wooter

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by wooter 8y ago
and flashlights for night-time robberies
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by wooter 8y ago
thats what I'm saying. many people jump to 'discrimination' when its merely a discrepancy. discrepancies exist everywhere for entirely benign reasons. furthermore, believing its discrimination for its own sake (like age discr
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by wooter 8y ago
seriously? the blame is on government, local or otherwise, for criminalizing safe, voluntary interactions. requiring licenses of children operating a lemonade stand is indoctrinating a serious level of statism, which historically has had fa
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by wooter 8y ago
discrimination vs. discrepancy. I find it odd that many people jump to the first while simultaneously holding the belief that corporations only care about profit.
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by wooter 8y ago
netflix came to be a multibillion dollar business without these laws. more likely, we'll get more consumer friendly options over diverse, specialized 'types' of ISPs, thanks to caching, as we have seen like free music streami
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by wooter 8y ago
blame the people extorting taxi drivers for licenses. the government shouldn't be able to tell you what you can use your car for.
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by wooter 8y ago
foolish and regressive. enjoy higher DUI rates, less service and less availability. for what its worth, i've been taking uber and lyft in quebec for years.
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by wooter 8y ago
I find it sad how prevalent this mentality is. the cost to technology and progress is immeasurably vast.
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by wooter 8y ago
fdareview.org - the fda kills more people in late/non approvals than it saves through denials. this is why compassionate use has been on the rise
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by wooter 8y ago
i vastly prefer atom - open source or not.
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by wooter 8y ago
HN has reached a level of popularity where its attracted too many non-engineers that love jumping into these threads with ignorant, reactionary, hyperbolic responses. every post on uber/tesla autopilot has at least a few people calling
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by wooter 8y ago
not even remotely close to true.
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by wooter 8y ago
well, there was the atom editor. which now i fully expect msft to kill in favor of vs code. damn it.
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by wooter 8y ago
seriously? spain, italy, and greece don't have malfunctioning governments?
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by wooter 8y ago
lol, it can be slow on larger projects but its innovative and complete. i really like the packages system/community. always open to suggestions, whats better?
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by wooter 8y ago
i actually love atom and kind of hated vs code. ill check it out again tho. what do you like more about it?
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by wooter 8y ago
i'm also a big fan of the atom editor
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by wooter 8y ago
> If a government project has a net economic (or public health) benefit then by definition the money was not squandered. Just want to point out that this statement doesn't account for opportunity cost. if it could go to something of
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by wooter 8y ago
unreal. and advocates deny any and all costs and collateral. i can't believe their spending limited political and financial capital on this rather than the multitude of real problems in the EU - without any compelling cost-benefit anal
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by wooter 8y ago
so you think EU law should dictate viable fonts, libraries, and distribution methods? why is the EU so paternalistic and authoritarian? why don't they focus limited economic resources on bigger problems? where is the cost-benefit analy
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by wooter 8y ago
probably, at the very least for avoiding DOS attacks on important common assets. GDPR is one of the most shortsighted laws I've ever read
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by wooter 8y ago
your own bucket wouldn't benefit from browser url-based caching of common assets (libraries, fonts, etc)
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by wooter 8y ago
generally, its not smart to experiment with an entire continent at a time
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by wooter 8y ago
HIPAA does a lot of damage to innovation in healthcare research and industry. Still, I don't know why you assumes every law that exists is perfect justification for the a more expansive law. This is exactly why slippery slope is not a
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by wooter 8y ago
> "The individual" was not held, by those people who enacted those laws, or by the majority of people who voted for those people, to be above the rule of law. Correct. And had individual rights been upheld we could have avoided
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by wooter 8y ago
banning prostitution and the drug war have both proven to be counterproductive. > The individual is not held sacrosanct, By you perhaps, but those are the principles of the Enlightenment and modern western society and have served us far
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by wooter 8y ago
"accept our data mining or don't use our service" The internet is and has historically been based on fundamentally voluntary actions, quite literally an extension of speech. Before this law, it was easier to create competitor
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by wooter 8y ago
I'm not a lobbying group and I find the law to be abhorrent. Did you expect all opposition to roll over and disappear?
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by wooter 8y ago
> But is it right to let companies track users simply because the users say it's ok? Yes. Are we not free individuals capable of consent? > I think the EU would be right to consider it's citizens not as adults that are able
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by wooter 8y ago
if you don't want to agree to my terms of service, don't use my service. don't force me to implement features and increase costs on other voluntary users. don't use products you don't want to use, its that simple.

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