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I'm just pointing out that the sums they are talking about here are laughable. Anyone who thinks that 30k can pay anything to a team should have a look at getting a real job. Him getting paid for the bother of working as the project coordinator sounds about fair for two months part time. The rest of the contributors should have been doing the work out of interest when they have free time with nothing better to do.

I have a hell of a time explaining to people that I'm happy to contribute 1 hour 8 times to their projects for free, but if they expect 8 hours once it will cost them.

My shitty laptop costs pretty close to 3k with all the mods I have on it. My work laptop came it at over 5k. A descent desktop for a developer can cost around $10k. My fancy dream machine is over $20k.

$30k is peanuts. That's one month's wages for a senior dev. I've seen project that cost 50 times as much and the only delivery was a button of a different color.

I have no idea if anything else said there is true or not and I have no interest in looking at more drama.

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Now as a gainfully employed productive member of society I like the idea of going on a legal tax strike when the government does something I absolutely detest.

>Oh by the by, since you are trying so hard to destroy civil society again this year, here's my bill for keeping it running. You're welcome.

Which is precisely why it would never happen. But you should definitely spend some ~money~ speech on politicians and lobbyists to start some of them thinking about it.

I will never understand how so many people in tech think that not for profit means never make a profit, or pay anyone for their time. But somehow spending money on corporate funded machinery is fine.

When a local maker space wasted thousands of dollars for a license of some cam software, but didn't want to pay a member $10 for cleaning up after everyone else (and keep them from being homeless) I had to seriously reconsider supporting a place that was so anti-people and pro corporation.

While I applaud the sentiment $20 per hour is too little to make me care and enough to make me start thinking about money.

A much better way to deal with this would be pushing laws to allow for tax offsets for contributing time to charities (open source ones). Seeing $10 per hour (after tax) that doesn't inspire me much.

Being able to write off my full time wage as a tax deductible would make me vastly more motivated to document what I've been working on and work on a lot more of it.

This is a huge problem since these people used to be the core of googles search user base.

I can't help but think that we are seeing the google transition to late 90s microsoft now.

The US government has always controlled the internet. It just made the strategic decision that having a 'free speech' platform accessible to the thought leaders of the 21st century between 1980 and 2010 dealt more damage to its enemies than to itself.

Now that the internet is reaching the majority of people it's gotten worse, more regulated and less free. One only need to look at the 2016 election with it's 'fake news' and compare the US reaction to that of, say Iran in 2009 and see very little difference in rhetoric between the two countries.

You can't pretend that a monopoly plays by the same rules as everyone else. For capitalism to work no one can be allowed to control a market influencing chunk of it.

I find that the people who use that quote are most often both.

Some women don't either. First their fathers then their husbands.

Kind of sad to see 1950s stereotypes not downvoted here.

Or more simply, if the economy grows at 2% any investment that grows faster than that will crash.

Given that in higher dimensional finite spaces all the points are close to the edges of the space you would expect the most unbalanced teams to be the most successful ones because they can explore the parts of the solution space where you have the highest chance of finding a profitable solution.

Unix was not build by well rounded people. Xanadu was.

Start blaming other people, because they are out to get you.

Sorry is this a joke? Because I'm missing it.

In terms of health outcomes talking about your bowels movement, preferably with photographic evidence, would mean that many types of cancers of the digestive tract would be caught early enough to be treatable. As opposed to the current system where you will more than likely not notice the trace amount of bleeding that are symptomatic to most of them.

I have yet to see anyone seriously propose tackling this, even though in terms of death rate all sexually transmitted diseases taken together are only half as deadly as stomach cancer alone.

Both are paywalled.

At the rate at which the maximum sentence is growing we should be seeing him hung and quartered by mid day tomorrow.

The CIA tried that too: https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/312654-wikileaks-th...

People who have never seen the wrong end of a police truncheon or gas canister are so cute. They think the law is there to protect them.