ComradePhil

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by ComradePhil 5y ago
Similar thing happened to Hijras in India during the British rule... but they didn't completely disappear and are still around.
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by ComradePhil 5y ago
Correct, but not for the reason you may think. As a non-American, I can tell you the only people around me who are really sure about this new unknown disease one way or other are those who follow the American news too much. They're rea
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by ComradePhil 5y ago
And India.
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What's the problem with that? Pfizer and their friends have everything riding on the idea that it never ends, none of the cheap treatments work and the only solution is to slow the spread (so that it stays around for longer) while vacc
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by ComradePhil 5y ago
IE6/7 launch times were much faster than Firefox (this was important before SSDs were common) and general performance was better on IE. I used Firefox for about 15 years mostly because of it's ad-blocking capabilities, even though
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It has nothing to do with loyalists and everything to do with practicalities. I was responsible for a fairly big project in 2011 and we decided that Python was the language of choice for some of the components. We started out with Python 3.
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Brave does all of that and it it's Chromium underneath so the websites will always work.
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Chromium IS the standard. Firefox knows this and implements what Chromium supports. Safari doesn't, so Safari is the new IE. If you don't believe me, search for the phrase "is Safari the new IE" and see what web devs hav
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The downside to that is that you have to be on reddit.
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They should be allowed to charge 99% if they want... But they should not be allowed to have exclusive apps or exclusive App Store.
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I see Brave, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera on their App Store. Are they just shells for Safari or something? Does Firefox on iOS use webkit instead of gecko?
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>In mass media today, influencers and other people of note who don't have advanced degrees should be doing their research - from credible sources - so they're not spouting inaccuracies and falsehoods to their followers. Meh! I
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by ComradePhil 5y ago
Apple does "privacy/security" thing as a marketing stunt in the western market. Meanwhile, it complies with all the government demands in China. As a corporation, they do what is required for profit, as one should expect.
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I disagree. There was nothing wrong with the interview itself. I don't think they looked bad. Fox News did their bit of trying to ridicule the person to please their core audience but the person handled it relatively well and people wh
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by ComradePhil 5y ago
The reason to use recruiters, specially as a small company, is that they do the hard work of spamming everyone with an online profile all the time and have build a database of people who you are looking for. Even for the best candidates, it
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by ComradePhil 5y ago
I don't see how you can blame the company when they are controlled by people who threaten them in various ways; threatening them with regulation with public disinformation about them using mass media being one of them. I have no doubt
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As is Mega. I don't know why one would ever use Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox when Mega and Protondrive are available.
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by ComradePhil 5y ago
> Significant whitespace: I mean....how? Yes it has whitespace-based blocks, but...it's not actually MORE whitespace than a {}-based language... What does "significant" mean here...? I believe that the author means that th
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by ComradePhil 5y ago
Thanks! I completely misunderstood his tweet. I somehow thought he bid 2 million.
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I would not mind my apps on iOS being curated by Microsoft for example and some people would probably prefer their apps on Android devices being curated by Apple... or Microsoft or EFF or Mozilla or Signal or say a new community of voluntee
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by ComradePhil 5y ago
I came across this analysis of that incident: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-use-the-gpl-and-not-cuc... I'm not sure how I feel about it yet.
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I'm genuinely interested in hearing from people who believe that Apple and Google should have a monopoly on deciding what apps people can run on their phones. In case of Google's Android, one can still install third party App Stor
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Reminded me of xkcd 1102.
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Here's their plan: https://forum.spicedao.xyz/t/nft-of-the-book-w-proof-of-jpeg...
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This guy apparently: https://twitter.com/productnerd/status/1462889815872004101