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by fleddr 4y ago
Agree, Babel is bullshit in most cases these days. It's for people wanting to use some syntactic sugar that they just learned about 3 days ago.
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by fleddr 4y ago
My objection is that the author is quite clearly describing this as a bottom-up, small scale approach. Criticizing it as an inadequate approach for something much larger is unwarranted, as nowhere was the claim made that this scales up infi
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by fleddr 4y ago
And you're missing the point that these types of jobs are in or around the big cities, where people cannot afford housing. Well, maybe 5% can, the rest of us will commute.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Because I can't afford to move to the city where I work. Because even if I could, work is unstable, I can't keep moving. Because I have a girlfriend, any move closer to work is further away for her. Because my family and friends a
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by fleddr 4y ago
We have an office in São Paulo which I visited, so I'm familiar with it. It's a ridiculous city. It's so complicated that even people working in the office regularly get lost in the city. A true concrete jungle. We were in a
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by fleddr 4y ago
"Sure, it works well enough for the example shown in the article, but won't work well beyond this." Sigh...the entire bloody point of the author is to use this for light projects, to scale the sophistication of the setup grac
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by fleddr 4y ago
The US anti-car narrative often refers to the Netherlands as some kind of beacon of proper public infrastructure, whilst not knowing a damn thing about it. First, let's establish that the Netherlands is a car country. We have 11 millio
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by fleddr 4y ago
"People want desperately to experience the act of creation." I think online they perhaps want to experience the validation of creation over anything else. Increasingly, the "creation" is in service of what "scores&q
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by fleddr 4y ago
Nobody cares about energy use. People point to an oversized vehicle but will defend their oversized TV with their lives. Whilst rationally speaking there are very few "monster truck" vehicles whilst almost everybody has such a TV.
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by fleddr 4y ago
That means its an ethically sound question, so you're clearly not getting the point of these questions.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Your hysteric response isn't any less bizarre. Not every question has to have a profound meaning or be personally relevant. For example, you consider even entertaining the possibility of hiring the wife of a top performer bizarre, base
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by fleddr 4y ago
You're still not getting it. The thought experiment regarding diversity challenges the (typically) inconsistent implementation of it where it's more like a candy story where you pick what you like (or deem socially acceptable) and
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by fleddr 4y ago
No need to get back to you when "putting a pin in it", going forward.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Nothing you said relaxes me. I like my arcane wizard status.
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by fleddr 4y ago
No work webkit does on PWA-like features matter for as long as the install journey is as intentionally user-hostile and non-discoverable as it currently is. For the record, on Android it's also shitty, but not this shitty.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Why do you position this as a binary option? Google must have tens of thousands of people not directly working on ads. What exactly is so "risky" about this "subsidized" surplus working on risky bets?
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by fleddr 4y ago
"capability is measured on output" No, it isn't. That's effectiveness or impact. As an example, I'm capable of running 10 miles per day but can't be bothered.
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by fleddr 4y ago
The issue is exactly that Google is not struggling, which allows for this culture to grow and thrive. One day though, the music stops.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Sounds like I hit a nerve. What name-calling? I called the regime incompetent. Not India's inhabitants. I have no bias against Indian people, if I do, it's a positive one. 90% of my team is from India.
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by fleddr 4y ago
No idea why you're downvoted because it's a good remark.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Well, if we're going to be pointing fingers, let's not forget ourselves here: consumers. We gladly look away when consuming these cheap products. The attraction is that it's cheap, nothing else matters. If it were cheap whils
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by fleddr 4y ago
I agree that there will be no immediate serious repercussions, but it's still a case of tickling a shark or shooting in your own foot.
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by fleddr 4y ago
That's not how ransomware works. They typically wait 3-6 months before making the demand, your backups will contain the infected files.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Isn't it impressive how incompetent authoritarian regimes are? I mean, India has a great thing going. Geopolitically, it's exempt from bans on trading with Russia, so it can play both sides and get away with it. It has build up a
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by fleddr 4y ago
It's Reddit where almost everything is faked, for upvotes.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Back in the real world they MUST. Small business is done on LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon, the like.
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by fleddr 4y ago
The person writing the article IS an advertiser, so now what?
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by fleddr 4y ago
Maybe from the $5-10B they print in pure profit, every single quarter.
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by fleddr 4y ago
I once also had an issue with my FB account and the most stunning thing I learned is that there's no way to contact FB. None. This company that "connects the people of the world" has no email, phone, chat...nothing. It's
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by fleddr 4y ago
It's way worse than DMCA actually. With DMCA you can get takedown requests when one of your users uploads copyrighted works. Comply with the takedown requests in reasonable ways and you're fine. The EU legislation means that platf

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