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by s73ver 9y ago
Because most things are easier when you can have one canonical source of truth.
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by s73ver 9y ago
I think it's more supposed to be a riff and a counter to the bs "Millennials are killing X" articles that are so popular lately.
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by s73ver 9y ago
"An entrepreneur's primary function is to create jobs" No, it's to create wealth. That jobs can also be created is a happy side effect.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Problem being, a lot of people would get absolutely screwed by that, and end up losing their home. There needs to be a way to fix that, without going back to the original problem Prop 13 was intended to fix, which was people being unable to
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by s73ver 9y ago
And lose all their contacts, and have to communicate to them that they lost their account and had to get a new one.
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by s73ver 9y ago
This idea that open source is somehow immune from criticism is old and tired. If they want to pretend like they're targeting normal people, they need to act like it. This means putting work into things like UX.
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by s73ver 9y ago
For something that would aim to be used by the general public, that's a huge problem.
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by s73ver 9y ago
"Each of those things is a continuum. Yes, certain tradeoffs have to be made if you want a decentralized application. But you're omitting being decentralized and not under control of a single entity as a goal itself." Probabl
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by s73ver 9y ago
I think it's extremely fair. "Unbreakable privacy" doesn't much matter if no one wants to use the system.
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by s73ver 9y ago
"Yes, the money laundering part should not be prosecutable as long as you weren't involved in any crime." Aiding criminal activity, which money laundering most assuredly is, is itself a crime.
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by s73ver 9y ago
"Like I said before, not everything that is illegal is wrong." But things that are illegal are... illegal. Nobody in this thread is really debating the morality of illegal actions we're talking about. And while debating moral
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by s73ver 9y ago
I'm really beginning to doubt the idea that people who act like this are mentally disturbed. I think they're just shitheads.
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by s73ver 9y ago
If that's the case, then we shouldn't hear any complaining about having to learn Java, ObjC or Swift.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Wrong on all counts. Software was patentable in the US. And there was a long, long time where there were a lot of patents whose only "innovation" was doing something on a computer. "Crypto is math based money so now the SEC i
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by s73ver 9y ago
"I think the point is rather that single-codebase "productivity apps" that satisfy basic modern experience expectations (like "I could run it offline") are not possible elsewhere - but they should be." Why? &qu
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by s73ver 9y ago
In practice, they tend to make it look like iOS, but then they ship the same thing for Android, meaning the Android app looks like an iOS app.
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by s73ver 9y ago
"and even if you get pixel-perfect between android and ios" Nobody but designers who think too highly of themselves wants this. Everyone else wants the app to fit in with the platforms toolkit. This requires the designs to be diff
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by s73ver 9y ago
"You seem to be laser-focused on this one tiny part of PWAs." We're laser focused on the annoying parts that we know will be abused to death. "Imagine if you could press a button on the page to save that article you&#x27
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by s73ver 9y ago
I'm an Android user, and I don't want these either. Mainly because they don't integrate with the native look & feel of the platform. And when a dev tries to, then inevitably make it look like iOS, and ignores Android look
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by s73ver 9y ago
"By fragmenting development effort, the overall product isn't as good on any platform." At the same time, you're no longer focusing on what makes each platform unique, and just giving them all a lowest common denominator
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by s73ver 9y ago
"Many ICOs will simply state they are out of limits for US investors and again we see that regulators like democracy and capitalism but don't really want it to be accessible to _everyone_." No. They just said that adding the
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by s73ver 9y ago
The only way you could think that is if you also believe that patents on existing processes, but then add "On a computer" are new and novel things. Just because something is using a blockchain does not mean it's new, or that
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by s73ver 9y ago
Usually when you do that, you get another version of the same item back. I highly doubt that the IRS will share your view.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Why don't they just go make their own coin? Nobody is going to have confidence in a currency if the threat of forking is constantly over it's head.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Not really. Mainly because apps designed for desktop suck to use on touchscreens.
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by s73ver 9y ago
With decent reason. There is no, and I really mean no reason why someone should be forced out of their house due to rising property taxes. That's just not what taxes should be used for. Really, it should have applied to one's prim
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by s73ver 9y ago
What's to stop them from terminating the contract a month shy, because of "performance reasons"? Unfortunately this setup would require quite a lot of trust in the industry, which, quite frankly, it has not earned.
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by s73ver 9y ago
>Our modern way is more dynamic and can be just as or even more secure, provided one has the discipline to save, invest & insure. Do that all you like, but the second you get a debilitating illness, that goes out the window.
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by s73ver 9y ago
Don't many of the big tech companies have this with their stock options? And I've heard that, with the Wall Street approach, your bonus is the lion's share of your income for the year. If true, I don't know if I'd l
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by s73ver 9y ago
I think for this to work, we'd have to have some form of Universal Healthcare in place. Right now, if you don't have employer sponsored health insurance (and I doubt many employers would want to offer that to people who are simply

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