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Driving is licensed and regulated by the government. Are you suggested internet licenses that required semi-regular tests and strict enforcement by governments?

I took this essay's main thrust to be around a lack of nuance in the discourse. His own behavior indicates he's pretty unwilling to have any nuance himself; pot calling the kettle …

Genuinely funny coming from the dude who insta-blocks anyone who even mildly disagrees with him about _anything_ on Twitter.

No, the NTIA. It was probably described that way because most people wouldn't recognize the agency or acronym.

Both of these are arguments for more regulation and enforcement, not less.

You're absolutely 100% wrong if you argue Uber X has a higher average car quality than yellow cabs.

Every single one of those things is illegal, and can be reported.

There is a lot of ridiculous hyperbole and disingenuousness in this post so it's a little hard to take seriously. As someone who has lived in New York for the past ten years, the e…

But they're clearly not using server-side rendering here, so the point stands...

https://bloomberg.github.io/comdb2/overview_home.html >> We had several goals in mind. One was being wire-format compatible with an older internal product to allow developers to mi…

It's hard to take something like this seriously when it spends 3 (large) paragraphs scare mongering about the fact that fish "may" contain plastics, only to end with: >> Even thoug…

Last I'd heard, the Facebook app was still native per platform and not using React.

It's going to be extremely hard to convert anyone who uses an RSS reader without import functionality. There is 0% chance that I'm going to switch no matter how good your recommend…

>> It went so quickly from a semi-plausible portrayal to a fetishization of [black hat] hackers. One can already see from the first episode of season 2 (which I suppose you haven't…

Yeah, fair, but it would be a better user experience if they didn't even have the option. This directly contradicts Google's position. You're statement is basically: Comment: User …

You've completely missed the point of the comment. Your parent was describing a system where an Administrator edits other users' data. If that Administrator is using Chrome while e…

On one hand you say that FP aficionados are unable to explain FP concepts to others, and on the other you succinctly do it later on in the same paragraph (first class functions, cl…

The homepage, http://phaser.io/ , is literally covered with games created with Phaser, many of them non-trivial. You can find the full blog roll here: http://phaser.io/news/categor…

No, users now have to go to a settings page to change their default applications. Ostensibly this is for user protection (so apps can't trick users into setting defaults they don't…

If you open the map, you can teleport anywhere and get back to playing.

Streaming-only Netflix is $7.99/mo in the US

The hint in the source is a little strange...it's not really a hint at all.

True - but you can't sign up for a checking Aaccount only. They require you have a brokerage account through Schwab as well.

Check out MelonJS (built in Tiled support out of box) or Crafty as free alternatives. Both very good.