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You dedicate one measly paragraph on your disappointment with the government, but many more on ragequitting. I find the priorities skewed and think a lot more time should have spent on what's become a government gone haywire.
A brother of a friend had someone send him, on his open IRC server, child porn. He deleted it the instance he found it, but was raided by the FBI who undeleted the file. He's in federal prison now for at least 7 years.
People tolerate this crap because they don't know it happens. It's not a concern until it happens to them. Can you even begin to imagine the stress of having to go through this while being innocent?
Stop pretending as if the current administration or the next one will bring some kind of change. People have selected to sacrifice their liberties. Mindsets need to be changed.
Ragequitting isn't necessarily a cheap exit strategy. It may be the only way out at times.
The End of Ragequitting
When Joel Spolsky, my business partner on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, asked me what I wanted to do after I left Stack Exchange, I distinctly remember mentioning Aaron Swartz. That's what Aaron was to us hackers: an exemplar of the noble, selfless behavior and positive action that all hac...
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