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Comment · 1 day ago
I feel like all that is true sometimes, then my 9-year-old neice shows me what she's been doing in Minecraft.
Comment · 1 day ago
When I was in middle school, all of my friends used XMPP. None of us pre-teens were especially tech savvy.
Comment · 2 months ago
"Protected by go-away" so I went away.
Comment · 2 months ago
I was just trying to point out that the rules for entertainment industry are different than most industries, so IATSE may not be the best example.
Comment · 2 months ago
IATSE membership helps with job mobility because they enjoy a carve-out allowing sectorial bargaining. It would be illegal in US for a union to try to organize the software industry along the same lines.
Comment · 3 months ago
That is what my job as a developer has always been.
Comment · 3 months ago
We should implement this in Florida. I wouldn't mind a five month vacation.
Comment · 4 months ago
One step closer to the Panera Facebook resort and casino VR heaven.
Comment · 6 months ago
Add a file manager and you will have a konquerer competitor.
Comment · 7 months ago
At first I thought this was silly, then I remembered there is another guy in England that also claims sovereignty of this area. The Prince of Hutt has a better claim as far as I'm concerned.
Comment · 7 months ago
When it comes to software specifically, there are a couple advantages of capitalist ownership:

1. Access to cash. While software does not require much physical capital (factories, equipment, raw materials, etc) those with capital have easier access to cash and can therefore scale much quicker.

2. Intellectual Property. In software industry, workers do not just use capital to make finished goods. They produce new capital out of their imaginations and that capital (which lasts 120 years, never breaks down, never deteriorates) is typically owned those who put up the cash. That makes their advantage grow over time.

None of that is insurmountable, but we are a long way from having the organization or political support to overcome them.

Comment · 7 months ago
The films upset over Clinton's personal email address must have had their heads explode over this!
Comment · 8 months ago
Isn't Tor already a US government funded "freedom portal"? This new webpage could just provide instructions for downloading For Browser
Comment · 10 months ago
I'm a little confused. Was this code he released that allowed others to run a mixing service, or was it a mixing service ran by this guy, or is it some kind of distributed mixing service that cannot be controlled by anyone?
Comment · 11 months ago
I will definitely check that out. I love the idea of poets battling monks.

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