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by ebbv 9y ago
Well I know this is gonna sound absolutely bonkers but; our leaders could actually lead for a change... I know it's an insane thought but it has been done in the past to great effect.
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by ebbv 9y ago
They won't like it but tough beans. People don't like a lot of things we have to change for the better of society. Not doing things because people won't like them is why so many things are screwed up right now.
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by ebbv 9y ago
I hope this works and provides cheap, clean ways to have chicken nuggets. But that's a long way off because we don't even have a way of doing it cheaply or cleanly right now, let alone have a product that people actually want to e
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by ebbv 9y ago
Apple, Google and Facebook are not the issue dude. All the companies that have yet to really be profitable are. Come on, that's obvious. Of course those companies which have cash on hand would be fine.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Were you not around for the first dot com bubble? All it takes is the right high profile failure(s) and investors get spooked. They stop investing, which causes more collapses of companies that can find investment. They pull their money out
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by ebbv 9y ago
This infographic isn't very convincing. It shows a bunch of forms of valuation and debt have drastically increased in the last 7 years, but that doesn't alone mean it's a bubble. You need to establish that the rate of growth
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by ebbv 9y ago
That's exactly it. And the thing is no matter where you worked, if you did great things and have great skills, you're going to get opportunities and recognition. If you don't have the skills and don't do the work, it doe
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by ebbv 9y ago
Having worked at a “name” company is not the big boost to your value lots of people think it is. That’s a lie that those big companies use to get people to accept bad working conditions.
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by ebbv 9y ago
It's still legal gambling targeting kids. It's heinous.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Hangouts uses a plugin. It's not using web standards. So using it as an example of breaking standards is really silly.
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by ebbv 9y ago
I get your point but considering Mozilla gets all of its funding from those same corporations I'm not sure how true that is.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Anyone who says this doesn't remember what made IE notorious back in the day. None of the browsers now are anything like that. Apple's approach with Safari is exactly what the author of the linked article said; they are slower to
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by ebbv 9y ago
I am so tired of people bringing up the Brendan Eich thing as if it was unfair. Let's be clear; he wanted to deny civil rights to LGBT folks. That's not ok for a CEO of a large organization. It's not like he was ousted for wa
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by ebbv 9y ago
> This is the same for every stock traded on any stock exchange in the world. While we do live in an age where stocks seem increasingly untethered from reality, that's still not remotely true. Stocks are, in theory, based on the val
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by ebbv 9y ago
Absolutely. It's really not that hard. I did it with the first version of my little meeting agenda app Meeting Rainbow. I rewrote the UI using Angular 1.4 later, and honestly it wasn't any easier using Angular than no framework. A
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by ebbv 9y ago
The quality of the software and the sacrifice of key functionality in the hardware (dropping of MagSafe, which was a huge differentiator, going to just USB-C ports which almost nothing supports, not even Apple's own in box phone charge
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by ebbv 9y ago
I smell more bullshit here than when I drive past my local farms on fertilizing day.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Seems to me content creators who get upset at their treatment by Youtube have made a serious mistake; they believe they are Youtube's customers. They are not. Neither are the people watching the videos. The advertisers are the customer
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by ebbv 9y ago
Only the BBC fits, as it is also government controlled. The others may sometimes publish shill articles or whatever but they are not a government run propaganda arm. We don't have such a thing in the US, as NPR has lost almost all of i
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by ebbv 9y ago
Good. Russia Today is not a journalistic entity, it is the propaganda arm of Putin's dictatorial regime.
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by ebbv 9y ago
A big part of why Office gained ground was that it was offered cheaper than its competitors. A big part of why they could do that was it was subsidized by DOS and Windows licenses. Then there are enterprise customers who got bundling discou
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by ebbv 9y ago
Your ordering is kind of wonky. MS-DOS was before MS Word and Excel. It took a long time for Word or Excel to really gain ground against the market leaders, and arguably they weren't really dominant forces until they were packaged toge
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by ebbv 9y ago
Your "right leaning" is another person's hate speech. There's no onus on these privately owned web sites to be your definition (or mine) of "politically neutral." If you don't like them start your own plat
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by ebbv 9y ago
And how are they supposed to pay for it?
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by ebbv 9y ago
Any discount given by the government is subsidizing, dude. That lost tax revenue that Apple gets to keep has to be made up for elsewhere. It's not like when they give Apple this "discount" it goes along with a reduction in sp
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by ebbv 9y ago
> Who cares? The people in Iowa who have to subsidize this and don't have the billions sitting in the bank that Apple does? I can't believe anyone really seriously takes this side of this argument.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Anybody who sends out a political bomb like that to a large internal mailing list should expect to get fired. And the memo was poorly thought out and the dude was not well informed. All this hand-wringing is silly. He deserved to get fired
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by ebbv 9y ago
I get your point but there's a really scary implication here that if I run a website I can't just ban any IPs I want that I deem to be abusing my service. If I spot a bot scraping my data, I should have the right to block it.
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by ebbv 9y ago
The UK has had strong anti-libel laws that had a chilling effect on the media there for decades. We are only now seeing that there have been pedophilia rings at the highest levels of the rich and powerful in the UK, which had never been rep
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by ebbv 9y ago
Maybe I'm just an old fogey but I don't like Progress Web Apps. I think this whole movement of trying to make web apps more native-like is wrong headed and stems only from developers who have only ever written web apps wanting to

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