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by xdennis 3y ago
The sole criterion for JavaScript was to design something that could be shipped as fast as possible. The early browser wars were all about pumping features out. Security had nothing to do with it.
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by xdennis 3y ago
Walled gardens make it very difficult to move. It's like living in a place where solar panels are illegal to install and you're suggesting to move house. How about we remove silly restrictions?
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I probably don't know about the case but this sounds completely backwards. Aren't Google (not that I like them) the ones which do allow third party app stores and Apple do not? So they're being punished FOR allowing choice?
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by xdennis 3y ago
You say that like it's not something that can also be automated.
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They're not refugees. They left 70 years ago. If Israel left them back, Israel would devolve into another failed middle eastern state. For people who don't know, UNRWA says Palestinian refugees are the only ones who are defined as
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The idea that they let it happen is insane. Oct 7 is the biggest Jewish disaster since the Holocaust. Who would want that on his resume? This is a classical conspiracy theory. Things can't just fall through the cracks, it's always
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I think, sometimes, buying the competition and killing it is the intended effect. Especially if you're as anti-competitive as Microsoft.
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It's quite hard to tell it's sarcasm since they really do talk like that. Only "except asians" gave it away for me.
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> But displacing 1.7 million people[3] is disproportionate. Firstly, you fight to win, not to be proportionate. If the Americans were proportionate in WW2 they would never have invaded Nazi Germany because the Nazis never invaded the USA
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by xdennis 3y ago
> The reality is that 3000 innocent children are dead. The reality is that many more innocent adults are dead. The reality is that almost a third of Palestinian housing is unlivable. The reality is that 2,000,000 people are now in a huma
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by xdennis 3y ago
Israel funded Hamas when it was founded as away to destabilize the PLO, hoping to create a more friendly Palestinian group. The PLO faded away and Hamas became even worse. It was obviously a mistake, but only with hindsight. What you'r
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by xdennis 3y ago
> But there is no such thing as a pure fact Yes there is. People who say otherwise just want to push their partizan viewpoint. You can present non-biased facts, it's just that it's hard and not financially rewarding because whe
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by xdennis 3y ago
> I find Prettier to be way too heavy handed But that's the purpose of such tools: to stop endless debates about style.
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While switching would be nice, you don't have to. You can just use Firefox to browse YouTube.
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> You’re cherry picking [...] You’re ignoring relevant causal factors [...] You’re ignoring decades of research [...] you’re generalizing You're very emphatic in ignoring common sense. You don't need studies to see that almost
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by xdennis 3y ago
The conspiracy theory is that Jews are in charge of the world and control things like who gets to immigrate to the USA. The argument he's making (which I've seen more openly stated in other places) is: "Jews don't like i
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by xdennis 3y ago
Yes, it's antisemitic because it's using the antisemitic trope of Jews controlling the world, in this case immigration (remember "Jews will not replace us"). > western Jews for supporting lax immigration Jews don&#x27
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by xdennis 3y ago
> fiduciary obligations to the non-profit What fiduciary obligations does a non-profit have? Isn't the board pretty successful already at not making money?
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Is this your guess or do you have something to back it up?
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Of course Google don't mention uBO by name. But this is the real reason they are doing it. Privacy is just a pretext. uBO lite will still be available but it will be very nerfed. Hopefully people move to Firefox, but I'm not so op
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by xdennis 3y ago
Because he didn't want to be recorded in a natural setting. His public image was very well managed. * In the early years of his leadership of the NSDAP there were no pictures of him because he didn't let people take pictures of hi
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by xdennis 3y ago
I'm saying that it's ridiculous to say it's an apartheid state when Israel has Muslims with full citizenship, but if Jew crossed into Gaza unarmed he would be slaughtered on the spot. Palestine is an apartheid state. Israel i
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by xdennis 3y ago
The Philistines settled in a small part of modern Israel at around 1175 BC, and disappeared (were assimilated) by the 5th century BC. Roman Judea was renamed to Palestine in 135 AD (after the Philistines) by the Romans after numerous revol
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by xdennis 3y ago
> it's hard to blame folks who look for more rational explanations like "the government is harassing a political opponent" (whether they're right or wrong.) No, it's not, because he's clearly being investiga
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by xdennis 3y ago
> that said insurgents do not really count as an armed opponent Insurgents are people who are fighting their own government (with guns) so they are armed, but they're not fighting Hamas, they're fighting Israel, so they're
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18% of Israelis are Muslim. How many Jews are allowed in Gaza?
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by xdennis 3y ago
Your analogy is wrong because Jews were there before Arabs. It's like saying that Cherokee would be colonizers if they moved to North Carolina, which is their original homeland before they were forced to move to Oklahoma (the Trail of
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by xdennis 3y ago
In New Zealand this is called Mātauranga Māori. There's a tendency of certain Westerners to consider the myths of others are being more legitimate to the point where (in New Zealand) it's taught in schools alongside "Western&
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by xdennis 3y ago
Utter bullshit. There were two bridges vandalized with graffiti saying "Free Palestine" right next to it.
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The BBC is a weird place. The have a policy of always referring to terrorists as "militants", but they fire a guy for imaginary "anti-semitism". Edit: Oops, should have paid more attention, it's the The Guardian, no

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