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I think the truth is somewhere in between.

I'd much rather work on a company that has a pleasant atmosphere but not insane growth than on a shitty environment grinding my ass off.

But ignoring performance completely, that is nuts. Because output and success also bring joy and enhance the atmosphere of teams.

Real estate and primary residences should not be a market and an investment opportunity imo.

A company buying thousands of homes and then milking workers through rent for decades seems unethical.

While I do not have a solution, I think this is an issue we should work on

Re:How I got my username on nearly every site on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @11:18AM (#20460371)
Oh so I guess the fact that there are whole organizations[1] devoted to reading the absurdly enormous TOS means nothing, and studies[2] that suggest a major percentage isn't reading them are false.

I will not believe you if you state that you read the TOS for every site you register on, every program you install.

[1] https://tosdr.org/

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2757465

Re:How I got my username on nearly every site on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @09:17AM (#20459073)
So you're suggesting that everybody should read the miles long terms for each website they subscribe to, otherwise they do not have a right to keep their username.

And I'm not sure that abusing an unethical system waives you from the morality of your actions.

The only lesson you're giving here is about you. But hey, any publicity is good publicity right? You're enforcing your 'brand' after all. \s

Re:The PGP Problem on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @04:37AM (#20457605)
What about its 'crypt' encryption backend?

Afaik it uses scrypt which was designed for tarsnap

Re:The PGP Problem on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @04:24AM (#20457543)
Any opinions about rclone?

It seems to be fine for my mediocre backup needs

Re:The Trans History of the Wild West on Thursday July 04, 2019 @06:16AM (#20353199)
I always get so confused when 'they' is used for a single person. Is there any alternative? Everything seems to sound silly
You can easily find the new 3D models, but the updated AI code?

I think that is unlikely

Re:A Gas Heist Gone Wrong on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:29AM (#20292652)
Greed breeds corruption, corruption breeds poverty, poverty breeds lack of education, lack of education breeds stupidity.

It is the same if you replace the lack of education with despair..

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

Isaac Newton

*humanity
Re:GitHub Sponsors on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:18AM (#19989936)
While seemingly good news and will definitely have positive side effects to open source projects, I cannot stop myself from questioning if this is just good old Microsoft using one of its edges over Gitlab (money) to come on top.

After all, this is the embrace, extend, and extinguish company.

Anyhow, I'm looking forward to see a similar feature implemented by Gitlab, even without the matching donations.

Re:Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908) on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:40AM (#19978808)
That's different. The original link aims at mechanical contraptions while yours at mechanical computation. Still equally impressive and interesting
Yes but if you're out of the ultra capitalist private US healthcare business that we're trapped in, you pay way less through taxes.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

Re:I found two identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs on Thursday April 18, 2019 @03:16AM (#19689311)
Killing a fly with an RPG is all the rage these days.. You can achieve that with simple computer vision techniques that have been here for decades
Re:I found two identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs on Thursday April 18, 2019 @03:14AM (#19689307)
Zero because QA :)
Is my opinion that this should not belong to anybody but to everybody unpopular?
Re:VPN – Very Precarious Narrative on Monday April 08, 2019 @03:37AM (#19603000)
You got downvoted, but if you go to github this is exactly what it means lol

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

It is in a Sun-centered orbit. It never had the fuel/capacity to do a retrograde burn in order to be captured by the Martian gravitational field.
An awesome achievement.

Nevertheless, am I the only one that is afraid of China and skeptical of each technological advancement the achieve?

Always what I think of is how this cool new tech will be used for Orwellian inner control and to satisfy their imperialistic needs.

I hope I'm wrong, but if I'm not? It already has been bad enough with the US as the leading superpower, I cannot imagine with China.

What do you think?

Re:Cycling heaven: The African capital with 'no traffic' on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @06:53AM (#19499627)
Thanks a lot mate. Truly inspiring, and I don't say that often.

I wish you the best

Re:India successfully shoots down satellite in space: PM Modi on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @06:45AM (#19499599)
From Indian Express:

The test was done in the lower atmosphere to ensure that there is no space debris. Whatever debris that is generated will decay and fall back onto the earth within weeks

Of course we can never know, but the fact that they discussed about it hopefully says something

Re:Cycling heaven: The African capital with 'no traffic' on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @06:29AM (#19499527)
What was your initial budget before being sustainable, if I may? Because by a quick skim through your page it seems it would be in the order of hundreds of thousands (including gas). Are you able to sustain yourself now with your income while traveling? Any tips for people that might wish to do the same? Your story is inspiring, but what holds me back is the fear of not having enough money to do such thing. Thanks