To play the devil's advocate, more people are born every day and as long as there are more developers today than there were yesterday, lifetime licenses can bring in a trickle of money each month, especially if the marginal cost of each new customer is zero or near zero.
> Nothing worse than being famished and getting one measly slice of pizza.
I am not exactly a big guy but even I can easily eat two slices of pizza and I am talking about real slices of the Costco pizza which I love for its value for money. I can't imagine how you could feed a team of eight with a single pizza.
Not all corruption is obvious though. Sometimes you think you are doing the right thing, "just need to bend the rules slightly over here". It is all for a "good cause". I feel like I am as much worried about people who are the righteous wrong, as much as people who are just out there trying to grift to make a buck.
> The fact is allowing any type of unsigned update on HTTP is a security flaw in itself.
Reminds me about ten years or so ago when I was installing Debian or something and I noticed the URL for the apt install mirrors were http and not https. People helpfully pointed out this is a non issue because the updates are signed.
Ok I guess but then why did Debian switch to https?
I see hundreds of tweets by @amazon that reply to people complaining how deliveries miss the dates that amazon dot com promised but then amazon dot com probably delivers so many packages every day that I think it is a bit of column A and a bit of column B here.
This makes the same classic mistake about social media about social media that my boomer dad makes.
100s people a day or even an hour is not a lot of people. It might feel like it is because in person it is but for the over 20 million packages they deliver daily it is rounding error.
This 'sandwich fallacy' perfectly illustrates why I think sports should be removed from the university system.
Universities are great 'bakeries' (centers of learning), but they’ve become bogged down trying to run massive 'sandwich shops' (commercial sports).
It’s okay for these to exist, but they should be independent entities so the school can focus on being a school.
Spectator sports should be run by the marketing department at the university and judged by their ability to bring in future students and donations - both important things that sports do for marketing. Justify your existence based on those two or get rid of those sports. Since this is a marketing department thing other departments should stay out.
There is a different class of sports though. Schools should have sports as exercise for students, and classes on how to get better at sports.
Yes, exactly, that's what I'm talking about. Imagine a world where it's completely acceptable to post poop on Instagram, and people who don't want to look at it simply tick "don't display poop". The thing is, the "if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear" argument IS true, under assumption that others would be understanding and compassionate to your intentions. Which is exactly the opposite of the legal/societal system we currently have.
What I'm trying to say is that the core issue is "people aren't trustworthy" and "we need privacy" is a bandaid on the former problem. If we manage to create a society where people are trustworthy, the need of privacy will disappear.
The core problem is that people have (and will always have) divergent goals, and a large subset of people see no problem in using coercive and even violent means to ensure that their own “team” wins. This is human nature and cannot be remedied.
Then the government is overturned by a totalitarian clique that declares displaying poop punishable by death, and this includes any past display of poop. Suddenly you find yourself here
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