mihaic

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by mihaic 2y ago
This was a very egalitarian society, with basic needs. All the benefits from division of labour and trade you already get when your society has a few hundred individuals, and it doesn't give you any incentive to grow as large as these
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There are almost no archeological records for social dynamics, so they usually get ignored, or you're forced to base theories on some exercises of imagination. If you were to discover in 1000 years a smartphone without data on it, I do
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by mihaic 2y ago
For a while now, I've been working on a theory that these mega-sites emerged for matchmaking purposes. Basically, I see it most men and women had a bad deal in choosing their mate in inegalitarian villages, some temporary festivals wer
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by mihaic 2y ago
I think at this point the unintended consequences argument has been overused. There are significant intended consequences that implementing something like this would have. I order for this to be negative, the unintended consequences would n
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by mihaic 2y ago
That seems overy ideological. While the software itself might be good enough (it often isn't, as that's why these products are being developed), hosting it is a work that can be better spent on the project itself.
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by mihaic 2y ago
You're right, I did conflate endorsement with if this actually is fraud, my bad. Probably the core of the disagreement here is different definitions of "fraud". For me personally, information that is misrepresented and hides
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by mihaic 2y ago
Why do you need a precedent to pass a law that improves the situation for every consumer and doesn't harm anyone dishonest?
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by mihaic 2y ago
Why are you tolerant to fine print being in absolutely everything, and people needing to do math to know how much a candy bar costs before reaching the checkout counter? Regulation that protects the consumer while simply asking that the fin
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by mihaic 2y ago
Except that it will force on you the view that shoplifting is bad. Which implies that it'll bend on legal but immoral requests. It's also a different matter to entertain a hypothetical in a situation where there isn't a cons
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by mihaic 2y ago
> No. The Earth is flat. > Everyone's entitled to their own beliefs, and I'm not here to persuade you! This is simply saddening to me. I'm sure there's no real moral justification to this, it's simply put in p
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by mihaic 2y ago
Why are people downvoting this comment? Genuinely curious what's not to agree with here.
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The rotors should be placed in some fine mesh cage. I don't care what the manufacturer says, some idiot is going to cause an accident if safety isn't improved.
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by mihaic 2y ago
I always seen the problem of climate change are being the wrong problem to name. We're destroying our environment through industrial by-products, deforestation, etc, and when the possibly biggest side-effect of all this planetary abuse
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I hate to be that guy, but over the years I've come to the conclusion that the only way to have good online conversations is to filter out 90% of the population, which is incapable of handling that complexity. This is not merely an IQ
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by mihaic 2y ago
You are technically correct. Even though that's the best kind of correct, I'd see these later developments as mostly natural refinements of the medium, that didn't really alter the fundamentals. From Jenson until the first Gr
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PSA for the inspiration for this font, the great Nicolas Jenson, who around 1470 had pretty much perfected the latin typeface. Later, more famous types, such as Caslon or Garamond, are just variations on this.
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by mihaic 2y ago
When you spend most of your day staring at text on a screen, the minutia of how that text looks like become very important.
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by mihaic 2y ago
>these businesses know their shit is broken or they're doing low quality work I'm honestly sure about this often, since bad staff might not be obvious to the manager without someone pointing it out. As a general rule though, ju
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by mihaic 2y ago
While this is true now, I expect this to be the case since it's a reasonably fresh language, and most maintainers of Rust projects are enthusiasts that are fine with breaking changes. Once you get those 10 year old legacy Rust projects
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I'm not a big fan of all the complexity of Rust (often just to be different), but this is pure flame-bait. I'm also not a fan of all the design decisions in Carbon/Cpp2, but progress is being made since paradigms keep evolvin
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by mihaic 3y ago
I know there was abuse, it's just that the gov didn't make efforts to twist the legal framework to ease their abuse.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Wow, I would have never expected a law like this to pass anywhere in the Anglo-Saxon world post-WW2. I mean, I would have expected abuses of state power, which always exist and are limited, but never putting this in law, even in war time.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Same for me. I can easily see some Chinese competitor figuring out distribution and simply crushing them if they don't have a global brand, Oppo-style.
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One sweetspot Zoho I think has been in more from fortunate circumstances was grinding away as a GSuite competitor for years on years without the wasteful budgets or engineering egos of Silicon Valley. This way they naturally had to focus on
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by mihaic 3y ago
Same for me. It's as if launching a biodome into space is easier than just making a biodome on Earth and just keeping it there.
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I'd like to second that, especially if combined with a process where a lot of code should get discarded before making it into the repository. Undoing and reconsidering initial ideas is crucial to any creative flow I've had.
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It simply lists all the ways in which developers specify color in css, and explicitly typing currentColor is a valid option. I use currentColor as an SVG default for instance, when icons should match text color. Good to know for instance th
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Exactly. If you stop seeing your house as an investment, and you own it, it doesn't matter if it's value goes down, if it goes along with the market. It even means it's easier for you to trade up. For the poor souls that have
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The fact that it makes more sense financially to borrow a million to buy a house and keep your 500k of savings tied up in the S&P 500 means we're far away from a solution. People don't seem to realize that something being a so
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If a lawsuit is dismissed by a judge as frivolous, automatically put a minimum fee of a few good thousand dollars that the claimant now has to pay. Of course, it can be appealed, but the minimum fee on the same judgement just goes up. Of co

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