For real open source projects, it's a lot of the time not nerds working for free.

All your favorite frameworks and libraries are often developed in house at big companies (angular, react, vue, tensorflow, Kafka, pytorch, k8s, Jenkins, and many many more).

And even then, much of the development on them is done by people who are getting paid to use the frameworks at smaller companies.

There are tons of examples the other way too of course, but even the Linux kernel is mostly corporate commits, Google, Huawei, Oracle, and others.

This isn't inherently bad, but it's not as cut and dry as people make it out to be.

I want to add, that language development is also often done by companies. Today for example is a Mozilla thing, and while a non profit, the devs aren't working for free.

Do you think all of the 90 million people who didn't vote are in such a poor position that they can't sit on their couch for 1 hour 2-3 times a decade to cast a mail in ballot?

This isn't some small marginalized group, it's nearly 40 percent of the voting population. I mean, I just think that if you can't do the bare minimum civic duty for your country because you are not excited enough for the candidate, it says a lot about your character.

And voter accessibility is easier than ever, this was demonstrated by the fact that millions of more people voted in the previous election. Mail in, drop boxes, early voting, etc are more and more available. In 2020, 72% of the votes cast were done either early, by mail, or absentee.

North Carolina, a red state, has online voting for blind or otherwise disabled people, mail in ballots, weeks of early voting, absentees voting, on site voter registration, automatic registration with the DMV, etc, had 400k MORE eligible voters and 200k less ballots cast than 2020.

Absentee ballots are mailed out months in advance, meaning you have months to mark the form and send it back.

I mean, I just fundamentally disagree, I think that people who don't vote, generally don't care, there are so many resources available, and saying that it's some individual persons (Harris) fault for 90 million people failing to do their job, is just dumb.

The actual reality, is that most people are inconsistent voters and they just can't be bothered most of the time.

It's hard to vote when you have a several week window, can do it from your house, and 4 years to prepare? I just don't see it.

To add: about 9 million people work more than one job in the us.

Assuming none of the people who work multiple jobs, whats with the other 80 million people?

This isn't some small marginalized population of people, it's almost 40 percent of the eligible voting population.

Y'all can downvote all you want, but don't act like people have no agency in their lives and don't act like their decisions aren't theirs.

I don't give a shit if I reek of anything, I give a shit about the millions of people who fail to fulfil their civic duties.

I'm blaming individuals for individually not doing their individual part.

Deciding not to vote because it 'feels' a certain way is just stupid, I don't care.

I'll add, rural people have no transit systems or infrastructure, they have to have running and maintained cars, and the ability to drive them, which would disproportionately affect disabled people and others that would have difficulty getting to physical polls.

How come rural, under educated voters are able to make it out every election without problems.

I'm not going to defend people failing to do a simple task once every four years.

You have four years to prepare for the event. And there are only two states that don't offer early voting, and those states allow absentee ballots for people who won't be home, have disabilities, or would otherwise struggle to vote in person. We have more resources available than ever, it's easier than ever to vote, generally, thanks to widespread mail in voting adoption (which was demonstrated by a 6% higher turnout in 2020)

I am sure you can find excuses for people here and there who were really truly unable, but 90 million eligible voters failed to do their civic duty. Even assuming every single homeless person was unable to vote, which is unlikely, that's still 88.5 million that didn't show up, and let's take EVERY single person with a disability and assume they somehow couldn't vote, that's still 45 million people that didn't show up. And let's take EVERY single person under the poverty and assume they were unable to vote, then let's assume there is absolutely zero overlap, you still have 10+ million people who didn't show up, and that's assuming not a single of the above people voted.

Failing to prepare for something doesn't excuse you from the failure of doing it.

I don't understand this.

Voting is easy and a basic civic duty we are taught about in middle school, in pretty much every state, you have weeks to do it, can drop off in mail boxes, ballot boxes, in person, early, etc.

Presidential elections only happen every four years, and there are going to be very very few people who would not be aware that it's happening well in advance.

Not voting is just plain lazy, that's all. It's a responsibility that takes very little effort to do, there are multiple avenues provided to do it and you only have to do it two or three times a decade.

No one is forcing me to take a shower every morning or brush my teeth, or go to work everyday, but I do it because it's important, and my overall health and life is affected by it.

Funny how nuclear power plants are taboo, but building thousands of nuclear warheads all over the globe is no issue.

I got downvoted for this before, but, when you sublet your property like this, you take on an inherent risk. This isn't any different to a bad tenant, or an investment not panning out.

Any business who accepted these red boxes should have either a) established contingency with Redbox themselves or, failing that, b) established a contingency through their own means by keeping liquidity to handle disposal of the machine (or something like insurance)

Don't feel sorry for these businesses, they took a calculated risk, likely made lots of money over the last decade, and now are faced with potentially needing to use some of that revenue to dispose of the machines. Any normal business keeps assets and liquidity available to cover expenses of doing business, the same way a landlord needs to use some rent money to clean up after a bad tenant, it's part of their business model. If a business thought these machines would just live there forever and magically go away when they aren't making money anymore, that's their fault.

Good news is, you will never be able to stop hobbyist 3d printing.

Sorry patent trolls, you can't make aluminum extrusion, stepper motors, an extruder, and a short circuit illegal.

It probably helps searchability, since now there is a fracture of people looking up 'X news' and 'Twitter news'

You know, I ignored my interest in programming for many years, instead opting for a trade, specifically aviation maintenance. I went to school for 2 years for it, passed tests, got licensed, got otj, got taxi quals, engine run certified, and a whole host of stuff.

I also broke my body doing it for $18, after years and years and years, I finally made $25 an hour, whoopie.

I worked around hazardous chemicals, dangerous equipment, high voltage electricity. I stood on concrete floors all day busting my knuckles.

I fell off a ladder and smashed my face on a keel beam, requiring I get stitches. I saw other people get much more hurt than that.

I did all of this with the constant pressure that if I fuck my job up, people are going die, and I will go to jail.

I went back to school, got a job as a software engineer at a midsize company that never is in the news and you have never heard of, and get to sit at home and make 3 times the salary. There are 10 other companies in the same block as mine that have 3-400 hundred person engineering teams, there are lots of jobs for developers outside of the silicon valley bubble, we mostly just hang out and do our thing.

Until trades start paying more, it's just not worth it. I'm sure someone will come in and say that they are a plumber and make $1000 an hour or something, but I can say, there were 500 people in the facility I worked at with the same qualifications as me making the same $18.

Today you learned that the majority of people don't live in the middle of nowhere?

Of course they don't, by definition, if a bunch of people lived there, it wouldn't be the middle of nowhere.