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Inclined to disagree. Plenty of wealthy people see the "market potential" of starting in poorer places (cough Africa) and 'locking up' marketshare.
hell, zuckerberg and others tried pushing through the precedent of zero-rated internet for proprietary services in india and other countries as a way to lock up precedent for when they'd bring the same tech to america. (Not that the latter has needed any help being complacent with zero rating - apparently india beat us on that front)
You mean nonvoter. Someone who stayed home is by definition someone who did not care enough to go vote, so there's no evidence they supported clinton over any other candidate.
> the Bernie Bro smear
As far as I'm concerned anyone who considers this a 'smear' (implying any credibility) just feels or felt entitled to votes because they made the mistake of trying their own 'lesser of two evils' fearmongering koolaid.
Neither party convinced me to vote for their candidate, and adding my support to third party candidates would just have provided them to another statistic to blame.
> The good news is that even Bernie could come up with a message that resonated enough to get as far as he did with as few connections as he had. Someone else could do the same.
I'd be amazed if anyone wanted to at this point. Most politically interested people I know've left for greener pastures.
People can be incredibly cordial when there aren't any problems or one big common one they can focus their efforts around. It isn't until personal liability enters the equation that the finger-pointing gets going.
Probably because there's no elegant way to support all the potential edge cases of that default behavior. For instance, if you introduced a reference with that format, you can't refer to it later - if you use the static number and it changes, you're now pointing to the wrong reference. So it reduces to using names, and the hassle of coming up with a name for each new link or footnote reduces to just using numbers - so the only thing that needs to be supported is manually named or numbered items.
The author correctly describes the ideal solution - a plugin that replaces unnamed links before saving or such - but likely fails to understand why that (as opposed to adding behavioral cruft to a markup language) is the correct level of abstraction for such a solution. Imagine if a project like wikipedia was riddled with the ambiguity of dozens of people's various attempts to wrangle the autonumbering to their writing.
Some people aren't like that. This should not be news. And it's "lose".
This isn't limited to wine drinking preference, people can pontificate about anything.
I'm sure a sea of articles in the same vein wouldn't begin to compare to the number of person-hours wasted on alcohols.
Ah, like my much nicer version control system ;)
I'm actually amazed that's from the press release they put out.
Frankly I run into the converse problem far more; people's attempts to inflict "their personal design touch" trying to disrupt my browsing. Thankfully, the latter always wins out ;)
So everyone pays tithe to a single organization that creates 'trustable' units of physical currency. So new!
At least with cash you're not destroying the physical currency every time you use it. (That and the Mint's security measures are just a liittle more advanced than "we put some epoxy on a USB stick")
Helping people on the ground is not the job of the mayor, organizing what's necessary for thousands of her own citizens to be able to do that for each other is.
"The agency's primary purpose is to coordinate the response to a disaster that has occurred in the United States and that overwhelms the resources of local and state authorities" (via Wiki). For FEMA to be called in, "local and state authorities" have to have already failed.
As much as people hate the annoying orange - leaving aside the hole he's digging himself onto on twitter, which I don't really care about compared to the relief effort - FEMA and the USG is not supposed to be the first line of defense. Cries of "you're killing us" are politically popular because of trump, but the reality is that the mayor (et al) are/were supposed to have better distribution plans than being on foot doing what they can (again, popular though that image is politically, organizing many feet on the ground is the job of the mayor, not being 1 pair and blaming the USG).
The local mayors/authorities/government was and is responsible for its people, so if they want to make populist "blood on your hands" statements they should look in the mirror. "[FEMA]'s primary purpose is to coordinate the response to a disaster that has occurred in the United States and that overwhelms the resources of local and state authorities" (via Wiki) - so to lay this at the feet of FEMA, local and state authorities have to have already failed. Considering the situation on the ground seems to be mostly arising from lack of coordination not resources, that sounds accurate.
Isn't it? Wasn't this the crux of the whole dev team controversy/split years ago?
(This is all sounding like rehashed news to me, but I admit I don't go out of my way to keep up with browser community drama, so someone correct me if I'm wrong.)
Um
Define "googly"
(If you're saying it's atypical of the behavior you'd expect of them: based on what?) Considering there's no trivial way to log into one of their services (gmail) without automatically doing so on others (yt etc) without fucking around with browser sessions - among many other non-customizability gotchas from them - saying google doesn't want to control how their offerings are used is going to be a very tough sell.
I don't think "why isn't what we have good enough" has ever been the mantra of pioneers in their field, but ok
I don't get why you seem to take such exception to the stance that "we can do better". We can always do better.
Do you imagine 500 years from now the same technologies and web models in play as today? Even 100 years from now? Do you really think they are the pinnacle of the web.
If you really do, I'd sincerely love to read your counter blog post on this, as I reflect on this quite a bit and have generally always come to the conclusion that there's a long way to go.
> This is like sitting there in 1600 and saying that the printing press sucks because it doesn't encrypt documents
If that's so, isn't your comment akin to saying "why isn't the printing press good enough for you"? :)
Didn't the SEC publish a report declaring their stance as ICOs = securities? Doesn't seem that difficult to go from there.
god forbid people bring up hitler in a thread about history/world politics
In fact, let's just scrub history of any references to Germany so we can make internet threads marginally less annoying
It's* also worth noting that currencies like Ethereum actually fork all the time. The only worthwhile ones are the forks with mass support, which in Eth's case is usually the latest one supported by the foundation/Vitalik and in Bitcoin's case are Core and Cash (the forks supported by Blockstream and the community fork centered around scaling the block limit, respectively)
Agree with the article title, but the 'fiat' in question is community fiat.
speaking of reddit's new redesign...
> Like Slashdot before they fucked it up. Or Ars before they fucked it up.
Man, it's almost hilarious