3grdlurker

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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
From an assets and income standpoint, maybe, but they’re not a de facto government unless they have sovereignty, and they don’t. Once they can decide on which wars to start with which countries, maybe we can talk then.
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
> Sure; but lots of concepts (maybe most) are best expressed as either functions or bare data. That’s begging the question, isn’t it? > OO isn't "bad" - but its massively overused. Lots of programmers (and programming l
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
This is probably an unpopular opinion but I really can’t wrap my head around the arguments for FP and against OOP. By the end of the day, regardless of which paradigm you choose, you’re still just defining concepts, and every concept has pr
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
You can’t reject his argument in full because you’re already biting back at the wrong argument. OP isn’t saying that free, open-source software is untarnished by and incapable of crimes against consumer privacy, but the fact that it is FOSS
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
It seems that the solution to the “complex” scenario you’re describing is simple: use Firefox instead of Chrome.
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
> Firefox and Chrome were able to dethrone IE because Windows doesn't have any gatekeeper preventing apps from being installed. What’s preventing people from buying an Android, though? This really is just a story of two businesses w
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
Can somebody provide a direct answer to the question of why Apple’s App Store policies are bad? The argument that always comes up is that it is anti-competitive, but how does that not encroach on every business owner’s right to decide who
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
The only way to prevent large, billion+ dollar corporations from existing is via highly intrusive state regulation, so people who are appalled by the monopolistic and authoritarian behaviors of big tech should really be asking themselves (1
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
I probably just haven’t spent a lot of time in social media to actually see this happen, but where I’ve caught wind of people claiming to being silenced (cancelled) by some “woke” crowd of sorts, they aren’t actually being silenced and inst