gramstrong
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Comment · 4 months ago
That's interesting I guess, but a pointless piece of data without asking why.
Comment · 8 months ago
You can have my job I guess, I'm not going to sit at a prompt all day being a manager for a computer. It's not an appeal to tradition, I genuinely enjoy programming. Keep up that grindset young pup!
Comment · 2 years ago
Integration tests are a thing.
Comment · 2 years ago
Sooo like the Spotify app for the past 10 years.
Comment · 6 years ago
A better question is where do you draw the line in terms of companies supplying actors that are directly contributing to human suffering? We (America, but others as well) cut trade and enact sanctions exactly for that reason, all the time. This idea that capitalism should be entirely apolitical is farce, people only want it to be apolitical as far as they are personally comfortable.
they're building a generic tool and simply can't be responsible for how others use it
AutoDesk is undoubtedly aware of its sales with a massive coal plant, unless they are a horribly run and incredibly lucky company. Beyond that, it seems like AutoDesk has gone as far as promoting their involvement in developing the excavators, no?
Would you sell hammers to a sweat shop?
Comment · 6 years ago
No it's not. doctorhandshake wasn't even making an analogy. They were applying OP's rule (we shouldn't dictate business based on political beliefs) to a hypothetical in order to demonstrate its negative moral outcome.
Comment · 6 years ago
Do we want hammers to be restricted to only those whose political ideologies align with ours?
Yeah, why not? If you're a hammer manufacturer, then you should absolutely concern yourself with whether or not you're dealing business with ethical consumers.
I think if you commit yourself to your ideal, you're either going to end up being complicit in some really nasty stuff, or end up drawing a very arbitrary "line" where you stop being apolitical.
Comment · 7 years ago
Just like how the courts prevented mass surveillance and illegal authorization of war.
Comment · 7 years ago
Sometimes it can help to give an explanation instead of just making an opinionated statement. Saying you found it uninteresting doesn't really contribute much to a conversation.
Comment · 7 years ago
I don't doubt it, but at least some security is a side effect of that.
Comment · 7 years ago
As someone who stopped doing React development before Context became a "thing", is it possible to ELI5 in a couple sentences why it is such an important concept?
Comment · 7 years ago
Social media is slightly different in that content is catered to the individual, so I'd guess that it does a slightly better job at siloing people. It also allows others on the platform to provide the catered content as opposed to the media corporation providing you with their political vision (although I'm not sure which is better or worse).
Comment · 7 years ago
>How would you describe a "reddit-style mugging for karma"?
Normally an extreme appeal to emotion. In this case excessive use of caps-lock and a fictional narrative that doesn't substantiate itself.
Comment · 7 years ago
I don't think that private censorship is necessarily a problem, but I do think that corporations having the authority to exercise what is a pretty effective form of muting is a problem. This is of course due to the size and prevalence of Facebook as a platform. I don't think the solution (or best solution, at least) is to break up the tech giants as Elizabeth Warren would suggest. I would instead prefer to see some form of socialized media platforms that take the market question out of the equation (does white supremacy content hurt Facebook more than removing it would?). This is of course, because, the market is not always right (even though in this case I would make a strong argument that it is).
I'm not sure what the best social media model for such a platform would be -- preferably something mostly non-anonymous like Facebook, but self-moderated (within the bounds of the law) like Reddit used to be.