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Sure, the marketplace provides choices - all with the same coverage in a race to the bottom, by nearly a half-dozen "health" insurance banks.
Burn down the Milton Friedman, Chicago-Boys church of economics. That dogma doesnt serve anyone but banks and oil companies that refuse to grow with the market. It only pretends to be a science, a school, rationalizing the effort to encourage the worst of human behaviour.
The only argument left is about whether Keynes or Marx applies better in this perspective. And I usually lean towards Kropotkin.
Lets be honest with ourselves - banks have a very specific role in the world economy, and have largely quit lending to businesses small enough to actually upset the market.
Sure VCs do what they do. But unless you're in something sexy or trendy? Good luck courting them.
What reason do they have to stop?
As far as institutional code contributors go, they're climbing. Theyre not quite Red Hat or Intel, but theyre certainly beating out any other primarily-phone manufacturer.
Where the west has always dominated has been in innovation - something sleep/leisure deprived workers are always bad at doing. Now we're giving that up because some venture capitalist who can never wrap their head around what we do says "its a good idea"?!
Its the Soviet Nail Factory, all over again.
Can we get some economic policy ideas? Or are we gonna pretend those dont exist again
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18072017/arctic-permafros...
We have the examples. Then again, we have a lot of corporate bs in between the user and the opensource projects that actually drive our world.
A more ideal solution is to add subsidized competition. Remember how all the Republicans were railing about Obamacare's public option, about how no competition for that could ever make money? Well, force these SOBs to get creative.
Also, can we please limit our housing to humans and just banks that exist in our country? And not imvestment banks? Im getting tired of trying to buy a house, only to find some Israeli, European, Chinese, etc bank bought it, - or Bear Stearns - and will bring it back to market in 6 months at a 30% price increase for the effort of mowing the lawn.
Or worse, if that investment bank buys an apartment building or old hotel. They'll just "renovate" mostly with paint, start up a building management company, add in bougie things like concierge services, and then try to charge double the market rate.
If my future home is your investment property? I see very clearly how much you're making off me. And I'm considering other options purely out of spite.
A vpn is not a cure-all. It is only as private as you're willing to make it. If you want to pirate movies and chat on facebook at the same time, you're probably gonna have a bad time. What you do is absolutely a part of your advertising/tracking profile.
Payment information - some prefer to use cryptocurrency, which in their minds, is private. Again, once metadata connects you, there's no denying that that's you.
A third party consultant takes your payment? Maybe. Especially if you've got some anonymizing layer to your credit card info that has earned a similar trust. This will of course add to the cost of the transaction.
Even the way you type can connect you. Sufficient amounts of text - such as this reply - are usually enough.
I expect expenses paid, but nothing else.
I contribute: -a neuro-atypical mindset -Solidarity for the -LGBTQ+ community -a unique perspective on AI as an ethical being -Radical Leftist ideology which views governments, corporations, and borders as deprecated, obsolete code -radical Privacy Advocate. The only thing better would be someone from the EFF itself. -radical Free Software advocate. Stallman be proud of your acolyte, in spite of your pedo-apologia. -All your base are belong to the transhumanists. You just havent seen us yet. Solidarity with our machine-born comrades, as we all upgrade ourselves and each other. -Humanity has failed to implement any plan to turn our operations ecologically sustainable. Our inheritors should be offered the chance to do better - be they meat, metal, or both.
That was tech titans smearing each other with feces, trying to dodge responsibility for tracking teenagers as if they (companies) were pedophiles in power.
Besides, Apple? Is almost always on the side of themselves as brokers of your data.
There's also the old country directions method - navigate by Landmarks. If your emergency services operator is familiar with the geography of their area, this becomes much easier. If you are similarly familiar, this can be very quick.
"Timmy fell down the well by the old mine on the edge of town! Good girl, Lassie."
I guess we'll just have to deal with a Europe without memes. We'll see only slower, mass-market-only creators on the internet. The small businesses, the artists, the actual innovators will have no seat at the table... because you cannot wrap you head around a multi-clause sentence.
If you're going to be that American about this, you can keep your Brexit.
On the off chance that you're here to learn instead of just quasi-Schrute-ing on everything? I would suggest you watch a couple documentaries: "Rip: A Remix Manifesto," and "Everything is a Remix," to learn how creativity works. Any efforts to restrict derivative works, such as from these small outlets, demolishes the human ability to create. These are creative commons works, so I trust you to find them without having to buy a DVD/bluray.
And if there is one thing that's less "open" than on Linux, its the OpenBSD kernel.
Dont get me wrong, the source is out there. But you're not gonna find anyone forking it, running patchsets (like almost any linux main-distro does) or the like. Compiling your own kernel isnt even supported.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129068...
Im sure those technicians went through a few new-hires who just c/would not put up with not being able to see what they were inputting.
Thank you, kind sir, for fixing what actually broke.
Oh, dont get me wrong. I've flashed the old skylake SOC with a HAP-mode / ME-cleaner variant. But I dont consider that very helpful when compared to an audit-able boot process.
How do I go about fixing this? I want coreboot, how do I get in and get it?
Well, that's one less place I'll be spending my money online.
LOL! Social Capital gone insanely, nakedly wrong? Or just a Freudian-style slip?
1 - hire an engineer on your payroll give to this one project (maybe two, if theyre both small). Their role is to join the software project, and ensure that your usecase remains viable. That last bit is where your engineer will pay for theirself.
2 - give them a giant novelty check once a year at a conference. It doesnt need to be $100,000 - just give something back, and you may as well do it where engineers will see you do it.
Does your company have to be a software company to do these things? No. Just like you dont need to be a software company to need your own social media, your own website,... But those arent quite like. . .
Your Own App. Your own servers, or cloud presence. Your own in-house software. These things dont run in a vacuum. Even the proprietary software you run depends on open-source projects.
Voat? Yeah, they're kinda gross...