drb91

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by drb91 8y ago
You can’t look at the reasons as rational. Prisons are simply justifying their profits poorly.
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by drb91 8y ago
> I very much agree with other posters that "unlimited" is a very misleading term. Well, it's not very meaningful without attaching it to a clear quantity, is it? Should be illegal.
753.
by drb91 8y ago
Maybe because it’s cheaper than being regulated like other broadcast media is, a likely response to non-action to widely harmful content.
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by drb91 8y ago
(I was sarcastic!)
755.
by drb91 8y ago
I dunno, some of my favorite humans make mistakes. I can’t begrudge a lesson learned, especially if nobody was hurt.
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by drb91 8y ago
What does a deep integration between a chat app and a vcs provider mean?
757.
by drb91 8y ago
No need! Everyone is already so happy with the electron version; why would they waste more money improving your experience?
758.
by drb91 8y ago
Err, what is the point of the educational edition if not to hack on it?
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by drb91 8y ago
Why do you think that syntax has anything to do with expressing mental models? If anything, that would seem to inhibit recognition of similar processes.
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by drb91 8y ago
When people refer to a “bloody steak”, they aren’t implying the red liquid is actually blood.
761.
by drb91 8y ago
Who is engaged with their phone for colors rather than content? If anything, text seems MORE engaging in greyscale. This entire concept seems to allow phone providers to not implement real controls over eg actually providing access to a hos
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by drb91 8y ago
> Security keeps things safe, privacy keeps things hidden. This seems like a false dichotomy. Safety and being hidden are utterly intertwined—is the act of preventing a request revealing my identity an act of security, or of privacy? It
763.
by drb91 8y ago
I don’t get this quote. Why is mail reading considered an obvious forward step for a program? That fad seemed to die with the browser Mozilla (or SeaMonkey these days, if it still exists).
764.
by drb91 8y ago
Yes, and a union is emphatically not a positive or negative thing in itself. Arguably the police union is at the heart of the BLM movement.
765.
by drb91 8y ago
Depends on your goals, I guess. It seems to me we’re already trading both compensation and ethical say for perks.
766.
by drb91 8y ago
I agree with the sentiment here, but PR driven pressure is probably not the best leverage to use in all cases. There’s real value to having internal say in the direction of the company you’re building.
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by drb91 8y ago
Yes, unionization is key here. Cultural tastes need to change a bit, I think, but developers have enormous leverage. I’d like to echo the sibling comment to visit your local DSA branch if you want more information.
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by drb91 8y ago
We’ll see if the free exchange ideas results in an ethic that reflects the people who built google.
769.
by drb91 8y ago
Silicon Valley needs to get into labor agitation if these protests are gonna go anywhere.
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by drb91 8y ago
> Starting at 1 is more intuitive Only when counting. Why should 'numbering' be the same as 'counting'? I don't see why that would lead to a generally more intuitive when most of what you calculate with 'num
771.
by drb91 8y ago
What area are you talking about? Postmodern means a lot of different things.
772.
by drb91 8y ago
The alt text you quoted still sets mood and setting. In terms of capturing reader interest, narrative is important. How would this hurt?
773.
by drb91 8y ago
Observations are inherently a posteriori, not a priori, this is true. However, "universal observation" is not the same as "objective" or "a priori". I'd call the experience of suffering a type of universal
774.
by drb91 8y ago
I was under the impression a) the relationship between salt and hypertension is far from understood and b) the daily value is likely lower than is supported by evidence. As a home cook, things taste much better with salt, and they preserve
775.
by drb91 8y ago
It also tells us the term "window manager" is equivalent to a few X11 calls.
776.
by drb91 8y ago
Not all needs are driven by security.
777.
by drb91 8y ago
They could also easily make their own break off usb-c.... but they don’t.
778.
by drb91 8y ago
> is cognizant about how to design it so that it discourages (or at least won't encourage) any type of sociopathic behavior. Seems like this could also backfire and discourage taking a computer feigning distress seriously--after all
779.
by drb91 8y ago
Ehh, I also was addicted to computing in ways that have paid off by allowing me to drop out of college and get an extremely lucrative job. I still regret the years of staring at a computer instead of socializing or garnering an interest in
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by drb91 8y ago
It could use magsafe. That thing has a death grip on my laptop.

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