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> people in Austin have been complaining about change in the city since at least 1884

It's not like the rich screwing over the poor is a new thing

Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:15AM (#26552359)
They're probably hoping you'll just have to do that once in your lifetime, then as they aquire or embrace, extend and extinguish all competitors you're forever logged in to everything you'll ever need to be.
Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:01PM (#25993875)
I always loved using VLC, but I watch a lot of tv shows and as far as I know there's never been a good way to remember playlist position (except from some plugin I never got to work). Has this ever been a feature you have considered adding?
Re:Trading Time for Money on Saturday December 26, 2020 @07:03PM (#25547528)
That's why I included assets in the proposition, and not just the money. He would still have the ability to earn about twice as much as others given he also will be given the same amount of assets as the rest of the people.

edit: Which kinda makes it a bad comparison to UBI I guess. Maybe what we need is more than just money for UBI, but also a distribution of assets.

Re:Trading Time for Money on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:32PM (#25547337)
> If you give everyone a fixed amount of money, won't the cost of things just rise accordingly?

And what if it did? What if we gave every person the money and assets equivalent of the richest man on earth, 113 billion dollars [1]. Now Bezos would only be about twice as rich as the average person. Instead of being 1.13 million times as rich as the average household in the US [0]. Surely the prices would skyrocket, but now we're at a more even playing field.

[0]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/whats-your-net-worth-and-h... [1]: https://www.forbes.com/billionaires

Re:A Modern JavaScript Tutorial on Monday December 07, 2020 @03:25PM (#25336950)
In before someone comments: "But chances are you are not the person who needs something as complicated as TS therefore it's useless." and "If your code is more than a thousand lines then you're doing it wrong, all code should be <1000 lines that you throw out immediately and replace with new code".
Re:R adds native pipe and lambda syntax on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:58PM (#25320901)
Now imagine doing that same thing for every system you're programming on. And then imagine having to do it for a million different symbols. I'm sure as hell glad you're not in charge of any of this.
Re:Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs on Monday November 16, 2020 @07:15AM (#25110737)
I'm not sure how it is on Mac, but on Windows if you've ever used an app that can block network connections, and limit other applications. What is to stop any other app on your computer doing the exact same thing. As far as I've understood any app has access to any other app and the whole environment is just a warzone of apps where you have to trust every app completely to be okay with running it.
Re:Layoutit Grid – CSS Grids layouts made easy on Sunday October 18, 2020 @03:59PM (#24820622)
I can't seem to play it, only buttons available are "Login" and "Register".
Re:Reddit's Stock Threads Become a Must-Read on Wall Street on Sunday October 11, 2020 @02:03PM (#24747716)
It's 99% actual 12 year old who somehow managed to set up a robinhood account. Not even joking, if you read some of the comments in the threads you can just tell.
If you'd like some feedback there's one/two things that stood out to me.

When you click on the pricing page your navigation bar becomes a mobile style one, those are usually only shown if the screen width is small like on mobile.

When you click on the live demo page you get a back button top left thing that seems like it belongs to a mobile app, on a desktop where the screen is wider this design choice seems a bit odd.

I'm guessing this stuff comes from still being in a bit of a learning phase with Vue or some library you're using. Otherwise great site, just something to look at in case you want to improve on it.

Re:How to Understand Things on Saturday July 11, 2020 @06:58PM (#23806912)
Unfortunately deep understanding doesn't put food on the table, concrete actions do.
Re:Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:30PM (#23655291)
I wish we could just "ban" a song from ever playing, that way I won't have to make a new playlist from an existing one just because i don't want to listen to these one or two songs I find super annoying.

I have playlists that work as filters for me, if I'm mass copying a playlist I first put it into the filter playlist, then I press "skip duplicates" now all the songs that are not on my shit list (fiilter list) will end up at the bottom labeled "now" on "date added" then I copy those to the playlist I want to and erase them from the filter.

Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:16PM (#23621052)
We call that the WinRAR model.