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by robin21 6y ago
Murdoch is 90yo this year. I find it hard to believe that he wants to line his pockets. He has more money than he can ever spend. Google is a worldwide monopoly. No one has any chance of negotiating with them. Even a country as it turns out
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by robin21 6y ago
What would happen if the US just invaded and wiped out the military? Would there be an insurgency? Would they be able to train a local and loyal military force to protect democracy? I guess it would end up like Iraq all over again. Local mi
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by robin21 6y ago
Can you explain?
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by robin21 6y ago
The higher up you are there are so many layers of abstraction that you need to rely on. To get good performance there are so many layers that can be a bottle neck. When you are doing low level stuff it can be liberating because you don’t ha
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by robin21 6y ago
The biggest problem is that Chrome Extensions don’t have granular enough permissions. I’ve seen developers write explanations of needing access to “all your data” because of one small feature they need access to. They should also add some m
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by robin21 6y ago
Yeh this feeling of watching a comet resonates. I have a theory that we arrived at this point because sadness, anxiety, and loneliness in the world has increased due to social media and people's reward systems being messed up. People w
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by robin21 6y ago
It's a great point. At present there is always the opportunity for another search engine to come along and take search traffic from google. Thinking in the time frame of 50 years I would guess that Google's monopoly will erode eve
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by robin21 6y ago
If every news outlet told google to remove their articles or pay them then google would have to weigh up the ad loss from people no longer searching for news on their platform and potentially moving to another search platform. This is what
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by robin21 6y ago
I wonder if we will get to a point where services will run background checks on the companies that come on their platforms to make sure they adhere to their ideological viewpoints. Or blacklists will be created barring certain companies fro
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by robin21 6y ago
I think free speech is a very difficult pill to swallow when it's not convenient for your own agenda. As soon as one side makes an exception then the other side can, all the way to full censorship of each other's opposing sides. T
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by robin21 6y ago
I think you are not comparing it with the hypothetical situation that would exist if free speech was clamped down upon. You are looking through the lens of "my side is in charge of the censorship and my side is right". Throughout
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by robin21 6y ago
Doesn't it feel like the fact that it is debatable and not at all clear-cut mean that we should err on the side of free speech. And if we imagined the government doing such a thing and taking it to the Supreme Court, can you really ima
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by robin21 6y ago
I really can’t believe that. But I will try!
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by robin21 6y ago
> those calling themselves nationalist are hateful toward the minority and supportive of selective homogeneity of the population This is a much better claim for debate because we can now review all those who self-identify as nationalist
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by robin21 6y ago
Super interesting thought. Seems like it would make a good book. Something like Sapiens, looking through history but with a focus on why nation states arose and fell, and then extrapolating. The EU is a great modern case study. The topic of
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by robin21 6y ago
You could look towards the EU today for some clues. You have 27 nations of quite different cultures and socioeconomic status with free movement of labor. I have found though that people like their country's customs and traditions a lot
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by robin21 6y ago
> nationalism of any kind is one of the most pernicious scourges on humanity...That's not nationalism. I would suggest instead of using an `-ism` just say what you mean. It just leads to needless arguments otherwise. X are Ys. Ys be
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by robin21 6y ago
Yeh Babel and webpack blow out compile times to epic proportions. Any app that grows to a certain size will slow down to a crawl on incremental builds.
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by robin21 6y ago
Next.js is mostly about server side rendering. If you look at something like nest.js it offers a more familiar backend with more structure. Because you can write your backend these days as serverless functions which just make api calls to o
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by robin21 6y ago
Lost to communism. And what happened next under Mao involved a lot of loss shall we say. I think a great many Chinese would have preferred America intervene if they knew what that 50s had in store for them.
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by robin21 6y ago
> Wars only start if we let them, and then stop when we take an interest. The US wasn't always a powerful military force. It became this way after WWII. So no, it wasn't the case then, but yes, it is pretty much the case today.
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by robin21 6y ago
What's to stop the tech platforms censoring the next person who the Trump supporters follow which is almost half the voting pop in US.
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by robin21 6y ago
> illegal, incites violence Who decides what these terms mean? At present its a small group of left-leaning corporate executives. At the moment it just seems like people doing their own interpretation of what someone's inner motives