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I don't trust Apple. It's a matter of trust, so I have nothing else to say, just I can't trust Apple.

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“ The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. „

Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

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A dishonest analysis: There are more tech firms than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple.

> Thousands of other companies accounted for the remaining 557,062 labor filings.

And most of them are IT firms.

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> “What’s the percentage chance that Trump is actually a fascist

> dictator?” asks technology investor Justin Kan in the New Yorker

> story. “Maybe it’s low, but the expected value of having an escape

> hatch is pretty high.”

Classic Peter.

I have just remembered a book: Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life, by Nail Strauss

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Talk about virtue signalling.

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The Indian Startup Show. I don't know if I's allowed to link it. I'm from Bangladesh, but I listen many Indian shows and watch Mexican soap operas through VPN.

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No.

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No.

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From the article:

> Could be... could be... but it’s unclear... could be... if...if... he could--- It is unclear... could be... could...

So, we don't if Trump keep his old device, but we will pretend he keep his old device.

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Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

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And what about screaming at "nazis"? (https://twitter.com/MisterMetokur/status/823261320669757440)

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Privoxy (https://www.privoxy.org/):

> Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.

> Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.

I'm from Bangladesh, my connection is ~256 kbps and my pc is slow (256 RAM and 1.6 ghz), if not by privoxy, i couldn't browse internet.

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Is sad and cringe:

https://twitter.com/GoogleyAsHeck

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> "This is my multi-month study plan for going from web developer (self-taught, no CS degree)..."

No CS degree and no CS background. I wonder why he wasn't chosen (and why HN dismiss Google interviews as silly games...).

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Saved You a Click. I quote:

> Why didn’t I get hired?

       >> I don’t know why.

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Good riddance.

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> A psychologist probes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science

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1. Industrial Society and Its Future. Ted Kaczynski, 1995 (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fc-industrial-societ...).

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It would not be an free software.

> But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all > (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, > including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby > mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.

    Theo de Raadt [email protected] mailing list, May 29, 2001

> The JSON License > > This is the license of the original implementation of the JSON data > interchange format. This license uses the Expat license as a base, but > adds a clause mandating:“The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.” > This is a restriction on usage and thus conflicts with freedom 0. The > restriction might be unenforcible, but we cannot presume that. Thus, > the license is nonfree.

    Various Licenses and Comments about Them (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html)

Also: json-evil-license (https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil)

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A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole:

> See Reilly, Ignatius J., Blood on Their Hands: The Crime of It All, A study of some selected abuses in sixteenth century Europe, a Monograph, 2 pages, 1950, Rare Book Room, Left Corridor, Third Floor, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans 18, Louisiana.

> Note: I mailed this singular monograph to the library as a gift; however, I am not really certain that it was ever accepted. It may well have been thrown out because it was only written in pencil on tablet paper.

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