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Tell me why should technological change benefit workers?

Technological benefits make individual workers more productive, allowing them to be exploited for more profit. If you don't understand the economics or incentive of the situation, there's no reasoning you out of a box you didn't reason yourself into.

Why would I artificially limit myself, both for existing and future releases? But unless you are willing to be limited in what you can play, a PC gamer will continue to pick Windows.

A lot more people are willing to be limited in what they can play. 10 years ago, it wasn't anywhere near 6/10 -- and in my case, all of the major titles I play (20k~ steam hours) except for one have worked perfectly fine on Arch; no longer a Windows user after 20+ years.

You didn't really give any legal perspective. Either Facebook owns the content and the liability as a publisher, or it's a platform and shouldn't fixing content towards what they want to show.

The blockchain data will never be "optimized" or "disappear" This is a really bold assumption - you do understand that core dev is still ongoing, yes?

You do understand that "infinite data on a disk" doesn't exist, yes? And as the chain goes on longer, more space is going to be needed, and centralization of the miners will continue to increase, yes?

Please take the time to learn how Bitcoin works before pontificating

If you look between the lines you'll find that the "security industry" is largely in favour of corporate-authoritarianism.

If you're looking for some unreasonably secure device, obviously you have to bake an apple pie from scratch in order to ensure no steps in your supply line are tampered with. Current system has plenty of problems with which that's being used as a defense though, and the fact that those systems are so closed is what allows zerodium to exist in the first place.

...? The vaccine isn't a panacea that eradicates the virus. Vaccine means your viral load is going to be lower than the alternative and less likely to spread. You can be vaccinated and still spread the virus, but getting the hogs to stop running around so we can try and achieve herd immunity for those that aren't able to get the vaccine is a pretty obvious goal.

There is almost no point in buying an ecosystem-dependant device and then trying to cut off the ecosystem dependency.

...the only alternative right now is throwing cash at a librem5 and there's still plenty of work until it's feasible for a linux phone as a daily driver.

So in your argument, even smart well intentioned people who disagree with these public policies are spreading misinformation? You are asserting that everybody who disagrees is wrong and harmful to society, correct?

Whereas you're asserting that it's impossible for smart people to spread disinformation?

So you'll end up with team players but with nobody who will actually get the job done.

There are plenty of developers that are capable of writing code and explaining how and why they've done it. Your difficulty communicating ideas doesn't directly translate to being a better developer.

The better way is as the interviewer to do your homework and to engage on the level of the interviewee

I'm not sure you've ever reviewed resumes, but they pretty frequently absolutely suck, targeted or not targeted, or otherwise not accurately representing skills. It can go from completely clueless "buzzword bingo" to "obviously I'm skilled enough to not need to mention the silly stuff like TCP"

Realize that your company is as much in the hot-seat as the candidate is.

...and for those companies that do understand that?

Where is the substance to this comment? What stance are you taking or solutions you proposing?