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by pluma 8y ago
The sheer irony of hearing people get their tinfoil hats in a bunch over the inevitability of an EU firewall because of a copyright reform that neatly dovetails the copyright overreach the US has tried to push in Europe for decades just bec
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by pluma 8y ago
What makes you think this would be even remotely reasonable to conclude? The Great Firewall exists to prevent Chinese citizens from accessing politically subversive content. The only EU equivalent I can think of is Germany blacklisting cert
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Part of w3schools' bad reputation comes from intentionally failing to disavow itself from the W3C (w3.org) while providing commercial certifications. The W3C asked them to clarify this non-affiliation several times and it seems the onl
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Probably someone bought the domain as a joke or to lead young developers in the right direction.
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Neato. I'll just refer to beggars and scammers as "social experimenters" from now on then.
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When famed game designer Peter Molyneux came back out of hiding to launch his mobile games with a company called 22cans he also used the "social experiment" label to justify a pay-to-win clicker game and a "crowdfunded"
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Well thank god the GDPR already killed that old scapegoat (unless your creative content backups are guaranteed 100% PII free). If this was just about liability, the terms could be much narrower. They're intentionally broad to guarantee
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It's a bit more complicated, which is why many content producers still use Patreon even if they want an alternative. Patreon not only collects money, it also provides a way to assign rewards, define goals and notify patrons (filtered b
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Another problem that plays into this is that the US prison system isn't built with "correction" in mind but punishment. So while an ex-con may have been punished, there is no assumption that they've actually changed as a
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I registered online with DKMS. They send you the kit, you send back the swab in the pre-stamped envelope, it's really that simple.
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What are you trying to say?
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Oof. As a German I cringe when I hear people cite the firebombing of Dresden. Yes, it was one of the worst bombing raids and yes, we would consider it a war crime (or at least extremely unethical) nowadays (much like many things both sides
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Small business owner here. If your a significant share of your employees decides to take six months of unpaid leave all at the same time just because it's legal, you have bigger problems than legislation. If anything this helps employe
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tl;dr: because Google massively invades your privacy to know whether you're a bot or not before you tick the box, also the CAPTCHA is a bit more sophisticated than just showing a checkbox to click on.
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Ah, because everything socialist is a slippery slope towards gulags, autocrats, mass starvation and military imperialism. You still haven't given an argument about why "conspicuously splurging is just a waste of resources" an
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If you run a company you understand that you're not the person creating the profit. If every worker vanished you'd make zero profit (in fact you'd probably lose money because of static costs but depending on the scale you mig
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You're assuming the only alternative to laissez-faire capitalism is a centrally planned economy, fine, but please don't call that "communism" and pretend the two are interchangeable just because the USSR called itself co
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Ooh, nice one. A genuine defense of gambling as pure entertainment rather than a system built on exploiting addicts and people's irrational perception of chance events. I haven't seen that in decades. Are you next going to say cig
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by pluma 8y ago
If you want to continue mocking socialism you should learn the difference between private property and personal property. The commies aren't going to deprivatise your toothbrush. EDIT: Since HN rate limits me again, I'll just repl
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West of France. Spain, Portugal and possibly the Southern parts of France. But ethnic stereotypes are of course silly and somewhat arbitrary so I don't think it's possible to draw a clear line. "Hedonistic lazy people with da
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Well, he's still Jeff Bezos, the man who runs Amazon, with all the unethical implications that come with that. He has demonstrated a certain level of integrity, but that doesn't make him a Good Man.
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A lot of German techies would get the reference though. Ironically the German word for "blinkenlichten" is "Blinkenlights": https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights_(Jargon)
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German here. I've never heard German words for any concepts like that outside of university. You'll usually get by just pronouncing those words a bit more German or replacing the ones that are very close to German words with the G
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That's true but I'd say it's less about appearing lowly educated than about reinforcing your foreign-ness. A lot of Germans are to varying degrees prejudiced against foreigners, especially if you're brown or can be read
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Here's the thing though: people who use React and comment on React news on HN are a tiny fraction of the overall React community and due to the nature of HN a lot of people comment on topics they don't have significant interest in
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This is basically the NPC meme but for technologies instead of politics. I've been building websites since the 1990s and web applications since the mid-2000s. I've used a wide range of web technologies and despite being "self
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You can't disable the "required" ones, even though they're obviously not all technically required to serve the content.
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You're being sarcastic but there are enough people around who wouldn't see that at face value.
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Nah, HN is jaded as usual but every React dev I've talked to outside HN has been looking forward to this day with excitement ever since hooks landed in alpha. I've yet to see HN get truly excited about anything JS-related, particu
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Sorry. I skimmed that entire section three times and never noticed that sentence.

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