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rawTruthHurts | 1 year ago | on: The decline of the working musician

Going by that letter, the guy is a textbook example of the fruits of capitalism.

rawTruthHurts | 2 years ago | on: 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

> In the Western World the secret services kill to silence people, not to broadcast messages to the public. Quite the opposite PR strategy.

Yep. I totally didn't get the "don't mess with big corps" message at all.

rawTruthHurts | 2 years ago | on: British EV maker, once valued at $13B, has gone into bankruptcy

From the article:

"But it’s facing challenges with navigating post-Brexit regulations that make British-made EVs significantly more expensive to sell in the EU."

Much what on earth. Such wow.

rawTruthHurts | 2 years ago | on: Albert Einstein in 1939 composed a message for the people of AD 6939

>In most Western countries, people aren't dying of hunger.

At the cost of those who die in far away countries who work to keep our progress moving on.

rawTruthHurts | 2 years ago | on: Don't fire your illustrator

> Fundamentally, neither spotify nor piracy matter.

Well, I'd say yes because that's what the conversation is about.

rawTruthHurts | 2 years ago | on: Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the music industry waged war on the cassette

I'd say it was more like a joint effort. I agree with your points, but I was related to the industry for some time, and sometimes money was spent on things like renting a Concorde flight for some exec in France because he was making it late to a meeting in NY.

rawTruthHurts | 2 years ago | on: History vs. Hollywood: Oppenheimer

Well, put that way, life is an industry.

rawTruthHurts | 2 years ago | on: History vs. Hollywood: Oppenheimer

Russia did not exist at the time of WWII.

rawTruthHurts | 2 years ago | on: China Travel Advisory

Thanks for the insight. From my layman point of view, 10%-20% savings in the long run still looks like something to go for, taking as a reference the multinational I work for, where a 7% saving on whatever is seen as a triumph. I'd say the greed point still stands, the additional logistics involved are just how it works.

rawTruthHurts | 2 years ago | on: China Travel Advisory

I wouldn't mind to read about those other many reasons besides greed. Care to share a link?

rawTruthHurts | 2 years ago | on: The Taliban’s Successful Opium Ban Is Bad for Afghans and the World

Absolutely. Self-dependence is overrated anyway. If they find no buyer they'll be able make some nice infusions.

rawTruthHurts | 3 years ago | on: Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and the Birth of Superman

Why should have anything against telling that story? Are we ok with this flavour of editorialization now?

"XIX Catholic scientist invents pasteurization" - I truly fail to see the "coolness" of it.

rawTruthHurts | 3 years ago | on: Making macOS Apps Uninstallable

But we were not lied to in that regard.

rawTruthHurts | 3 years ago | on: A mysterious cyberattack has shuttered the Guardian's office for a month

Considering Churchill's loathe for working class people, your word will do.

rawTruthHurts | 3 years ago | on: Adobe at 40

I've tried Inkscape and GIMP. I'm sure they must be great pieces of software, but their usability is so awful it renders them useless for me. And they're not great options if your client provides/asks for adobe proprietary files (psds, ais...)

rawTruthHurts | 3 years ago | on: How to build a personal webpage from scratch

Indeed. Why would you teach to do things right when you can teach how to do them wrong?

rawTruthHurts | 3 years ago | on: Estonia’s inflation hit 25% year-on-year in August, energy prices to blame

One does not exclude the other. But the important bit here -per rvnx's comment- is "It started before the war."

rawTruthHurts | 3 years ago | on: The Green War on Clean Energy

None of this refutes my point.

rawTruthHurts | 3 years ago | on: The Green War on Clean Energy

And there goes the usual overly simplistic and naive understanding the issues XR and such try to raise awareness of.

rawTruthHurts | 3 years ago | on: Who Built the First Electric Rock 'N' Roll Guitar? (2019)

Then, you have Jeff Beck.