Frondo

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by Frondo 3mo ago
One note: I didn't say anything about the language they speak, and what language other people speak is none of my business.
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by Frondo 3mo ago
> I don't think it's crazy to expect assimilation. What's that mean to you? In my city, immigrants work, run businesses, pay taxes, have kids and send them to local schools, ride the bus, complain about the weather, practi
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by Frondo 3y ago
This should be the top comment.
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by Frondo 3y ago
Encryption will not keep you hidden from an authoritarian government for long, and certainly not for long if you're trying to build a movement with any sort of wide-spread support.
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by Frondo 3y ago
Sunlight only works reasonably well for waterborne pathogens, and only when you've got time. As with disinfecting anything, and especially for societal issues, we need more than sunlight alone.
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by Frondo 3y ago
Life in an authoritarian hellhole almost by definition means technology won't save you. If they can haul you off when you're walking down the street, who cares whether your stuff is encrypted? They'll make something up. Even
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by Frondo 3y ago
> Most users don't care about the alignment and spacing and so on in isolation, but they do get a sense of quality from the overall impact. This stuff really matters in aggregate. Red Letter Media has a great phrase that rolls aroun
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by Frondo 3y ago
Organizing and demanding pay collectively seems to help in negotiations, so good for them for taking this approach. It's not like Stanford can move its grad programs to Mexico like a US car maker and its factories.
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by Frondo 3y ago
Democracy isn't perfect, but checking out is the quickest route to ensuring your interests are only minimally represented. True at all levels of democratic organization.
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by Frondo 3y ago
I don't think you'd find a single woodworker anywhere who, if they could afford it, wouldn't prefer a table saw with Sawstop. How much are your fingers worth to you?
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by Frondo 3y ago
Or as the great Stafford Beer put it, the purpose of a system is what it does.
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by Frondo 3y ago
I would rather businesses take a hit on efficiency and have our 15-hour work weeks. Maybe that'd provide an incentive for businesses to pursue making project management and hand-off among staff more efficient.
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by Frondo 3y ago
I'm not being snarky--in the context of people wanting a place to make jokes and have fun with their friends, how is that a problem?
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by Frondo 3y ago
There seems to be an assumption in your writing that people should use social media to challenge themselves, be exposed to different views, to "discourse" and so on. Nearly everyone I know via social media wants to hang out with
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by Frondo 3y ago
As someone who just tried to schedule an appointment with a new PCP and being told my first available appointment would be in August, I'm not at all sold on the idea that long queues are unique to public health care systems. I'm n
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by Frondo 3y ago
As for can't be tracked, does anyone else remember that website you used to see stamped on dollar bills, WheresGeorge.com? Early internet goofiness, crowd-sourced tracking of cash.
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by Frondo 3y ago
> people need to roll up their sleeves and do legit work. I don't like this kind of Calvinist attitude toward work. Increasing productivity via technological advancement should free us all up to do more of what we want.
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by Frondo 3y ago
Very true and well said!
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by Frondo 3y ago
My sister is an accountant and she genuinely enjoys working with the numbers. She finds it, not exactly fun, but kind of fun? She describes it like every situation is a puzzle she gets to solve, and then maintain. She also likes working wit
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by Frondo 3y ago
Actually, threatening physical harm to a con man has a long and storied tradition in this country; but more than that if SBF had mugged this guy I don't think anyone would call a physical response a bad thing, but because he mugged h
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by Frondo 3y ago
Yeah, I guess things might have been different then. I was 3 at that time, and in doing occasional trade shows for the last 7 or 8 years (so, from mid 2010s on), I've just never experienced it; not in Seattle, San Diego, Baltimore, nor
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by Frondo 3y ago
I've done about a dozen trade shows and have done both of those things, from personal experience. (This anecdote comes up frequently in these discussions and I always wonder where from, because it's not anything like I've see
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by Frondo 3y ago
They had been warned by locals in both Burma and Sri Lanka for many months that violent rhetoric was spreading like wildfire through users in those countries, and did nothing about it -- seldom even responding to the people pleading for the
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by Frondo 3y ago
Also in a similar situation now (well, in the B2B space, with ~20 corporate customers around the country) and the times it's come up, people have been more concerned to see a business continuity plan than a big office full of people wh
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by Frondo 3y ago
There's a podcast I listen to sometimes called "The Perfect Scam," sponsored by the AARP but, I suspect, is intended more for the kids of elderly people who are more at risk for these kinds of things: https://www.a
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by Frondo 3y ago
This is a fictitious legal theory advanced by sovereign citizen movements. You can find many hours of entertainment watching sovcit courtroom insanity videos on youtube, and many of them try this legal theory with entirely predictable resul
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by Frondo 4y ago
What is the point of this? Who are these people who are making excuses and claiming to be victims -- and victims of what? If there is a grievance you're making, can you elaborate on that?
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by Frondo 4y ago
> possibly even make money Hate to say it, but I think this is the only reason why. Thank the absurd copyright laws that grant a piece of work two lifetimes of money extraction (70 years after the death of whoever made it) for whoever &q
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by Frondo 4y ago
The real act of cultural vandalism is the copyright regime that keeps these trust fund descendants of the Dahl estate in cash for something they did not do, for however many more decades that all his works will be locked up. "Updating&
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by Frondo 4y ago
There is consent to taxation -- your parents consented for you on your behalf when they had guardianship over you as a child, by choosing to have your citizenship here. You implicitly maintained that by retaining your citizenship at the age

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