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by rchaud 2y ago
> leftist steeped in anti-imperialist ideology who wanted to better the world. This is precisely how half of the US media characterized Barack Obama, who pioneered an even more impersonal style of American imperialism with drone warfare
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by rchaud 2y ago
I decided to go "founder mode" on my news-consuming experience. The "founder" here being Tim-Berners Lee, whose vision was for an internet of dumb pipes where the view layer was controlled by the end-user. News sites hav
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I don't remember Google doing that. What I remember from that time is a browser war happening between the power players in mobile with iOS, Android and Windows Phone. I would attribute the improvement in browser standards support to th
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by rchaud 2y ago
Have there been meaningful changes to the browser spec since ES2015 support was baked in? Chrome, Safari etc. are not developing their browsers for the betterment of the web. One company wants to shove ads in your face, the other wants you
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by rchaud 2y ago
This just opts you out of GA. There are a million other scripts running on most websites, like Adobe Analytics, Meta Pixel, Microsoft Clarity, etc.
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I had this when it was called UBO.
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Mobile users = app based = no ad blocking and maximum tracking. New Digg does not want the old Digg audience that pirates MP3s, torrents TV shows and hates advertising.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Yes, PowerPoint is orders of magnitude easier, because it is a GUI-based app that's fully WYSIWYG with snap guides for aligning items. HTML + CSS is non-WYSIWYG and that alone will weed out a good 50% of the Word/PPT/Excel cr
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by rchaud 2y ago
Yeah, some sites were simple. Most sites people wanted to build required more sophisticated layouts, and thus began the great <table> age. Dreamweaver was a successful consumer product because of HTML and CSS' learning curve.
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I was around at the time. Facebook started in 2004, I had my acct in 2005 when it was US colleges only. General availability began in 2007, and then came the flood of parents and grandparents, causing college students to rapidly sanitize th
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Most people creating websites want feedback too. Those platforms all had comment sections, but by the late 2000s, automated comment spam became impossible to manage. Remember all the blog comments linking to Prada and Air Jordans using nons
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It was not easy. Everybody was copying and pasting "HTML templates", because HTML stops being readable the second you want your layout to have more than one column.
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The projection is stunning. Critiquing opposition for pandering to the 'alphabet crew', while complaining about BLM, BDS, CRT, DEI....
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> Those protocols are "nice" to you but they're actually not nice technologies to use for most normal people who are not techies. I used to think this, and then remembered that there are hundreds of millions of people on F
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> But hardship will teach some much needed lessons. To whom is this lesson being taught? The general public or the leadership that is increasingly untethered from the general public's oversight? Seems to me that the lessons of the w
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Aren't a lot of these discs that simply contain a download code?
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by rchaud 2y ago
This is true for music CDs/Vinyl as well. I remember having detailed game manuals for Diablo and C&C:Red Alert in the '90s. I don't play games anymore but do buy music, and it's shocking that CDs and even $40 vinyls
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by rchaud 2y ago
People who need cash asap and can't wait 30 days minimum to pay agents and lawyers and wait for the cheque to clear. A lot of people have medical bills, school loans, credit card debt etc that will take precedence in their decision mak
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Nixon would be seen as a woke elite in today's Republican party. He helped introduce environmental legislation in the US, and met with Mao to open trade links and counterbalance the USSR.
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Why not weapons? Why bother with expensive, unionized US labour building rifles and missiles and jets when Russia has cheaper alternatives?
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This might apply to perishable consumer goods like soap and shampoo, which are cheap and have perfect substitutes. I don't think it would apply to expensive durable goods where more time and research goes into the purchase decision, an
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by rchaud 2y ago
Beats me, but in prior iPad release posts on HN, people would swear up and down that AR work would be a key use case, because Apple had put in an AR-capable camera in the Pro. These people have since moved on to posting fantastical visions
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by rchaud 2y ago
China doesn't interrupt its enemies when they're making a mistake. In this case, America jumping headfirst into its own Great Leap Forward.
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by rchaud 2y ago
To be fair to Republicans, they have wanted to privatize Social Security for decades, for exactly the reason you state. Imagine what the 2% commission for Assets under Management (AUM) looks like for a hedge fund boss when trillions of doll
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by rchaud 2y ago
You know how risk is "priced in" right? It's an art, not a science. They buy/sell financial instruments to hedge that risk, like collateralized bonds or credit default swaps. Plenty of people lose big money when these b
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Why? Where else would the money for the down payment come from? People don't keep tens of thousands in their checking accounts.
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In times of economic upheaval/resets, labour does not find bargains, capital does. Housing prices might take a hit, but by the time they pop up on the open market, you won't be buying from a distressed seller, but rather a numbere
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by rchaud 2y ago
> This is actually a feature that is likely to reduce the amount of JS that needs to run on the web. The bulk of JS executed on websites today seem to be for 2 things: - serving ads and tracking - running a single-page app framework Can
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The syntax is getting pretty un-CSS like though, so how much of a benefit is it going to be? FE developers would still have to learn another new way of doing something that can be handled with JS.
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I didn't know about this and looked it up. I've played around with P5.js, the Canvas-based library for animations and generative art, and this syntax is almost exactly how DOM elements are styled in there.

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