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by bongobongo 7y ago
Gitlab has an excellent free plan, in fact it’s so good I honestly don’t understand how they can afford it and doubt it will last (but really hope it will for individual developers). They even give you Docker registries and thousands of CI
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by bongobongo 7y ago
You’re describing a monopoly and the proper tool to deal with it is anti-trust, not entrenching it by pretending it’s a public utility.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
This isn’t as insightful as you think. You’re tautologically describing the notion of sovereignty. Sovereignty is supreme power. Of course it abhors “competition.”
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Libertarianism is not the same thing as liberalism (classical nor modern).
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Switched to Firefox for work and home. It feels like Chrome did in the early days. No, it’s not faster than Chrome. Yes, there are a couple of dev features that I no longer find intuitive. I just mean in the sense that it is really focused
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by bongobongo 7y ago
If you are asking questions like this you probably should not be buying individual stocks
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Can’t disagree with you there. I don’t know how these people sleep at night. The taint should extend to any firm that consults for them. I don’t care how many adults really do use them as cessation devices, they are clearly intended to be u
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Serious question: why just the executives? I know everybody needs a job to get by, but there’s an expression for getting by by getting kids hooked on harmful drugs: being a shitbum drug dealer. There should be some consequences when it come
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Your first point isn’t a matter of opinion. Competition and innovation have been steadily declining, and monopsony (wage-setting power) concentrating. These aren’t just the musings of some random know-it-all on some tech board, they are rea
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Agreed completely. And on a larger note in terms of media distribution and delivery, I feel like we’ve regressed to something even worse and more frustrating than the 20th century model
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by bongobongo 7y ago
I’m not an expert in the subject, just pointing out that you can die or lose your toes sleeping outside in the North, which changes things a bit.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
I think this is accurate, having lived all over CA and the Northeast. Northeastern cities build shelters because otherwise homeless people would freeze to death in the winter, though. Sometimes the shelters are only available during the fre
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Sounds like you’ve advanced in your career by undermining your teammates and sacrificing professionalism in order to win praise from people who are willing to put systems and users at risk without understanding the co sequences. I understan
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by bongobongo 7y ago
I've never seen somebody drive a car on the sidewalk. I see scooteridiots going 15+ MPH on the sidewalk all the time.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Just because people have money to burn does not mean they earned it or acquired it through hard work and good thinking. Most people with money are absolute idiots just like everybody else. In fact, in many cases, and especially with wealth
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by bongobongo 7y ago
That's why it's not a market. Like I said.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Let's not be silly, there is no market in this case. It's an oligopoly and occasional cartel.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
You are mixing in airline surcharges with taxes.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Most forms of technolibertarianism are just feudalism with gizmos.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
You may not know this, but the Constitution guarantees the same rights to foreigners on US soil as it does to US citizens. (This is a pretty basic part of civic education, but civic education in the US these days is terrible.) So, no, I wou
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by bongobongo 7y ago
It is not "wild speculative hyperbole" not to give the benefit of the doubt to companies that have repeatedly demonstrated that they are not entitled to the benefit of the doubt.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Russia already assassinates people all over the world, even in the US (e.g., Mikhail Lesin was likely offed by Russian agents right in the middle of Washington, DC in 2015). It's a very fanciful idea that CIA has as much of a presence
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by bongobongo 7y ago
If the argument is that it's OK because the driver will be there to stop the car from doing something fatally stupid, then that sort of defeats the purpose of not driving the car yourself; this isn't a "self-driving" car
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by bongobongo 7y ago
I’m not sure that’s true. Devs do well but not necessarily better than nurses, doctors, and engineers. The big gap is in licensure and education. You can get a high paying job in tech starting with a GED if you play your cards right. That i
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by bongobongo 7y ago
It works, it just won’t happen because all the structural incentives point to the status quo. Another reason to love our current crop of monopolists...
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by bongobongo 7y ago
I won’t call you dumb, but you can only stretch an analogy so far. And some weirdos trading pizza arcade tokens like they are real money is not at all the same as one of the richest companies in the world trying to disrupt the global curren
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by bongobongo 7y ago
The unique combination of arrogance and ignorance on HN grates on me, too. And a lot of it is motivated by what you suggest, which is the high compensation of techies relative to other knowledge workers—it makes them think they are inherent
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Relying on propaganda for social stability is a recipe for authoritarianism.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
You missed it
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by bongobongo 7y ago
It's a kind of mind-trick that only occurs in articles and white papers about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. I've noticed that they often end up proposing a distributed private shared database controlled by a corpor

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