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I'm not who you're responding to, but: > that’s why I used the term western liberalism not “neoliberal hegemony of wealthy Western nations.” the latter often cloaks itself as the f…

There was (still is?) a French law that mandates the maximum sales price for soft-cover/paperback books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Law (if you can read it, the French vers…

I think I agree with the author's sentiment and final conclusions, but I very much disagree with some of the language used. The author never defines "criminal". I can only hope the…

requires some vendor-specific prefixes last time I tried theming it using CSS (unless you're using "theme" to mean host system/window mananger/browser - wide theme). There is no co…

Agreed; it's very serendipitous that you can basically light up a room with the gravitational energy that the sun/earth pair radiate out into space. Light up 1 room with an incande…

I don't know of any programming language that does that as a language-first primitive. But this is basically slapping a `#pragma openmp parallel for` before your C for loop. In Rus…

Very interesting! I'm especially curious on how the live-coding experience plays out. I wish there was an example of a moderately-complex scrapbook, so that I could see what the co…

I would temper your message with the caveat that the data is still accessible to the user; one click to open devtools, and another to switch to the "Storage" tab, and you have all …

Good to see public sharing not only of such a problem, but also how to fix it in your own code. I am a bit disconcerted that something that apparently is warned against in the docs…

An interesting read. Near the end I started to feel like what the author is describing is very similar to the general approach I've coalesced on, over the years. I've always delete…

> but they're hard to visualise and reason about because they don't fit a circle in whole numbers. I think, unfortunately, that you can't avoid encountering irrational numbers in t…

I see that /u/metaphor has given you some formal references. I'd like to chime in with a more intuition-based explanation of what transfer functions are, from my recollections of c…

> I grew up in central europe, and i find the putting-people-into-categories thinking that seems to be common in the US very off-putting. Do you realize in this very sentence, you'…

Hmm. I agree that the problem is larger than capitalism and is closer to human nature, but saying > The very problem is that humans are form of life and restraining ourselves or wo…

Sure, if you're making a text adventure in the command line, then the REPL is basically your default game engine. That's where your i/o, computation, control flow, asset management…

> As a young man, who survived Covid, why would I risk heart complications to save some old people? First of all, because if enough of us don't take the vaccine, we're all at risk …

> It was only by rethinking every layer of our infrastructure that we were able to pull Spotify off, to create that magic moment of double-clicking on a new song and having it inst…

obviously, just like I'm talking about what you _do_ with the increase. Are you really just saying to leave the increase in value alone? Then why pursue it? I'm under the impressio…

> Right so instead we should take one of those 100 people and give them the power of violence to take all the coconuts and distribute as they see fit. No one is saying that. We tak…

> For example, Elon Musk would be forced to sell all but a minuscule sliver of his shares in Tesla, SpaceX, etc and give the proceeds to the tax man. He'd be out on his arse and re…

It depend on what is done with said boost. It would go straight into your wallet? Makes perfect sense to me for the government to get an additional cut. It would go straight into t…

Guess they'll have to start taking lessons from professional athletes who've had to figure out how to deal with not being able to "continue playing the game" and still be happy.

Then don't pin to a dollar amount, pin to relative wealth available in the world/country/region. Something like estimated total accumulated wealth / total pop. Inflation destroys t…

> if you log in on a new device and see all your content while using only login and password to authenticate yourself What about if the encryption key is derived from your password…

Well, we're not likely to be able to do interstellar travel in our lifetimes, so for today it doesn't have much consequence :)