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by protonfish 7y ago
Or just use server log analytics. Client-side analytics are a significant contributor to the proliferation of JavaScript bloat and unnecessary 3rd party cookies.
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by protonfish 7y ago
I find it hard to believe that you are surprised. I find myself awash in woo psychology from all media outlets and individuals I talk to. If what you are selling is what people want to hear, then they are more than happy to not bother to lo
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by protonfish 7y ago
Stockholm Syndrome?
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by protonfish 7y ago
I suppose it is because we have not found an organizational strategy that does not quickly break down into corrupt hierarchy.
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by protonfish 7y ago
I've used it on elements with text where click-and-drag and double-click are supposed to be used for a different purpose than text selection.
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by protonfish 7y ago
I believe that people have a strong aversion to doing this. So many still refuse to believe Darwin for suggesting that we are closely related to other animals. Imagine the pushback for stating that we are just another species with higher in
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by protonfish 7y ago
Qualia is not a scientific concept and really needs to be dismissed. (By definition it cannot be measured or observed.) I doubt you agree, but any study of consciousness that has a chance of succeeding will need to be extremely rigorous. I
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by protonfish 7y ago
But you would still require the skill to judge who is and is not a legitimate authority. This sounds more difficult and easily gamed than not bothering with a middle man and judging the facts yourself. Even if there is some perfect way of d
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by protonfish 7y ago
We most definitely did not get rid of authority, we got rid of central authority. Every nation used to closely control media so all of their citizens were on the same page. What they believed was biased propaganda with a strong illusion of
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by protonfish 7y ago
Unconstitutional? I am not aware of any part of the constitution that prohibits landmarks.
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by protonfish 7y ago
Yeah, I'm not including myself with entitled man-children that throw a tantrum when their garden is impugned. This is more of a reminder that our rulers are less ethical, less self-disciplined, and less wise than the average Joe. Why?
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by protonfish 7y ago
I think there is a difference between "informal" corruption (where some officials need to be bribed) and the "institutionalized" corruption of a monolithic and completely unnecessary bureaucracy. At least in the first in
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by protonfish 7y ago
How about using a server?
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by protonfish 7y ago
I think it's even worse than you say. By avoiding politics you tacitly endorse the status quo. You can't opt out - everyone's speech and actions affect the political landscapes no matter how much you would rather pretend that
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by protonfish 7y ago
One I am going to start to ask is "Are all developers allowed to have local admin access of their computers?" I've struggled against this in my last 3 positions. This is a dealbreaker for me, and should be for all developers.
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by protonfish 7y ago
The shame will be from how we treat our oceans. Dumping garbage and overfishing are perpetrated by psychopaths while average people wail and wring their hands about how they are powerless to do anything.
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by protonfish 7y ago
I absolutely love it when I read something like "The object was nearly 1 foot (30.48 cm) long."
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by protonfish 7y ago
It is frustrating (to me, at least) that there is no common primitive data type the stores precision. But it isn't rocket surgery to store two floating-points (a value and precision) in a structure and format it properly for display.
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by protonfish 7y ago
The problem is that these lat/lon figures are not displayed with precision information at all, so we can't even know the std dev. Sig figs are a simple and clear way to communicate the precision of a measurement, but if you want t
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by protonfish 7y ago
Or better, make banks allow you to cancel recurring payments for without a fee, and make non-payment the same as cancelling an account.
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by protonfish 7y ago
Agreed, it describes today's paradox of mass social media and epidemic of loneliness surprisingly well.
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by protonfish 7y ago
That's why you should dispose of them in a landfill and not the ocean. Problem solved.
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by protonfish 7y ago
If you made a case that this would be better for the environment, which I have yet to see. Plastic waste is not toxic, nor does it use a lot of energy to produce.
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by protonfish 7y ago
What you should be saying is not "can be represented exactly" but "can be represented identically in decimal" There is nothing inherently less accurate about binary floating-point representation than decimal. Some binary
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by protonfish 7y ago
The most precise measurement I know of is the frequency of a laser-cooled Rb 87 standard 6,834,682,610.904333 which is handled with full precision by 64-bit floating point. If you think this isn't precise enough for you, maybe you don&
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by protonfish 7y ago
Profit = income - expense. The other way to maximize profit is reduce wasteful operating expenses.
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by protonfish 7y ago
After writing XHTML for several years (giving it a full-faith attempt) I never understood the point. You keep repeating "semantically sound" but I can't fathom what that means in your context. I never saw any indication that
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by protonfish 7y ago
I don't think it's cool to take a common and ambiguous term like "power" and claim that it will now only refer to a single, narrow meaning. It's not constructive. Better to qualify the term in a way that everyone in
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by protonfish 7y ago
Maybe to avoid the ambiguity we could use the terms "political power" and "personal power."
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by protonfish 7y ago
I disagree. There are many forms of power (including F*v) but what we commonly confuse is power that is the means available to accomplish a task, and political power that represents ones altitude in a social hierarchy. And though I agree wi

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