Shoue

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by Shoue 2mo ago
Symptoms become more obvious as you age, which can feel like it came on later. As part of an assessment they do go through your childhood - if you had trouble in school for example that's a classic ADHD symptom, but there's a lot
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by Shoue 3mo ago
If it's the same woman I'm thinking of Office365 is underselling it a bit - she's fully sanctioned by the US. She can't use debit/credit cards, any Apple/Google device or service, Amazon/eBay, etc. She&#x2
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by Shoue 3mo ago
Adding TS types to Nix would make it so much easier to write Nix code. Which string do I need here? Oh the type system knows, the language server shows it inline - I don't have to look at the source. I've used NixOS since 2018 and
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by Shoue 4mo ago
Wero is a private effort, the digital euro is closer to Pix but it keeps being stalled (given the article in question, one could make some guesses as to why).
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by Shoue 4y ago
It's not quite as bad in Sweden, look at the graph at the bottom of this article by John Burn-Murdoch[0] for a glimpse into we're faring compared to other European countries, and also how other European countries don't necess
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by Shoue 4y ago
Yeah, Brexit is a factor, but it's also one of many and it's important we tackle all of them. The private finance initiative (PFI) in the early 00s, is another[0]. Our government's lack of funding is also another ("The U
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by Shoue 4y ago
Depending on what type of video you're watching (pay depend on variables), your one view is probably worth a whopping $0.01. At that point you might be better off asking nicely for Patreon subs, considering about 0.5-2% of your followe
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by Shoue 4y ago
Funnily, it is generally true given that net resource transfers to the global south have been negative for most countries... with the big exception being China[1], so China has benefited off global trade deals like these, but their income i
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by Shoue 4y ago
Cooperatives have a higher survival rate, both in general and during crises. > A 2013 report published by the UK Office for National Statistics showed that in the UK the rate of survival of cooperatives after five years was 80 percent co
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by Shoue 4y ago
True, but coops are also more selective about firing and hiring. So if you're a bad fit, you're less likely to end up in a coop, and if you do end up there, you will have more stable employment because coops generally don't f
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by Shoue 4y ago
Cooperatives aren't nonprofit entities – they can be, sure, but many of them are profit-driven. The claim that cooperatives act irrationally (and the implication that they're less efficient) requires some factual data to back that
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by Shoue 4y ago
That's an odd critique considering coops exist to solve the friction between unions and businesses by building the democratic control into the business itself, avoiding the need for a union. Especially when you consider all the union b
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by Shoue 4y ago
> Plenty of companies offer product samples or free services upfront Sure, but a startup using VC money to offer you something for free is very different from "I will personally volunteer to help you". Also the entire point of
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by Shoue 4y ago
> I got the distinct feeling I was being sold something while reading it, and the last paragraph confirmed it. You mean the last paragraph where they _volunteer_ to have coaching sessions with people? "Selling" usually implies
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by Shoue 4y ago
Not really, systems affect our behaviour. We created the system that is our current market economy, and we have the ability to construct new systems that encourage better behaviour. For example, studies show that cooperatively ran businesse
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by Shoue 4y ago
There are also interesting instances like social.coop that are run like a cooperative – you join and are expected to donate monthly, as little as $1, and in return you get democratic control over the instance. It can be a cool incentive to
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by Shoue 4y ago
By that same logic you'd make the argument that "94% of abusive work places" exist in poorer countries with far less worker rights. Is that something you want to happen to the US, third world country like working conditions j
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by Shoue 4y ago
Relative measures are important because it's an indicator of how fairly domestic resources are being allocated. You can be a poor country but have resources fairly allocated among the population, and you can be a rich country and have
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by Shoue 4y ago
In absolute terms, yes we are seeing advancements in tech/medicine and the like and that will always help more and more people, but in more relative economic terms it's questionable whether the gap between poorer nations and riche
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by Shoue 4y ago
> Basically, the “are we the baddies ?” answer would be “yes” for a huge chunk of us, and I don’t think that’s how we see it personally. Companies have to make money, but the evil label needs way more nuance. The answer to this is that i
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by Shoue 4y ago
This model is already proven to work via Kickstarter, Gofundme, and Patreon. Users already have interest in investing in ideas that _don't even allow them to retain ownership_, like Star Citizen -- it's still a copyrighted piece o
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by Shoue 4y ago
> Or take the AGPL, for instance, sponsored by now-defunct startup Affero. There are many people (myself included) who believe the AGPL is a restriction on use, freedom 0, because it prevents you from using AGPL software in certain conte
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by Shoue 5y ago
> - Can't build with nix-build. After long time searching it seems like you're supposed to run nix-build -E 'with import <nixpkgs> {}; callPackage ./default.nix {}' - shouldn't there be a simpler way f
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by Shoue 5y ago
If the creation is the part that matters why would they want to keep selling instead of taking a page out of indie game dev collectives or open source projects like Godot and Blender who earn salaries through Patreon-like monetisation strat
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by Shoue 5y ago
The term for this "communal freedom" rather than "pure individualist freedom" is Negative Liberty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty It's one of the core tenets of modern freedom,
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by Shoue 5y ago
> This is a little bit overdramatic, given that they only exert that kind of control over the frameworks that they wholly own and control. Would you be fine with being taxed for breathing if two or three companies hypothetically bought a
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by Shoue 5y ago
It's intrinsically linked to "free speech" exemptions through being violent, because violence doesn't have to be physical, here's an excerpt from Wikipedia's opening paragraph on violence[1]: > Other definit
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by Shoue 5y ago
"Free speech" is not a good example in my opinion when we already have so many exceptions to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce... I'll reconsider not defending free speech
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by Shoue 5y ago
Yeah, when public transport is done well, people _don't want to drive_. I live in London, I have a driver's license, and I haven't driven a car since I got it years and years ago. Why would I? Instead of having to focus on th
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by Shoue 5y ago
What random accusations am I "spreading so wildly"? The fact that Stallman is being accused of various kinds of sexual misconduct is a fact. I did not anywhere claim they were true. I'm pointing it out because it makes the po

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