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Found the Debian user.

You pure, unadulterated bastard.

\3. Ride the Shai-Hulud to destiny.

Well, if you get to remove one digit a year I'll still have my thumbs. I guess.

If it gets "stolen" by a for-profit corporation it only makes it better, because now my software has reached more people, thus (theoretically) improving their lives.

Or it could be "stolen" by Raytheon, and helping ruin lives better.

And I'm not poopoo'ing, what you're saying, I just want you to consider all consequences, because it kinda seems like you haven't.

I mean, essentially, the GPL just obligates someone borrowing from you to keep doing things "how it should be".

Sometimes you just wanna get fucked. --MIT

Sometimes you want to start a beautiful family that makes the world a better place. --GPL

Match your license with your feelings about the project.

Just don't, you know, pick the former and mistake it for the latter because your ego gets stroked. If you pick MIT, you increase your chances of collaborating, but get in and get out.

Whatever you want, babe. There's no wrong way to EQ.

You are not making an objective change.

I used the Mcdonalds app a few times and the drivethru was always faster, lmao.

They require location services and don't start cooking until you're inside their geofence, but IME they seem to still prioritize drivethru customers.

Vista was supposed to be for everyone, just too many companies didn't take security seriously enough back then.

Win7 was just Vista with a PR upgrade.

Maximize enragement, forget about the billionaires robbing you blind.

It's just that they have no idea how to answer the question

The road standards are designed to protect the occupants, not the other users on the road.

This is a critical flaw with current safety and CAFE standards.

You say that like a specific technology is inevitable, but it never is. The general march of tech will continue on, but no one thing is ever guaranteed.

e.g. 20 years ago everyone needed custom browser toolbars and now it's not even possible to add one on major browsers. We eliminated the need for browser features by cramming 99% of what we need into a handful of websites that are constantly refreshed.

e.g. 10 years ago blockchain was surging and today it still doesn't have a usable application. Turns out spreadsheets don't really need to be distributed.

Machine learning is just an algorithm nobody understands. If I needed something to give me wrong answers to questions I'll ask my dog.

On the other hand, discord is a great way to help organize a community wiki.

When you are trying to build a community

...Don't use community software, got it.

Honey this is an Applebee's, shit wherever you want.

You say that, but you pay a premium for these things to be generally less efficient. Why waste?

We have a fee-free bank-to-bank transfer system that is based on pre-digital technology that takes 2-3 business days. We often call it "direct deposit" or automated clearing house (ACH). It's often used for payroll and paying bills.

Now, we could probably make this payment system instantaneous relatively effortlessly (and thus useful for regular in-store purchases), but the banks lobby against this so they can continue to charge us fees and interest to over-use credit cards. (Interestingly enough, credit and debit cards all use direct deposit on the backend to actual transfer funds between parties).

This is all fine and dandy for most people because they simply can't imagine doing things a more consumer-friendly way.

Been waiting to get my rocks off for 24 years

Republican energy policy is to let oil barons do whatever they want, destroy whatever they want for new drilling and pay as little taxes as possible.

Democrat energy strategy is to regulate oil, preserve delicate ecosystems by banning oil/gas exploration wells and fracking in those areas and investing in expanded green energy policy.

The political problem for Dems is that ballooning prices at the gas pump are very unpopular with moderate/undecided voters (reality is that almost everyone in this country has to fill up their car tank regularly) and the oil barons can manipulate their output, control the messaging and change these people's votes (especially in an election year).

Dumping some of our strategic reserves when prices get too high is a strategy that counters this machination.

And if the world supply is in a high producing state, dumping some of these reserves can sink prices low enough we can refill those reserves for cheaper than we initially bought the reserves that we dumped.

Republicans then get on the horn and claim this is risky, helps nobody but democrat politics, etc, etc. They're not wrong, but the entire thing is political brinkmanship, so... who cares? 😄