Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com), page 19

"if I find a way to obtain your patron-only audio without paying, that is also piracy. that affects your revenue."

It only affects your potential revenue, which can be anything since it isn't real. Piracy views/plays don't and will never produce an equal amount of paid views/plays even if the means of piracy disappear. This is enough ground for me to question the very use of the "piracy" term.

I expect this view to be expressed by distributors whose only job is to extract the maximum amount of money from the intellectual property they manage, but I didn't expect this from any given individual I'd rather subtoot because I don't think we can reconcile our viewpoints.

The perpetual #programmation Catch-22:

• Need the configuration to instantiate a logger.
• Need a logger to instantiate the configuration.

#DevLife #Development #Software

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but billionaires’ wealth isn’t estimated in actual money, but in potential money. It’s actually worse, as people will give them the benefit of the doubt as if their fortune was real.

Of course there are ways for them to convert their potential money into actual currency, but it is rarely a 1:1 exchange, so billionaires’ power partly comes from the illusion of potential money on top of their actual spending.