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by pkilgore 6y ago
Google makes money from advertising by acquiring massive quantities of data from users to most-effectively target advertising. Firefox makes it harder to acquire data from users. If market share for Firefox were to increase at the cost of C
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by pkilgore 6y ago
It's wild to live in a world where a guiding philosophy of maybe we as a society should make best efforts to treat people with maximum kindness is mistaken for "absolute tyranny".
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Wikipedia is directly harmed, in the most definite way, by not being able to collect donations from the people that rely on the information it collects.
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by pkilgore 6y ago
What's funny, is that it hurts the consumer. Which (for worse) has been the reason to roll back all the antitrust laws that would have stopped Google from ever becoming powerful enough to do this in the first place. Google of course ar
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by pkilgore 6y ago
Why does it matter? Do some people not get the protection of laws? Do some people not get representation before elected bodies? Who decides?
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by pkilgore 6y ago
Even assuming Google would not ignore that for a popular enough site (they would know!), there is no robot.txt setting that says "index my site, but please don't steal my content, thanks."
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by pkilgore 6y ago
Just because it wasn't illegal (or questionably legal) yesterday doesn't mean we can't make it illegal tomorrow. I would surmise that the most popular laws ever written by humanity, collectively, started with a bunch of peop
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by pkilgore 6y ago
This is a UI trick, I couldn't imagine doing this for backend services but then again, I've never been asked to demo those!
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by pkilgore 6y ago
"The Scotty Principle" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Scotty%20Pri...
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by pkilgore 6y ago
After this (and a few emergent race bugs), I started burying the equivalent of setTimeout(() => getFakeData(), 1500) in my similar code. Best part is, I'm almost certain to beat 1500, so I've gotten compliments that it "fe
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by pkilgore 6y ago
I've stopped reading stories like these through a lens of globalism or protectionism, but instead from the perspective of concentration of market power and competition. It seems to me more and more that the mere existence of a Goliath
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by pkilgore 6y ago
As you might imagine after watching, and if you haven't read it before, the Dwarf Fortress change log[1] is a thing of absolute beauty. > - 0009195: [Dwarf Mode -- Pets] Cats dying for no reason - alcohol poisoning? - resolved. [1]
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by pkilgore 6y ago
This is what is meant by systemic racism. > If black people in tech become more common this particular problem will solve itself. I suspect there will not be more black people in tech, until they are not treated differently based on skin
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by pkilgore 6y ago
> Neither process crashes, multiple tables, nor secondary-key access is required to reproduce our findings in this report. The technical justification for including them in this workload is “for funsies”. Always read the footnotes!
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by pkilgore 6y ago
I think as technologists we generally vastly underestimate squishy problems like jealousy, pride, leadership, organization, collaboration, and psychological safety. I see your argument as akin to "communism would work if..." Or &q
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The Internet’s most important–and misunderstood–law, explained(arstechnica.com)
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by pkilgore 6y ago
Basically lorem ipsum, but JSON.
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An Example Data Backend Service(example-data.draftbit.com)
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by pkilgore 6y ago
> Static typing doesn't help much with setting up GraphQL resolvers correctly, and overall feels much less useful than on the frontend where it's absolutely stellar to type check all GraphQL queries, React calls, 3rd party comp
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by pkilgore 6y ago
> there seems to be little harm in trying it Do you have a link to that research?
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by pkilgore 6y ago
> Word-wrapping is a property of the text. And the tool you use to visualize things cannot know. End result: you do word-wrapping at the only stage where you can do it, namely when writing it. Not when showing it.[1] - Linus Torvolds [1]
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by pkilgore 6y ago
Imagine an average level of civility in a society `C`. Lets say users of your product, due to your product, operate at `0.5 C`. Is changing the product so they operate at a higher `0.75 C` or back to `C` "paternalistic"? Why? I ca
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by pkilgore 6y ago
So I'm a little late here, but I'm interested in you elaborating on "...fundamentally, you don't determine what is self-contained."
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by pkilgore 6y ago
Unfortunately, Monopolies are profitable and we do not yet have the policy/law/political will/experience/all-of-the-above to prevent them for technology-at-scale. Been reading "Goliath" lately by Matt Stoller -
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by pkilgore 6y ago
"While reading a post on hacker news, a Softbank earnings call presentation caused me to google the difference between a unicorn and a Pegasus" is just one of those sentences that sounds Insane in prior to 2020.
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by pkilgore 6y ago
There is no way, currently, to deduce vanilla javascript types. You'll have to write your own bindings (types) or as you pointed out, use community bindings on redex. Now? Writing a binding is barely a speed bump, but when I first sta
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by pkilgore 6y ago
No, but you can slowly Reason-ify a javascript (or typescript!) app at the interfaces using gentype[1], which emits javascript/typescript/flow interfaces for the reason side. It works perfectly well to ship a slowly-becoming-reaso
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by pkilgore 6y ago
Under the Clayton Act, the Sherman Act, or both? Is this a legal realism commentary on the comparative cost-benefit of civil antitrust litigation in modern America? Or are you just pretending you know things to feel good on the internet.
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by pkilgore 6y ago
You can put lipstick on an aqui-hire, and it's still an aquihire.
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Automatic window tiling with POP _OS 20.04(youtube.com)
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