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Re:American Democracy Is Drowning in Money by drewrv on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @06:08PM (#15298772)
I can't figure out why this attitude is so prevalent among techies. Imagine if we gave up on computers because there was a bug!
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Re:American Democracy Is Drowning in Money by djschnei on Thursday September 21, 2017 @11:21AM (#15304338)
Far from an appropriate analogy. More like, spilling coffee on my keyboard makes it work like shit. Better fix it by pouring more coffee on it!
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Re:American Democracy Is Drowning in Money by krapp on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @06:13PM (#15298801)
This attitude is more akin to techies avoiding proprietary code because they consider it fundamentally immoral.
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