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by guelo 7y ago
I've been surprised lately by how much more pleasant, readable and usable the news/blog-web is with JavaScript turned off. JavaScript is basically just used for the user-hostile ad-tech.
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by guelo 7y ago
The good connections' access to outstanding smart college kids would also be threatened. Which means these connections will have to find other, hopefully less dynasty-reinforcing ways to recruit.
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by guelo 7y ago
As a maintainer of a medium-ly popular library that I also use for work I can say that I love getting (quality) bug reports since these are bugs I didn't know I had. OTOH pull requests for the bugs I'm not as excited about. I wrot
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by guelo 7y ago
Yes, Obama failed us and now Trump is failing us.
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by guelo 7y ago
> that same Treasury report highlighted the fact that the United Kingdom and European Union have initiatives requiring API access to bank accounts, but recommended a private solution. This is the Trump government failing us and gifting t
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by guelo 7y ago
There are dozens of weird cleanliness rules in the Old Testament, it's pretty obvious to me that they were traditional learnings for avoiding disease.
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by guelo 7y ago
Banking regulators should mandate open banking APIs and default-private, non-sellable transaction data. The fact that they don't means that they don't work for us, government has been turned into a tool to enable and encourage ren
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by guelo 7y ago
The loans are from private lenders and gauranteed by the government. If it was just a government program they wouldn't have had to have the draconian anti bankruptcy provisions which were put in place to attract the private lenders. Th
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by guelo 7y ago
A big part of the problem is the US's annoying penchant for privatization which then means you need a profit motive. There's a revoltion against any kind of program purely for the public good.
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by guelo 7y ago
This attitude lets off the hook the many, many "news" stories that are deliberate lies. They're not about different framing, omitting relevant facts, or even click-baity exaggerations. They're complete fabrications desig
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by guelo 7y ago
You might leave DNA everywhere but that does not tie it back to your identity. The secret is who's DNA it is, not the DNA itself. And that's the secret you pay to give to 23andMe when you sign up. Anywhere you leave your DNA can n
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by guelo 7y ago
Use duckduckgo people!
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by guelo 7y ago
> Look at the context. The context is extremely partisan twisting of the justice system on all sides. Normally DA's have complete discretion to drop charges as they see fit. Because of the partisan outrage a Republican special prose
854.
by guelo 7y ago
If we killed some European general that was visiting some European country you would say that we had assassinated him.
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by guelo 7y ago
A bit of an aside. Terrorism is a useless word now besides its propaganda value. The USA just declares whoever they don't like to be a terrorist, like how they just did to Iran's army, and now apparently they can legally assassina
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by guelo 7y ago
The privacy violation that infuriates me the most is that Visa and Mastercard sell your purchase data, and I don't believe CCPA applies to them. Like cell phone companies selling tower-based location data, the credit card's sale o
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by guelo 7y ago
Ok I can see what you mean. It's a continuum, the fatter the library or "framework" the less native it is.
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by guelo 7y ago
Whichever ones the platform ships with.
859.
by guelo 7y ago
Native means that you're programming against the platform's APIs.
860.
by guelo 7y ago
Why are ebikes a revolution while mopeds have been around for decades? It seems like they fill the same niche.
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by guelo 7y ago
Apple's privacy marketing is bullshit considering China doesn't allow privacy.
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by guelo 7y ago
Yet we kept putting it in our paint and our gasoline until not very long ago. Probably because of people minimizing the problem, kind of like many of the commenters here.
863.
by guelo 7y ago
I'm more concerned about dissolved plastic residues than the bigger plastic particles. The particles have more of a chance of passing through your body untouched. The unstudied plastic residues dissolved in your hot coffee are much mor
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by guelo 7y ago
Lead poisoning makes you slightly dumber, it's not a big obvious poisoning, that's why it took centuries before humans noticed that they were poisoning themselves with lead. Hopefully it doesn't take that long to figure out h
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by guelo 7y ago
Political polarization has increased so this is happening on both sides, people moving towards democrats and republicans.
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by guelo 7y ago
Many times we've needed the pure hypothesizers and even the philosophers before we're able to break out of the previous paradigms.
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by guelo 7y ago
It's VCs' and founders' fault for always diluting employees on the big exits. If they want to gain back trust we need iron-clad poison-pill provisions that prevent employees from getting screwed out of their equity.
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by guelo 7y ago
I would say that each image has an open source license. What is not open source is the collection of images as shown on unDraw. > unDraw grants you an nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perfo
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by guelo 7y ago
I recently found out that in their ever growing hatred of api users Twitter has switched to using technique #2. In order to get a new key these days you have to fill a long form with redundant questions and lengthy minimum paragraph length
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by guelo 7y ago
Pro-legalization activists always over-claim marijuana's safety which has led to the claimed safety entering pop culture and becoming widely believed. The truth is that there is little solid research into the question.

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