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The downvotes could also mean you should do some self-reflection. It's possible you don't realize you're espousing offensive views. And before you go "zomg I've triggered the snowf…

Pointing out that RMS harassed women doesn't also mean that those other things aren't bad, and that line of reasoning along with your flippant remarks about very real problems faci…

You know, it IS possible for "the crowd" to condemn you because you've _actually_ done odious things. Branding everything a witch hunt makes you look, at best, ignorant, and at wor…

"There is no consensus among scholars, therefore human rights don't exist."

Apple doesn't help prop up an authoritarian regime? CCP gonna CCP, but at least Apple's hands are clean. It's not any individual Chinese citizen's fault, but they unfortunately hav…

Are we really that lacking in creativity that we can't imagine a world in between "Panopticon" and "Oregon Trail"? Legislation that makes this illegal would be a great (and really …

1. If someone intercepts your password you're screwed anyway. How many of your emails are intercepted regularly? 2. If someone has access to your email, you're screwed anyway becau…

Or 0 per minute and 25,000 per hour for two days a month. Traffic can be bursty; don't assume that X/month means they're getting exactly X/30 per day..

No, what's harmful is "oh, just spend $50,000 on managed Kubernetes to run a Django web app". That costs real time and real money and makes young engineers think that a phpBB forum…

It's always easier to destroy than create. I mean, you can demolish a house in a few hours. This isn't new. Creation is hard. Nuance is hard. "How do we fix healthcare" is hard; "d…

Not particularly. JavaScript still runs on computers, and the broad concepts are transferrable. Like, I don't need to know how loops work, but an intro video will probably talk abo…

I guarantee literally nobody removes the batteries before throwing these out. It's a shame, really. I'm sure there are bulkier sources of eWaste, but still. Someone pees on a compu…

And then it sits in a landfill for eternity! Imagine how many millions of tiny computers (and batteries - oof) are just sitting in dumps right now. That's the most egregious part f…

Oh, they are, but they're drowned out by "look at this create-react-app hackathon project I made! VCs pls give me a series A thx". Alas, the web is now a profit engine first.

So what makes you think that immigrants are the tipping point? If there were no immigrants, who's to say white people (who are themselves... descended from immigrants) wouldn't fil…

1973, with the Xerox PARC-developed Alto personal computer. It's still possible to do today.