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You’re putting words into that hypothetical person’s mouth.

There was nothing uncivil in the response the above commenter gave.

Sometimes a well-meaning fool is worse than no help at all.

Is this value in the room with us?

So people should be getting financially ruined to god-forbid prevent some abuse of the system? As long as there is no abuse everything else is hunky-dory?

I see nothing here rebuking the above claim. Maybe you would’ve had better luck coming up with something if you had bothered to write it yourself.

I think you got lost, this is not the Steam forums.

Let me tell you about a little thing called kpop. Korean language courses are booming.

Only a bigot would see a problem with that.

If Microsoft sells ICE a subscription to Office then yes.

That’s a very low bar.

I can back up their first point a tiny bit with regards to canvas. The primary product of our company is heavily canvas-based so I’ve always noticed that canvas on Firefox on macs is slower than on Chrome but it used to be in the 2-3x range and nowadays is more in the 1.5x range. They’ve made great improvements and I’ve never noted anything close to 5-10x slowdowns.

On Windows Firefox and Chrome canvas has performed equally well at least for the past ten years. Got no data for linux tho.

I would say it's more likely that the hours and wages are the problem.

A few grumpy delivery workers aside, most people in Estonia are nice in general. You should come visit :)

I don't know where you are but consider that the reasons your postal workers are pissed of may go deeper than simply being government employed. Could it be your state-owned services are being managed in way that makes their workers unhappy because they are run by people who think that government services even need to be profitable in the first place?

Sure, because that's not all it means. "It's just business" is the excuse people tell themselves to justify the things they do.

Less efficient or less profitable? Also I'm gonna need to see some references for those claims in your last paragraph.

Funnily enough it's the couriers working for the private companies that I see looking more and more dead inside recently.

So, yknow, anecdote for an anecdote.

I admit I could've probably used more words but when someone says "it's just business" that is a clear example of how the particular flavor of capitalism we live under has enabled and indeed encourages brushing away any moral and ethical qualms as "it's just business" and as you say, it was quite interesting to see how many people immediately jumped to dictionaries, communism, and whatever else the moment capitalism was criticized.

Sure, as a theory capitalism is just a free market but I obviously mean capitalism as it exists today and shapes our entire world. And socialism has it's own can of worms, sure.

But what I was responding to in particular with my original comment was the parent commenters claim that "It’s just business" and that engaging in capitalism means you must inherently engage in the practices the OP was complaining about.

Well all the things OP complained about are inherently caused by capitalism but I think it’s probably possible to engage in capitalism in a way that is cognizant of those issues and actively trying to avoid them instead of treating them as eh that’s just how business is done

Not to sound like a hippie but we could just try to be a bit kinder to each other and not put money as the single most important thing above all else. You can run a business to make money AND do it in a way that leaves our world in a slightly better state than you found it.

It’s not a black and white choice of either we jump hardcore into capitalism or all the other way into socialism.

Similarly to OP I work at a company that has a certain set of core values and the moment they have changed irreversibly I am gone out the door.

I grew up in ESSR or as it was known locally ENSV. Replying to any criticism of capitalism with an immediate “so you want communism” without even a stopover in complaining about socialism is quite something.

No, it's more like the architect has a cousin who is like "I totally got this bro" and builds the building for them.

I'm curious how the CCTV would have prevented the bike theft?

I am not comparing flies to tables.

Do you apologize to table corners when you bump into them?

Better Ruby core than Ruby Central but still leaves me wondering what the hell happened and slightly sours me on the whole ecosystem.

This is the way tho this can lead to fun moments like I was just setting up a new cluster and couldn't figure out why I was having problems pulling images when the other clusters were pulling just fine.

Took me a while to think of checking the docker hub status page.

The left-leaning ones usually don't call for the eradication of certain peoples.

No, the struggle is fully manufactured by this rug pull. If I had known this was going to happen when I was setting up my infra I could've used any number of other alternatives, including just building them myself, at little to no extra effort. Now I have to waste time migrating off of these.

and the stuff we make is genuine

hmmm

With all the maintenance and other hassles? No thanks.