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zepto
5y ago
Right, imagine an army of androids rampaging through the streets snatching cigarettes and junk food out of people’s mouths. Perhaps we’d see public executions of Zuckerberg along with cigarette company executives and various figures from t
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5y ago
You still have to worry about the Zeroth law.
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zepto
5y ago
> by claiming an independent parsing library improves compiler performance. The library is not independent, and one of the goals is to improve compiler performance. You wrote a criticism of me of me based on your own misunderstanding o
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5y ago
> for sure, you can build a custom UI that is inaccessible Provide a non custom UI alongside the custom one. Use tabs to offer ‘graphical’ and ‘list’ views. The comment I replied to said this: > In theory, yes, but in practice it
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5y ago
> People say that about the web, too. "If you write semantic html and use aria tags, it's accessible". The two aren’t comparable. It’s not even close. I take it you haven’t actually built an iOS app. That said, for sure,
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5y ago
If you follow apple’s accessibility guidelines, your iOS app is already accessible by the blind.
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zepto
5y ago
> the reward calculation in their brain comes out in favour of doing that thing instead of anything else they could be doing instead Nope. That’s you baking in the assumption that they are making a calculation about reward. That’s an axi
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5y ago
I don’t think you understand what the project is. It’s not an independent library. The plan is for it to take over parsing throughout the compiler . Numerous performance improvements that would impact both tooling and the compiler are li
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zepto
5y ago
Obviously, but you saying that doesn’t explain what the person I was replying to had in mind. Their comment doesn’t read that way.
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5y ago
The linked project is nothing but tooling and compiler work . It’s hard to understand your comment in that context.
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5y ago
> People’s terminal preferences are the root of who they are. There is no goal that exists beyond one’s terminal preferences. You can prefer to obey some moral distinction, but you prefer it because that increases your happiness/lif
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5y ago
>> How about if the old api can’t scale as the user base grows? > Tough luck? Tough luck for whom? It seems like nobody wins in that scenario. What do you think would happen? > Once you build something, especially if it become
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5y ago
> That might be true if the people developing and testing the vaccine were the same people belittling natural immunity. Why does it need to be confined to that group? > Lumping them together is just the same behavior of which you ac
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zepto
5y ago
Ok but the person I replied to said “ Sorry but that's a lot of hogwash.” That seems like a statement that the claims are false, not a request for evidence.
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zepto
5y ago
Such as?
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zepto
5y ago
Yes, I assume that European are as smart an entrepreneurial as Americans, therefore the kinds of companies they build are likely a result of the regulatory environment.
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5y ago
> significant advance notice Are you changing your mind about it being 2 years? What if you want to make a change to the system that isn’t compatible with maintaining the old api? How about if the old api can’t scale as the user base g
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5y ago
> Not saying anything about this particular case Yes you are.
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5y ago
> You're making this too complicated. You’re pretending this is simpler than it is. > you only get to do it once every two years, because you have to provide that much advance notice. > And it doesn't apply to adding new
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5y ago
> I strongly believe platforms should be forced to allow interoperability At what level of API with what level of SLA? > and it should be illegal to prevent or frustrate access from other clients or services. Many existing APIs that a
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5y ago
Probably.
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5y ago
> The idea that someone hosting a product on the internet should be able to control how I access my data or services is utter nonsense and it’s amazing that we’ve allowed it to become the norm. Nobody can control your data unless you giv
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zepto
5y ago
Suppressing something that is true makes someone untrustworthy. You don’t need a theory of their motives to explain this.
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5y ago
Are you claiming that the parent posters comments about funding are false? You don’t actually address them.
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5y ago
The emperor is dressed in NFTs.
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5y ago
How is that tweet related to whether the money is paid out to officers?
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5y ago
‘This’ is a discussion about whether the EFF is worth supporting. I’m not sure that is what they are trying to promote.
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5y ago
> A lot of seized cash is treated as tax-free "bonuses" paid out to officers. Either directly… Is this documented somewhere?
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5y ago
Why does nobody want to touch it? That is what is a mystery to me.
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5y ago
> autocratic-minded zero-sum sociopathy Where is the evidence of this?
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