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100% agree. It may be futile with the vast majority of their users, but every person who actually cares about it and becomes more informed though advocacy is a modest win of some k…

a printer manufacturer will tell you that ink cartridge DRM is not a defect, or some smart juice press manufacturer will tell you that its online-only requirement and juice pack DR…

Are they? The amounts of arguments and toxicity on that despicable website (enough to prompt highly-upvoted posts about quitting the website every so often) suggests they aren't? T…

They are not being transparent about your experience being manipulated for the purposes of generating engagement either. Most non-technical people don't immediately associate "cont…

We don't get to declare what Twitter is or isn't. It has evolved over time from a kind of microblogging platform into an algorithmic-timeline social network. As a user, I don't car…

Beware. One thing that happens to people in a homogeneous community is that the out-group shaming becomes invisible. So everyone in every little community thinks that their communi…

What you describe in the first paragraph is not censorship. There's a whole thing around censorship not applying to private platforms, but even if you argue that the word "censorsh…

+1 Your handle "freeopinion" reminds me that although people often say "you get what you pay for," just because something's free does not mean that it's worthless.

Let me reframe this: You are the director of engineering. I am a manager reporting to you. You ask me to hire and lead a team to build X, which will generate $Y in revenue. But I t…

FWIW, I think that's terrible interviewing on their part. Literally looking for their wallet under the lamp post because it's easy to pick nits in your homework assignments, but di…

My own writing on the subject of this industry falls into two pretty cleanly divided piles: The writing about programming itself is "impractical" and "romantic," because that writi…

I am deeply, deeply romantic about programming. I consider it an act of self-actualization. But answering the question literally, I am not representative of everyone in the industr…

"When you're holding a Shunting Yard Algorithm, every Domain-Specific Expression Language looks like a compile-to-RPN-and-evaluate-with-a-stack-machine nail." https://en.wikipedia.…

I'm against just heaving that technology out over the fence into the hands of consumers and leaving it up to consumer reports and/or individual consumers to decide if it's safe eno…

I'm not gonna debate the "appropriate level of liability." My point has to do with what you're signalling. If a thing is alpha-level, and real humans can get killed, I wouldn't let…

"It may not hold up in court but it can't hurt" If you sell someone something with a nudge-nudge, wink-wink, and they get killed using it, it absolutely hurts. You may be able to w…

It really does depend upon the consequences of failure. Naturally, I want my children to learn to laugh at themselves when they fall off a bike. In my case, I taught them this by l…

This may not be the most constructive way to make the point, but this is a feature of any speculative asset. If the market as a whole has a very high confidence it will continue to…

If you are buying and selling real estate in a functioning jurisdiction, hiding your identity by making the payment opaque is not going to do much for you. There are title deeds an…