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Anyone who claims to care about the mental health of open source devs should be on the author's side here


The author however is hired by the commercial entity behind Home assistant. And I'm not against making money using open source software. But when you build your company and income on an open source license and the work of others you should respect that license both ways.


This kind of confirms my suspicion that what's really happening here is a commerical project is piggybacking on open source and goodwill to distribute components of their product using community infrastructure.


That makes so much sense. Which is how I know they'll never implement anything like that :(


Thanks man, you really understand. Good post.

It's sad to say, but the pandemic was lifechanging for me. With the unemployment benefits I received, I was able to save up some money and had time for myself to start thinking about what I needed to do before the money disappeared into rent. I applied for the local community college and trying to get financial aid here in California, and if it works out, I'll "only" pay like $3.5k for each of the two years. If they don't give me financial aid, it's time to give up lol. I wouldn't have been able to afford even entertaining this idea before, because all the money disappears into living expenses. The pandemic saved me...the only way for someone like me to get a higher education, is for a global pandemic to happen at 24 years old haha.


If they paywalled HN, I would finally be free from this place.


Do you think Kalanick would react the same if instead of "happy ending" for a dessert at an Asian restaurant, it was something like "Uncle Tom's Chicken & Watermelon"? To me, this is just another example of the acceptance of racism toward Asian people in American society.


Those aren’t really equivalent.

Maybe something closer would be “finger licking good” and that’s actually used by many restaurants and was used by KFC until covid.

“Happy ending” is actually super common for use on Asian restaurant menus. And I usually assume the Asian owners made that decision.

Using “Uncle Tom’a Chicken” is an offensive stereotype and even if it was made by a guy named Tom who had niblings it wouldn’t funny or clever to me.


I'm wondering what difference you see between the examples - they both seem like self-depreciating humour to me. It doesn't really make sense to be offended on behalf of other groups, especially when they haven't problem with it.


The difference I see is that one is related to slavery and betrayal and the other is about jerking people off.

Happy ending isn’t self-deprecating and also has some meaningful relation to food since desert is an ending and it’s sweet and happy, etc etc.

There’s really no connection to Uncle Tom and chicken that I see.


Yes, he should be consistent and put that on the menu too.


That's a horrible idea in today's social/political climate. Just try visualizing a police officer trying to arrest a black person for not wearing a mask. Or police being sent to gatherings in black neighborhoods. Sorry but I'd rather have more covid deaths than more riots and possibly a race war in my country.


Why would the color of their skin have anything to do with it?


It has everything to do with it when it comes to the U.S. If we were another country, maybe it would be acceptable to have police harrass people for not wearing masks. But in the U.S., giving police the license to harrass people minding their own business will inevitably result in more police brutality that affects some races more than others.


So, you shouldn't have laws at all, because they're enforced unevenly against some races? Is that what you're saying? I'm outspoken against police overreach and misconduct and even I won't go that far.


I wouldn't say that we shouldn't have laws. I just think it would be best for society if we avoided doing shit that will cause more riots. I think it's called consequentialism? Not sure. Whether or not it's a good idea to arrest/fine people who don't wear masks, I know for a fact that it will lead to disproportionately more black and brown people being at best fined/harrassed or at worst killed by police. So I am against it.


> Whether or not it's a good idea to arrest/fine people who don't wear masks, I know for a fact that it will lead to disproportionately more black and brown people being at best fined/harrassed or at worst killed by police. So I am against it.

In the context of the US, how does this differ from any other law? It sounds to me like this would lead to a situation where if people make it difficult enough to enforce the law then that law will stop applying to them.


I wish it wasn't like this, but it is what it s.


>My personal experience leads me to believe that there is no way Elon Musk could have been dosing stimulants for the last 10-20 years and look as good and as relatively calm as he does.

Looks can be deceiving :P Years ago Elon was balding hard and now he has a full head of hair.


the man is overweight


Nah he's just bulking. It's all muscle under there.


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