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friendlydog··on Roman slaveowners were the first management theorists?
Egypt, Chinese, Phoenicians, Greeks, Persians, Babylonians, Ancient Israelites, Sumerians, Mayan, Incan and a host of others predated the Romans and documented the process only to be overtaken by the next civilization. The Romans were aggregators of ideas and took the tools from their conquered peoples using what worked and abandoning what didn't. It is highly doubtful as to the claim.
friendlydog··on The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever
Not sure if you are being sarcastic, but the facts on the ground are that the constitution is broken all the time without anyone being punished enough to stop them from doing it again. Unless you outline penalties or protections such as qualified immunity for defending the constitution it becomes meaningless.
friendlydog··on The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever
Some parts of government should be immutable, and putting safeguards to ensure constants are constant makes a lot of sense to me.
friendlydog··on The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever
Instead of just getting these shutdown how about an opposing act which puts penalties for lobbyists and politicians who back this kind of thing?

I don't want to keep fighting zombie bills like these, because we will eventually miss one.

friendlydog··on Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract
Adobe is now blocked from the networks I control. A page pops up with links to Inkscape, Gimp and other open source alternatives.
friendlydog··on Bloomberg Statement on Publishing Error
For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30218394
friendlydog··on Delta CEO wants U.S. to put unruly passengers on 'no-fly' list
It would be poetic justic if he did, and it merely inconvenienced him, rather than having him brutalized. I walk out if I am not seen within 20 minutes of my appointment and drop the doctor if it happens twice. Doctors who don't respect your time aren't qualified to treat you.
friendlydog··on Ask HN: What do you think about the new Chrome's icon?
Swapping the blue circle for black would give them the alignment they seek. Filling the full circle so there is no gap between would be a nice step as well.
friendlydog··on GitHub introduces sponsor-only repositories
Embrace, join the open source community, and buy github. Extend, add exclusive features private repositories which do not notify copywrite holders when packages use copyleft software which mandates publishing source.

Extend, add repositories which profit from copyleft software which mandates publishing source, but github enables the thieves to hide and exploit the original developers work.

Extinguish, community now works with the thieves and contributes to parasitic repos instead of open source repositories.

Private repositories and paywall repositories are absolutely not open source.

Github must have independent auditors review private repositories and paywall repositories to prevent theft of opensource or be treated as part of the theft itself.

friendlydog··on GitHub introduces sponsor-only repositories
"sponsor-only repositories, that is, private repositories that only sponsors will get access to" is this open source? Will this help open source? I don't believe so. This fragments the open source community, and creates a paywall for innovation. Further it restricts the ability to enforce open source licensing. Where is the protection for code behind a paywall and which uses copyleft source.
friendlydog··on GitHub introduces sponsor-only repositories
"Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE) has always been the plan.
friendlydog··on Delta CEO wants U.S. to put unruly passengers on 'no-fly' list
He paid for a ticket, he was seated. Airline is in the wrong overbooking. Everything that happened after that is on them.

Refusing to deboard and getting injured isn't a smart idea in the real world.

Imagine this was any other industry. You can't rent your apartment complex to more people than can fit and have the police shoot their dog and flash bang their kids when they refuse to sleep under a bridge that night because occupancy rates are higher than you thought and you needed to evict them.

friendlydog··on Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
He was on Kids in the Hall, Newsradio, and had his ex wife demand more money than he could make.
friendlydog··on Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
Ah, the old appeasement trap. The censormongers who demanded their collection leave Spotify aren't going to come back now that Spotify has caved. And the people who wanted Spotify to have Joe are going to be pissed off and leave. This is a no win scenario now for Spotify. I have never listened to old Joe, but I can tell you I have paid Spotify for the last time. My small contribution doesn't mean anything in the context of their user counts, but if they were going to fold they should have done it immediately so they didn't lose the first half of content.
friendlydog··on Ask HN: When to Quit a Project?
When you are the best person on the project. Use the project to learn from your coworkers.

Other times to quit:

When risk of failure is a career stain, and success does not mean promotions and pay raises.

When the project is almost out of funding.

When the manager doesn't value your contribution.

When it harms humanity.

When a better project comes along.

When you put your health, family, or quality of life at risk.

When it interferes with posting on HN.

friendlydog··on Ask HN: Do You Socialize Offline?
Precovid pandemic, yes. Coffee shops, music gigs, gaming at the local gaming cyber cafes, board games at semi local shop, meetups for coding, meetups for electronics.

PostCovid, no, occasionally I'll go out to a meal by myself, but lots of places closed or are empty.

friendlydog··on People Are Creating Sexbot Girlfriends and Treating Them as Punching Bags
People are weird. A person shooting random npcs in GTA likely isn't a murderer in real life, and someone that does awful things to a bot probably isn't a documented sex offender. When it is real people interactions consent is important, until AI gains sentience this is no more or less creepy than people who have inflatables.
friendlydog··on Ask HN: How can I make a “kid's computer” today as good as an Apple II?
Most any Craptop will do, but one with a styless is better for drawing.

Install

1. GCompris

2. Gimp, Inkscape

3. Rosegarden

4. https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-emulator/

Don't install a bunch of games.

friendlydog··on U.S. lawmakers introduce 'Right to Repair' bills to spur competition
I believe it will. This is not a rejection of right to repair. Farmers with tractors they cannot fix and electronics in landfills outweigh the cost to business, but it is troublesome. A patent industry paradigm shift must happen, perhaps shifting the burden to pay to Amazon, Walmart and other retailers when they sell knock offs which violate patents.
friendlydog··on U.S. lawmakers introduce 'Right to Repair' bills to spur competition
Without right to repair we throw away the first two "R"s in reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Unfortunately right to repair allows competitors including patent ignorers to duplicate, deceive, and dilute. Look at wireless earbuds in a rechargable jellybean case, anyone remember the first company to build them? You can find a hundred knockoffs.

Right to repair is great for consumers and businesses will need to be more ruthless and secret to survive.

friendlydog··on Ask HN: General Mood of the Community
It could be the storm stage of Form, Storm, Norm, Perform.
friendlydog··on LG smart TV stops working till owner accepts updated terms of use
Return it, or if in the US talk to your states Attorney General's office and explain the scam they are running and how something which had the features on the box has misled you and taken them away after the return period.
friendlydog··on Facebook loses users for the first time
Does it count people who have messenger but never open it, but their device is signed it? It is cramware on a lot of android phones.
friendlydog··on Facebook loses users for the first time
Only a few people closed their accounts, many leave them as husks. The account is there but dead.
friendlydog··on The Sumerian Game
If you loved "The Sumerian Game" you will love hot new multi-player BRE and SRE coming to a BBS near you.
friendlydog··on Homeland Security eyes robot dogs to patrol the southern border
Thankfully these are no match for T-47s equipped with harpoons.
friendlydog··on Does cell phone radiation affect men’s fertility?
A belt holster causes a different kind of infertility. A murse would too. This article identifies a problem with few solutions.
friendlydog··on GoFundMe pauses donations to Canada truckers
With work from home it would be hard for the truckers to embargo GoFundMe headquarters. GFM has a history of collecting then freezing funds for causes which don't align.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1011

friendlydog··on Broadband groups seek waiver from IIJA ‘Buy American’ requirements
In the same day the FBI suggests burner phones for the Olympics, I can only hope the exemption is refused.
friendlydog··on Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Results
You might be able to using tmux, if you are on apple you might be out of luck, unless you want to run it on a server and set your DNS to it.
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