Physics and Free Software

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  • Yea I agree. Trying to remove all tracking is futile. There are 3 reasons I still try. The least important of which is protecting my own privacy.

    I personally see it as a moral imperative to, when able, do something to stand against evil (hyperbolic as that may be). But the most important reason is to defend my family. Given how interconnected our data is, any datapoint on myself is a datapoint on them.

    As you say, trying to remove fingerprints is pointless, but I can mitigate the impact to the best of my ability



















  • The argument is if you don’t pay a CEO enough, they will go elsewhere where they are paid more. I don’t know whether that is a good argument or not, but (at least some) CEOs have a skill set critical to the success of an organization. It would be interesting to know how the pay of CEOs in general has changed over time. That would tell you if this is shitty or not. My expectation is that it is somewhere in the middle leaning toward acceptable