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Isn't this basically how Reddit got popular, when everyone was mad about Digg's UI update so they wanted an alternative?

Coincidentally, I just became Top Rated Plus (as opposed to normal Top Rated) on Upwork thanks to finishing my first large contract! I'm going to have a mini-party with my wife to celebrate, haha. Upwork dramatically changed my life. I don't care much either way about the fee change, but I get why other people do.

A good friend of mine is hiring engineers who want to transition to providing therapy for digital nomads, remote techies, and such.

His practice actually specializes in therapy and mental health for remote workers and engineers. They provide extensive training and paid certification.

I'll pass you his contact, email me at [email protected] if interested.

Just to be upfront, the pay range he told me is great for therapy work but not impressive by engineering standards.

I didn't even know David Hasselhoff made music and this song is amazing, thanks a lot for sharing!

Who says the two parties aren't on the same team? Maybe the winning team is corrupt politicians and the facade of ideology is a marketing gimmick that sells tickets but at the end of the day, the NFL doesn't care whether you buy a the 49ers jersey or the Raiders jersey.

Imo the real teams aren't you versus me, it's us versus them.

He probably didn't have the stat off the top of his head, so it was exaggerated based on assumptions. But the underlying intuition had a kernel of truth and applies to any political party, or any institution, really. For example, if an organization dedicated to the poor mainly draws support from poor people, they have a kind of incentive to subtly maintain poverty.

This theory that institutions kind of have a tendency to perpetuate the conditions that necessitate their existence was developed by Durkheim, and like most of the other early sociologists, I really recommend it over newer stuff. It's not conspiratorial, the idea is that organizations that do this outsurvive groups that legitimately solve the problems they are created to solve, and so through an evolutionary process, the longest lived and deepest institutions tend to be ones with behaviors ironically antithetical to their supposed mission (even if the members of the institution totally believe in and earnestly support the mission).

The typical example (at least when I was into this kind of stuff) is the Catholic Church earnestly helping the poor, but doing so in a way that societaly, will never actually alleviate poverty, or may even exacerbate it. Now days I tend to hear this line of thinking used about liberals supporting policies that "help" minorities but really perpetuate the cycle of poverty.

Whether you believe this is beside the point, I only mean to suggest that OP is wrong, but a steelman of his point is deeper than it seems, and deserves our good faith imo.

> GNU Taler is developed as part of the GNU project for the GNU operating system.

Ha, yes, the GNU operating system. I appreciate GNU's commitment to this idea notion that they are developing an operating system (for which Linux is just the kernel)! And, I mean, I understand their thinking (I think). But it stills makes me chuckle for some reason.

A time of my life that I deeply regret and learned a lot from, full of brutality and fear, but also moments of beauty and wonder.

I wonder if any other excons are here on HN.

As a Judoka, I wish this was about normal Judo. You know what, I'm going to blog about Judo and submit it here when I'm done. See you in a few days!