slapresta
Joined 13 years ago
Joined 13 years ago
"AWS is a service by Amazon that runs software for you in computers connected to the internet" is still inaccurate, but has a meaning for the layperson other than "tech buzzwords with superlatives".
Your fonts don't have to support the entirety of Unicode. That's why we have font stacks and fallbacks.
Your application does not have a CSRF vulnerability; HTTP cookies have a CSRF vulnerability. Your application may depend on HTTP cookies, which exposes this vulnerability through your application. The so-called "CSRF protection" is a hack that patches a protocol vulnerability at the application level.
You mean that it also creates a toxic culture which disproportionally hurts poor people and minorities? Agreed!
> lotteries are great sources of revenue (better than state corporate income taxes? Holy cow!)
They're only so because the US has this inmensely powerful anti-tax culture and lobbies. Plus, lotteries take money from the poor, which means they're aggravating the very problems we use taxes to solve.
> they are low-health-risk (someone may need treatment for gambling addiction but it never hurts their lungs or livers)
Mental health issues are health issues. Gambling addiction is not a low health risk.
> Just don't come crying to me when the state comes for your income and property taxes to make up the difference...
They should! They should come for my income and for my property taxes, and even more so for the income and property taxes of those who are richer than me. Taking money from the poor to fund the services that poor people need is obviously counter-productive.
Right, because it's not like there's any US party that campaigns against government spending, food stamps and universal health care...
For what it's worth, I'm not a native English speaker.