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by grandalf 9y ago
Indeed. I've been burned enough times that I'd actually join a class action lawsuit at this point. It's pretty ridiculous. Amazon needs to take full responsibility for counterfeiting. I'm tempted to charge back certain
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by grandalf 9y ago
I don't think Amazon has fully crossed any lines just yet, but I do think it's bound to happen fairly soon just due to scale. My point is meant to compare antitrust enforcement to the other mechanisms that are viewed by some as ne
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by grandalf 9y ago
I would much rather that Bezos be allowed to keep all of his capital gains but have appropriate antitrust enforcement step in and reduce Amazon's market power a bit. The recent upsurge of counterfeit products are evidence that Amazon i
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by grandalf 9y ago
Is there software that will check the certs on my computers to make sure no software has done this?
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by grandalf 9y ago
Indeed. A blast from the past. Oddly the capsule approach is how I naively thought image recognition worked until I learned more about it.
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by grandalf 9y ago
This is great. Why have I never heard anyone make this argument over beers when the debating starts? Seems like critiques of a programming language or paradigm are usually made by someone imagining a very bad codebase from their past.
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by grandalf 9y ago
My view is very pragmatic: Some code is far easier to write quickly and correctly using a TDD approach. In other cases the cost of refactoring with TDD is very high if any significant design or architecture changes occur, so in those cases
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by grandalf 9y ago
This seems to be meant as an AMP killer.
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by grandalf 9y ago
I think that the ideological shift toward hating/resenting foreign people is a bigger problem than the fraud inflicted on some consumers due to the practice, yes.
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by grandalf 9y ago
True. Countries with lax emissions laws arbitrage environmental damage in exchange for short-term profits. When we import goods from these countries, we too arbitrage environmental damage for short-term profits. Since the environment is glo
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by grandalf 9y ago
Amazon makes tremendous profit on all of the counterfeit goods, so unless customers resort do doing credit card chargebacks Amazon is unlikely to notice. Chances are chargebacks would result in account termination, so Amazon's market
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by grandalf 9y ago
For someone who already owns cryptocurrency A, isn't there a perverse incentive to fork it into A', A'', A''', etc., because doing so multiplies the person's wealth. I'd expect that a fork will e
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by grandalf 9y ago
I'm still a loyal Amazon shopper but I've been victimized by this many times. The worst part is that some of the counterfeit items will actually cause property damage when they malfunction (chargers, batteries, etc.) Others are s
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by grandalf 9y ago
Are there plant species that might not really thrive in the current environment but will begin to thrive once the CO2 level increases a bit further?
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by grandalf 9y ago
I have responded in detail to the accusation you made of whataboutism in one of my other replies. It only applies when someone is a partisan trying to distract or persuade in an argument against another partisan. As I pointed out in that m
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by grandalf 9y ago
I don't think you read the comment to which you replied so I am not sure it's worthwhile to attempt to respond to this scattered rant.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> I’ve found it fascinating that people cannot coherently talk about a different nations moral failings without equivocating and falling back onto moral relativism and what-aboutism regarding how the US is just bad. Translation: "US
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by grandalf 9y ago
I'm not sure if you are serious or if you are trolling. It is you who are making the claim that needs to be supported by evidence. Namely, this is the claim that RT's journalism is obviously sub-standard compared to US media&#x2F
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by grandalf 9y ago
I think rather than using a silly made-up word like whataboutism you should simply call out someone's views or comment specifically for whatever logical error you think it contains. I looked at the definition of whataboutism on Wikiped
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by grandalf 9y ago
I don't watch cable news because the few times I have watched it lately it has been of very poor quality. Notably, Rachel Maddow has been caught embellishing the Russia story to the point where I think it's clear she has a strong
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by grandalf 9y ago
I don't think that considering analogous or similar scenarios when trying to understand an issue is a bad thing, no matter what juvenile label you put on it.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Well, labeling someone’s comment with a buzzword is not really a counter-argument. Your and his arguments could be labeled as “Tory” but it would be useless for me to point that out; id rather attempt to reach common ground or understanding
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by grandalf 9y ago
Not at all. The objective for a landing page is very different from all the other pages. Landing Page: Make it load instantly so that a new user clicking on it doesn't get frustrated and close the window before it's ready to go.
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by grandalf 9y ago
No this is the wrong conclusion to draw.
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by grandalf 9y ago
You are correct. This is such an obvious, simple thing that anyone with a small bit of experience optimizing a static website for render completion would understand. React is designed to allow a server-side render and an async load of the j
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by grandalf 9y ago
I do not watch any cable news, so I can't comment on the quality of Rachel Maddow's coverage. I used the example of the Flint Water crisis not to compare RT's coverage to the coverage offered by US media, but to use an exampl
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by grandalf 9y ago
RT covers many other issues that, like the Flint water crisis are deeply embarrassing to the US but are actually legitimate concerning issues to the poorest and most disempowered Americans.
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by grandalf 9y ago
It's actually not a misdirection, it's the main point. The crux of the issue is whether you define certain journalistic behaviors as being bad/wrong just because they threaten the status quo power structure of the US. If y
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by grandalf 9y ago
Well, that's if you consider them to be journalists rather than actors and actresses. At least the ones on television have zero journalistic acumen.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Exactly. You are thinking of this logically while most of the people accusing Wikileaks of acting deliberately on Trump's behalf do not pay close attention to Wikileaks or understand its obvious journalistic motivations. The minute any

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