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by Touche 9y ago
Agreed. Alien 3's problem was that it came out when every action movie thought it needed CGI, even though CGI wasn't ready at the time. So scenes with the aliens look comically bad, like a cheap video game.
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by Touche 9y ago
200ms on your high end laptop is what on a mid-range mobile phone? Probably 5-6 seconds, users will notice that.
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by Touche 9y ago
The appeal is that the shipping cost is much cheaper the more you buy. Do you not understand the appeal of any membership service? Costco is the same idea, for example. Or gym memberships, etc.
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by Touche 9y ago
> I think one of the problems facing specifically Walmart is that their multi-decade long negative sentiment at the corporate and personal lives of the executives among social progressives that are strong among the "millennial"
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by Touche 9y ago
You're not paying money to shop; you're paying money for shipping and unlimited access to their video library (and a bunch of other stuff, I'm sure). I'm not sure what the average shipping cost is, but if it were $5 the
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by Touche 9y ago
You know that Amazon sells stuff other than materialistic bling, right? I mean, I buy soap and toilet paper and stuff like that on Amazon. No, that doesn't make me happier, but it makes my significant other happier which I guess in a
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by Touche 9y ago
Businesses expand, but not in the way the article describes. Most businesses pick segments to expand into, whereas Amazon expands into everything that they touch.
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by Touche 9y ago
It's interesting to me how two of the biggest innovators today, Bezos and Musk, have done so while defying conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom is to focus on your company's core product, don't overreach. Amazon is succee
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by Touche 9y ago
Why did you think this was a good-faith conversation when your assumption is that I was saying any Marxist sympathetic person is evil?
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by Touche 9y ago
That's irrelevant to whether they self-identified as Communists. The link you gave indicates that they didn't, quite the contrary.
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by Touche 9y ago
I wasn't aware that the Frankfurt School thought of themselves as communists. This is news to me. Can you refer me to any writings by them where they talk about this? Thank you.
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by Touche 9y ago
Marx and Engels might not have been evil but virtually all other communist thinkers / politicians were. You should go read the writings pre-Bolshevik revolution to get an idea. A big problem with Marxist thinking is that it encouraged
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by Touche 9y ago
Sadly it still only supports ES5.
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by Touche 9y ago
The entire point of Uber is to evade laws on technicalities, so the fact that they are doing this here should be a surprise to no one. That is their core competency, in fact.
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by Touche 10y ago
I hope not. Didn't we already learn this lesson from macros? Having code that appears to do one thing but actually does something very different is a maintenance nightmare. Once the people who decided to add that AST transform plugin a
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by Touche 10y ago
https://brave.com/
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by Touche 10y ago
I know, I'm "holding it wrong". I don't care who's "fault" it is, I just don't have the energy to try and figure it out.
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by Touche 10y ago
I of course use vim-javascript. This didn't fix the issue for me. An issue with the color scheme I use I suppose.
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by Touche 10y ago
A good step would be if browsers other than Chrome had decent devtools built in.
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by Touche 10y ago
I disagree. Plugins breaking or interfering with other plugins is a regular thing.
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by Touche 10y ago
Same exact experience here. Like, I could never get ES6 highlighting to work in Vim. Just flat out didn't work, so all non-ES5 code I write looks terrible. Could be a conflict with my theme or something else. I don't know, or care
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by Touche 10y ago
Why is it weird? You created yours 10 years ago, great. For those of us who didn't it is a bit of a hassle.
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by Touche 10y ago
What I was trying to say is that it's more complex than the article paints it. Certainly despair, and economic despair in particular, is at the heart of many of societies problems, drugs included. But it's not necessarily the one
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by Touche 10y ago
Of course, economic hardship is at the heart of many of society's problems, drugs included. I don't argue with that. What I am skeptical of is the idea that people, once they reach adulthood and see dim prospects, turn to drugs to
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by Touche 10y ago
I think that's a bit unfair as Google tried to federate social networking many times but failed (ActivityStreams is one that comes to mind but there were several others). The big change, imo, came when Larry Page returned as CEO. He sh
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by Touche 10y ago
The article doesn't support its conclusion that drug addiction is caused by people's dim prospects. The man in this article was already an addict before he was old enough to have any perspective on his future potential. I think th
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by Touche 10y ago
Great comparison. In both cases choosing the language that helps you launch quickly is almost always the right decision. You can always scale later. Better to find out if your app is even going to be a success, first.
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by Touche 10y ago
How long did it take to build Sublime Text vs. Electron + Atom? Are the original developers in Atom experienced in C++? How easy is it for 3rd party developers to contribute extensions to each? How do the extension catalogs compare, in size
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by Touche 10y ago
Aren't all tradeoffs unnecessary? I mean, it's part of the definition, right?
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by Touche 10y ago
It's totally fine if you use Linux with whatever hardware you want. It's just a bit frustrating for a Chromebook user when discussion of Chromebooks is dominated by people who don't use ChromeOS. As though the hardware is the

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