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As usual, Stallman is right about software.

It's not about real time, is more about sound, lot's of people are not used to the sound of words, and if you are from a place whose native language pronounces the letters very differently, you won't adapt easy. It's not timing, as people's brain might even change to english as base when writing and it's immediate, not translating, but when you can't understand well the sounds, than conversations go south really fast.

Also this[0]: >Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski

Temporarily, eventual all social media evolves into the same thing.

The problem is isolation. Usually those are isolated, which means that it won't get neither exposure if it's actual a good thing, nor backlash if it's bad. That's the problem with "infinite" divisions, you get those very little bubbles.

Tbh that's what I think is great about 4chan compared to others, it's just has those very few and limited groups/boards, rather than infinite.

Depends, if their banks have to follow the central euro bank rates or not, since they have their currency they might not have to, I don't know the specifics on how that works.

Anyway, Central bank has interest at negatives, people are buying houses in EU with very little interest.

Reddit is not fully crowdsourced. Not every upvote is equal, and the algorithm that rules those is closed.

With with a much higher pay, London is still much more expensive.

They still pay very well in lower cost areas.

Doist exist. Their new tool (product of dogfooding) reflects the ASYNC communication requires much more than any other communication tool.

Gitlab actually pays really well (relatively to local companies) in lower cost zones, I don't think you can find any market in lower cost areas where Gitlab is only slightly above the market.

Not a remote one playing by "everyone region has same pay-rate". Because if there is another one and paying more, then Bob, would also apply there.

yes, but calling something "partner" or affiliate" is not the same as calling "verified"

Just using private browsing and UBO makes you see more reCaptchas from google and sites using it

Gitlab is not just git hosting, they want to own the full developing cycle. they already got ci pipelines, easy ways to deploy on kubernates, and much more and its feature are growing at a fast. You cannnot replicate every gitlab feature with 10M, and you still have to fight the network effect.

For years Gitlab had a better offer then Github, and yet github was always more popular due to the network effect.

at least Goverment is tied to a democracy. Multinational corporation not so much.

It literally doesn't matter if it's co2 or not that powers it. Even if it's all wind, that energy could have gone somewhere else. We are wasting energy, by a lot. Fusion won't saves, there is already evidence that every extra energy we produce is used, having more green energy doesn't reduce fossil fuels energy consumed, it just makes more energy consumed overall. Don't waste energy.

To me , most college university major are just luxury, and you should only go there if you have fine finances. It's has been proved that a college degree in the right major is the best investment you can do, even with the big loans you have to take. The problem with people not being able to payout their loans is because they did not took a good choice in major. And why should my taxes go into someone spending their time in a liberal arts major? or anyother with little or no relevance to the market? Those kind of loans are never pay, and yes, if it's free it's a loan as well, the state will use the tax money to fund these students, expecting to get some bigger tax money later when they graduate. Well, bad majors won't find well paid jobs, the tax money wasn't well invested.

Maybe I'm just a sad adult, that just sees everything around money/market value. Maybe I should have spend my college years in some place where college was "free" perfecting my art skills. Now I pay for my art classes after work... What an absurd idea, to pay for an hobby, rather than having taxpayers funding some years into my hobby research.

edit: I'm talking mainly about tuition, things like access to classes references/books/material, it's ridiculous to be paid, as the ones that wrote those were already paid to do it, and a lot of it, done with research payed by taxpayers

You live in a weird reality. An USB barely fits the carbon, and yet you don't think it's thin. For you a regular laptop is what everybody else calls an Ultrabook.

Thinkpads do not have OSX. Apple has 3 lines of MacBooks, the MacBook, the MBP and the MBA, why can't they have different focus?

Why not both? There are 3 models, MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, why can't they diverge in focus? Sure, lighter is better, but that is if there are no trade offs. Some people accept the trade offs, other don't, but you have 3 product lines, why not letting them diverge on this question?

Also, you give people reason to have more than 1 Apple laptop, one with ports and great keyboard when ultra portability is not necessary, and the other for portability above all.

Even the X1 Carbon?

>losing attitude Good ways to talk.

Yes, but that is unrelated to his post, in fact he said precisely that the "free" is about freedom.

Sometimes there is no practical solution, and running away is the pragmatist approach

Ballmer was more specifically referring to governmental funding going to free software, his competitors.

Redhat's influence, his employer, does end up forcing other distros, as Redhat is the biggest influencer on linux land

Digital games are expensive because of ohisical media version price parity. And guess what? Those games already have the "can resell tax", so you digital games are already more expensive due to the ability to resell, even though you can't actually resell them.

If you want to support a platform based on a DRM-free point of view, you should only buy from GOG. The only ethical platform.