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by pluma 7y ago
This is the same bullshit companies like Airbnb and Uber try to pull. No, the people sit in the Amazon offices. If you sell stolen goods you're lucky if you aren't charged with fencing but you can bet you won't be reimbursed
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by pluma 7y ago
To clarify: historically Germany has been obsessed with left-wing terrorism because we had a domestic terrorist group called the Red Army Faction (RAF) which gained infamy for abducting and murdering a politician in the 70s and also perform
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by pluma 7y ago
You're conflating patrol officers with riot officers. In other words: police at protests or dealing with large crowds behave very differently from police officers alone or in smaller groups dealing with individuals in everyday situatio
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by pluma 7y ago
What exactly? I'm not sure if you're low-effort trolling, but the Hitler salute (or more accurately: a number of symbols, salutes and chants related to the government party of the 1930s/1940s) is illegal in Germany, yes. The
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by pluma 7y ago
The police has no reason to release less ambiguous numbers because over-reporting injuries actually works out in their favour by shaping public perception as "police attacked by violent protestors" rather than "police escalat
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by pluma 7y ago
If a police officer is doing something illegal, you are not legally required to comply. Also, Germany in theory has pretty strict laws about what is considered an appropriate level of force (which is why you're considerably less likely
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by pluma 7y ago
Yet at the same time the police manages to identify, process and charge said protestors just fine but seems to be absolutely incapable of doing anything about literal nazis openly performing illegal salutes and calling for violence, even if
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by pluma 7y ago
> Equally, if there is no Good or Evil, just physical/chemical/quantum reactions in a purely mechanical universe, then equally, screw everything. Do whatever makes the happy-chemicals in your brain do their thing. This strikes
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by pluma 7y ago
The questionability of national pride aside, if Confederate flag brandishing Southerners truly only cared about national pride they'd do what Germans do: not fly the damn flag. It's okay to have a problematic history. You don&#x27
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by pluma 7y ago
Well, if "all of those people" aren't real Christians then it doesn't matter what real Christians believe in because there's more of "those" and they're doing real harm whatever you want to call their
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by pluma 7y ago
Then your mistake is just thinking you'll end up in a financially better position by renting. Companies do things because they are profitable. Also, I don't see how "being unable to sell your stuff because it's crappy an
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by pluma 7y ago
So then emphasise that message and cut down on the "blessed are the poor" nonsense. Because in isolation that message is absolutely harmful and if the dominant interpretation of Christianity instead was "give as much as possi
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by pluma 7y ago
Well, that's why the GPL was created: to make it impossible to siphon off profits by building on open source. Of course that is wildly incompatible with how most businesses operate, so the corporate world pushed open source authors tow
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by pluma 7y ago
They're being "exploited" in the sense the word is used in the critique of capitalism. They're producing immense value but other people monetise that value while they're barely receiving any meaningful compensation
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by pluma 7y ago
Since we're already derailing a conversation about open source sustainability by discussing the Bible: the only problem with "blessed are the poor..." is that getting into Heaven doesn't feed them or provide them shelter
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by pluma 7y ago
I'm not sure if that's your point but the US clearly have not mended their ways and continually violate international human rights by killing, torturing and illegally detaining people.
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by pluma 7y ago
Sure, I mean if you're unemployed, what's the use for furniture or a bed? And it's inconceivable that you might remain unemployed for any extended duration or not have savings (or sufficiently affluent relatives) to fall back
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by pluma 7y ago
To reflect the snark right back: If you think Safari warrants primary support, ask Apple to provide ways to test in Safari without paying Apple for the privilege. Microsoft got this one right when they released free Windows VMs for various
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by pluma 7y ago
Think about the failure cases for `</script>` and `</style>` and it's obvious why the spec defines them that way. If CSS and JS syntax were to decide when the end tags can appear, some malformed CSS or JS would br
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by pluma 7y ago
I agree that two attempts isn't so bad. I think most users are upset because the notifications happened a lot more frequently in the past and using notifications from the OS for ads comes across as pretty slimy (because you only expect
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by pluma 7y ago
Having a whitelist of tested browsers you officially support is understandable. Having a blacklist of tested browsers you know to be so incompatible that the site is unusable for them would be even better. But the optimal course would be th
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by pluma 7y ago
Off the top of my head: * when switching default browsers, Windows suggests you give Edge a try instead * at some point I got a Windows notification suggesting that I try Edge instead of the browser I was using IIRC they used to nag users m
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by pluma 7y ago
It's not an element, it's a component. That may sound pedantic but the distinction is important. React components aren't a "virtual DOM", they are a "component tree" that gets synced to the DOM. A componen
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by pluma 7y ago
Red and blue (like Jenkins, but that seems to be coincidental). That said, if you think color accessibility is about picking the right categories of colors you have a long way to go. The important thing is that the colors need to have suffi
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by pluma 7y ago
I don't really have the patience for armchair psychologists arguing about the meaning of colors in syntax highlighting anymore. Red/green for deletion/insertion is less or more standard across tooling. It's not a quirk o
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by pluma 7y ago
Same way you enforce any other rule. Same way they already enforce the rules they have? I hope you weren't hoping for an argument about slippery slopes. And yes, of course that means they may have to hire more moderators and of course
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by pluma 7y ago
I don't know whether you're trolling or simply naive but that's clearly fraud and the scenario you describe explicitly aims to commit fraud. At the very least it's violating the terms of service. But very clearly the two
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by pluma 7y ago
Well, you should be cynical. A lot of companies at this point are basically LARPing as cooperatives but revert to the usual hierarchies as soon as it comes to who owns the company and who gets to call the shots or compensation.
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by pluma 7y ago
Well, that would be fraud and illegal. Other than that, nothing. What's stopping you from conning an old lady out of her pension?
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by pluma 7y ago
AKA co-operatives. But that would mean giving those employees actual power and ultimately proportional compensation (i.e. you can no longer justify paying the C-level staff orders of magnitude more than the majority of the workforce, at lea

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