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by chc 7y ago
> This might sound harsh, but if people are unwilling to pay for something with any currency they don't implicitly count as worthless, maybe it shouldn't exist. That's essentially every news source that isn't purely
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by chc 7y ago
The New York Times is absolutely ad-supported.
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by chc 7y ago
How many big content websites do you know that are doing well without ads?
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by chc 7y ago
Is there something about hackers that would make you expect them to like overhyped technologies that have a very limited set of cases where they're actually a good choice in the real world?
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by chc 7y ago
It should work as long as there's a space after the asterisk: > Fn* closure traits implemented for Box<dyn Fn* > This threw me for a minute. Function pointers not using * is confusing enough without using glob syntax to talk a
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by chc 7y ago
The benefit of a website like Patreon is reducing friction for small transactions like this. If you're going to put in lots of time and effort to convince one person to give you a million dollars, you can probably get them to write you
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by chc 7y ago
That's the same price as a Nintendo 2DS, which is about as cheap as mobile gaming comes. So I mean, you might have opinions about how good a value it is, but it is not a very high price point for its market.
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by chc 7y ago
People say all of the same things about alcoholics and drug addicts. It's defect with the person, they're irresponsible, they lack self-respect and discipline, they're just bad parents — I've heard literally all of these
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by chc 7y ago
How is Core Image superfluous or an outright bug?
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by chc 7y ago
That seems like a distinction without difference unless your main goal is to place blame for their problems rather than examine the effects and remedies objectively.
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by chc 7y ago
That's not my experience at all. Most developers I know have worked with technologies before and come out saying, "I would rather use something else next time."
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by chc 7y ago
It sounds like he gave them an hourly rate, not a project rate, and emailed every day to let them know how many hours he'd worked and what he still needed, both before and after the estimated time frame was blown. It doesn't sound
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by chc 7y ago
There seems to be an assumption in this viewpoint that copyright is the state of nature for creative works, and removing copyright protections violates this natural order. This is the opposite of reality, though — copyright is an artificial
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by chc 7y ago
That is a gross mischaracterization of what Oracle did. They didn't just defend a copyright in court. They pushed to extend copyright to a mostly functional element that copyright law has not traditionally been thought to cover. It&#x2
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by chc 7y ago
Referring to a RDBMS as a "SQL Server" would probably confuse people. Besides the fact that it's already the name of a specific product, the overall genre of software doesn't even serve SQL.
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by chc 7y ago
If anything, "criminals" would be a prejudicial framing. "People" is a pretty neutral word to refer to, well, people.
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by chc 7y ago
This is a non sequitur. Your car still has code in it, whether or not it can get OTA updates.
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by chc 7y ago
This is only true if you don't use a type checker. If you do use a type checker...types are checked. It's still not really a sound type system, though. Many safe languages have some kind of escape hatch for the type system, but th
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by chc 7y ago
> Ok, then why is loss-making more acceptable (safer for small investors) in a formerly profitable company than it is for a not-yet-profitable company? One has demonstrated the ability to turn a profit and the other has not. This seems
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by chc 7y ago
The "evil" characterization is from the comment you're defending. The comment you're replying to just appears to be using the same terminology to discuss the same concept.
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by chc 7y ago
I think you've misinterpreted their point. They were pointing out that whether or not we know the thing existed doesn't change the fact that we don't have it, and it's the fact that we don't have it that prevents it
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by chc 8y ago
I don't think it's really price snobbery. I've been to much nicer restaurants with average plate prices in the $10–$20 dollar range that those places fall into. There are even a lot of "foodie" places in that range.
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by chc 8y ago
I think you might be reading this as a different objection than it was meant as. People specifically respond this way about Mars because the context is that Mars is seen as the most viable colonization target, and colonizing Mars is the sam
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by chc 8y ago
This might sound like one of those "the people I disagree with are evil" kind of exaggerations, but it is not. This is a real position that is fairly common among Republican thought leaders. For example, Ronald Reagan literally sa
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by chc 8y ago
I think you're overlooking the implication that modifying your genes the way CRISPR does is never going to be risk-free. The question probably isn't "Would you get rid of a pimple if there were no other consequences?" bu
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by chc 8y ago
The Reader is independent and the UT is corporate-owned, but on the other hand, the Reader is not really much of a news outlet. Its role in the local ecosystem is kind of halfway between PennySaver and Reader's Digest. They're not
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by chc 8y ago
I think the assumption is that the difficulty of long-range space travel is such that only the "nation-state actors" in this analogy are likely to attack you in the first place. Just by existing in a universe with the laws of phys
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by chc 8y ago
There's a still more subtle distinction that I think is also lost on people: You can be in favor of someone being able to say something, but still be opposed to them actually saying it in a given situation. For example, I don't th
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by chc 8y ago
On iPhone this is true, but it's easy as heck on Android. You can just download an APK from the Web and install it, or you can install a secondary repository like APKPure if you want a centralized source. Having done both several times
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by chc 8y ago
They leaked tens of millions of people's personal information to third parties without so much as notifying them. There were congressional hearings about their privacy violations. Facebook is very publicly pivoting to emphasize persona

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