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by ionised 7y ago
I'd say these things are also 'way in the future'.
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by ionised 7y ago
They are just waiting for the right moment to try again.
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by ionised 7y ago
I attended a talk by Jack Poulson (quit Google over Dragonfly and how it was handled) over the last weekend and he suggested that based on Google's reaction, it has definitely been simply shelved until the resistance and media attenti
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by ionised 7y ago
Nothing, but we're not talking about contextless for-loops here, and you know that.
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by ionised 7y ago
Your 'work' on military drone technology and censored search is political by nature. If you want politics out of your workplace, stop working for the company that spends more on political lobbying than any other tech company.
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by ionised 7y ago
If your politics are encouraging or even accepting of sexual harassment and pay discrimination based on gender, then your 'politics' aren't worth acknowledging, honestly.
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by ionised 7y ago
Any opinion looks worthless when you deliberately mischaracterise it like this.
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by ionised 7y ago
My examples are so bad that you had to deliberately mischaracterise the first and third, and completely ignore the second. Kudos.
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by ionised 7y ago
I think the point is, Bill Gates was already privileged before he got rich.
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by ionised 7y ago
That's the homo-economicus argument and it's fallen flat a great many times. Humans act irrationally all the time.
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by ionised 7y ago
> Capitalism has been a miracle for everyone, not just a few. Capitalism has had demonstrably terrible effects for many people all over the world without the luck of being born in a country or even a social class with enough economic clo
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by ionised 7y ago
> I don't have any data or anything, but I think that brain development is not even complete until well after 12th grade in humans. In particular, I think the ability to self regulate is compromised. 12th grade is seriously lowballi
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by ionised 7y ago
Accusations of whataboutism are invalid when you are calling out related points or highlighting hypocrisy and double standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#Criticism Some commentators have defended th
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by ionised 7y ago
I enable all that stuff and the number of ReCaptchas, while annoying is probably on like 30% of the sites I visit. And most of them I can live without.
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by ionised 7y ago
Me too, but I'm guessing we just had bad, maladjusted mothers. All mine did was fill me with anxieties and neuroses. We probably would have felt differently with a good mother.
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by ionised 7y ago
It's as if people don't consider Generals Smedley D. Butler and Dwight D. Eisenhower as authorities on the subject when they warned against the racket of the military-industrial complex. It's depressing and utterly pathetic t
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by ionised 7y ago
We have no reason to believe them. They have a demonstrable history of lies and terrorist-style anti-democratic activities themselves for political and economic purposes.
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by ionised 7y ago
Why would the current right-wing Australian government fund a socialist station?
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by ionised 7y ago
'Evil' tends to pay very well.
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by ionised 7y ago
Every job requires judgement of some kind.
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by ionised 7y ago
Isn't it customary to put a Chinese person's family name first?
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by ionised 7y ago
Same reason I as an asthmatic have to endure your vehicle smog causing me breathing difficulties. Personal freedoms.
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by ionised 7y ago
I don't want to breath smog or vehicle fumes either, because I have asthma and an asthma attack could kill me. I doubt you'll stop driving tomorrow to spare my health though.
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by ionised 7y ago
> You don't get to be King's Scholar at Eton being a buffoon. No, you get it by hereditary wealth, connections and nepotism.
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by ionised 7y ago
You might want look at nationwide police funding during the Tory government for an explanation on the increase in violent crime.
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by ionised 7y ago
You're right, and I apologise. I can get carried away sometimes. I'll tone down the charged rhetoric and try to keep it civil in future.
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by ionised 7y ago
This. Developers shouldn't be assuming that their users will have machines even close to theirs spec-wise.
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by ionised 7y ago
And yet my Firefox with 48 open tabs and a bunch of addons is currently sitting at 1.2GB. Chrome is awful with resource usage to begin with, which is why Electron is, it bundles and runs a headless Chrome for each Electron app.
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by ionised 7y ago
It's not relative at all. That's just awful.
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by ionised 7y ago
I find the problem lies with the trade-off you are making. You are making your life as a developer easier in exchange massively increasing the resource requirements and battery usage on end-user machines. It's just bad practice and Ele

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