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Thanks for the quick reply! I'm really in the same boat as you, as I do not want to create a system where an "identity police" can create eligibility by the length of noses. > When…

> No, the point is that you turn everyone into a black sheep What do you mean? I wrote "there are black sheep everywhere" as in "yes, it happens that there will be people who will …

+1, and that is why the question "And what about parents?" might play an even bigger role than others.

Thank you for sharing your experience! I see "race" as a problematic variable as well. That's why I like to talk about origin, as in "what did the parents do?", "do the kids have a…

> you're really just incentivizing everyone to loudly claim that they have it the absolute worst and need the most help I understand where you are coming from. What this argument h…

> By your definition, isn't the main characteristic of a role model, that they didn't need a role model of matching genitalia and skin pigmentation and dietary preference themselve…

Thank you for your reply! To my surprise, you say you disagree but are very close to what I wrote before. > for making people adopt inappropriate solutions to a much earlier proble…

> How about teaching kids to pick role models regardless of their gender or color? How would you do that? What is a role model in your opinion? Can you teach children to ignore the…

Good question, and since I am not a sociologist, I can only guess. One thing in advance, and as a reaction to the received downvotes: my usage of the word "identification" has noth…

Hot topic, but your comment has some good points I'll try to add my experience to. > I'm for removing barriers to anyone being able to be interested, educated, and encouraged to do…

Regarding "engagement rate": is your banner filtered by ad blockers? In my session, there's no banner displayed. Could also be a hint on why mobile browsers are more likely to enab…

Sorry if my comment came in kinda offensive, it's a general stance I was criticizing, not your project in particular! Your offer is based on an existing demand, so who should feel …

> Do you want fast pages? Make your server-side rendering fast Yeah.. imagine being so thirsty for page load efficiency that you ignore all the bloat of JavaScript and poor server-…

In case of prefetching, that's a header functionality: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Link_prefe... . Most implementations use it for static content like images …

Why? Sadly, there's not much motivation described in the README. You state "Let's move your Medium content to your very own website" and then you push it to Github and Netlify, whi…

Wrote the same in another comment.. it's kinda brilliant but sad to watch at the same time. Microsoft's Github guys are geniuses if this is a part of a long-running EEE strategy. A…

> This point is brought many times. Why use GitHub if we can host git repositories anywhere? (A: GitHub providers discovery). Why use GitHub PRs if we have mailing lists? (A: GitHu…

> If you change the subject line, your email will get lost in my inbox since it will not be organized into conversations (I use gmail) > Get your email program fixed, but do not ch…

> Google doesn’t say so outright, but it’s fair to assume that it wanted others to shoulder some of the burdens of running the Kubernetes infrastructure, too. Might be a far fetche…

Thank you for the reply! > CF Workers is based on the Service Workers API, which is a W3C standard that has existed in browsers for some time. > Unfortunately, many competing edge …

While I really like the idea of creating more complex policies at the edge, please remember that Cloudflare Workers are a vendor lock-in. If you proxy your servers with Cloudflare …

But why.. every sane programmer uses Python 3 and pip in a virtualenvwrapper environment, cleanly separated for non-pip packages!

They are outraged _now_? Do they know how much power Google concentrates by hording and analysing user data? And how much political/economical influence this introduces? IMO this i…

Prime example of failed business models and their desperate attempts to survive. I'm really disappointed about how online publishers handle the decline of ad revenue. Of course my …