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- Comment on The ones and zeros and tens 1 day ago:
Is this satire or real? I really can’t tell
- Comment on French culture 1 day ago:
Like the Concorde?
- Comment on Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive 2 days ago:
I think such projects don’t exist precisely because Mozilla is still developing it. If Mozilla abandons Firefox then someone else will take up the torch.
- Comment on Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive 3 days ago:
I believe the Firefox development organization could be a lot leaner, and not all of the work has to be directly salaried. There are plenty of huge open source projects that are progressing fine without being run by a single for-profit company. E.g. the Apache ecosystem, the Linux foundation projects, FreeBSD, etc.
- Comment on Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive 3 days ago:
I am. Why not make it a nonprofit?
- Comment on Even Atari Game Cartridges Are Getting More Expensive Because Of Tariffs 4 days ago:
Well, duh
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
The biggest scandal we had in all of my school years was that when I was 17 there was a girl in my class who was dating a 25-year-old. Nobody was ever interested in anyone’s dad.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
He’s eating snowflakes
- Comment on Companies that list all their products, but don't explain the different product lines suck. 1 week ago:
So why not sell only the cloud version? Does that version somehow prevent management from another cloud key? If not, having the functionality dormant costs nothing.
- Comment on Companies that list all their products, but don't explain the different product lines suck. 2 weeks ago:
Ubiquiti devices. What’s the difference between “UniFi Gateway Fiber” and “UniFi Cloud Gateway Fiber”? Last I checked they were even the same price.
- Comment on Why doesn't Steam support Android? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not that simple. Proton implements the Windows API functions required to run a Windows game on Linux, but it’s not a CPU emulator. Emulating x86 on ARM at the speeds required by a game is virtually impossible.
If Steam comes to ARM / Android, it would have to be a whole separate ecosystem of games. But Valve is late to the game there since we already have several players on that market, not least the standard Google Play Store.
- Comment on Describe conservatives with one picture 3 weeks ago:
The irony of the Reddit banner saying you should stay on Reddit for the empathy
- Comment on Can you believe it? 3 weeks ago:
When the pot hits just right
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 4 weeks ago:
You implied that an egalitarian person doesn’t have the goal of furthering equality, did you not?
The Wikipedia article on egalitarianism says:
By promoting equal opportunities, egalitarianism aims to level the playing field and reduce disparities that result from social inequalities.
and
Egalitarian doctrines have supported many modern social movements, including the Enlightenment, feminism, civil rights, and international human rights.
Do you not feel that what you claim and what Wikipedia says are in conflict? At any rate, what I mean by being egalitarian is also to work toward achieving an egalitarian society and I do work toward that goal in practice as well.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 4 weeks ago:
I disagree and as far as I can tell, so does Wikipedia.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 4 weeks ago:
I prefer to call myself egalitarian
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 4 weeks ago:
The number of assholes calling themselves feminists vastly outnumber the actual feminists.
- Comment on The cat turns him in 4 weeks ago:
I love me some multi-meme drifting
- Comment on Get that Musky Grindset going 4 weeks ago:
What happened?
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 5 weeks ago:
I hate to break it to you but… millennials are old
- Comment on ghibli posting 5 weeks ago:
Come on. Public figures need to be able to deal with satire and mockery, and this isn’t even a deep cut. Besides, have you seen how Miyazaki treats his family? That man has no empathy or humanity to offer his peers either.
- Comment on ghibli posting 5 weeks ago:
Sounds to me like Miyazaki needs to lighten up.
- Comment on Great Advice 1 month ago:
The alot looks like it could easily eat 7 tacos and still be hungry
- Comment on Bug report: My wifes messages are being duplicated 1 month ago:
Well it works fine in boost
- Comment on No title 1 month ago:
What’s the story with this guy?
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 month ago:
I mean Adobe is a piece of shit company and if there’s any way you can ditch them, do it. If you can’t, I get it. In that case a Mac is probably the easier way out.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 month ago:
Yes, there are certainly alternatives and there are several with a better UI than GIMP (see Krita and Pixel). But I know there are specific tools and workflows that are missing. Partly it’s probably a matter of finding new ways of accomplishing your goal.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 month ago:
Ubuntu is the typical go-to replacement for Windows as it’s arguably more plug-and-play than other distros.
alternativeto.net is a great place to find Linux alternatives to the software you use. Many products already work on Linux without switching, but some areas might be more difficult. For example depending on your needs you might not find a great drop-in replacement for Photoshop.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 month ago:
Please, you’re wasting your time explaining. I know all this. I’m talking about how a libertarian would interpret the question due to its ambiguous phrasing. My only point is that of the original parent comment: the methodology of the researcher is bad.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 month ago:
No, 0.05$ is not a substantial amount of money. A 5 percentage points tax increase could be considered substantial. The question is worded so that it can be interpreted in the latter way, and it’s also using a subjective word like “substantial”. Somebody who is politically against taxes is likely to interpret it the latter way, and hence the poll’s results are skewed by its vagueness.
If we want to measure math skills and understanding of the law, a better question would be by how many dollars the total tax would increase. This would also give us better information on how far off people are.