wtetzner

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by wtetzner 6y ago
The difference is that when you prevent speech, you can't even discuss changes to the laws. The censorship of speech gives a much different and somewhat hidden form of power.
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by wtetzner 6y ago
> The next step would be for you to try to give counter points of what you think is extreme that others consider not, or better, what you think is not extreme that others consider so. I don't think that's the next step. I think
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by wtetzner 6y ago
You ban dangerous actions , not speech. When you start censoring speech, you give a very small group of people the ability to silence whoever the please.
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by wtetzner 6y ago
> As for the "deplorables" who know what they're doing and will never question it or feel any remorse, we should not be giving them a megaphone. The problem is that this is a very slippery slope. Who gets to decide what&
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by wtetzner 6y ago
I always thought cross-platform meant "more than one platform", but I guess I don't really know if that's how it's typically used.
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by wtetzner 6y ago
Yeah, for the stuff I've been doing, just sticking with the built-in stdlib has been good enough.
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by wtetzner 6y ago
> I want to challenge this a bit. Your unit test suite should also be able to catch all these things with the right assertions. In general, tests can only find bugs, not prove the absence of them. Type systems, on the other hand, can pro
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by wtetzner 6y ago
But you will care if someone else wins the lottery and you're stuck dealing with their project after.
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by wtetzner 6y ago
That's completely missing the point of the exercise. You don't need to accurately imagine it. The point of the exercise is to figure out what you want in life now , by giving you a different perspective.
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by wtetzner 6y ago
Yeah, I think deathbed is the part of the issue because it distracts from the goal. Maybe a better exercise might be "Imagine yourself in the (distant?) future, while you're still healthy. What would you want that life to look lik
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by wtetzner 6y ago
Yeah, trying to fit the complexity of reality into a taxonomy is always going to run into problems. That doesn't mean it's not a useful exercise (sometimes), but we need to keep in mind that it's just us trying to mentally or
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by wtetzner 6y ago
I don't think getting someone's perspective when they're actually on their deathbed is particularly interesting. The point of the deathbed perspective is that imagining you're looking back on your life from your deathbed
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by wtetzner 6y ago
I think it's more of a way to gain perspective on your life now . E.g., imagining what would be important on your deathbed is an exercise that can help you figure out what you think is important in life.
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by wtetzner 6y ago
I mean, I just learned that to show the path in the title of the Finder window I need to run: defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
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by wtetzner 6y ago
Being able to see the path in Finder doesn't seem like something that only 1% of users would want, though. I've seen "normal people" get very frustrated because they couldn't figure out where they saved a file. They
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by wtetzner 6y ago
Not to mention the they didn’t have a “feed” that was designed to drive engagement.
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by wtetzner 6y ago
> Everybody is equal no matter what? It's not even clear what "everybody is equal" really means.
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by wtetzner 6y ago
> Just the tiny fraction of a second that it takes me to look at my caps lock key to verify that it's not on I always just re-assign the caps-lock key to CTRL.
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by wtetzner 6y ago
Normally I can type my password faster than pretty much any other activity. But on my MBP (with the terrible keyboard) I never know if all of my keypresses registered (or if some of them were duplicated).
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by wtetzner 6y ago
Newsletter popups are obnoxious and unnecessary. Why can’t they just be a link on the page instead of a popup?
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by wtetzner 6y ago
> That's the only expectation there's ever been. Given that the judge in this case had different expectations, that's clearly false. That may have been the intention of the feature, but I can easily see why it may not be t
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by wtetzner 6y ago
> Incognito is about not saving browser history locally. Totally separate. They're totally separate now , but it's not clear that they should be, and it seems pretty clear that they're not separate in the minds of users
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by wtetzner 6y ago
Sure, but users still have to make the decision to install that apk. Yes, there's a security risk, but what's really being said here is "we're going to decide what you're allowed to do so you won't hurt yoursel
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by wtetzner 6y ago
I open a link in a non-incognito window. In what way have I been identified by the peer host? My point is that incognito does nothing to hide your identity, and therefore "incognito" is a misleading name for the feature.
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by wtetzner 6y ago
> Please have a deep look at the various documentation on how the Internet works Wow. I understand how the internet works, but thanks for the personal attack. > ... and realize that sending that header does absolutely nothing for user
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by wtetzner 6y ago
I think the point jschwartzi was trying to make is that Do Not Track paired with legislation requiring companies to honor it could be a reasonable solution.
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by wtetzner 6y ago
Sure, but Google could honor Dot Not Track, and Chrome could send it when in Incognito mode.
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by wtetzner 6y ago
I mean, Firefox sends Do Not Track when in private browsing. So clearly it's trying to do more than just hide local history. It obviously can't guarantee it, but it's trying. Chrome is not, and it seems pretty clear that it
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by wtetzner 6y ago
No, it doesn't. In what way does incognito mode hide the user's identity? The article is about the fact that it doesn't .
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by wtetzner 6y ago
Except that if Google is still tracking you, you're not browsing privately.

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