Devasta

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by Devasta 5y ago
Stuff like this just gives credence to the farcical notion that crypto is reputable. The leadership at stripe should be utterly ashamed.
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by Devasta 5y ago
Its fascinating that for a profession that likes to think its all about understanding complex systems, we have so many that oppose unionization.
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by Devasta 5y ago
No pity, if you are using Google products for anything important you only have yourself to blame.
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by Devasta 5y ago
No one except the most credulous buffoons really believed the "MIT is more free" nonsense about the GPL, it is, was, and always will be a push to move away from "Free as in Freedom" to "Free as in Free Tech Support&
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by Devasta 5y ago
Ads on the google search page and youtube help quite a bit, but once they became a large presence in the browser market it was just a case of relentlessly adding and changing features non stop, force your opponents to have to develop at a f
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by Devasta 5y ago
Capitalism serves capitalists, any serving of society is a side effect of same and is certainly not intentional.
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by Devasta 5y ago
How is capitalism without competition not capitalism? The capitalist is served very well by it, earning huge piles of money.
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by Devasta 5y ago
Complaining about crony capitalism, yet using a computer, driving on roads, buying stuff from stores, all things provided by crony capitalists. Go live in a cave if you have a problem with it.
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by Devasta 5y ago
https://www.executeprogram.com/ Execute program by Gary Bernhardt is definitely worth a look.
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by Devasta 5y ago
No one asks if Excel or Hearthstone or Git or other desktop applications have progressive enhancement, it's unfortunate but these days no one should be asking it about web pages either. The web is an application platform, it stopped be
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by Devasta 5y ago
Tbh a lot of the tech is business tactics. Pumping so much stuff into the browser makes it an impossible task just trying to maintain feature parity nevermind compete on quality. Building out a high quality subset is not viable, the second
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by Devasta 5y ago
You're assuming a level of good faith in crypto bros that frankly doesn't exist. They aren't interested in any criticism of bitcoin and the like, they personally stand to make money from it and you are just their next potenti
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by Devasta 5y ago
Monolithic browser controlled by Google is already the case, the corpse of firefox is being dangled about "Weekend at Bernies" style so they can pretend they don't control the web. Chromes dominance is not going to be changed
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by Devasta 5y ago
Lol, Ethereum has been moving since 2014, and there are no plans for Bitcoin to move. The waste is here to stay so long as crypto is. EDIT: Also, very insulting of you to assume I use crypto, I prefer to stick to filthy, worthless fiat than
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by Devasta 5y ago
"I won't argue because you're not rational. The thing you believe in is awful and should cease to exist" is a perfectly fine stance to have about bitcoin and crypto in general. Its causing massive amounts of pollution, g
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by Devasta 5y ago
How do I opt out of the massive amounts of electronic waste and carbon emissions from Bitcoin?
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by Devasta 5y ago
Climate disaster.
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by Devasta 5y ago
Donziger managed to get a 9.5 billion dollar judgment against Chevron, therefore from Chevrons perspective even if they spend 9.4 billion fighting the judgement and destroying Donzigers life it'll be worthwhile if successful. Donzigers
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by Devasta 5y ago
" it's not even money - it's just shares held times the last price a single share traded at." Bezos cries, as I wave a tenner in his face and say, mockingly: "You don't have any money, its all in stocks! You&#x
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by Devasta 5y ago
Web standards in 2001: Everything will be interoperable because we'll all use XML, it'll allow easy embedding of various formats, you'll only need an XML parser and you'll be able to read any document, and with XSL/
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by Devasta 5y ago
Finally, the web has a way of authoring and publishing documents.
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by Devasta 5y ago
What a shame.
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by Devasta 5y ago
Facebook is implicated in genocide in multiple countries, and Instagram is nothing but a psychotic lie factory designed to induce depression and self loathing in young women. The world would only improve if it disappeared.
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by Devasta 5y ago
And still people will balk at the suggestion that developers should unionize.
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by Devasta 5y ago
Absolutely, so many tried to go about it procedurally and fought the language rather than adapt to its way of thinking. Once you understand apply-templates though, it becomes much easier.
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by Devasta 5y ago
Its temporarily retreated on the web, but its still used heavily in finance. The SWIFT network is looking to migrate to XML in the next few years, and to my knowledge FedWire is looking to do the same.
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by Devasta 5y ago
Custom elements, CSS Namespaces, client side templating, all things that we had decades ago and were just dumped. Abandoning XML and XHTML is and continues to be the webs biggest mistake. People can pretend there were good reasons to stick
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by Devasta 5y ago
Bitcoin is designed to waste as much energy as possible. Even if the energy companies waved a magic wand and had a huge amount of renewable energy onboard tomorrow, the end result would be the miners would continue to consume the energy fro
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by Devasta 5y ago
With the move to subscription services like Office 365, and the startling number of incompetents that think VDI terminals are acceptable workstations for users, I could definitely see Windows desktop disappearing in the next decade or so, t
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by Devasta 5y ago
Even if we pretend that's true for the moment, it's also a shitty store of wealth, being propped up by a never ending supply of totally-backed-by-USD tether.

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