ameminator

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by ameminator 5y ago
What a nice little project. I'm happy it can get some exposure here and I'll take a look to see if we can use it for my personal projects.
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by ameminator 5y ago
Good luck in this thread - and probably on the front page. Thanks for doing such a good job moderating this website.
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by ameminator 5y ago
What if the city doesn't want to work with the protesters? Do the protesters have to prove that they tried to work with the city? What if the protest is against the city itself? I have issues with asking permission to protest, even i
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by ameminator 5y ago
I'm going to be honest, that seems remarkably peaceful, even when compared to the BLM protests from 2 years ago or especially the FLQ crisis of Pierre Trudeau. I don't think the truckers should be going into residential neighbor
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by ameminator 5y ago
I'm not convinced that our society has had that wider debate. I myself am not convinced that these "Right Reasons" are good and fair, even if they are so widespread.
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by ameminator 5y ago
I think there's difference in what "reasonable" means here, regardless of what the issue is and who is doing it. My argument is that there must be some form of protest that is always legal (even if not sanctioned by the g
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by ameminator 5y ago
Uh, how is someone supposed to protest? I mean, I see clear differences between going up to someone's home or into someone's workplace and making noise in the street. Any protest is almost guaranteed to inconvenience someone, un
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by ameminator 5y ago
But it seems that every time the "unpermitted location" changes with every protest! In this case, it's "the area around parliament" and "border crossings" - in Quebec it was "this particular road&quot
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by ameminator 5y ago
For most people, "racism" and "racial discrimination" are the same thing.
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by ameminator 5y ago
Shameful that a peaceful protest is met with this response. How can a person protest meaningfully if any peaceful protest can be called illegal? I do understand that the truckers were disturbing the peace of ordinary people - I think th
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by ameminator 5y ago
I dunno, I think it's a bit of a herculean task to regulate the whole cryptocurrency market, especially with anonymous "coins" like Monero and Zcash. I also have doubts about the strength of the US "physical" curren
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by ameminator 5y ago
I mean, this will work, but it seems a far cry from a truly custom home page.
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by ameminator 5y ago
In my experience, Firefox is not more customizable than Vivaldi. Examples include: custom tab layouts, sizing options, default behaviors and more. It would be really nice if they went all-in on those custom features, but I suspect it mi
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by ameminator 5y ago
You're absolutely right. The fact that so many other browsers are based on chromium, is a blatant condemnation of how the Servo engine has not met an important demand. If Servo was properly useable outside of Firefox, we would have see
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by ameminator 5y ago
There have been many companies that have tried to implement a bitcoin/cryptocurrency payment scheme - somehow, not many of them have stuck with it either due to high fees or instability in the cryptocurrency itself. We'll see if t
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by ameminator 5y ago
I think that's a bit too far - for example, Thunderbird is a great web client. I do think they should have found a way to hold onto the Servo team and make that engine more useable and better than the base chromium engine. If they had
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by ameminator 5y ago
I left Firefox about 8 months ago and I haven't looked back. On desktop, I was tired of these constant "company partnerships" and so I decided to give Vivaldi a shot. I haven't looked back (for a variety of reasons, incl
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by ameminator 5y ago
Wasn't this posted yesterday? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30313438
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by ameminator 5y ago
The article opens "Amazon has another hit game..." While I definitely consider New World (Amazon's first hit game) to be a success, I don't think it's something to be emulated. The content in that game seriously d
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by ameminator 5y ago
Sorry you didn't like it - I just found more content in the comments (and citations) than the actual post itself.
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by ameminator 5y ago
Fair enough - but then how are we to decide which of these "personal engineering projects" to fund? If there is some knowledge or other benefit, how come it can't be fit into the framework of a grant proposal?
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by ameminator 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "engineering". Is the government supposed to fund a professor's company somehow? Is it supposed to be through the university? Some of that does happen now, but it always start
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by ameminator 5y ago
As is tradition, the comments' section on that website is better than the article itself. Personally, my take on the birthrate is that it's a multi-factor, cultural problem. It is not unique to the United States (and Canada). In f
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by ameminator 5y ago
It's a shame - however, I live in an area without this endemic shop-lifting. I enjoy my local community store and I'm sad that others in these high-crime areas cannot.
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by ameminator 5y ago
It doesn't, but the community decided that it was valuable, so chose to fund it using taxes, collectively. If you make the case to your community for a communal grocery store, it too can be funded with taxes. Be warned, it comes with i
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by ameminator 5y ago
I understand your point, that we all need to come together to solve community problems, as a community. However, let's put this in context - when was the last time you did something, purely altruisticly, without any expectation of reco
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by ameminator 5y ago
I did not know that! Very interesting! Although, I do think that having some differentiation makes sense. For example, I'm sure Vermont's winterization needs would look very different than Texas'.
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by ameminator 5y ago
Running a store is very different from firefighting - arguably there is a much higher moral good being done by literally saving people from imminent death by burning . Firefighters are also paid in many places, even if volunteer services a
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by ameminator 5y ago
I don't know who these "usual suspects" would be in this context. However, I do think our society has degraded and it's possible to measure in many ways - wages, access to education, healthcare outcomes, outlook for th
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by ameminator 5y ago
I don't think Nature should be publishing political pieces or even recommending policy decisions. I don't think anyone (let alone Nature, which has its own incentives) should be recommending scientists get into politics, especia

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