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by bavell 6y ago
I guess you forgot about North Korea? Or Iran? Russia? China? Trump only had 4 years in office, these others are dictators for life and have far more influence to spread evil throughout the world. The "coup" was a joke by any stan
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by bavell 6y ago
England and Iceland are currently kept much warmer than they otherwise would be by the Gulf Stream, which brings warm waters from the around the Caribbean.
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by bavell 6y ago
Hiding dangerous content amongst innocent content is even more egregious. It's much easier to identify and deal with when it's out in the open. Twitter also has a much larger audience to push hate and violence to.
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by bavell 6y ago
Agreed, I think the underlying problem here is selective enforcement.
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by bavell 6y ago
Trump won in 2016 because the "mob" was already revved up and angry at a lot of the unfortunate legislation and narratives that already existed. He just capitalized and preyed on the existing outrage. Yes, he and Fox and many ot
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by bavell 6y ago
I'm sure Twitter loves to be seen as a small indie platform because then they can shift the blame elsewhere when in fact they have far more influence than is reasonable for a healthy democratic society. I agree with your point about Fo
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by bavell 6y ago
Agreed, I just can't take Twitter seriously. I can see it's value for quick and cheap communication but it's always seemed like more of a quaint narcissistic toy... I'm pretty darn cynical about social media in general t
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by bavell 6y ago
By that logic, we need to immediately deplatform everyone though, right? Since any single person has that capability? Why wait until it happens, kick everyone off now! On a more serious note, if a single person can raise a mob, that mob mus
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by bavell 6y ago
Why do you need to convince them to move to Signal at all? Why does Signal need to unlock more adoption? Constant growth and expansion isn't always a good thing and IMO it applies here.
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by bavell 6y ago
I disagree, most people just want to be on the same network/platform as their contacts and most people don't care about extra bells and whistles but a small niche is out there that actually does.
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by bavell 6y ago
You have a point but... Obama doesn't use twitter?
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by bavell 6y ago
Glenn Greenwald disagrees with you: https://youtu.be/lMVS9tfNyjc He even calls out why your example of yelling fire in a theater is a poor one. Disregard the intro which was recorded prior to changing the discussion to the
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by bavell 6y ago
He's (unfortunately & arguably) the most powerful person in the world, not some Joe off the street. Censoring any elected officials sets a dangerous precedent. Your emotions are controlling you. Vengeance & revenge is how we en
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by bavell 6y ago
Not a single one of my Signal contacts (almost exclusively non-tech) uses any of the features you mention. It's been awkward watching them blindly copy "popular" features from other messaging platforms. The reason I like and
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by bavell 6y ago
One of the biggest reasons I use and like Signal is because it doesn't have a bunch of extra stupid crap like payments, in-app ecosystem, business interactions and all the other junk pushed by corporations in a quest to "expand th
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by bavell 6y ago
I want to post something cynical and a bit nasty about what I think of this AI template builder but instead I'll just leave this vague comment...
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by bavell 6y ago
> "fix this attitude" I agree with you, hence my first sentence, "guilty of this more often than I should be". I'm much better about using semantic and accessible markup nowadays but I wanted to give some perspec
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by bavell 6y ago
For smaller projects I agree. For larger projects, it's worth spending an hour or two on a custom Webpack config tuned to the project's needs IMO. In most cases it doesn't even take nearly that long.
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by bavell 6y ago
I'm guilty of this more often than I should be. I think the reason I sometimes reach for divs over buttons or other semantic elements is because I've been burned by default browser behavior treating them special when I just want a
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by bavell 6y ago
As much as people bemoan the complexity of Webpack, it's far superior to the (IMO) spaghetti code of gulp that inevitably results. I'll choose Webpack and npm scripts every time.
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by bavell 6y ago
I don't think it's always the case that the market will eat any attempted improvements - it's just that an attempt to raise the wage floor without any other changes isn't enough to prevent the market from adjusting to th
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by bavell 6y ago
Resume-driven development?
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by bavell 6y ago
Seeing gulp being used in the examples for the build step is strange... I wonder why it was chosen. Nothing wrong with it per se but gives me flashbacks to the horrors of my past exposure to it as an inexperienced webdev.
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by bavell 6y ago
Definitely the right approach, don't censor yourself over some imaginary internet points.
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by bavell 6y ago
Yes, the "newspaper of record" is such a joke - just as laughable as Cuomo receiving an Emmy. Bunch of self-dealing slimebags. Group-think and blind zealotry have gotten so bad there, even the few pieces of actual journalism they
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by bavell 6y ago
No one has tried it because it's a silly and naive idea. The rest of the economy would correct for the adjustment, leaving us in the same situation and causing a lot of pain for workers and businesses in the process.
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by bavell 6y ago
This isn't anything new and it's certainly not specific to this situation. It's debatable whether this is a legislative or executive function. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rulemaking
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by bavell 6y ago
Only one way to find out! What are the possible legal risks to an innocent researcher testing this worthy hypothesis? Asking for a friend of course ;)
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by bavell 6y ago
That's fair and I agree. I'm not defending GP's remarks, just adding general commentary.
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by bavell 6y ago
Rough lesson to learn first-hand but it probably won't be forgotten anytime soon! Glad you made it out okay.

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