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> The problem is when a company or two dominates a single market. It would also be bad if one company dominated multiple markets. (just a nit pick on your phrasing)

"[In Q3 2018] YouTube removed about 1.67 million channels and all of the 50.2 million videos that were available from them. Nearly 80% of the channel takedowns related to spam uplo…

> they make it even harder for Europe to ever catch up You've stated this as a fact, but it's not self-evident. There are obviously cases where some degree of "protectionism" makes…

Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't they just save your secret data to localStorage and then send it off when you load another page from the same origin (a page without those hea…

You'd have to restrict localstorage and stuff like that too, else they could save data and then send it when they regain network access. If you have a use-case, or some ideas, ther…

> refuses to run unless it detects that you are offline They could just display the "please disconnect" error for a while, then sneakily stop checking after some date, collecting d…

+1 We definitely need to work on this from a "grass-roots" education-system level, but it's also a bit of a "chicken and egg" situation, because we also need to make the tech indus…

> I'm not sure what the answer is [...] Should have left it there, mate. Many people who are members of a minority group feel pressure to do everything "perfectly" because people w…

Does iOS support PWAs yet? I'd have thought that PWAs would have all the features required for an email application at this point. Apparently 20% of Apple's revenue comes from thei…

Why is login required to view simulations? If I want to share my simulations with my followers, I don't want everyone to have to sign up for an account. Also, the "play" button in …

Agreed. And in regard to GP's comment: > kind of arrogant "make the world a better place" attitude It's not "arrogant" to want to make the world a better place. If GP thinks they'r…

Are you sure Netflix is able to do this (genuine question)? According to this[0] article, Apple says that apps that target consumers (as opposed to businesses) must allow the user …

Yep! It looks like that's exactly what the new version of Teachable Machine is for: https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/ I might have misunderstood your comment, but if you've …

I was playing with tf.js last year and there were some core components still being converted to WASM, which gave me some big performance boosts once I switched. I had some problems…

Isn't Oculus doing better than ever? Citation for "Mark proceeded to fuck with the successful management team until they quit"? (genuine question)

So if I'm reading correctly, the 207-nm ultraviolet light simply doesn't make it past the outer (dead) layer of skin.

According to this[0] blog post Lambda@Edge has significantly longer latency (due in part to a smaller number of locations). Cloudflare also uses V8 isolates instead of whole VMs, s…

> This will not work. They seem to be doing fine: ~10.0M global visible accounts ~2.5M messages per day ~4.5M unbridged accounts ~500K unbridged messages per day ~2.1M rooms that M…

Have you thought about collecting reviews from "real" users of the products to supplement your analysis? There's potentially a misaligned-incentives problem with review sites which…

Not in my experience. Cringey level of generalisation.

> Descendants of slaves can choose to count their blessings and appreciate the opportunities they have in their life while still being proud of their heritage. Alternatively we can…

You're right that my tone wasn't great. I was surprised by your confidence coupled with what seems like complete ignorance of the severity of the treatment of native peoples during…

This is on point. Perhaps (in a very morbid way) it would have been better if the end of slavery had happened slightly later such that there was enough of a "surplus" of support fo…