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Re:A discussion about the breaking of the Internet by awesomerobot on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @05:22PM (#11348372)
"Most" people don't know of either.

Kik is a messaging app, kik is a node module. Was someone going to call up the app store and install a node module? Was someone potentially going to install a messaging app into their node project?

I think there are a lot of slippery slopes here.

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Re:A discussion about the breaking of the Internet by vlribeiro on Thursday March 24, 2016 @10:09AM (#11352873)
Well, if Kik - the company - really intends to release a node module that would be enough to confuse some people.
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Re:A discussion about the breaking of the Internet by jhall1468 on Thursday March 24, 2016 @12:57PM (#11354412)
That's the same absolutely absurd argument that npm made.

Who actually installs a module without actually seeing what it does first?

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