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dspearson
·4 ay önce·discuss
It's odd to me, as a Brit, to see that this stuff was not mostly public anyway. (looking at you https://github.com/alphagov)
dspearson
·4 ay önce·discuss
I don't follow. It allows citizenry to identify wage discrimination and other malpractices, people can get paid on the value of their work and not just how good they are at gaming the wage negotiations. Plus most of the civilised world has this thing called a "union" and "workers rights" that generally prevent your imagined scenario from happening.

What has medical data got to do with this? You can't very well go up to a disabled person and say, hey, you cost society more money, maybe you should have been born less disabled, you cost too much, pay more. Societal safety nets exist for a reason, and how much one is compensated for equal labour as your coworker... I don't see how it's related at all to the "make the disabled pay more" eugenics argument.
dspearson
·5 ay önce·discuss
http://textfiles.com/

people familiar with the culture
dspearson
·geçen yıl·discuss
I work for one of the largest Swiss ISPs, and these mailboxes are still to this day read by actual people (me included), so it's sometimes worthwhile even today.
dspearson
·geçen yıl·discuss
Under what circumstances would commercial companies be required to buy a license?! If they provide Linking as a Service?
dspearson
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I do the exact same for Illumos, just ripped ideas from depenguin.me (which is how I previously installed FreeBSD after they discontinued the rescue system).
dspearson
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I haven't noticed any difference or problems with the Android TV application vs the Android or web client. What exactly is broken or not great for you?
dspearson
·2 yıl önce·discuss
How can you commit treason against a foreign country?
dspearson
·3 yıl önce·discuss
[dead]
dspearson
·3 yıl önce·discuss
It was not a state actor. There were plenty of high profile people and projects being owned just for the fun of it back then.
dspearson
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Next we'll be hearing that ~el8 was a CIA front. :)