When I learned about it first time I thought it sounded too good to be true. Turns out, it is just that good.

It is a joke, there are no ads. I just wrote a fake command in the Nix syntax.

LPT: In NixOS you can fix this by adding

environment.systemAds.enable = false;

to your configuration.nix file 😎

It is a work of art!

Yeah, hearing about how hard it would be to get tenure dissuaded me from pursuing my original dream of doing a PhD. In retrospect I think I am much happier where I am now than I would’ve been, which really is what matter the most to me now. Freeing myself of the obligation of attaining my goals was actually quite nice.

I misinterpreted your comment and was very pleasantly surprised that something named “rational wiki” would call him out for the crackpot that he is.

Still only because the DM decided to be nice about it.

Realistically, how many people build applications themselves? Signal does not have reproducible builds (on Android at least) and depends on Play Services for notifications.

EDIT: Seems they have it now (since 2016). I am getting old.

This is called multi-seating and requires input handling of more than one keyboard and mouse (as well as other things). It is not really useful for that in the state shown above.

Also, reported income is not the same for regular people and the top 1%. Tax evasion techniques makes it seem as if they have way less income than they really have.

EDIT: I do realize some of this could be incorporated into the statement of your quote above.

The (then) right-wing Norwegian government (left-wing by US standards ordered a study because they wanted to claim this. The results (source in Norwegian, use a translator) were the opposite of what they wanted.

For example: “the businesses used more money on their workers when the stock owners were subjected to higher wealth tax” (paraphrasing here).

Is a car or shirt or house personal property?

Yes.

I reference “dignity” because it’s part of “the unshakeable foundation of the Republic of Poland”

Yea, not sure I care about the right-wingers in Poland either.

cooperate with you if you remind them of the Soviet Union, and I expect that saying “we should remove the capitalist class” will do that.

Well, I think we should be honest about our intentions, unlike the capitalist class that tell you “brown people” or “the economy” is the reason they pay you slave wages.

What misinformation am I repeating? I wouldn’t have written a statement that I don’t think is true, so I suggest you point out anything you think is incorrect and explain your perspective, and maybe share a URL for some more interesting sources.

The part about seizing personal property to pay taxes, for instance. A progressive tax system can have bottom tiers paying no taxes. The right are those who impose high tax rates on the middle class and poor, in order to make them hate taxes.

The US is the only country I know of that practises this.

1. Wealth tax does not block economic growth, rather the opposite, because it forces wealth to be reinvested to not lose too much value.
2. You clearly need a lesson in proportional taxation if you think people would have their personal property appropriated.
3. I do not give a fuck about you placing your dignity in ownership of material assets, that is a you problem.
4. The top 10% pay less income taxes as a fraction of their income than the bottom 10%.
5. Really, we should remove the capitalist class because they will fight back to the detriment of everyone else.
6. I do not give a fuck about the IRS. I am not an American. My country actually has a wealth tax.
7. You are repeating misinformation and capitalist propaganda with little understanding of what you are saying. Have you even reflected on what “the economy” really is? If you are a trickle-down Reaganomics-follower, you might want to get your brain checked.

Exactly.

GitHub has long sought to discredit copyleft generally. Their various CEOs have often spoken loudly and negatively about copyleft, including their founder (and former CEO) devoting his OSCON keynote on attacking copyleft and the GPL. This trickled down from the top. We’ve personally observed various GitHub employees over the years arguing in many venues to convince projects to avoid copyleft; we’ve even seen a GitHub employee do this in a GitHub bug ticket directly.

You only need to know that corporations do not like copyleft to know it is good. The same goes with capitalists and wealth tax / inheritance tax.

If anyone wants to grasp the basics: here is some fun reading (leading on to some beautiful math). Changing the idea of parallelity leads to hyperbolic geometry and other fun stuff. :)

I obviously downloaded a car after seeing that obnoxious anti-piracy ad.

The original comment says that these clauses should be made illegal, to which the comment I responded to objects. Objecting to change based on arguments that are only valid within the paradigm that exists before said change is nothing but a logical fallacy.

It is demonstrably false that the change has to entail the problems conjectured by the comment I responded to. Thus the counter argument is shown to be both reductionist and wrong.

It is not besides the point because there exists an alternative to the whole ordeal of arbitration clauses and suing. That is what I pointed out.

We all joke about how americans sue for the most stupid shit, but (besides different mindsets following from the same reason) you do it because your system allows for it and provides no alternative course of action.

Uhm what are you talking about? Why would I want to sue my surgeon?

EDIT: The reasons why I would not sue my surgeon are:

1. It is not a private legal matter, but a matter of adequate services rendered.
2. The question of liability can be better answered by a specialized team of doctors that review my case than a jury.
3. Legal action is an obstacle made to disenfranchise those that cannot afford counsel, which is why the US loves it and we generally don’t.
4. We have laws that demand reasonable judgement. Hence I cannot make a claim for damages due to some unrelated reason and they cannot evade guilt by the same tactic.

If the surgeon did something illegal, this would be a different matter.