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by imagist 10y ago
This isn't paid for by the government in any way, so no, that's not a reasonable conclusion.
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by imagist 10y ago
At this point, saying that an economic activity is an exploitation of the weak is redundant.
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by imagist 10y ago
I agree that the economy exists to serve people. The fact that the economy demands people get jobs in order to be served and then doesn't give them jobs should be seen as a damning case where the economy isn't performing the funct
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by imagist 10y ago
The problem is, a hole in the ground is indeed often worth more than someone's creative output, because many people's creative output has negative worth. Silicon valley has fixated on behaviors that are actively harmful to users--
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by imagist 10y ago
The way I see it, capitalism doesn't work when people behave rationally in self-interest, because if they did, they would buy a fraction of what they do. Advertising exists to persuade people to act irrationally in the interest of a co
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by imagist 10y ago
True, but most startups leave the world worse than they found it. At least this way all that happens is a hole gets dug.
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by imagist 10y ago
If you aren't bored of writing CRUD apps, you haven't worked as a Web developer very long.
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by imagist 10y ago
I think about problem solving and code a lot like the author. But I don't think that means she and I don't belong in tech. I think that means we don't belong in the get-rich-quick scheme that is the present tech startup indus
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by imagist 10y ago
"A Startup Is Trying to Farm the Elusive Truffle" would have been a perfectly acceptable headline. The way I see it, the title of an article should provide the key information. The title as is tells us nothing.
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by imagist 10y ago
It's not possible to detect whether the user wants CP. You can assume they want CP, but the entire point of Cassandra is that it doesn't make that assumption. Cassandra is AP with opt-in CP. This is an explicit tradeoff. You&#x2
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by imagist 10y ago
This isn't relevant to autopilot in cars, it's just fear mongering. Humans have driven cars for a century now and animal-driven vehicles for millennia before that. I have yet to find a single documented case of the trolley problem
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by imagist 10y ago
I agree with what you're saying--fake news from Facebook brainwashing people probably was not the deciding factor in this election. However, fake news is a huge problem, especially as more and more people get their news from Facebook.
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by imagist 10y ago
Is there any word on this being released for Android at some point?
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by imagist 10y ago
There's a parable of a guy who lost his keys in the park at night. Upon realizing he lost his keys, he begins to look for the keys in the street near a street lamp. When his friend asks why he's looking for his keys in the street
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by imagist 10y ago
You can't fail unless you have a goal, and this article doesn't describe the goals terrorism fails at, or whether those are actually the goals of terrorists.
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by imagist 10y ago
Sure, if you want to argue this point, you're right--if you're already secure, then security through obscurity won't technically make you less secure. However, taking literally any actual security measure is a better usage
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by imagist 10y ago
> Well the browser must be able to visit http://127.0.0.1 whats so different about that than https://192.168.1.1 or any other address? 127.0.0.1 accesses local servers that might be running code which is typically
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by imagist 10y ago
> Dropbox and Github both use it to talk to their installed desktop clients from the website. It's very useful as it by just installing an app, a website can get more access to the local machine's hardware without having to res
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by imagist 10y ago
Yeah, that's representative of my experience. It feels visual, but not exactly in the same way as drawing to communicate--I just "know" what the parts mean instead of them being shaped in some meaningful way.
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by imagist 10y ago
Is this an issue with Guile, or is this an issue with browsers? It seems like allowing sites to query localhost is a vulnerability that could affect a wide variety of development tools. Maybe I'm not thinking of some use case, but it s
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by imagist 10y ago
> > Not everyone does this. > Yes, you do need to be literate. At some level, I suppose. But there's a lot of thought that occurs without words, and the conversion into words when I'm writing or speaking happens so late i
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by imagist 10y ago
The revenue comes from investors. A lot of those investors are saying the same thing you are: "Look at all this revenue, they must be doing well!" For those people it's a closed cycle: investors see revenue increase and inves
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by imagist 10y ago
No, not wrong. I said: > Not everyone has a gigabit internet connection--large portions of the world are still operating on 2G wireless, or even dialup. Sure, the majority of people have moved over to 3G or better worldwide, but there ar
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by imagist 10y ago
I think we're agreeing. :)
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by imagist 10y ago
Text size is still relevant due to bandwidth and reliability of transmission. Not everyone has a gigabit internet connection--large portions of the world are still operating on 2G wireless, or even dialup.
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by imagist 10y ago
> Begs the question of, homes where. Public housing, hotel rooms, condominiums, remote cabins, camps, shelters, the devil is in those details. There are a wide variety of options. One which has historically worked well in Europe is to pr
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by imagist 10y ago
Call me crazy, but I think it's pretty obvious that the only solution to homelessness is homes. Of course that's the compassionate solution, but compassion holds little weight in the libertarian idealist sociopathy of Silicon Vall
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by imagist 10y ago
Competition in the streaming content industry does not benefit consumers as long as streaming providers compete by trying to monopolize content. There are a few solutions to this which I can think of: 1. Add government regulation that makes
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by imagist 10y ago
Yes, these exist, but a few notable stories that broke are little compared to the relentless onslaught of news from Viet Nam during the war there. It was the first time that TV news from a warzone was readily available, and footage of the f
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by imagist 10y ago
I agree with your comment, but I'd like to add that if you speedily/efficiently do the wrong thing, it's no good. The first step of optimization is correctness.

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