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by webXL 10y ago
Eerie he's so prescient there. If only youtube was a thing then we could have all been sending this around. To give backers of the war the benefit of the doubt, a whole lot of shit changed after that video. Hindsight is 20/20 and
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by webXL 10y ago
DO NOT run Chrome's Timeline dev tool on this when reloading. Crashed a couple tabs. Good edge case for browser tests!
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by webXL 10y ago
That's like saving good riddance to the internal combustion engine because we would be healthier without it, as if we've had better alternatives all along. If it weren't for Flash, we might all be complaining about Java apple
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by webXL 10y ago
Not sure I understand. Is the goal to produce the world's largest company or to offer value to consumers as a whole? (com-pet-i-tive-ly and fair ly?)
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by webXL 10y ago
Most of those problems stem from the lack of property rights. If a company cannot sustain its business with what it owns, then it should go out of business. However, non-market forces prop up these unsustainable businesses or turn a blind e
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by webXL 10y ago
And we're more likely to talk about the things we're proud of. Just sayin'
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by webXL 10y ago
I'm a Musk fan, but not a fan of his desire to accelerate sustainability on the backs of the taxpayer. Malthus also predicted doom and gloom and we saw plenty of market forces handle that. Government regulation has increased tremendous
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by webXL 10y ago
And don't forget to throw in some insurance , aka moral hazard.
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by webXL 10y ago
I was about to downvote after reading your edit, but part of me likes that attitude. That you're so passionate about your objection actually helped me arrive at the same conclusion. That and my own thought: Why would a developer come o
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by webXL 10y ago
> there may not be an economic rationale tomorrow, since the technology will not miraculously develop itself And if we don't invade country X, it may come back to bite us some day, right? And if we don't prop up the auto indust
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by webXL 10y ago
I think I've come across this before. So it's a browser/web server solution, right? Seems like there could be some performance/security issues. Seems pretty full featured, though. Nice work!
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by webXL 10y ago
imgcat[1] is one of my favorite terminal innovations as of late. I thought I'd take a long shot and see if it worked since that functionality seems like it would be simple for a browser-engine-based terminal to handle, but sadly no-go.
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by webXL 10y ago
Initial commit 15 days ago?? I think I'll hold off on any sudo commands or special permissions requested by the OS. Looks super cool though. Seems like a no-brainer with Electron. Edit: I take that back, since it largely leverages hter
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by webXL 10y ago
Not in our minds, but these people see others with power and think if only they had that power, preferably centralized (who likes redundancies??? DRY!), they could do something really special. They are The Anointed[1]. They've cracked
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by webXL 10y ago
Oh, believe me, there's room to be taxed: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/24/how-y... ;) Some people look at that map and think "look at all that income just being
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by webXL 10y ago
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." It's not so much tyranny that we fear these days but rather the consequences of ceding more and more power to such a
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by webXL 10y ago
So much good stuff here (toggling Mickey's :after border-radius is my favorite), but the title is a tad bit misleading, since the ::before and ::after pseudo-elements really act as divs. https://www.w3.org/TR/selec
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by webXL 10y ago
What "systematic oppression in our country"?
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by webXL 10y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most white people are afraid of being labeled a racist, especially white people selling something. Why don't you use that to your advantage? As director of engineering, I'm sure
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by webXL 10y ago
Pretty cool stuff. I got stuck a bit in the registration though. I always use a password manager and paste in my passwords. It's telling me it doesn't like my 16 character password because it needs to be 5 or more, and when I past
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by webXL 10y ago
> While flight experts credit automated systems with helping improve safety and making airline operations more efficient, they caution that an overreliance on automation leaves pilots unprepared for tricky situations that require their e
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by webXL 10y ago
In practicality, everything you said is correct. Politically, however, the burden of proof is on the new technology as if the old technology doesn't exist or is completely safe. The old technology has the political support of anyone wh
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42,300 Transistor Megaprocessor Is Complete(hackaday.com)
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by webXL 10y ago
I feel the same way. It is very bizarre! Reminds me of that scene from Holy Grail when the guards are just smiling and nodding when the prince is trying to escape from the castle. But how do they know? Someone must know. Is it broadcast to
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by webXL 10y ago
You mean you stuck around to find out it still worked? Man, I love Uber. Or at least the idea.
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by webXL 10y ago
What "foreign regulation" should we clone? Suggestion: don't use circular logic when debating. I acknowledge private sector collusion, and the answer is more competition. More regulation (usually influenced by the existing pl
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by webXL 10y ago
That's not an incentive for monopolies. They'll take your money and not necessarily use it for new infrastructure. Things like increasing employee benefits (gov't social engineering / "god given right"), cost
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by webXL 10y ago
Okay, but what's the incentive for providers to upgrade the switches?
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by webXL 10y ago
Too much overly specific and outdated regulation, and that's by design. What looks like a good, pro consumer law actually often has the backing of large corporations. Doesn't matter what party you belong to. Regulation abuse at t
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by webXL 10y ago
Regulations that are pro-consumer are inacted in favor of companies that have departments and expertise dealing in such regimes. "We'll go along with regulation X if you put regulation Y in that works in our favor". Regulator

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