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by writepub 7y ago
Heroes sold as socialist in the US are typically communist: Marx, Stalin, Lennin, Mao, Pol pot, ... The new wave of socialism in the US cherry picks instances of the ideology that is somewhat palatable with the West's notion of individ
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by writepub 7y ago
The case you cite [1] should only strengthen the argument for free speech. The first amendment is likely what saved the lady from a frivolous lawsuit/censorship from those who abuse the power to regulate other's speech. What yo
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by writepub 7y ago
> When the discussion comes to any other topic such as police brutality, racism, discrimination etc. these voices are conspicuously absent. Patently untrue, and a baseless accusation. If anything, the recent spate in enforcing compulsory
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by writepub 7y ago
See how you setup the perfect straw-man here - "If you aren't on the side of our perfect, morality infused, turbo-boosted censorship, you must sympathize with Nazis!". The only time free speech matters is when the natur
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by writepub 7y ago
OR - tech skills are only part of the salary you get. Another is being able to work well with a team. If Dave wasn't being paid proportionately, why didn't he just get another job? Maybe, just maybe, he SUCKED at working well in t
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by writepub 7y ago
The data presented in the article is the exact opposite of your claim. If you'd like to refute the data, please cite a better source than your personal anecdote.
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by writepub 7y ago
You'd be at peace if Google favored news and narratives that overlap with your world view. Hypothetically, how'd you feel if 65% of those articles were from Fox news and the greater Murdoch empire? I wish they simply skipped narra
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by writepub 7y ago
What are the optimizations, and why can't other distro vendors apply them? Maybe this is a way for Intel to rally other distros into adopting the optimizations
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by writepub 7y ago
I'm unsure if this is willfully ignorant marketing, or naivety. Profitability is a GOOD thing -profit typically means people getting paid, livelihoods supported, lives built, etc. I hope NPM becomes profitable, to support the awesome t
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by writepub 7y ago
This is indeed likely if windows GUI is significantly more stable, reliable and polished than the Linux GUI, and related GUI apps. What I'm saying is - for Linux desktop to pose any real threat to windows, it needs to ship a GUI/D
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by writepub 7y ago
Or - making human art more accessible to everyone
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But are MSNBC viewers likely to believe their decision making is somehow not their fault, and routinely choose loan shark-esque credit?
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by writepub 7y ago
And it took PayPal 12 years to flag their product as Spam? In any case, PayPal should be a payment processor, not a enforcer of arbitrary business standards, like tagging something as spam 12 years too late.
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by writepub 7y ago
All of the material seems plausible, but without evidence, data or following the scientific method, no one can tell if this is snake oil or legitimate betterment advice.
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by writepub 7y ago
If hit by rocket debris, I do not believe Chinese people have standing to sue the government for damages, per Chinese law. Take away people's civil rights, and you can launch rockets from just about anywhere. Saudi Arabia and much of t
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by writepub 7y ago
How, just how do activist journalists collude with internal Google employees, to concoct stories where none exist? So 200 out of 72,000 employees want to take their privileged 30% above market salaries, and bully the hand that feeds them, o
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by writepub 7y ago
The admission would tank Boeing stock, and invite a barrage of lawsuits. This is a delicate line to tow, that of providing for tens of thousands of employees, versus providing closure to loved ones of the dead.
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by writepub 7y ago
This clickbaity, sensationalist opinion-headline is, as the headline puts it, a slap in the face of journalistic integrity.
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by writepub 7y ago
For a summary, try Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-results/alphabet... Eventually, It'll be hard to not argue that some part of revenue and profit misses arise from activism against servi
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by writepub 7y ago
By calling my reasoning "daft", and by implying interventionism, many would assume a text book ad hominem. But I'm ok with a jab - if we all get overly sensitive, and remove emotions from discourse, we're just denying ou
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by writepub 7y ago
This notion that gab is what Twitter would look like if it didn't deplatform anyone who isn't left of center, is misleading. Many normal, peace loving, non bigoted folks simply do not agree with Twitteratti on a plethora of issues
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by writepub 7y ago
This is excellent data! 1. It has long been argued that Twitter has a liberal bias. This data proves it, with 60% of the users leaning left. 2. While the cause of #1 hasn't been established, it is likely that moderators and policy make
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by writepub 7y ago
Philosophically, these are mobile versions of chromium OS - where gui is handled in js/html and kernel is Linux. 2019 is the right year for this attempt, given the advent of: 1. service workers 2. Cache API 3. Web notifications 4. Web
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OK - deleted
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It's really surprising that people put faith in virtual Dom implementations, when browsers have been optimized for decades for efficiency. With the right batching strategy that minimalistic libraries like FastDom [1] offer, there'
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by writepub 7y ago
I'd argue that a rich text editor tied to a framework is inflexible, and possibly inefficient. You want a rich text editor to be good at one thing, editing, and not be concerned with how it's invoked. A good editor would be standa
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by writepub 7y ago
A few ways you can call bluff on inflated Apple fanboy-ism is by listening to wall street and watching Apple stock. Analysts aren't pleased with the 5G miss, and Apple stock has certainly suffered, at least a bit, for it. Gruber could
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Mr. Dorsey accurately answered the Nazi question with: > “We have a situation right now where that term is used fairly loosely,” Dorsey said. “We just cannot take any one mention of that word accusing someone else as a factual indication
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The same could be argued about Mozilla. They've gone out of their way to oppose Google at the W3C, at the expense of developers and users of the web. List of good Web tech killed in W3C by Mozilla: 1. NaCl/PNacl 2. WebSql (in favo
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by writepub 7y ago
This is both good and bad news. Everyone benefits from greater transparency, and for once, a high ranking official being charged is refreshing. But it also raises the question of whether a person acting on behalf of a company is chargeable,

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