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I just bought another N900 because my current one is a bit long in the tooth, and my fear of being N900-less is huge. Right now, all of my hopes are focused on WebOS and Tizen. The HP Touchpad is real…

You would still die, just after being humiliated and while clutching a penny. It would be a bad decision to do anything for a penny when you were making nothing, and the person who got you do do it wo…

No, it's not. It's a debate commonly held when people claim to be innocent of the actions of an institution that they were a part of, and the source of modern debates about the ethics that apply are s…

It's really really hard to avoid Godwin when discussing the responsibility of the rank and file of an organization for the actions of the whole. It's the model case.

It's not a list of things when dealing with links, it's the actual things, and as far as I know that's exactly the meaning of 'curate.'

I really understood it as a knee jerk instant reaction and tried to keep it pretty civil. I'm sure you're a good guy.

If you're self-employed, you're not subject to the minimum wage laws.

According to that argument, if your current salary is zero, a single cent would be adequate to get you to do anything.

Again, you have no idea what person C does for the homeless, and profiting from poverty is not a selfless act. You also have no idea whether the homeless person has skills, you are just projecting you…

I think you're looking at the wrong derivative. This is 23% improvement of improvement. It's still just 6.4% improvement. Might be easier to see if you think of it as 106.6/105.2, in order to include …

A dastardly plan!

I've done worse for minimum wage.

You've convinced me. I'm going to pay a few homeless people $2 an hour to be my coffee grinders and charge hipsters $20/lb to get their beans ground by a real live failure of the social safety net. An…

I'm not sure if sub-minimum wage wandering appliance is that job.

A lot of people give a fuck about the homeless, you're just projecting. They are human beings with lives, friends, and families. I'm pretty sure that they say that they would feel a certain way if the…

If it's that minimal, I'm not against it.

People waiting tables for less than minimum wage is also wrong, and a result of lobbying.

As somebody who was homeless (not the couchsurfing type, but the sleeping under bridges type), I think it could very well be exploitative depending on how much labor is involved and what profit is mad…

Via links and hat tips help me find other "curators" who I might be interested in. It's a service to the reader, and in addition directs traffic to blogs that the hat tipper has clearly found useful a…

I'm saying that I'm not stealing your car, I'm driving a car, and to introduce "stealing" and "your" involves implicit social contract and collective enforcement. I'm trying to imply that libertariani…

I know many creators of GPL software would absolutely see it differently, but they still wouldn't get to tell me how to use my own computer. Restrictions on your freedom to express yourself is what th…

Or 5) Just give them money, like I do with my local college radio station every year.

The GPL is a hack. If copyright goes away, you could just copy, disassemble, or duplicate the funcionality of a piece of sotware in order to learn how to tell your computer to do exactly what you want…

I'm being very radical here, but the thought of the only books being published being by people who actually want to be read rather than waant to be rich is not a problem for me. For craftsmen whose pr…

My questions would be: how many contracts am I signing by simply doing what I like? Am I violating a contract by getting in your car and driving it away? Am I violating a contract by installing a prog…

Wow, I remember actually going back to check that and I still got it wrong. Must have been distracted by something shiny. Criticism still applies, though. Part of the cost of buying the coffee is his …

Accidentally downvoted you when I meant to upvote you. Damn touchscreens...