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And it's typically devoid of any nuance, it's shallow, quick, and distilled down into this form that begs people to react.

I see it mostly on reddit on posts that have hundreds to one or two thousand comments where 50% of the replies have almost the identical opinion. Everyone has this need to share it, even if it isn't nearly that original.

There's probably some societal change that someone significantly smarter than I can speak to, but this whole "digital town square" approach has kinda turned into a maelstrom of the most toxic opinions that people probably don't hold _that strongly_ if you asked them face-to-face in person.

One of the greatest contributions to humanity was the conversion of ytmnd from flash to html5

If it does, I wonder what this innovation might mean to that law.

..even if it's from TC (I won't hold it against you).

That's a fairly large accusation to make.

This blog post was originally published in 2012 - two years ago. Since then has anything come out that would confirm your suspicions? I haven't seen anything.

Every single request was met with a "we'll speak about this at a better time." I would just smile, nod and go back to work. It made me feel bad about myself from the standpoint that maybe I wasn't worth that. Then of course come the friends and family that ask whether I've gotten that raise yet (always a fun conversation..).

I learned that if you want something, you need to go out and get it. If you sit there waiting for a raise, you will never receive one.

So I left the company and found a new job with better pay.

It sucks because not everyone has that option (I'm a stupid, young, single person) and it shouldn't come down to that - but it is a reality of the business world. The fact that the CEO of Microsoft so naively believes that this is how things work is somewhat unsettling.

They just never adapted, I feel like their site design/experience hasn't changed since their initial launch.

Of course there are limits to any measure of security, but 1password does a great job in helping people manage themselves.

Personally, it's helped me a lot in just keeping my various usernames/user accounts organized (I sign up for just about anything).

You don't need trained snipers, full body armor and APCs to do that. Not for a town of 21,000. They were sandblasting saltines.

That's kind of a super-extreme isn't it? He said first glimpse of tyranny creeping up. I took it as an implication that the wheels may be beginning to turn.

Social unrest has also happened quite a number of times throughout history, but are we not allowed to be shocked in seeing weapons trained at civilians? Snipers? Vehicles of this stature? I mean, this is a town of 21,000 and utilizing this equipment was deemed appropriate?

Fortunately, the death and violence and hate aren't on par with lynch mobs and the like, but are you trying to say we should just brush this off? If you could perhaps elaborate on how the concept of Police Militarization is being polarized and preventing a resolution?

I don't see this particular resolution in the first place. We had the President decry weapons or war and then the Pentagon give 'em out. I don't feel like there is a resolution in place to be prevented.

Until then, it doesn't seem probable that the host lives long enough to spread the virus.

Then again, my info is based off of what I researched in school around the mid 90s (fresh off of reading The Hot Zone).

Frankly, right now I just have a hard time remembering what path I was going down with the current process of traversing the file structure.

I remember a conversation from a while ago when young me called a gf of mine the "prettiest black girl ever."

When she asked me, "why not just prettiest girl ever?" I was completely dumbfounded because while that's what I had meant, I realized that I no idea what a simple qualifier could do to the meaning of the phrase for someone.

I learned a valuable lesson that day that I won't ever forget. I don't considered myself 'censored' since then, just significantly more tactful in social situations.

That makes a lot of sense. I could absolutely see the usefulness of an option to delete tweets that have taken place in a conversation where previous tweets had been deleted.

Sure it could be abused, but it wouldn't leave any out-of-context updates out there.

I'm really curious because for me personally, if I were to delete something later then my opinion is that I shouldn't have posted it in the first place. Of course typos and mistakes happen but I feel like those things can't really be scheduled.

I guess maybe having it permanently turning on during evening hours to prevent any lasting drunk tweets/posts - but it's the internet, once it's up there and embarrassing it's probably everywhere else too.

Willing? I'm fairly sure it's going to end up being a "mandatory" fee in order to compete with similar online services.

2. Fair assumption, although it seems like litigation is really the next step so it's not necessarily surprising that he's made that statement/threat. It makes sense, his rep has taken quite a hit and yet we still have no solid facts in the public - if people want to continue the he-said/she-said then let's at least do it in court.

I'm also pretty sure they drive cars in Europe. How does your suggestion aid someone in Germany that just got clipped from someone pulling over unexpectedly?

Also, your suggestion brings up a thought: I'm sure that driver laws differ from country to country in Europe. You're going to need to build some sort of UI/UX that complies with those laws if you want the app to be used freely while driving.

Sucky is being stuck in endless traffic or getting a flat tire.

I'm talking about the disregard people have for the safety of others at times while on the open road. I want a safe drive, you want pokemon on the side of the road - I think somewhere on the path to those goals there are enough compromises we would both share.

Reply to the edit:

>Frankly, the behaviour of people on the road is and should be of zero concern to the developer of an app that has nothing to do with driving.

You want app developers to take possible use-cases and completely ignore them? That doesn't seem like a very good user experience.

> Maybe I'm biased because I find that too many people solve the transportation problem with cars when their use case is covered with bikes or public transports at lower costs. (Translation, I think that driving is stupid unless you got an excellent reason. Please don't list your excellent reasons.)

You are biased, and confirm it with your parenthetical statement.

People are going to own and use cars despite what your opinion on use-cases is. I personally would rather developers keep that in mind instead of just throwing a whole ton of crap out there that may actually affect my personal safety.

That said, I think the second point is slightly deviating away from the original topic.