benwad

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by benwad 3y ago
Listening to podcasts on my computer, I want to go and do some cleaning, so I switch it over to playing on my phone seamlessly so I can walk around the house listening. Spotify is the only solution that I know of for this.
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by benwad 3y ago
The free market would have allowed those banks to fail and their customers would have lost all their savings. Personally I'd prefer if they'd bailed out the customers instead, but that still counts as a state intervention.
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Siege of Sarajevo(en.wikipedia.org)
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by benwad 3y ago
Yeah I think that's a better term. It's something that can be applied to both state and non state actors, and doesn't make implicit judgments about the legitimacy of either.
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by benwad 3y ago
Interesting, I'll have to give that a listen!
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by benwad 3y ago
When I say "calling out" I'm referring to labelling acts as terrorist acts. I probably could have used better wording. But this argument is all about trying to provide an objective description of the facts. I agree with the B
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by benwad 3y ago
One thing I've been thinking about is how we use "terrorist" to describe groups rather than tactics. Governments maintain lists of "terror groups" which, as the article mentions, and everyone has a different idea of
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by benwad 3y ago
China and the US would never allow foreign troops on their soil, even if they're from the UN. As superpowers and permanent security council members, they're the ones who dictate where UN peacekeepers go. If you're talking abo
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by benwad 3y ago
Doing something without a profit motive is itself a left-wing act, that's why unpaid volunteers maintaining a site like Wikipedia might themselves have left-wing views. There's no shortage of profit-driven outlets available to bal
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by benwad 3y ago
This makes me very optimistic about Godot: lots of people will leave Unity because of this (even if they're not directly affected), and Godot is in a good enough place right now that most projects can be ported over without too many pr
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by benwad 3y ago
I feel there will be a split: larger companies will move to Unreal because of its tooling and reputation as the industry standard, while indies and solo devs will move to Godot, because it's (imo) easier to use for smaller projects, an
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by benwad 3y ago
Yeah - if they were able to demonstrate this at DEFCON then it had most likely been exploited in the wild somewhere as well.
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by benwad 3y ago
Do you have a link to the video? In your description it sounds extremely irresponsible - he had his hands off the wheel because he was filming a selfie video? Sounds like he wasn't driving with due care and attention.
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by benwad 3y ago
I disagree about continuous delivery. Small, regular releases mean less risk in each release. Basically every company I've worked for has used CI/CD, although 'release daily' seems arbitrary (you release when you merge -
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by benwad 3y ago
Which countries have rifle-wielding security guards in clothing shops?
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by benwad 3y ago
If "stop foreign-born people from being able to procreate" was on the ballot, which way would you vote?
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by benwad 3y ago
My guess is that they're skimping on support, like every other tech company. Having good customer support with human support workers costs money, so some companies have taken the calculation that losing some small accounts might be wor
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by benwad 3y ago
I'd argue: no. There's more to life than money and academic achievement, and good parents will convey that to their kids. Nobody needs billions of dollars to be happy. I taught myself programming because I enjoyed it, and now I ha
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by benwad 4y ago
I'd argue that, if Apple wants to claim it cares about its users' privacy, it shouldn't be collecting huge amounts of data from users. A company doesn't need to do everything that's profitable all at the same time,
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by benwad 4y ago
Couldn't they launch a paid ad-free tier that grants API access? i.e. the user pays for the ad-free experience, and the 3rd-party apps would only work for those users who have paid. I can't think of any companies who have done tha
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by benwad 4y ago
Weirdly, NI Olympic athletes can choose to compete for either Ireland or the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_GB#Calls_for_renaming
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by benwad 4y ago
Ok Google, Google "Google"
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by benwad 4y ago
That's literally what the group are trying to do, but that decision has to be made by people in charge. That's what protest is for.
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by benwad 4y ago
If the holodomor, the great leap forward, and all the other horrible things that happened under communist regimes are part of the 'death toll of communism', I'd be interested in what you think the death toll of capitalism is.
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by benwad 4y ago
Yeah this article only has this to say about Netflix: > Netflix—a child of the 1990s but a streamer only since 2007—turns a profit but its revenue growth was down to 6% year on year in the third quarter, compared with a historical averag
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by benwad 4y ago
This is really interesting, and for me it highlights the problem of tech/business people trying to solve a social problem. In their mind everything can be solved by tweaking the software architecture or monetisation model. Nothing is p
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by benwad 4y ago
> Have you seen Palantir's commitment to DEI? Two blog posts from January last year? Slow down there Palantir, you're making the rest of us look bad.
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by benwad 4y ago
One glaring omission from that article is any mention of per-capita emissions. The author keeps asserting that US-based measures to combat climate change are ineffective because China pollutes more, but the US (and all Western countries) ha
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by benwad 4y ago
The UK doesn't need to block Facebook, they can just ban advertisers from buying any ad space on there. FB could still provide a service in the UK but it wouldn't make them any money.
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by benwad 4y ago
I think one key difference between the BHI and the KKK is that the BHI never killed anyone or carried out any terrorist attacks.

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