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by beager 9y ago
Rather than the main road of remarking about how the bad optics and evidence continue to get worse, I will say that this also reaffirms my sense that Uber is just not that good at the sort of machiavellian maneuvering that the SV crowd laud
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by beager 9y ago
One question that came to mind while reading this was "Why do we have to demean HTTP in order for the tenets of IPFS to succeed?" HTTP is ubiquitous, and no purism or idealistic superiority of some other protocol is going to sway
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by beager 9y ago
Thank you!
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by beager 9y ago
What can the rest of America do here? Can you get down there to volunteer? Is the Red Cross the best place to donate? And what if this happened in Guam? Hawaii? Alaska? Chicago? What do we think the response from the US govt would be in any
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by beager 9y ago
Which falls predictably into a long-running pattern of projection.
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by beager 9y ago
I can't speak to the psychology of it, but I imagine the same sort of invincibility complex exists for big movers in traditional business/finance/politics. We're just being made aware of it here now because of the democr
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by beager 9y ago
I suppose that if cryptocurrency/ICOs have democratized investing, they have also democratized morally (and legally) ambivalent greed.
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by beager 9y ago
This is why the hype typhoon of ICOs makes no sense on HN. If you did a "Show HN" with a site that was all pedigree and vagaries, no product, it would get torn to shreds. But by and large, ICO coverage seems breathless and overblo
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by beager 9y ago
Hasn't Twitter given us enough characters already?!
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by beager 9y ago
> and slept with 3 women At first I thought "how would they know that" but it's simple: establish "home" for each of a match pair and identify that both parties' devices are at one or the other "home&qu
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by beager 9y ago
Outliers such as yourself won't do much to curtail the practice of companies amassing identifiable, weaponizable, and often undersecured data about their users. And because the data is valuable and there have been few regulations put i
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by beager 9y ago
Those are not the same things. There is an unfolding story about employment of paid and farmed action on social platforms by Russia to influence the election, but also an unfolding story about attempts to infiltrate state voting systems and
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by beager 9y ago
Or maybe from CoffeeScript?
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by beager 9y ago
I have not boiled down multiple issues to that, I'm indicating that the problem with jQuery in long-term adoption is that patterns meant to help devs avoid the untenable realm of JS yesterday keep them sheltered from good JS practice t
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by beager 9y ago
I think it's a pretty amusing observation about the JS dev community to see some of the responses to this here. Some people are here for Irony Club, some people have no clue there's an Irony Club meeting, and some people are openi
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by beager 9y ago
Maybe there should be a Vue+MooTools library called VueTools.
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by beager 9y ago
I did not say that. VanillaJS is pretty much faster than all of those other frameworks. Can you point me to a library that has better benchmarks than VanillaJS?
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by beager 9y ago
VanillaJS has a huge support community, it's even taught in universities.
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by beager 9y ago
My problem with VanillaJS is that browser companies ship browsers with VanillaJS support already. This is a clear case of picking winners, regardless of VanillaJS's excellent benchmarks. Why should all these browsers ship with Vanilla?
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by beager 9y ago
Greyball seems like the one aspect of this that contextualizes the rest of the reasons for the non-renewal. If you're an operator and you fail to get right by local rules, you might mea culpa and fix it, or work within the system provi
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by beager 9y ago
I know it's cynical, but every time I see an "It's time to kill [x]" piece, I assume the author has some competing solution they're trying to hawk. In this case, very much no solutions are offered (but promised in f
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by beager 9y ago
Rather than attack the study and criticize the limited data (one northeastern US university) and the conclusions it draws, I'll say I'm intrigued by the results and would hope for a larger study that brings in a larger data set a
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by beager 9y ago
http://facebook.com http://linkedin.com Now that I'm done being flippant, there are other things like IVY which purport to be exclusive networks that give you access to events and networks that will help your ca
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by beager 9y ago
Yup, cabOS is a niche, even FOSS-with-SaaS company. Not a $60bb company.
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by beager 9y ago
It sounds like the abstraction of capitalistic damage is a feature
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by beager 9y ago
Your second premise assumes that citizens are powerless to effect change, which is sadly more true these days, but in a proper functioning republic, government agencies are accountable and fixable.
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by beager 9y ago
Two things: 1. Methinks the advertisers doth complain too much. iOS devices have essentially no way to block advertising. Not in the browsers, not by configuring certain settings. Advertisers should count their lucky stars over this. 2. Don
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by beager 9y ago
Thank you for being forthcoming about all this. I don't mean to be a pain in your ass and I know your intentions are good. I hope this all ends up being a force for good and that things like the NYT coverage help avoid legal issues wit
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by beager 9y ago
Your cookies are submitted with requests for anything from a site, favicon images included. Setting a cookie in JS that contains events performed on a webpage is a trivial exercise and you shouldn't assume that that doesn't happen
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by beager 9y ago
I honestly believe that he was trying to prove a point and not phish. I'm cautioning that I think it's a dangerous game to play. A website doesn't need to have a "backend" or make a POST request or use a submit butt

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