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I guess I don't really get why is Apple App Store forced to disallow apps which violate the YouTube service policy? Surely that is an issue for the app developer and YouTube to sor…

I feel like the core of the problem is that we don't as consumers have hardly any control over the software we run on our devices. People can and have written less addictive YouTub…

This argument is lacking nuance. Just because there are some instances of paternalism one is prepared to accept, doesn't mean that every possible paternalist policy is always okay.…

I notice that these sorts of justifications for increased paternalism as a consequence of socialized services come up in public discourse all the time but never seems to be mention…

I think this is kind of misleading. Yes s-expressions have very simple syntax in and of themselves. But s-expressions are not all that's required to get all the control structures …

Spinning dwindling adoption as a good thing because it "unburdens community from serving lowest common denominator use-cases" is exactly the kind of of downplaying/deflection of ev…

Yeah to be honest after trying for many years to understand what is so special about this famous Clojure REPL I struggled to see how it was that different in practice from Python o…

Yeah, Elixir's Pheonix if anything demonstrates how important a flagship framework/stack plays a huge role in driving language adoption. Despite Elixir coming out after Clojure, an…

Rich's Simple Made Easy talk is really interesting and insightful and I still love it but I think now the distinction is brought out too often almost reflexively, and used as a cru…

Yep

I think it actually is a pretty big problem. "Once you absorb the ideas of Clojure" takes months or years to fully get. Composing libraries yourself, like your comment says, requir…

You say that I gain all the benefits from collective bargaining but I had no other choice. Maybe I don't even like the contract very much and would have bargained for other things …

It's not just the Notwithstanding clause. There's a general judicial tradition in Canada of utterly ignoring or dismissing or excusing blatant, objective violations of the constitu…

Hah, apologies, yes autocorrect got me.

Prices don’t monotonically go up forever, prices come down all the time Edit: Sorry autocorrect thought I said moronically,

Yes. If A is correlated with B, is A more likely to cause B than if A is not correlated with B? Clearly yes.

But it is evidence for causation.

Maybe that would be a good opportunity to offer them a quote for how much you could do the work for.

Not really. They said in their comment they deleted their whole account and everything. They probably don't want to continue to be ridiculed and to link the identity of that accoun…

I agree about the marketing. I just heard about this phone now and was confused about if I could just use it as a primary phone. It would be nice if they talked more about what the…

What do you use for maps? Or paying for parking which maybe isn't the case for you but in my city requires use of a smartphone app. What about music and podcasts? Asking cause I wo…

That's a huge exaggeration. National Post is absolutely not more unhinged than Fox News.

> nobody reads intermediate commit messages one by one on a PR I think it's fine to have a whole bunch of "WIP" commit messages on intermediate commits while the PR is in a draft s…

Which app do you use to read?

> Criminals by definition don't need to follow the law and they don't need the 2nd amendment. This is kind of an argument from tautology that is disconnected to reality. In the rea…