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I mean, it's no worse than the standard antipatterns, which are designed to be so easy to click "accept" and so hard to follow the "don't accept" flow. None of them are about comin…

That's certainly the implication of their text. It is not a legitimate conclusion. Given the premises "Apple has made a decision X" and "Apple has made billions of dollars since ma…

Well that is an argument no-one is making. No one is comparing email and IM and asking which is succeeding better at being a decentralised application. You're right: email is certa…

I think that's a fair characterisation of her premises. For instance, she argues that these outcomes aren't happening because of any systematic quality difference in the products: …

It isn't a fallacy, and in any case the article isn't claiming that decentralised software has become centralised because companies have built good defaults on top, so that's a com…

> I don't agree that email isn't an example of a decentralized application. She argues that it's not because it's really hard to run your own mail server. I don't think this is a f…

NixOS and GuixSD aren't user friendly because the people who use them are like GNU/Linux users circa 2000: people insane enough to install an operating system that is very particul…

I mean, sure, but probably most programs we use these days are written in Javascript/DOM and gratuitously interface with remote systems. It demonstrably isn't difficult to write de…

I found in Paris, the easiest way to communicate was to speak English with an exaggerated French accent, and throw in the few words of French I know. In the other parts of France I…

"Can't" isn't even the slightest bit passive. But a person who is telling others how to communicate well will always use technical terms with the wrong meaning. In this case a nega…

> or how about smokers who will as a result of their actions will cost spades more than "good souls"? or type 2 diabetics on dialysis? Why not just tax the cigarettes and subsidise…

I think there's a difference between fire brigades that are private businesses and government owned fire brigades that have territorial jurisdiction and which apply common sense to…

Hospitals are run and funded by each state in Australia. I think a decade ago the federal government started to run a hospital in Tasmania, but they pulled out of it because it was…

I think there's differences of attention that make it different. When there's only one brand name, it invites a competitor from another market in. When there's three, but they all …

I think comments here seem to be missing the point, which isn't so much that Nunavut is geographically huge, but that Canada doesn't seem to have anything like the principle of one…

I think it's considering only single member districts. If you count multi-member districts, Western Australia sends six members to the Australian Senate and it's 2.6 mio sq km. The…

According to the English language article https://www.zdnet.com/article/free-software-advocate-richard... , 'According to Segala, Stallman requests no video feeds in "places using …

I've tried several times to use Purescript to target web browsers. I got frustrated by Bower - it's especially hard to start a new project using tools that say "don't use me, I'm d…