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Web 3.0 is officially here(tonysull.co)
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
For me the difference isn't the amount of JS, it's what the JS is doing. A page that requests JSON and renders it to HTML in the frontend is fundamentally different from one that uses JS for basic interactivity. Both uses absolute
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I know a few people that bought these to commute around town. I always thought they were bat's hit crazy and did try, unsuccessfully, to talk the out of it. I skateboard when I was younger and generally feel comfortable enough on any b
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
There's a huge gap between some JS and Spas though. The question for me is always where data is rendered to markup, not whether it uses JS in the browser at all.
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I'm not familiar enough with the motivations behind that specific amendment. I could see it having been an increased concern over people being okay with ignoring the gentleman's agreement, but a political tit for tat with Roosevel
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I'd argue that gridlock is a feature not a bug. Hamilton even said as much in the Federalist papers when acknowledging that the model of a three-branch government can be slow and inefficient compared to a one or two branch model. I thi
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Effectiveness of term limits would depend a good deal on how the power and control is gained in the first place. I'm of the opinion that much of it is from personal connections, favors, and dirt that can be used as leverage. None of th
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
> Remove their power to pardon and issue executive orders Oh add both of those to the list of things I wish we could remove! Pardon are often used as little more than political capital, and executive orders reek of executive overreach an
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
It doesn't. You aren't the only one here that raised similar question, I should have clarified that in my original post. I don't actually like governments creating regulations and drawing lines in the sand. As many have raise
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I'd say term limits are an unfortunate tradeoff that might be helpful when votes and performance diverge too far. If the machine itself is broken, any changes or limitations to the output (the politicians here) are just bandaids. I do
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I'm definitely a fan of the general sentiment. Exactly how that is done to keep enough stability to avoid constant churn would be a really interesting debate, but I've long thought that laws should be required to come with expirat
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
One really interesting question there, how much of the work is really don't by the elected official? If a lot of the "real" work is done by the staffers, career government workers, etc then the politician really is the public
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Term limits definitely come with very real tradeoffs. I'd argue, though, that if the machine is that corrupt it doesn't matter what we do with politicians. What you're describing sounds to me like the politicians are inconseq
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Oh I'm all for anything that can be done to prevent politicians from getting rich through insider trading, "gifts", favors, and happening into fortunes just after leaving office. I see that as a different problem to solve, bu
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I'm not totally opposed to max age limits, that has tradeoffs just like term limits would. Theres no magic bullet unfortunately. Any line in the sand will have people caught in the crossfire, whether that's a person over the age l
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
My main concern without term limits is when an elected official moves from being popular and effective at their job to being effective at getting reelected. Those are very different skills, with the latter risking politicians that are only
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I know the easy approach here is for people to want an age limit in Congress, but I've always been more partial to a term limit. I'm sure there are plenty of hypotheses as to why this happens, but whatever the cause elected offici
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I know the easy approach here is for people to want an age limit in Congress, but I've always been more partial to a term limit. I'm sure there are plenty of hypotheses as to why this happens, but whatever the cause elected offici
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
It's too early to say whether this is an example of what not to do. Elon hasn't realized any losses yet, while on paper the company may be worth less that game isn't over for him. He hasn't done himself many favors by st
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Assuming that you can control who thrives in a project seems like a death nail in and of itself. Contributions should stand on their own, why the person contributed them or who the person is should have no bearing on the FOSS project.
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I'm not sure why intentions would matter here, or how one would compare the value of different intentions. If someone adds value to the codebase and fixes, or helps to fix, a valid bug why should we care why they did it? Sure intention
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
These technologies all commodities spying, making it viable when you couldn't send a person to do the spying. I live in a rural area. The government would never bother to send someone to spy on me here, I can't imagine they suspec
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I'd compare it more to VR than NFTs. VR was a technology step that could have had interesting uses for a new experience, pumped up like crazy by VCs that just wanted a new hype train to fill with cheap money. NFTs, at least most of the
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
The modern internet is easily used for surveillance, the early versions wouldn't have been very useful for surveillance though. We could pretty easily strip most of the risks out if we cared to, though we'd lose functionality alon
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I don't know of many countries explicitly require shoot to wound, but many functionally have this with laws that require minimizing harm. It's noticeable in the stats of police shootings versus police killings, where countries wit
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Oh we're 100% on the same page. I whole heartedly believe the ideals behind democracy are meant to keep power in check, but we lost that before I was born. I'd argue that I've never truly lived in a democracy, but I hope to o
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I don't know who Ray Peatis but there are cranks on both sides of any issue. To point to one example that you may have seen and use that to discredit all others isn't doing anyone any good. I ate keto for a couple years and still
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I don't quite think this falls into the fallacy part, though it's definitely a sunk cost. If companies don't have any financially viable ways to offload the real estate costs they have to weigh the pros and cons. Remote work
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Corruption happens under any form of government, it doesn't require democracy. The risk for corruption is always there when power is centralized, the more you centralize the more incentive there is. If anything democracy has only shown
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Not quite sure what you mean, humans have lives with plenty of viruses that circulate regularly and people don't choose to get infected. The term pandemic is also pretty specifically defined as the time period where an infection is spr

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