Spivak

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   by Spivak 3y ago

   Basically yeah, you got it. Where it seems we disagree is you think we've met our obligation to not limit people's freedom once the walls are removed where I think that obligation is met once all the impediments are removed. The d
2. 2912.▲
   by Spivak 3y ago

   You're literally describing how the patriarchy hurts men. > when all those arguments explain the gender pay gap Yes. Which is why you focus on the delta. The end goal is for that to be more equal via breaking down the societal struc
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   by Spivak 3y ago

   I really hope not tbh, once you break that seal it will consume the entire language into nested anonymous function soup without all the facilities JS has accumulated over the years to mitigate it. Python is an iterator based language and it
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   by Spivak 3y ago

   What are you talking about?! Listen to yourself dude, you've completely fallen down a conspiracy rabbit hole. If the US exerted that level of control over private media you would call it a dystopia and a violation of 1A. China also has
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   by Spivak 3y ago

   I mean you joke but there's no reason you couldn't.
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   by Spivak 3y ago

   Developers are some of the worst customers you'll ever have the displeasure of experiencing. We are incredibly cheap and price sensitive, have literally zero ethics around reasonable usage (if they didn't want me to do it they sho
7. 2917.▲
   by Spivak 3y ago

   100% agreed. It's sad that we demonize the symptom of people being constantly burnt out which is the constant need to turn brain off and not the thing burning people out which is our work culture. It's one of the things I never fe
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   by Spivak 3y ago

   You can either exert editorial control to push content that fits your rhetorical needs at the cost of engagement (because by definition you're not pushing the most engaging content) or you can push the content that is the most naturall
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   by Spivak 3y ago

   So the US for almost all of the world. YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Disney, Hulu, Netflix, HBO, Twitter, Apple, Spotify,... Every time this happens it's always "but it's bad when this multinational corporation I associate with
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    This is such a silly take, you're taking a real observation that people need to decompress but moralizing it rather than trying to understand it. While some activities you would call active can fill the need to destress the majority of
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    Reminds of a quote from The Magnus Archives > And I could. More than anyone else on Earth, he said, because of my expertise. That knowledge I had gained in defiance of the dark could finally be put to use. I was to create a focus, a blac
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    Honestly impressive if they found a way to passively activate the mic on iPhones without the indicator being on and someone noticing. Because if all they get is some mic data when apps record like Snapchat that's gotta be some low-valu
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    It's gotta be my favorite AWS service for this reason alone. It's almost useless but that's a feature not a bug. They knew exactly their market.
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    What do you mean, this is carbon-copy RHEL's business model. - 10 years maintenance - first dibs on critical patches - s/landscape/satellite - cve information in the package stream They're trying to make it easy to switc
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    I just think SSR is kind of missing it because web components allow a static frontend bundle to have a power that was previously reserved for SSR or HTML-only apps. Moving the render off the client is nice, but removing the prerender altoge
16. 2926.▲
    by Spivak 3y ago

    So just run javascript before your components render so you don't have to run javascript before your components render.
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    Doesn't this create some nasty coupling since your web components look like a div but can actually require an arbitrarily complex HTML schema underneath? Can I write that down somewhere?
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    I mean it is, but you can break it trivially as an individual. There's no network effect, actually there's an anti-network effect. My partner and I were patient zero for non-diamond rings in our social sphere. I got alexandrite
19. 2929.▲
    by Spivak 3y ago

    All school subjects are niche outside of arithmetic, spelling, grammar, reading, writing, civics, typing and recess. Offering practical subjects that people will actually use in their day to day lives can only be a good thing. Dudes go to c
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    I've never understood this mentality, the magic of local reasoning is completely and utterly destroyed by abstractions. If I'm looking at your code it's not because I'm doing literary analysis, it's because there&#x
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    Yep which is why it's the smart play to make the spelling in the target language just whatever will make a speaker of said target language say it right. I've always considered my name to be the sound, the spelling is just an imple
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    So it's a good study because it's trying to assess why the medication does what it does. You could give me my antidepressants while I was under and when I woke up they would still work the same because it's a physiological ch
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    Well the "I can't fix systemic issues alone and need housing" solution is buy a not very nice house in a less than ideal area. House prices are definitely out of control in my area but really only in already well established
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    Or ya know, you could just look at the violations that already happened. Like were you not around for the bullshit Verizon tethering plan? It was one of the reasons I rooted my phone. https://www.freepress.net/blog/net-
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    I mean that's not a totally unrealistic situation, if there was a city that was plagued such behavior and the police/justice system as a whole weren't able to tamp it down to the point where it was commonplace when going out
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    I think we're saying the same thing, they're successful in the sense that Tumblr users like them but they're small potatoes. Tumblr users aren't necessarily allergic to monetization but the ones they've found don&#x
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    > I would question Gamestop taking a 30% cut Why? Physical distribution is way more expensive and they handle the entire consumer lifecycle.
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    This isn't true at all, Blaze was a huge success, scrolling through Tumblr you see people with silly numbers of checks, lots of people pay to remove ads, it's just that that the successes aren't massively revenue generating i
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    Okay, so first thing I wasn't talking about the great wall. That wasn't created until the Ming dynasty which is after the period I'm talking about. And second I mean the first agrarian settlements in China .
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    by Spivak 3y ago

    This is why China has so many walls, the first large agrarian settlements had to deal with a huge population of scattered nomadic peoples raiding them. You couldn't really take the offense to them because it would be like playing whack