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811.
by esyir 7y ago
That's an apples to oranges argument here. So first a market argument: AWS downtime results (or the lack thereof) are what's desired by the market. Blind people are a small market, and prioritizing them equally or disproportionate
812.
by esyir 7y ago
Reducing product performance for your userbase to send a message seems to be a common trend nowadays.
813.
by esyir 7y ago
Sure. They can order a pizza. Notice that I mentioned that reasonable allowances for disabled people can make sense, but I see no reason that a tiny minority should dictate the design viewed by a vast majority.
814.
by esyir 7y ago
To be fair, proposing regulation on people is really easy if you're not affected. And individual rules can often sound nice at first glance, only to have disastrous consequences in practice. Add in the fact that repeal of regulation is
815.
by esyir 7y ago
We have ~4.77 billion people on the internet. Assuming all of Canada was blind, that's 0.77% of total users. Under most circumstances, < 1% is a small minority. I get that some level of accessibility is reasonable, but if you'r
816.
by esyir 7y ago
This just sounds to me like "I like regulation, but hate over-regulation". Except that here, like potentially many other cases, there weren't any sane bounds on said regulation.
817.
by esyir 7y ago
This feels very much like a "tyranny of the minority" type situation though, where you have to bend backwards to aid a small subset of the population at the cost of a larger chunk of the same. There's probably a balance somew
818.
by esyir 7y ago
I'd note that in English, the default pronoun actually is "he". The movement to remove that is relatively new and almost purely politically driven.
819.
by esyir 7y ago
"They" might be a definite pronoun, but it is almost exclusively used as a plural. It's also a pretty bad drop in replacement; "They is currently running" sounds weird as all hell for instance. That there has been a
820.
by esyir 7y ago
You have a right to have whatever identity you have, but others should not be enforced to respect that. That they do is a courtesy extended to you by the person you're interacting with. This much I'm fine with. Doubly so with assu
821.
by esyir 7y ago
Yes, the guy who was kicked out of mozilla so they could score political points. Not for technical ability, not for competence, but for politics.
822.
by esyir 7y ago
This is absolutely ridiculous, and a fantastic way to cede all power to opposing nation-states.
823.
by esyir 7y ago
That was a response to the OP where: >Companies are going to have to decide how important the Chinese market is or risk eroding the trust and good will for all of their other customers. You can’t stand on the boat of democracy and the bo
824.
by esyir 7y ago
Because they have a steep learning curve, were not designed with guis in mind and require extensive customization.
825.
by esyir 7y ago
Sure you can. I think you're going to find that most people will go "oh those poor people in HK", then promptly go back to ignoring them in their purchase decisions. I have exceedingly little faith in consumers to inconvenien
826.
by esyir 7y ago
The flu is far more common than you're starting though. That the cold is even more so doesn't mean that most people don't know what getting a flu is like.
827.
by esyir 7y ago
And offense has now turned into harm.
828.
by esyir 7y ago
That would be in the DNA though. Our physiological structure emerges from that.
829.
by esyir 7y ago
I could apply this to many other default subreddits though. The things I see on /r/politics and the stuff I saw on /r/the_donald when it was on all are often quite similar, but only one of them got quarantined. Reddit po
830.
by esyir 7y ago
Yeah, but in practice, "they" is used to describe the plural. Singular they might have been in use, but in the modern context, typically only brings confusion. Not to mention screwing with sentence flow. Singular they are? they is
831.
by esyir 7y ago
Hm, really stupid naive question here. What happens if violating ships were basically seized
832.
by esyir 7y ago
I... Wouldn't quite jump to that.
833.
by esyir 7y ago
It is... though twitter does swing heavily left. Outrage mobs on twitter are thus expected to swing left.
834.
by esyir 7y ago
But there's also reasonable levels of discomfort and comfort, otherwise it turns into weaponized fragility. Also, Jesus, they literally classified asking someone out on a date as sexual harassment.
835.
by esyir 7y ago
Honestly, I'd say that a good chunk of that is culture. Singapore has an insane focus of education, with enormous amounts of spending on supplementary education and such. In the US, the Asian "tiger mom" is seen as an odd pec
836.
by esyir 7y ago
There are limited resources to provide high-end education. Effective use of those resources is key, and meritocratic admission is far preferable here to "just let everyone in".
837.
by esyir 7y ago
For public safety, those that function well don't matter that much if the overall trend skews heavily negative though.
838.
by esyir 7y ago
Wouldn't you just hide the criticism too though. Considering the worry around filter bubbles, elitism this be one of the strongest ones of all?
839.
by esyir 7y ago
You'd say that, but the competition is worse. I put up with Amazon's issues because the competition, well, they don't quite compete.
840.
by esyir 7y ago
People like free stuff, and after some time, it becomes expected. Moreover, think of it in the opposite direction. Imagine a getting hit with a 10% tax increase even if a richer guy gets 15%. Him being taxed more doesn't necessarily ma

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