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by vlunkr 3y ago
As a recently disaffected Mormon, let me tell outsiders a few reasons why I think this is a huge issue. I see some saying the church can do what it wants with it’s money, I want to explain why I don’t think it’s ok. - members are encouraged
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by vlunkr 3y ago
"Code smell" is especially ambiguous and annoying.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
Yes, it's a reference to the original HN thread.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
I was for gaming, but dropped off pretty hard after a couple of months and went back to other consoles. It's just my personal tastes, but there are tons of games I want to play that don't make me sick or require that I put somethi
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by vlunkr 3y ago
I know it's getting pedantic, but sunscreen and seatbelts are a poor analogy. They do offer protection if you use them. robots.txt only offers protection if other people/robots choose to care about them.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
They're really not. They're saying it's probably ok to do so. Which is not the same as an endorsement. I'm not sure why you have a problem with that.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
"They don't seem that bad, they've murdered more men than women"
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by vlunkr 3y ago
This may not be the solid defense you think it is.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
You can use a VPN from a phone. So the point stands.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
There are conspiracy theories that this is actually all about “anti Mormon” content on Reddit (and apparently it’s big on TikTok?) It’s a conspiracy that I could probably buy into.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
If you’re concerned about privacy and anonymity, two huge strengths of the internet, it’s terrible.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
I hope these laws don’t devolve into a special internet for Utah (and maybe more red states in the future). Remember this is about social media too. This is eventually going to hit even Hacker News if the law is actually effective. Is HN go
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by vlunkr 3y ago
Or people just click the next site that shows up on Google and nothing changes.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
In my experience power saws and power drills don't steal intellectual property without telling you. On a less snarky note, this seems like a pretty serious exaggeration. You could have learned about .every() and .some() in many many ot
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by vlunkr 3y ago
IMO Learning new languages is one of the best ways to be become a better programmer. You can carry the things you like about Ruby with you, and learn to think about things in new ways.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
And yet paradoxically you currently have a top comment as a skeptic.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
And yet Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have all tried to compete. There’s no shortage of money there.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
If you want to go the extra mile, learn enough JSX to build a static version of the page. The developers will love you if you hand them components and CSS that look correct. It's less work than you might think to jump from HTML to JSX.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
This is a pretty shallow assessment. They acknowledge the malware argument, but don't address it at all. Remember that the iPhone was introduced at a time when Windows was absolutely plagued with trojan scams.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
This would be easier if there were only one Linux desktop environment. However, that would be antithetical to the whole idea of Linux.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
Shhh
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by vlunkr 3y ago
> I'm a completely leftist liberal I'm confused. Do you think the CPP is liberal? It's very authoritarian.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
Because people who spend time on tvtropes don’t watch sitcoms from the 50s.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
Exactly. If the content owners were more responsible, or if IP laws were better, it wouldn't be necessary.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
Sadly pirates are a critical piece of media preservation.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
I think you need to cheer up first :) When I was getting into programming, everyone was warning me that the jobs would all be outsourced soon. That didn't happen, or not in any kind of apocalyptic way. I'm not certain what you&#x2
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by vlunkr 3y ago
Nah. Get an education in something you enjoy and that pays well. In the event that AI does replace your job, you can learn a manual labor trade quickly. Starting a successful business is not easy.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
There are lots of good replies already, but I'm curious why you would even want to do this. Web applications have been moving away from stateful servers for ages. Ideally your server instances are completely disposable. If you need to
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by vlunkr 3y ago
This is totally backwards. Anyone can upload music and have it heard around the world. As another commenter stated, the problem for artists is oversupply. How do you propose capitalism or any economic system will make the situation better?
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by vlunkr 3y ago
Uh, you started this discussion and continue to reply. People assume you're arguing in good faith so they respond.

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