ta_75000

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   by ta_75000 12y ago

   Strong arguments can be made for the necessity of basic income, but as a concept it is weakly socialist. The ideal that people have some fundamental right to sustenance beyond what the market value of their labor provides as income is by de
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   by ta_75000 12y ago

   > Why are people just now 'discovering' that you don't need to throw JS at an application to have it completely usable? I think a new generation of developers for whom the web has always been, essentially, a rich and dynam
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   by ta_75000 12y ago

   You only have to look at any thread here about copyright or piracy to see indignation at the very idea of charging money. People believe that software being free (for every definition of free) is a fundamental human right, and part of the j
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   by ta_75000 12y ago

   There is a considerable portion of the open source community which views capitalizing on software as inherently immoral. As soon as Werner Koch started charging money for it, most people would switch to a free fork or distribute it on the b
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   by ta_75000 12y ago

   It is unconscionable that a service like this is served over plain, unsecured HTTP. How do I know that the 42 i'm getting is genuine?