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Comment · 3 years ago
It's curious that "ideological battle" of one sort is largely permitted while the hammer so reliably falls on "ideological battle" of another sort.
Comment · 3 years ago
which means we've reduced fossil fuel consumption much less since most electricity is not "renewable"
Comment · 3 years ago
> It’s why the ruling class keeps importing people from the third world

this is the definition of a conspiracy theory

Comment · 3 years ago
> "Improving human wealth" is hardly the point of anything at all.

Human wealth enables to do anything beyond the natural course of events where most people die after a very short-lived and miserable existence. Where we're subject to starvation, disease, dangerous animals, or perishing due to mundane cold, heat and other natural events.

Now, if you don't care about wealth, you basically end up being a consumerist. Fritter away whatever humanity can manage to produce on immediate consumption. Progress stagnates and humanity degenerates. If you claim to be none of those, you're probably just anti-human. In which case, nothing is stopping you from a pro-active start on depopulation.

Comment · 3 years ago
I have a hard time believing that the same crowd that is paranoid that there's a conspiracy to hunt down women seeking abortions through digital technology wouldn't also take issue with live location sharing.

But maybe people are just monomaniacally obsessed. They need to direct their hatred at some target. They found Elon Musk after moving on from Trump, and they don't care at all about the substance of these matters.

Comment · 3 years ago
They lost all their power from completely squandering whatever esteem they had by being so egregiously corrupt and abusive with their power.
Comment · 3 years ago
> I guess the main point of this library is to use HTML as the protocol payload between serve and client, instead of JSON

HTTP is named Hypertext Transfer Protocol after all. Exchanging schema-less JSONs is conceptually pretty lame. It's plain old RPC architecture. That's why we end up needing to write API docs to line up the frontend and backend, or otherwise inspect backend code to figure out what's being handed over.

Browsers are built to understand HTML. Whereas in the modern world we largely ignore that and write double the code we'd have to write otherwise passing arbitrary messages and it introduces a whole new set of problems making sure those codebases line up properly. Whereas HTML produced by the backend (properly) contains all the information someone could need.

Comment · 3 years ago
It doesn't have to be, everyone is already fat.

Vaccinated people still spread the virus. In fact, they still spread the virus the most in society (just in pure aggregate numbers).

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