s73ver_

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by s73ver_ 9y ago
That's not a similar situation in the least. Comparing calling out and calling for the removal of bad cops to holding the thin blue line ignores any bit of context there is.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
"I'd love to learn other languages and stacks! It's just that, often, it isn't a worthy use of my time. All that time used into learning C++ and Qt would be better used in making and improving my software." This lin
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
"For the last time, "existing design guidelines and patterns" is a myth." No, they aren't. "MacOS UI consistency is a mess." Not really. Most small developer programs I use follow these. It makes it really
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
As long as they are not calling out the cops doing wrong, there are no good cops.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I want both, and it's quite possible to have both.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
No, please do. Explain to users why you need that, and why you feel you are important enough to bypass and ignore all of the existing design guidelines and patterns of whatever OS I'm running on. And why you feel you have to use up all
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
See, for a website, that's fine. But not for an application. Why would I not want an application that fits in well with my chosen OS, and follows the design guidelines and patterns of that OS?
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I wish them the best of luck, but I don't think it's going to happen, because one of the big reasons Electron is popular is because web-dev people don't want to learn other languages.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Are you going to start lobby to make it illegal for companies to put anti-class action clauses in their ToS? Are you going to lobby to make it illegal for a company to force mandatory binding arbitration on their customers? If not, then you
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Because there need to be national standards for education. The citizens of a state do not exist in a vacuum, and being taught Creationism instead of actual science is going to do great harm to those kids ability to get jobs, which is going
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Eh, I feel one can be just as angry/outraged at Trump & Team as they can be at Congress for letting them get away with it. That, and given the upcoming midterm elections, I feel I have more influence on Congress (or at least my Con
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I don't buy that, mainly because that only works if I can afford to sue those doing wrong. Most people cannot. Hence, why the government is there: to uphold these laws, and use everyone's collective resources to do that.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
To be quite frank, any amount of marketing is over marketing for this. I shouldn't have to pay a single cent to have that kind of monitoring; it is my data that they are using. I should be able to look at and correct the data at any ti
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Most things already are. But there are many things that do need to be a federal concern, because a state does not exist in a vacuum, nor is it a (metaphorical) island. Things like the environment and pollution, for instance, need to have a
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
The Congress has the Constitutional Responsibility to act as a check on the Executive Branch, through several means, up to and including impeachment of the Executive. Trump has done several things this past year alone that would have led to
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
So how would less regulation around data security (which is the thing that this is about) prevent another Equifax? Remember, you and I are not Equifax's customers, so we have no ability to choose anything in this scenario.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
You're trying to equivocate basic human rights with being able to dump pollution in the water supply.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
In that situation, the only funds for those agencies would come from fines. We're not at that situation. And I'm all in favor of the CFPB getting pretty heavy handed. I wanna see some Enron style prosecutions start.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Having children rarely contributes positively to the "accumulate wealth" goal.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Unfortunately, most of those committees don't have any actual power to enact anything. By resigning in protest, they at least prevent themselves from being used as justification to enact the things that the Trump admin is doing.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
That doesn't sound like an analogous situation, though.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
At the same time, we'd also be proponents of shutting down the connection of someone infected with a virus that is flooding the network with traffic. This would fall under the same thing, if the banks are running into a lot of problems
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Yeah, no. Again, you're arguing for the "freedom" to scam people. Not gonna happen. And you don't live in isolation; you are not an island. Those people that get scammed? They're not going to do so in isolation. Tha
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
It's only a win if they don't get laid off or have their paychecks cut. And I'm pretty sure that the people who do it for their job, if they aren't able to find another one, would miss it. Automation can be good, but we
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Why do you feel these workers are not entitled to basic human dignity and respect? Why is it that any time the workers try to get some piece of the massive prosperity that they've contributed to building, they get threatened with autom
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
"Sure. No problem. They'll just have no job. And you can continue to believe that." Ahh yes, the old, "You must lick the boots of your corporate masters for seeing to bless you with a few crumbs!" argument. It has n
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
The problem is, those people need to have jobs.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
You're saying this like the tech companies aren't actually doing these things. Like they're somehow misunderstood; that they're not really eroding worker protections or anything like that.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
It's not at all apples and oranges. Jeff Bezos became the richest person in the world in a large part due to short changing his employees. The two are linked together.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Not everyone can up and move like that.

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