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by gdulli 7y ago
Exactly. I saw where this was going a few years ago and started using Pale Moon.
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by gdulli 7y ago
Of course there are scenarios where you can't choose your favorite language, I'm not going to write an Xbox game client in Python. To the extent I have a choice, I'll go out of my way to use Python and I'll be a little c
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by gdulli 7y ago
> Thank you Guido, after learning Python, I never looked back That matches my experience. All the pros and cons that in principle apply to any language, whether newer than Python or older, mean nothing to me in practice. Python is the on
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by gdulli 7y ago
The tracking is happening anyway, everywhere. Maybe it sucks, but it's reality. Netflix and Amazon, not to mention the entire rest of the internet, are doing it. So if it comes to cable it doesn't differentiate streaming vs. regul
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by gdulli 7y ago
There are many ways to get a paycheck. What's confusing about having values and working them into your decision about where to get it? The job I have doesn't improve the world, I accept that. But it also doesn't make the worl
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by gdulli 7y ago
While this isn't great, any form of broadcast/cable that can be controlled with a DVR makes this a non-issue, as I'm skipping commercials anyway. When ads on TV become unskippable, or continue to get more firmly embedded in c
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by gdulli 7y ago
Exactly. Obviously we can't expect Bezos to meaningfully address climate change outside the bounds of people buying as much shit as possible whether they need it or not or whether they need it delivered next day or not. But it would be
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by gdulli 7y ago
Synchronous and asynchronous communication both have their fundamental strengths and weaknesses. In a chat room you have the possibility of a real-time back and forth. That's invaluable at times. You might have a preference for one ove
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by gdulli 7y ago
In my city, cigarettes and scratch-off lottery tickets seem to be the things that people don't feel any particular need to dispose of properly.
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by gdulli 7y ago
I don't think there's "an" explanation. There are lots of false reviews on the internet. Some are honest mistakes, like you said. Some are intended to artificially raise or lower the target's reputation. And some ar
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by gdulli 7y ago
From my point of view, cable has the easiest kind of advertising to fully skip. It's distinct from programming and can be fast forwarded. I find that preferable to the web and streaming. Being manipulated by unskippable previews and al
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by gdulli 7y ago
Maybe people apply Occam's razor and decide that fearing losing one's status is a more likely explanation for an abrupt change in an unpopular opinion than an earnest change of mind. And that's before considering whether Stal
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by gdulli 7y ago
Lots of things people think of as crucial today didn't exist when I started. And the overall ratio of successful work to unsuccessful work was just as high then as it is now.
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by gdulli 7y ago
If you're an end user, the only relevant perspective is noticing that the company is unreliable. That they're maximizing their own interests is something you can take for granted, but it's of little comfort or interest.
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by gdulli 7y ago
> my issue is that we're intentionally making it harder to sell vegan/vegetarian alternatives by trying to replicate something unachievable I'm a meat eater who's never opted for a meat substitute in my life until the
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by gdulli 7y ago
I've never been a vegetarian and never been tempted by it. However, if meat can be approximated very well then I'm excited by the idea of displacing much of the environmental impact of producing meat. Even if real meat never goes
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by gdulli 7y ago
Right. Amazon has become a better showroom than a store.
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by gdulli 7y ago
> Would you agree that saying that a baker in Colorado must make a cake for a gay wedding is intolerant of the baker's belief? The whole point of that position is to prevent exactly that society. Where the hate, fear, discomfort, pr
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by gdulli 7y ago
Privacy issues aside, all that does is rob me of the opportunity cost of spending that money optimally and it forces me to spend it at a vendor that's not always the cheapest or most convenient.
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by gdulli 7y ago
It's not for your benefit, it's for Amazon's. It's for them to train people to lower both the cognitive and physical barriers to buying. And specifically, buying from them by default without exercising the thought proces
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by gdulli 7y ago
Between every release making we worry what functionality I'm going to lose and which extensions will stop working, or having all my containers wiped out permanently, Mozilla is failing extension users.
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by gdulli 7y ago
One of the best concerts I ever saw, I only knew about because of a TV commercial. In theory I could have found out about it another way, but I don't follow music news closely. I generally mute/fast-forward commercials. Those are
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by gdulli 7y ago
The concept of activism itself is neutral. And useful, and important. In principle. The difference between an activist deciding arbitrarily on a position through bias vs. coming to a position legitimately and promoting it is largely in your
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by gdulli 7y ago
I find a 2000 word article more interesting than a few sentences of vague, partially tautological, and non-constructive criticisms from an account created an hour ago only for that purpose.
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by gdulli 7y ago
You know that this is explicitly and intentionally an editorial piece, right? I'm not sure what you're criticizing other than something completely fundamental about how all journalism works.
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by gdulli 7y ago
Aside from counterfeiting, it's become a hassle to buy from the marketplace. My last experience was buying a small piece of furniture. There was a problem and it could have been resolved more easily than it was, but as inconveniences c
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by gdulli 7y ago
Being annoyed is a choice, though. Why do it if you don't have to?
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by gdulli 7y ago
As a man I don't feel patronized by that comment and the women I know aren't so fragile as to need to believe women can't be criticized. Why manufacture outrage if you don't have to?
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by gdulli 7y ago
I would never assume Google doesn't know every site I visit with Chrome. Let's scrutinize all of them rather than hold them to different standards based on our personal narrative.
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by gdulli 7y ago
> If I had to guess, I’d say that Amazon continues to employ lots of human beings because, by putting money into the pockets of working-class people, the company creates more customers I've never accused a piece of content like this

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