casmclas

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by casmclas 5y ago
I mean, it's no worse than the standard antipatterns, which are designed to be so easy to click "accept" and so hard to follow the "don't accept" flow. None of them are about coming to an agreement with the use
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by casmclas 5y ago
That's certainly the implication of their text. It is not a legitimate conclusion. Given the premises "Apple has made a decision X" and "Apple has made billions of dollars since making that decision", you cannot con
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by casmclas 5y ago
Well that is an argument no-one is making. No one is comparing email and IM and asking which is succeeding better at being a decentralised application. You're right: email is certainly less centralised than Whatsapp. But it's a re
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by casmclas 5y ago
I think that's a fair characterisation of her premises. For instance, she argues that these outcomes aren't happening because of any systematic quality difference in the products: many centralised products that win significant mar
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by casmclas 5y ago
It isn't a fallacy, and in any case the article isn't claiming that decentralised software has become centralised because companies have built good defaults on top, so that's a complete strawman.
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by casmclas 5y ago
> I don't agree that email isn't an example of a decentralized application. She argues that it's not because it's really hard to run your own mail server. I don't think this is a fair characterisation of the art
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by casmclas 5y ago
NixOS and GuixSD aren't user friendly because the people who use them are like GNU/Linux users circa 2000: people insane enough to install an operating system that is very particular about who its friends are. But they do have an
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by casmclas 5y ago
I mean, sure, but probably most programs we use these days are written in Javascript/DOM and gratuitously interface with remote systems. It demonstrably isn't difficult to write decent assembly that is faster than the naive RESTfu
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by casmclas 5y ago
I found in Paris, the easiest way to communicate was to speak English with an exaggerated French accent, and throw in the few words of French I know. In the other parts of France I've been to, English was effectively useless; I made do
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by casmclas 5y ago
"Can't" isn't even the slightest bit passive. But a person who is telling others how to communicate well will always use technical terms with the wrong meaning. In this case a negative imperative is what you should be us
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by casmclas 7y ago
> or how about smokers who will as a result of their actions will cost spades more than "good souls"? or type 2 diabetics on dialysis? Why not just tax the cigarettes and subsidise bike roads instead of car roads?
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by casmclas 7y ago
I think there's a difference between fire brigades that are private businesses and government owned fire brigades that have territorial jurisdiction and which apply common sense to their funding to ensure the most efficient service pos
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by casmclas 7y ago
Hospitals are run and funded by each state in Australia. I think a decade ago the federal government started to run a hospital in Tasmania, but they pulled out of it because it was ridiculous. There are also numerous private hospitals. GPs
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by casmclas 7y ago
I think there's differences of attention that make it different. When there's only one brand name, it invites a competitor from another market in. When there's three, but they all have the same policy, that's a bit diffe
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by casmclas 7y ago
I think comments here seem to be missing the point, which isn't so much that Nunavut is geographically huge, but that Canada doesn't seem to have anything like the principle of one person one vote. There's huge disparity betw
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by casmclas 7y ago
I think it's considering only single member districts. If you count multi-member districts, Western Australia sends six members to the Australian Senate and it's 2.6 mio sq km. There's probably others around too.
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by casmclas 7y ago
According to the English language article https://www.zdnet.com/article/free-software-advocate-richard... , 'According to Segala, Stallman requests no video feeds in "places using proprietary JS."' T
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by casmclas 7y ago
I've tried several times to use Purescript to target web browsers. I got frustrated by Bower - it's especially hard to start a new project using tools that say "don't use me, I'm deprecated". There was a huge a