instead evaluating well-reviewed full-disk encryption alternatives such as VeraCrypt. What does th…

That's my question, because my root is encrypted, I move encrypted disks all the time, and have a couple of encrypted external drives. It's trivial. But I'm sure that some of the millio…