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by ng12 6y ago
Most people acknowledge that social media has an unprecedented ability to sway elections. Wouldn't it follow that allowing them to deplatform politicians is a seriously concerting form of censorship, private business or no?
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by ng12 6y ago
An unarmed protester was gunned down by police.
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by ng12 6y ago
What was the intent? Do you know or are you assuming? I think if their goal was to actually take control of the capitol things would have gone much differently. I find it hard to believe this was anything but a protest.
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by ng12 6y ago
Leave it alone. Reddit did the right thing early on by minimizing /r/td spam on the front page. Aside from that I'm convinced there were no problems posed by /r/td or /r/donaldtrump aside from those invent
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by ng12 6y ago
VK is much, much more popular than FB is Russia. It's a Russian company and absolutely forced to censor content on behalf of the govt.
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by ng12 6y ago
The protesters left peacefully after a few hours. The senate isn't holy ground, nor are the people inside it divine. They work for us, after all. All things considered the events left me pretty unscathed.
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by ng12 6y ago
> drag you deeper into the rabbit hole of extremism This is what banning /r/the_donald and now /r/donaldtrump did. It doesn't stop the users from believing what they believe, it just further isolates them in an e
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by ng12 6y ago
To me there's an obvious double standard here: there's a tacit acceptance that social media has the power to actively sway elections (e.g. FB in 2016). How could it be that banning certain political groups from these platforms is
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by ng12 6y ago
As a very occasional reader of /r/td I saw a lot more accusations of this type of behavior than actual instances of it. Certainly no more so than other extreme subreddits like /r/latestagecapitalism or even /r/
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by ng12 6y ago
> but because of how it was spreading misinformation and calling for violence That's the rhetoric Reddit used but I was completely unconvinced. They spent the better part of a year looking for a reason to ban /r/td, going
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by ng12 6y ago
But why can't they exist on the same domain as you? Reddit is federated by design, it should be equally open to right-leaning and left-leaning subs.
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by ng12 6y ago
Webpack is one of my absolute favorite tools. It's easy to reason about and a pleasure to use. It absolutely checks the "navigable" box in my book. However, it got constant flack (esp. here on HN) for being too complicated. A
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by ng12 6y ago
If you live in the rural parts of the northeastern US you'll end up with a years supply of wood just by occasionally clearing your land. It makes a lot of sense to use it for heat, many houses up there have both oil and a wood burning
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by ng12 6y ago
The problem is we're currently in the worst of both worlds. When politicians promise to tax the wealthy they usually end up taxing the upper middle class: people rich enough that nobody feels bad for them but "poor" enough th
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by ng12 6y ago
I think that would be better actually: if he had sold all his shares he would have paid a great deal of taxes on it. Instead he'll keep his shares forever, fund his lifestyle with low-interest loans, funnel some of it to offshore accou
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by ng12 6y ago
Have you ever been in a nursing home? All those systems would go unused. My grandmother struggles like hell to send simple emails with her tablet and she is easily one of the most "all there" residents in her home. It would probab
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by ng12 6y ago
Agreed, it absolutely depends on where you work and sometimes your management chain. I'm mostly referring to the finance industry where I've seen this pattern repeated many times.
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by ng12 6y ago
> Still, with all that freedom people don't always use it for good, they may actually just bunk off... This is the right call. If you ever actually move the needle on anything important your fun 20% project will assuredly be taken o
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by ng12 6y ago
Well no, but it's been this way for a very large chunk of the time between the invention of the LP and the advent of streaming music. Historically unless you were in the tiny minority of gold/platinum artists album sales were not
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by ng12 6y ago
I read things like this but most indie bands I listen to heavily promote themselves on streaming services. One of my favorite artists actually releases music on Spotify before anywhere else. As always, most of their money comes from gigs an
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by ng12 6y ago
And Boston and DC. I wouldn't live in SF without a car unless I was a biking enthusiast. Also I find that many people who proudly refuse to own a car in SF just end up ubering everywhere.
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by ng12 6y ago
The second quote is what Redux actually is, the first is the result of massive amounts of cargo culting. It's actually why I don't mind Redux's boilerplate. It's punishment for using Redux when you don't have to.
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by ng12 6y ago
This is what I don't get. GRUB has been public for five years. What's the difference between them and Doordash?
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by ng12 6y ago
Sure but I'm not really interested in the negatives. I want to hire good engineers, and those engineers want to use React.
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by ng12 6y ago
It's become increasingly difficult to argue against React+TypeScript. One strong indicator is that we have a framework agnostic tech process where the candidate can pick whichever stack they like. The best candidates almost always pick
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by ng12 6y ago
This is endemic in the finance industry. Build something cutting-edge, rake in a bunch of money, and then let your tech rust.
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by ng12 6y ago
He will be sorely, sorely missed. At the end of the day it's just TV but Jeopardy has been a part of my daily routine for the last twenty years, it certainly will feel strange without him.
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by ng12 6y ago
It's easy to forget that "the United States" has meaning and is not just a catch name for a country.
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by ng12 6y ago
Organizing my HTML into pages is the easy part. The hard part is the rich client-side experience: things like building a sortable/filterable table with a rich datetime picker where the data is displayed dynamically in a chart with zoom
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by ng12 6y ago
I mentally parsed it as a desktop application: going full native is three steps backwards rather than two.

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