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by zanny 8y ago
> There is little funding or political will to undertake such projects. It really sounds ludicrously obscene that the city with the highest average income per person in the world can't "afford" to do things that third worl
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by zanny 8y ago
It wasn't 100% at all. If anything, I found that the only female students were the computer nerds and there were almost no "CS-curious" women enrolling. I'd also then go on to say in my experience the student who went
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by zanny 8y ago
Qt exists as a business today because of its use of the GPL - enterprise customers can't ship the free version of Qt with proprietary software when its statically linked (as are all? Qt programs on Windows). PyQt works the same way, it
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by zanny 8y ago
Its not dead, you just can't use VC funding to get there. There are still startups being funded by the pooled money of families / state grants / etc that can grow sustainably and so long as they can stay in the green answer t
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by zanny 8y ago
If the answer to the question "I want to create a business funded through patronage online" is "the only place you can sustainably do that is on Patreon" than its a monopoly in online patronage. A lot of people for decad
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by zanny 8y ago
They are displaying the same arrogance Google, Facebook, et al show in regards to their platform lock in and market capture mindshare. They expect to get away with a lot of user hostile behavior because they have network effects forcing any
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by zanny 8y ago
Besides what others have said a lot of Patreons success comes from the value add pledges have on the platform. When you go to a creators page on Patreon you have pledges on right, recent posts in the middle, and info on the left. Half those
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by zanny 8y ago
Policies like that are going to backfire in the long run though. If the wealth being generated by productive exports is being hoarded in unutilized housing there are long tail effects that will slow down the economy - the housing sitting id
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by zanny 8y ago
And then rue in the fact your individual, or even the individual contributions of the personal lives of all citizens, are a sliver of a pie dominated by agriculture, manufacturing, and resource extraction. Almost all of which have much less
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by zanny 8y ago
Generally all mail in voting systems let you override your vote. If someone coerces you once and you send in another ballot postmarked after the first or go to your polling location in person on election day you can override that vote. You
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by zanny 8y ago
Because you cannot verify your phone is not compromised at either a software or hardware level. You would need independently verifiable hardware and all software running on a closed system (ie, no third party modifications to running softwa
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by zanny 8y ago
You build these[1]. When the sun shines and the wind blows excess power reverses the turbines, when there is demand on the grid water flows and turbines spin back to generate power. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Din
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by zanny 8y ago
Meanwhile Amazon got rid of the Underground Apps program that made available many mobile "staple" games without ads.
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by zanny 8y ago
Because its done under legal compulsion rather than web standards good faith. Cookies predated the more democratic process by which the web evolves today, and it was outside the EUs power to just ask the likes of the dying Netscape / M
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by zanny 8y ago
MDN already has a bunch of courses on css: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS If you are already familiar with basic CSS skipping to the middle is fine. A lot of modern CSS is just discovery of
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by zanny 8y ago
Its generally good practice to start with forms and only start doing fetch requests for things you can demonstrate hamper user experience requiring refreshes.
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by zanny 8y ago
What really worries me is that thinking about it probably the greatest positive influence you can have, at least in theory, would be to build something massively exploitative and unethical, siphon gross amounts of money out of the economy
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by zanny 8y ago
We have seen demonstrable evidence for over twenty years now that if you build a way to more easily inform yourself on reality, facts, historical accuracy, etc that people would rather use that system to justify their own preconceptions and
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by zanny 8y ago
When dealing with bullshit is voluntary it can be cathartic to not be responsible - its the fault of the system when things go wrong or things are inefficient, and you just get to go along with it. Sadly, for most people, they are compelled
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by zanny 8y ago
The US defeated the Iraqi military in three weeks. While an incredibly costly endeavor to begin with, the ~15 years of occupation and guerilla warfare since have immensely eclipsed the formal war against Sadam's government.
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by zanny 8y ago
Sadly they aren't planning to mitigate their issue tracking into gitlab which will severely hamper that on boarding. That being said a lot of KDE devs prefer seperate user facing issues to their development space because of how many bu
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by zanny 8y ago
> Newver understood the fascination with e-votes. People want convenience. Citizens would like to vote online, and are largely ignorant of the technical challenges that make it impossible to secure, at least on your average everyday Inte
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by zanny 8y ago
The US has gone to war with poor desert nomads. Its totally ridiculous to think the #1 nuclear power would fathom... what, a land invasion? of the #2 nuclear power. Russia and the US have been antagonistic of one another ever since the Bols
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by zanny 8y ago
Why would you rent recycling bins? I use old 5 gallon paint buckets where I live that I just painted the color coding on and my recyclers don't care. The thing with recycling is there are mountains of externalities to whether it makes
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by zanny 8y ago
This mindset is crucial. It doesn't make much to meet the bare minimum legal requirements of parenting. It takes a ton to produce thriving minds capable of excelling in the encroaching post-labor reality. So many people treat parenth
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by zanny 8y ago
Every single area with a population density over 50/sq mi in the US has "the worst traffic" because nowhere is the public transit and alternative travel (buses, bikes, walking, etc) viable to displace cars. So everyone, every
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by zanny 8y ago
The why right now, at least in the US, is that federal politicians are beholden the monied interests that lobby and fund their reelection campaigns, not to the constituents. So policy is written in their interests, which doesn't requir
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by zanny 8y ago
Because the price you offer for your time influences the perception of the value of time for everyone around you. Its why minimum wage exists at all. Without it, the most desperate depress wages to the absolute edge of starvation and destit
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by zanny 8y ago
There is no accountability for a failure to raise a child well, so no, parents have no responsibility. It is of course a conversation one could have on if parents should be held responsible. Schools are the only force in childhood held ev
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by zanny 8y ago
I'd much rather see kids doing things in class that benefit from the use of multiplication, along with exposure to how to do it and arguments for using it, than to just lecture them on repeatedly writing 2x2=4 2x3=6 2x4=8 over and over

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