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by axguscbklp 5y ago
I hope that no single organization replaces Reddit. Let a billion independent forums bloom. For the sake of discoverability, it would be nice if a decent subset of them implemented more or less the same API that search engines could call fr
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
My sample size is small so this might be way off but here is my guess: Companies fundamentally want* to be able to treat software developers as completely fungible assembly line workers. The company's dream is to be able to fire and re
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Well hold on man - why tackle it? So many things genuinely suck that negativity is quite understandable. If what you really mean to ask is "how do I prevent my negativity from hurting my ability to gain power in society?", then we
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
I agree that it is arguable, but I would say that React is a framework for this reason: usually you do not decide when to call React code, instead React code decides when to call your code.
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
100 years ago: "legal alcohol is hurting our children" 70 years ago: "atheists and communists are hurting our children" 35 years ago: "drugs are hurting our children" 25 years ago: "violent video games are
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Very calm in tone. In Zuckerberg's place, I would have been tempted to instead write something like this: "Hi, censorious ninnies. In the 50s you would have been blaming godlessness for hurting children, in the 90s you would have
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Yes, I do not have any problem with it whatsoever. There are probably plenty of books that also cause some percentage of people to develop suicidal thoughts, but I do not want to start banning those books.
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
I disagree - I think that it should be completely legal to sell cocaine drinks as long as you inform the customers that the drinks have cocaine in them and I think that is should be legal to use even the most psychologically manipulative ma
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
>There should be no question, that what FB is doing here, while not illegal, is highly dubious ethically. Why, what exactly are they doing that is ethically dubious? So far based on what I have read of this whistleblower's revelatio
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Politicians who want to de-anonymize the Internet should first do a trial run of de-anonymizing all of their own financial transactions, Internet browsing, use of the post office, and so on. Maybe for a year or so. Then after they have done
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
To be fair, if China spent several weeks bombing a country that the US did not want it to bomb and, as part of that bombing, China bombed the US embassy there and then said that it had been an accident, I think that this incident would be w
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
I think that most people who generally support cops and soldiers but who also contemplate violent resistance against the US government have already thought through this issue and their usual resolution is "I generally support cops and
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Psychologically I think it is very easy to resolve any possible contradictions. "My side are the real patriots - their side are false patriots who are actually bootlickers/oppressors/occupiers/traitors/etcetera.&quo
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Yes, it likely means killing people who think of themselves as patriots. However, many people who work for oppressive governments genuinely think of themselves as patriots. I do not see why it matters whether using firearms against a govern
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
In some cases, it probably is a deterrent. It is hard to know for sure because there is no way to A/B test a country. I think that some people probably overestimate the degree to which it is a deterrent, but I think it would certainly
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
It possibly does stop things from getting worse, but it is hard to know whether it does or it does not because there is no way to make a copy of the United States, remove private gun ownership in the copy, and then see how things play out.
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Officials being democratically elected does not necessarily mean anything - in theory, a majority of the population could vote to literally enslave a minority of the population. I think that it is fair for a minority of the population to ha
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
I am just a layman when it comes to this kind of thing, but I notice that many articles online claim that variable bedrock depth explains why Manhattan's skyscrapers come in two distinct clumps. If this is true, then it seems strange t
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
>There's been a lot of research, and internal studies, done at many companies that show pretty impressive benefits. I would need to look at the research and studies to see whether I actually believe them. I have seen how politicized
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Or maybe those people know what they are talking about and the truth is that many people who are big fans of automated testing tend to overrate its value when it comes to many areas of software development. Testing takes effort and makes it
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
It does seem gross and I do not think I would feel good about the idea of working in the industry. That said, I wonder - is it worse than the loans not being available at all?
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
I used payday loans a few times back in the day - not for anything large, just for like $300 or so at a time. Getting those payday loans really helped me and I never experienced any negative consequences from taking them. I never thought of
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Got it, thanks for explaining so clearly. The way I see it, because of nuclear weapons, no other country can actually conquer the US, so I much prefer free speech to any sort of propaganda initiatives meant to strengthen the US against oth
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
US citizens' desire to fight in WW2 perhaps largely came from propaganda to begin with - maybe in the absence of propaganda most of them would have been fine with doing nothing to help Britain, France, etc. About 60% of US WW2 soldiers
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Much of this is not about JavaScript itself but is really about using JavaScript in a web browser context. As far as I know, JavaScript the language is not connected to web development in any essential way.
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Research into "misinformation" is often used to justify politically-motivated censorship. If this research was intended, by its funders and/or the researchers themselves, to further politically-motivated censorship, then I ha
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
>But if you do have to work, slogging away in a common place with friends is more compelling than sitting behind a computer. Not for me. When it comes to work, I would rather sit behind a computer at home and talk with my friends on anot
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Are you sure that this attitude is the minority? I can easily go have fun with people outside of work, so I have no incentive to put up with the annoying parts of office work just to get to interact with people.
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
There was an effort to convince people not to vaccinate, but I think the bigger cause of anti-vaccination sentiment was contrarianism against and distrust of the effort to convince people to vaccinate. Years of government and media lies r
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
If I wanted to and could find the funds, would I in practice (as opposed to just in theory) be legally allowed to create my own financial services organization that would provide financial services like payment processing and banking to peo

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