woofie11 · HackerTrans

hace 5 añosdiscuss

I don't quite think that's the lesson intended here.

The lesson taught in a lot of cultures hit hardest by Germany is understanding:

* Personality cults

* Hate

* Polarization

... and the path by which Hitler came to power. Understanding what Hitler said and why it persuaded people is central to not being persuaded yourself.

If you're young, think of it as a 1945 version of social media misinformation literacy. Part of the way you learn to recognize misinformation is by looking and decomposing misinformation.

It's done pretty well for limiting the rise of charismatic hate-mongers for a pretty long while. We're now starting to see the rise again as the majority of voters are starting to view WWII as irrelevant history long gone, as opposed to something that happened to Mom and Dad.

woofie11

hace 5 añosdiscuss

It's not helpful hyperbole.

There were different reactions to WWII. The most helpful one is "Never again." That, in turn, leads to understanding WWII. That, in turn, leads to reading books like Mein Kampf.

A lot of people read Mein Kampf, and I believe more than use it as symbol. Understanding how one man was able to do what he did is key to making sure you're not influenced the same way.

I'm firmly of the belief America is starting to head the same (very general) way; the polarization is extreme. I'm curious whether this is internal or external.

woofie11

hace 5 añosdiscuss

The key difference is I'll contribute to open projects (including AGPL). I won't bother adding to someone else's IP moat.

If you want an ecosystem, you need an ecosystem license. "Open" source has never worked for anyone that I know of, not for lack of trying.

woofie11

hace 5 añosdiscuss

Yeah. For a basic keyboard/mouse, I wouldn't hesitate to pay $30 more for the "official" product. I wouldn't pay $100 more, but for it seems like there's a huge opportunity:

* Most mice on Aliexpress sell for $3 or so. I don't know the margin, but it's less than $3.

* I can't imaging anyone would hesitate to pay $5 more, and I wouldn't mind $30 more.

So yeah, off-brand could compete, and I'm sure students might buy it, but I think on-brand would do better.

And in either case, it wouldn't hurt. The $3 Aliexpress mouse vendors don't have any real IP moat. This is commodity tech.

woofie11

hace 5 añosdiscuss

I'm firmly convinced that if a Chinese maker made a 100% open source keyboard or mouse, they could sell that for $30 instead of $3, and establish a global brand to boot.

Same thing for a lot of hardware, actually. Printers. Scanners. Etc.

woofie11

hace 6 añosdiscuss

You're confusing two things:

  laxness <--> strictness scale

  carefulness/competence <--> carelessness / incompetence scale

Google tries to do this with automated processes and minimum wage drones, which results in both million dollar extensions being bump AND widespread malware being let through.

woofie11

hace 6 añosdiscuss

And he says with current events, meaning a massive number of recently-laid-off-developers Google could have cheap, things will continue to move slowly.

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