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by caslon 5y ago
France is run by neoliberals, and ended up closer to the US than Canada. A better example of a properly-functioning healthcare system is Taiwan, or the Netherlands.
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by caslon 5y ago
"What's immoral about... spreading information about you and your business?" Non-consensually forcing anyone into anything is wrong. Advertising violates the NAP. "But advertising itself is immoral?" Indeed.
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by caslon 5y ago
The same way I discover new movies: See what everyone else is checking out.
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by caslon 5y ago
I do for every language that isn't Common Lisp! I learned to program on a machine that had a copy of vi that refused to go into visual mode; instead of trying to fight it, I started using ed. Everything about UNIX is oriented toward be
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by caslon 5y ago
Canada is not the only country with a healthcare system that doesn't entirely copy the US.
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by caslon 5y ago
This is mostly because of the compiler situation. Intel forbids redistribution of theirs, and GNU's isn't up to snuff, which continues to handicap the language.
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by caslon 5y ago
Actually, line editors are really nice, and UNIX arguably makes a better IDE than any purpose-specific one.
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by caslon 5y ago
Does it matter if nobody can afford it?
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by caslon 5y ago
Perl is shipped in virtually every Linux distribution; it's much closer to standard than, say, Node.
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by caslon 5y ago
Insinuating that using Bittorrent is inherently tied to criminal activity is like suggesting the same for a person who uses a car.
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by caslon 5y ago
Yes, but they've expressed a desire to get rid of it in an upcoming update.
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by caslon 5y ago
Yeah, it's certainly unfortunate. It gets just a little worse with every single update. The last one removed compact mode, which was the only thing making the UI somewhat bearable on-screen. It is now terribly large and unappealing. Wh
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by caslon 5y ago
"What do you do when you have a job interview that is scheduled as a Google Meet meeting?" Unlikely scenario; the companies that overlap with my set of skills either have their own offering or use a libre one. I will admit, this m
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by caslon 5y ago
Using a proprietary web browser would be like using a blowtorch that claimed to be powered by "magic." While I might use, say, a "magic" recipe, or a toy that claimed to be magic, I certainly wouldn't use a real, co
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by caslon 5y ago
I don't care about centralization or their tracking particularly much on their own. I don't like to use bad software. It bothers me, fundamentally. I naturally ended up far away from Google by virtue of not liking things that wast
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by caslon 5y ago
Advertisement is immoral and totally unnecessary to have a profitable business.
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by caslon 5y ago
"Most of the web uses google analytics, so its unavoidable when you visit a website." I actually mentioned that. Just shim GA connections; this happens with most ad-blocking software, and I believe happens in Firefox's &quo
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by caslon 5y ago
Google-avoider checking in! It's actually really easy to avoid it. DuckDuckGo's search quality is better, Firefox is deteriorating daily but still looks and feels better than Chrome does, email should really be avoided but there a
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by caslon 5y ago
At some point, the medium does become important. Every computer no matter how small can do everything now, and limiting games to a specific platform is for the most part arbitrary at this point. So if you add limitations, or extra button
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by caslon 5y ago
Illegal if seen by people in certain parts of the USA.
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by caslon 5y ago
It demonstrates that he did something worse than what he's accusing his former intern of doing: Second, we’re also excited to announce one of the first (of many!) projects that Amjad has worked on with us: Codecademy Labs, the easie
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by caslon 5y ago
Isn't equating "victim of drug addiction" and "harms women" out of line? One is something that isn't really his fault and isn't because of his moral failings, and the other is dehumanizing nearly half of t
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by caslon 5y ago
It's called dark humor. Tragic events can be respected and grasped without some puritanical concept of them being "untouchable" subjects. A joke about 9/11 is almost certainly taking advantage of (and probably directly
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by caslon 5y ago
In this case, I think the main problem is (emphasis mine): "If you can't see the image, Retool's new service is using images hosted from fakercloud.com" There's a difference between using someone's software a
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by caslon 5y ago
The front page has definitely gotten worse over time. More people doesn't actually imply better judgement in story quality. The moderators have admitted that their goal is to slow the inevitable decline in the quality of the site tha
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by caslon 5y ago
I don't think so. I don't like reddit, but none of this is actually meaningful. Their active user rate has gone up exponentially since the redesign. People getting banned globally is standard on other social media networks, and
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by caslon 5y ago
I actually like using it. There's something comfortable about using an operating system that's old enough to have kids. Another benefit is that screens are high enough resolution nowadays that it doesn't look like a child&#x2
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by caslon 5y ago
This isn't necessarily surprising. We've known that hormones have a particularly strong effect on the eyes for a long time. https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/how-hormones-... Thanks to horm
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by caslon 5y ago
Because I have some software that has it as a hard-dependency.
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by caslon 5y ago
It hasn't gotten more aggressive. User flags bring down many political threads, and threads that look like they won't bring productive discussion usually get killed or downranked by moderators.

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