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by spaceribs 3y ago
I've heard that at least in Baltimore, politics has demanded 2 things: 1. Due to years of redlining and unequal treatment, a google fiber rollout requires a plan to guarantee delivery to the entire city. 2. They must work with unions f
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by spaceribs 3y ago
Those examples are not "every human context" and they don't guarantee violence, they're extrajudicial. Are you saying spanking a child is extrajudicial? a vigilante assault?
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by spaceribs 3y ago
As opposed to archaic parenting being about what exactly?
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by spaceribs 3y ago
Are you comparing a human child with dogs, chimps and giraffes? Are you saying it's appropriate to communicate with physical violence in this context? What other human-to-human contexts are there where physical violence or the threat o
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by spaceribs 3y ago
> Only if we ignore facts. Chrome only has a 64% market share, not 90%. Nobody has ever dominated a consumer tech market in the same way that Microsoft dominated the 90s. I think that browser market share is just one facet of the power C
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by spaceribs 3y ago
> YouTube has competition in all of its areas. They might be the leader, but they are not the singular source. This is like saying Microsoft didn't have a monopoly on the PC market in the 90s because Apple had 5% of the market. They
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by spaceribs 3y ago
I guess it's not disruption when we do it.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
I'd go further than even that! You need 3 forms of advocacy in leadership for a successful business, business/market, tech, and time. The balance of those three can make or break any business. You can see this at the micro level i
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by spaceribs 3y ago
As a tech literate person, it was by far the most infuriating experience in recent memory, but achieving some level of victory was fun! Reminded me of hacking my xbox as a teen.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
I think you can already see the issue with that proposition in terms of Google's attempts to prevent ad-blocking in MV3. Google went so far as to design a brand new protocol for handling web requests in such a way as to make it difficu
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by spaceribs 3y ago
Yeah this was a bad purchase overall, but I figured if worse comes to worse, I can just hook up a media box of some sort and entirely ignore the rest of it. Definitely getting close to that call.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
I combined a bunch of awful "tech tips" websites into a working approach: 1. Reset my TV to factory settings. 2. Go into the "apps" item while it desperately tries to update itself 3. Go into "Developer Mode" b
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by spaceribs 3y ago
> If we could agree on a good, standardized capabilities model for software and everyone starts using it, we will have reached security Nirvana. I want to get there, but I also don't trust anyone except (maybe) myself to determine w
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by spaceribs 3y ago
well it's not their computer, and I'll run what I want on it (...so far)
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by spaceribs 3y ago
The voting power of a person in NYC is 0.8 compared to 3.04 in Wyoming. [ https://medium.com/practical-coding/whats-my-vote-worth-3ca2... ] I understand that there's a privilege involved in even having a close commu
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by spaceribs 3y ago
Agreed that the overall quality of life is lower in rural counties which is leading to a mental health crisis, and agreed on the right to suicide. This amount of suicides from people who I assume are mostly able bodied and otherwise healthy
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by spaceribs 3y ago
you don't think self harm and suicide is just as bad, if not worse, from a safety perspective?
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by spaceribs 3y ago
I don't know anyone that finds the gun epidemic as well as the alcohol epidemic to not be equally bad.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
It seems urban centers are significantly safer than rural counties, by about 37%: https://www.chop.edu/news/study-finds-gun-deaths-more-likely...
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by spaceribs 3y ago
Actually, you're arguing with people who consider gun deaths to be an epidemic[1], and are treating it as such. [1] https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1184731316/gun-violence-epide...
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by spaceribs 3y ago
Fentanyl and Heroin have legitimate medical uses, but can also be misused to cause bodily harm, so I'm not sure I follow the argument.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
A majority of people smoked 70 years ago even though smoking was terrible for their health and those around them. I'm not sure we should enforce the "people's will" to defend such a dangerous substance.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
I'd take a look at how NYC tamps down on smoking by both increasing taxes and impounding/raiding any illegal resale of untaxed cigarettes. You can buy cigarettes for sure, and you can go out of the city to buy cigarettes for less,
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by spaceribs 3y ago
I presume that some people didn't want marijuana to be schedule 1 federally, but here we are 60 years later, and gunpowder as a substance has killed far more people than marijuana in that time.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
I agree it's worth the legal debate, we have plenty of laws around controlled substances living on the fringes of constitutionality, why not add gunpowder as a schedule 2 substance?
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by spaceribs 3y ago
I wouldn't say any, it creates a more stable infrastructure that isn't at the whims of the markets or outside stakeholders. I'd say browsers are ready for that sort of stability too, and I'd hazard that it would be a ren
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by spaceribs 3y ago
There are lots of ways to do this, companies divest into worker cooperatives all the time.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
If any organization should be a worker-cooperative, it should be Mozilla. Why should a team that is so heavily supportive of OSS be reliant on investments and donations?
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by spaceribs 3y ago
I'd be interested to see the outcome of all this honestly, but I see parallels in how we exclude natural organisms from copyright and instead rely on patents to enforce ownership of unique genetics.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
Cool! an open source Angular app!

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