WilliamEdward

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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
Not even the most anti-china, anti-communist person in the world operating on half a brain cell would call china communist. How are you buying things from china with capital if they're communist?
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
You won't ever see a youtube competitor. Youtube is running with google's proprietary search engine and has a decade and a half of content a competitor simply wont have. It will always be better than its competitors and some nonse
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
It is because the rich and powerful own the land that georgism is hard to push through. You could implement georgist laws simply, but the rich and powerful have connections that you don't and politics will always favour them, so you wo
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
It was the ambiguity of the word 'web' that tripped me up. You still need a network of computers for email to be useful.
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
Achievement is a big word here. They had to shove it down people's throats with a bloated, buggy, and expensive app suite.
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
Email doesn't naturally involve the web? What?
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
If your execs earn a billion dollars a year collectively, and you have 200000 employees, you can distribute 2500 dollars to them all and the execs would still earn more than the low wage workers. So if simple arithmetic is your thing, there
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
It is ridiculous that you've boiled it down to those two options. The 3rd is cutting executive salary and paying low wage workers. Also amazon is not cheap compared to my local competitor and aliexpress, people buy from amazon because
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
You realise in this case the money is coming from existing taxes being used on stuff like military anyway? These are also incredibly rich nations with reserves of money that were produced sometimes centuries ago. No one thinks it's com
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
This is so vacuous. Does it imply that UBI money is coming from thin air? That's obviously false. Also the article says a type of UBI is being used to stimulate job creation and work for industries that are rapidly losing in these area
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
Plenty of big name companies (discord, amazon) and even universities (georgia tech) are using and teaching rust. That's enough for me to say you should jump on the train.
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
It didn't have any value to begin with, honestly. Websites have the exact same message in their code simply by inspecting source or opening a console, and that certainly doesn't show you have any sort of skill or curiosity. It&#x2
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
I'm still active on a forum for those types of games. They're still probably about as active as they've ever been. It's obvious why it would never work on a large scale though. Each post got the user profile next to it,
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
It's a pandemic, and as far as i remember they didn't finalise a rule to allow senators to vote remotely[1]. I don't know if this is why Bernie missed it, but 3 other senators besides him missed it too. https://www
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
I like that HTTPS forces you to actually care about improving and maintaining your website. Somehow, leaving your site alone forever to gather dust is considered a good thing. The author totally missed that one. Yes, some sites serve basic
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
Users are all about privacy and security until they realise they have to actually maintain their websites to achieve it, then it becomes an unnecessary chore.
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
Yes, making websites secure requires work and maintenance and modernisation. The author even admits this. I think i'm ok with what's being lost in this transition.
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
This is essentially the same as saying "the sky is blue because it just is"
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
I think you're right, it just feels a little wrong to claim a title so easily when others work hard in a specific practise to earn it and have standards designated by law for it.
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
I was going to say the solution is to raise the bar for software engineers, but it seems the problem here is the culture around prestige and money which has prompted millions of people to go after programming careers. It's not easy to
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
This is clickbait and will lead to a flamewar.
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
I know it still makes sense but 'amazon web services services' is funny
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
In what way is this helpful to newcomers at all? It uses a ton of heavy jargon and no example code.
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
I don't know why rachel doesn't ever post source code or simply say what architecture she's using. I'm left to assume it's just plain c++. I'll just stick to python thanks.
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
You nailed it. The infrastructure in developed countries is taken for granted by its consumers. Websites are often not tuned for low speed internet, or for people across the ocean, because everything works so smooth in developed countries.
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
I don't have any experience in scientific research, so that's a fair justification.
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
Good points though I considered REST to be more like best practises than theory. One could see it either way i think.
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
Webdev is more like a trade than a science; you benefit more from remembering a large body of facts and details that comes with experience. There's no theory to learn, you just have to get practise in things like databases, browsers, H
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
Just don't update it?
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by WilliamEdward 6y ago
I understand the disease-symptom dichotomy, but if amazon is only a symptom then it is one of the biggest ones out there. This makes tackling amazon more important than tackling a mom and pop shop who treats their workers poorly, even if th

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