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by cbeach 3y ago
There is "systemic racism" in the ideology that: * only white people can be racist. * all black people are victims of racism. * skin colour diversity in industry, and racial wealth distribution, needs to be achieved coercisively,
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by cbeach 3y ago
It makes me sad for society, and concerned for my children, that many people on the Left now believe that racism and sexism are okay, provided they are directed toward white men. The Overton Window shifted sufficiently far to the left that
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by cbeach 3y ago
> a total white boys club, the most homogeneous conference I've ever been to. Sorry you feel that way. Personally, diversity of people's thought interests me more than diversity of their superficial birth characteristics. I rec
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by cbeach 3y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36003966
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by cbeach 3y ago
No surprise that they lost investors. If I was a company invested in Scala Center, I would have immediately pulled my funding after Darja Jovanovic’s expletive-laden sexualised rant on stage during a Scala conference. It’s baffling how a p
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by cbeach 3y ago
> And most cookie banners I see nowadays have an easy opt out button. ...which you have to click EVERY TIME you visit nearly every website on the web. What a great success for usability.
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by cbeach 3y ago
> The EU is like a massive ship with huge inertia. Changing course takes a long time, but once it gets going, you better not be in the way. Yup, Europe is so lucky to have this stubborn, inertia-ridden juggernaut in charge of dynamic and
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by cbeach 3y ago
I'd love to install Consent-O-Matic but when I try, my browser warns me that the extension can read and change all my data on all websites. So, the EU makes laws that supposedly protect my privacy, and in order to deal with the awful p
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by cbeach 3y ago
Users can disable cookies on their browser if they care about limiting tracking and website functionality. Or if you insist on regulations that burden every website operator, how about the user ticks a box in their browser once e.g. "I
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by cbeach 3y ago
The proliferation of irritating cookie consent popups on the web is ENTIRELY the fault of the EU "Cookie Law" 2009/136/EC (amendment to 2002/58/EC) I repeat - the cookie consent popups, and the resulting de-sen
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by cbeach 3y ago
> why would Apple use a different charger on Macbooks than on Iphones other than to make more money? Power delivery. 12W is fine for phones, but modern laptops require ~100W > what awful consumer experience are you talking about, that
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by cbeach 3y ago
I can picture the EU-philic types that flagged this article in order to sweep legitimate criticism of the EU under the carpet. In the UK during the Brexit campaign I encountered the cult-like Remain campaign, with their faces painted blue,
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by cbeach 3y ago
Governments forcing technical standards on innovative companies is not something to celebrate. In the last 20 years Apple created two connectors (30 pin dock connector and Lightning connector). If Apple had been beholden to USB standards, w
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by cbeach 3y ago
"Keeping captitalism in check" with over-reaching regulations has consequences too. Hurting businesses hurts jobs, and hurts people.
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by cbeach 3y ago
I shut down a couple of my personal projects when the EU GDPR came along (streetlend.com and cointouch.com). I wasn't doing anything ethically wrong, but ethics and law are two different things, and seeing as I wasn't making money
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by cbeach 3y ago
The EU has a haphazard record on technical regulation, but their requirement for alternative app stores is decent IMO. Apple and Google have a chequered history of cherry-picking which social networking apps are allowed on their platform, b
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by cbeach 3y ago
I'm surprised to see 38% YoY increase in Tesla deliveries (page 8) in the last 12 months, despite the high interest rates (thus expensive consumer finance) and the high price point of Tesla's current range. By comparison, Honda sa
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by cbeach 3y ago
Sounds a bit like a ponzi scheme to me. Unless immigrants don't age?
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by cbeach 3y ago
I pay large amounts when parking in the nearest town (parking fees are one of the town council's most significant revenue streams, funding all sorts of externalities including homeless housing and business development). When at home I
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by cbeach 3y ago
If taxis and car shares gave people what they wanted, then people would sell their cars and use these alternatives. But they evidently don't, because people prefer to own cars, and that's why they own cars. Don't condescend p
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by cbeach 3y ago
There's a very authoritarian tone to your message. As if other people need to be "re-educated" to make choices that /you/ consider better.
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by cbeach 3y ago
How so? I pay the fair market rate for the resources I use, and the people producing them are happy with the transaction. Oh and by the way, I drive an electric car, so I don't produce any emissions in the residential areas I drive in
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by cbeach 3y ago
Cars give people the freedom to go places and carry luggage that would be impossible or inconvenient on public transport. Taking this freedom away from people is divisive, bordering on hostile. Ideologues in metropolitan bubbles talk a lot
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by cbeach 3y ago
Moving control surfaces are simpler, from an engineering perspective. I'd worry the failure modes of a pressurised air system, which are surely more numerous than a simple mechanical flap. Any failure would be catastrophic to the airpl
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by cbeach 3y ago
The burden of proof lies on you if you want to make claims like that
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by cbeach 3y ago
Too much anti-X (anti-Musk) trolling on Threads. Threads users really need to focus on building something good themselves, rather than simply attacking the incumbent. It feels like the whole purpose of Threads is just one-upmanship against
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by cbeach 3y ago
I found the EV6 very claustrophobic and dark inside compared to my Tesla Model S. The EV6 looks horrible and "dumpy" from the rear compared to any Tesla EV6 is slower than the Model Y. EV6 has only 490L of storage vs. the Model Y&
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by cbeach 3y ago
People discussing a company is different from the company actively "marketing" itself. Important distinction.
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by cbeach 3y ago
You mentioned Tesla is “heavily marketed” That’s news to me. When did you last see an advert for Tesla (paid for by Tesla) on TV, movies, print media or a website?
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by cbeach 3y ago
We don't call China "中国," so why are we calling Turkey "Turkiye"?

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