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merc, to memes in I sure hope I can keep up!

That looks quiet and positively spacious compared to the last open office environment I did time in.

Imagine that same space but 4 people between the column and the window instead of just 2. Then make the space 3x as long. Then reduce the space between the backs of the chairs by 50%.

Even though everyone in the space was doing individual programming / sysadmin work, the space was extremely loud just from a few spontaneous conversations between people working on the same thing together. Everyone wore headphones nearly all the time, only taking them off if they needed to talk / shout to the people near them about something. Often, if you needed to talk with someone sitting 4 desks away, the easiest way to do it was over IM.

merc, to programmer_humor in what's the difference?

Git is a DVCS. GitHub is a place where DVCS repositories are hosted. There are many other places where DVCS repositories can be hosted, but GitHub is the most famous one… Porn is a type of content. PornHub is a place where porn is hosted. There are many other places where porn can be hosted, but PornHub is the most famous one. It’s a pretty good analogy.

merc, to lemmyshitpost in Success is built through GAMBA

If you’re rich you can afford to gamble, lose and try again.

If you’re poor, you can gamble, win, and then have to spend your winnings helping out your family and community. Like, paying for the operation your uncle needs but couldn’t afford, or helping mom’s friend from church avoid losing her home.

This is a reason that a lot of poor-person owned businesses don’t grow. They may start strong, but then the business owner has trouble continuing to invest.

merc, to lemmyshitpost in Propagandists love this simple trick

This makes me wonder what would happen if you took the content off some celebrity-focused website like say TMZ but changed the formatting to make it look like New York Times articles.

Like, the “gravitas” of the NY Times politics section with content like “Guess Whose Shirtless Selfie!”

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

Wage theft isn’t theft, it’s fraud.

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

That’s just one element of theft.

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

Nah, no need to go to laws, just use a dictionary.

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

I’m all in favour of people being pedantic, especially in the case of laws.

If you are using the term theft colloquially

I’m not, “theft” is misused all the time. It’s something that the copyright cartels encourage because they get to pretend that copyright infringement is theft. It’s not. We should push back and say theft has to meet certain conditions, and copyright infringement isn’t theft. Nor is “wage theft”, which is a form of fraud.

By buying into the colloquial definition of “theft” and expanding the scope to be any time someone is inconvenienced, you give the copyright cartels power to make people think copyright infringement is as bad as actual real theft, when it’s clearly not.

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

Not really, theft is theft. Fraud is fraud. Just because something feels like theft doesn’t make it theft.

merc, (edited ) to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

If it’s theft, it’s theft. If it’s fraud, it’s fraud. It could be either. But “wage theft” is not copyright infringement, which is not theft.

Here’s what California’s Department of Industrial Relations says:

Wage theft is a form of fraud

www.dir.ca.gov/fraud_prevention/Wage-Theft.htm

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

Freelancers may be upset if they’re mistreated, but that doesn’t mean they get to declare they were murdered, or that they were raped, or any other crime that didn’t occur. Theft has a specific definition, and fraud is not the same thing as theft.

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

What part of that statement suggests that the artist no longer has the original art? As stated, no theft occurred.

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

Yes, which is not theft. It’s not murder either. Nor is it blasphemy. It’s just copyright infringement.

merc, to linuxmemes in the main differences!!

KDE gives you bad hair?

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

you have stolen my labour

No, that’s not theft. That’s fraud.

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