nebabyte

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by nebabyte 9y ago
Wrong. Legal precedents rule all. This should be fought, not tacitly approved of via circumvention.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> They don't get to examine all the bits coming into the country over the Internet, You sure about that?
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> I wonder how some of the bigger players will react (no pun intended) after their abandonment of React in lieu of Vue or some other framework What do you expect them to do, shrug and come back? I doubt anyone who left based on concerns
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by nebabyte 9y ago
As a crime capitalizing on perpetuating a disease? How else do you think they would.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
There needs to be a term for this delusion - conflating a few people who clamor for something with "people" at large. "IT'S up to YOU! Change your politicians! Vote with your wallet! Demand better movies/industries
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by nebabyte 9y ago
"The industry" only cares about its own moneymaking; you're not gonna see them roll over and say "hey, you know what's a really good movie?" rather than keep pushing their own formulaic investments. Even critic
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> It is safer to invest in the next mediocre superhero movie Thus leading to those "trends" people get faux-excited for (I say that as they completely forget the 'hype' over previous ones when the next one hits) and m
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Out of curiousity, what was that first startup?
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Of course the world is improving on metrics like "deaths by natural disasters". That's just a consequence of technologies and infrastructures improving over time, and charitable funding to developing nations that aren't
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by nebabyte 9y ago
"Is the world falling apart? Not for the wealthy and privileged"
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by nebabyte 9y ago
some > Women wear makeup to simulate beauty and some > men act "alpha" to simulate success. [...] we should be willing to accept that different people do different things.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Perhaps people are simply projecting what they think "the spirit in which Tim Berners-Lee created the web" is on the man? Even if he put words to them early on, it's easy for someone to claim lofty ideals when creating someth
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Looks like you replied to the wrong person
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Only while the consequences of "not giving a shit" aren't immediately affecting them. Those same people are the ones who turn around and complain "what can we do" and organize social media armchair protests when con
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by nebabyte 9y ago
The time for that was long past.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
"Mainline web: 0-rated DRMed Netflix if you pay ever-more exorbitant prices for our increasingly tiered package deals that make you try and remember the joy of 'cutting the cord'" "Alternative web: Some competition
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Frankly I'm far more interested in which developing or first-world locales, if any, exist where net freedoms like these are protected by the majority, rather than having to be fought for by the minority against a wave of complacency an
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> No, the W3C is the web. "L'etat, c'est moi" - until a new state comes to power. The web is its users.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Except the data density is likely far more than needed for a screen reader. A simple graph that establishes context becomes a trail of 15-20 numbers only a few of which may be relevant.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
The desktop client was all I ever wanted in a chat app. Simple, fast, reliable. Which of course is why they killed it.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
"The best defense..."
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by nebabyte 9y ago
It even works with fluid designs. We call it liquid courage
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by nebabyte 9y ago
"vote with your wallet". I'll never stop being amazed at how readily americans buy into the "democracy = consumerism" equation. Or the number of things they happily apply that formula to. I suppose that 'we&#x2
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> You make it sound like the MBP is a weighty piece of burden compared to a dainty T440 (use a T440 vs. haul a MBP.) I made the mistake of buying a MBP to see what all the fuss was about and fantasize regularly about destroying it Office
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Not when they know that's what they're being measured on...
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by nebabyte 9y ago
>Somebody is going to own the media Disagree. Why do you think anyone "owning the media" would be a giood idea, let alone an acceptable one.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
>I see it repeated a lot that think tanks are really propaganda engines with an intellectual veneer, but can you back that up with specific examples? You'd figure the fact that the only "thinking" that gets factored into a
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by nebabyte 9y ago
FOIA requests! /s
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by nebabyte 9y ago
An idealist to the end, eh? Without money to throw around, those forms of "participation" are - especially at the federal level - about as useful as earning participation trophies. Less, even; since the latter at least get you fre
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> should Being the operative word. If you wish to pretend America's political process can approximate a hypothetical ideal on paper you're lying to yourself. Until campaign finance regulations are back in place (the FECA amendm

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