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by koboll 8y ago
There's just nothing Snap offers that isn't as good or better on Instagram. And hoping gimmicks like new AR tricks or Spectacles can turn that around has always been a lost cause.
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by koboll 8y ago
No. And the FCC could have said that. They also could have just simply said "Well, this is just an issue that certain subsets of internet denizens have strong feelings about, but the average citizen doesn't," just like the Ob
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by koboll 8y ago
Eh, except the "king" in this case is actually the one who paid to put in electricity. So it's not really "graft", but being allowed to build infrastructure. Yes, obviously, there should be regulations on infrastruc
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by koboll 8y ago
>The Fed continuously lowered regulations to feed the market in an attempt to prevent it from crashing. Uh... like what?
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by koboll 8y ago
>give it another ten years and you will see this morph into alcoholism and/or drug abuse Have you looked at rates of alcohol and opiate abuse recently? It's already happening.
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by koboll 8y ago
It looks very similar to the Vue plugin system, which is one of the nicest parts about using Vue.
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by koboll 8y ago
Both of these options are godawful, but that's the amateurishness I expected from whatever design team came up with the horrendously terrible MDN redesign last year.
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by koboll 8y ago
Someone should build a News-Genius-type overlay extension with a parallel review system that's better-maintained and more difficult to game. The only way out of Amazon's shit review scheme is eschewing it entirely.
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by koboll 8y ago
React is certainly more elegant than Vue. But for me, the key question is which allows me to build faster. Does elegance mean I will spend so much less time fixing bugs that this benefit outweighs the much smaller amount of boilerplate requ
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"The main unfairness is that the way that language was chosen (assuming it is English) was through militaristic and economic domination" These things choose language, geography, and culture for virtually everyone on the globe. The
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by koboll 8y ago
This is what's left unmentioned in most articles excoriating the rise of English -- the benefits of a lingua franca far outweigh the detriments of English intrusion on other languages and cultures. Unfortunately the parallels to coloni
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by koboll 8y ago
"Thing that has been planned for years happens on schedule, with no relation to current events whatsoever. We're writing about it solely because doing so allows us to write a headline that misleadingly implies it has some relation
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by koboll 8y ago
If states allowed direct sales, an entire industry would vanish overnight. Auto dealerships employ two million people in the US. No politician wants that on their hands.
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by koboll 8y ago
Good luck getting them to investigate a company owned by a major Facebook shareholder.
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by koboll 8y ago
No, it should work the other way around. A violation of a law which, to be followed, requires knowledge of a secret, paywalled technical document, should be unprosecutable. It is a violation of a person's 4th Amendment right to due pro
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by koboll 8y ago
>People love Wikipedia for what it is, not because it "grows exponentially". That's because Wikipedia is not a social network. A social network is only worthwhile if it gains a critical mass of users such that there are en
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by koboll 8y ago
That couldn't be farther from a solution. Boycotts do next to nothing in the face of collective action problems.
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by koboll 8y ago
>My preferred answer: Put a gay baker and a Christian baker in a room. Tell them to come up with the rules. The rules will apply to both of them. Give them two hours. You'll get a reasonable proposal. I disagree. A racist white shop
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by koboll 8y ago
It would be a wild dereliction of the duty of SCOTUS to let the facts of a particular case influence their judgement on a broader legal question. Many cases get sent back to lower courts without resolving a broader legal question because th
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by koboll 8y ago
You could definitely make money selling access to this.
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by koboll 8y ago
>The party paying the tax votes on representation. Technically the business is "the party paying the tax", in the sense that they are the party sending money to the government. If I drop ten dollars on the counter and sprint ou
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by koboll 8y ago
>They provide one of the best support I've seen for G Suite. Of course. With G Suite, you are the customer. On YouTube, you are not the customer. You are the product, whether you're a viewer or a creator. Advertisers are the cu
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by koboll 8y ago
Techdirt, Wired, and others reported that the sponsor withdrew the bill in response to the committee dismantling it. So it seems like this iteration of the bill is dead.
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by koboll 8y ago
>The taxation is on the person living in that state. Right, and before this decision, it was that person's responsibility to remit. Now it is the business's. So the burden of remittance has shifted to the disenfranchised party.
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by koboll 8y ago
>And the explanation here is often the aftermath of war, soldiers who've learned to kill coming home. If this is true, then why was the end of the largest war in human history associated with a period of historically low violence in
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>and even then the responsibility doesn't lie with those that did the damage?! Doesn't responsibility for a rising teen birthrate lie with the teens? Doesn't responsibility for an opioid epidemic lie with users and traffic
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>I grew up in Alaska in a town of about 30,000. How many of those people would not be living there if not for the revenue brought in by tourism? Reading the article, my immediate thought was: of course the Balinese hate tourists, when th
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by koboll 8y ago
Exactly. What enforcement mechanism is there, exactly? Who decides what action should be taken if the mass of owners deem the journalism of insufficient quality? This seems basically like a more toothless version of offering public stock.
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Definitely. I think Apple really envisions something like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs ...being the future, and they want to get ahead of it.
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by koboll 8y ago
What a great book. I still get chills thinking about the way he describes the danger of alpha particles.

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