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The current concept of advertising has been around for more than 200 years now... I think the "all ads have to go away forever" approach is doomed to fail.

But at the end of the day a lot of low-level employees are the ones making this stuff happen — they're doing the gruntwork and ghostwriting this stuff. They might be shielded by some specific data that is direct top-down evil, but many people are complicit.

I'm comparing Monsanto to the Third Reich, so I considered it Godwinning (what an amazingly terrible phrase). Fair enough though, I don't disagree with you.

I'm going to Godwin myself here, but it kind of echoes Hannah Arendt's 'Banality of Evil' — this summary from Wikipedia covers it a bit, but I recommend reading the actual text, especially in the context of today's political climate... for those who aren't familiar, Eichmann was a Nazi on trial in Israel who was defending his complicity as "following orders."

"Arendt's book introduced the expression and concept "the banality of evil". Her thesis is that Eichmann was not a fanatic or sociopath, but an extremely average person who relied on clichéd defenses rather than thinking for himself and was motivated by professional promotion rather than ideology. Banality, in this sense, is not that Eichmann's actions were ordinary, or that there is a potential Eichmann in all of us, but that his actions were motivated by a sort of stupidity which was wholly unexceptional. She never denied that Eichmann was an anti-semite, nor that he was fully responsible for his actions, but argued that these characteristics were secondary to his stupidity."

You start getting into weird questions with "usefulness" right?

Is an artist useful?

That's generally how I feel about it myself, I just hit 30 and I'm done with the "work hard play hard" mentality a lot of startups run with.

I want to do great, efficient work, and leave at 5pm every day to spend time with my family.

I don't give a shit if your office has free snacks, beer, and ping pong, I'm an adult. Life isn't work.

• You couldn't go to a public school and shout "smoke weed everyday"

• you couldn't make a sign with a pornographic image and use it as a protest

• you can't advertise tobacco in public spaces

that's just off the top of my head, I could dig up some more if you want

>The context you are referring to has repeatedly born out that American law allows private citizens to say or express anything, no matter how hateful, as long as it's not an incitement to violence nor slanders a specific party.

This is still very ambiguous. There are MANY situations where the above statement is not true.

>you and I will be considered the Nazis.

That's absurd. If you look back 100 years ago there are many people I would not consider a "nazi" so why would it hold true 100 years from now? Your rhetoric has very little substance. It's Godwin all the way down.

>Stop dodging, actually respond to what you're replying to. Do you consider capturing the hypothetical Nazi flag differently than the HSNDU flag?

I'm not dodging anything, I'm sick of people throwing around the freedom of speech like it justifies everything anyone wants to say.

To answer your question: As an individual I view it very differently.

BUT I don't think the government should snatch either flag, and if you're on someone else's private property doing so it should definitely be considered theft.

It's amazing how many people attempt to take the term "free speech" literally and avoid reading the few sentences in the actual amendment that provide context. Free speech is absolutely not the ability to say anything to anyone at any time.

Free speech is more complex than simply taking the term "free speech" literally.

It literally says "will not divide" and you're here making a comment that specifically divides.

I guess the flag really is wrong.

This is the most mind-bendingly deluded post I've seen on HN in a while.

> individuals coming together, learning new things, and working towards a common goal

the common goal here is being an asshole

> if this was a nazi flag, would you feel the same way?

Shia's flag said "he will not divide us" it was a message of unity that someone took down to replace with the representation of an administration with actual white nationalists as advisors.

> it's a bit ironic that you bring up an attempt to shut down free speech, when that's exactly what shia did

Yelling into someone's livefeed is free speech in a public place, but continuing to follow them and ultimately trespassing onto private property is harassment. Free speech isn't yelling whatever you want whenever you want. It's freedom from the government oppressing your speech.

>would you feel the same if it was a nazi flag?

This again? Seriously. Here's a challenge for you in the future: try to make a sound argument without simply throwing the word "nazi" in.

Then you're effectively banning someone's existing account, which they could have been using for years at that point. There's a lot of potential content there. Not a great feeling for anyone.

Seems like the simplest solution is to have some basic password requirements.

You don't care about the account, but the admin should. Look at all the compromised account issue on twitter. There's spam everywhere.

Hangouts, Voice, and Allo are all meant to be SMS replacements — so they are directly competing with their SMS app.

Except Google Fi, where you can't use Google Voice. FFS Google.

This is spot on. TONS of people are using Slack in their personal lives because it's a good chat app. It doesn't matter if it was originally built to support business teams.

I actually went into the CSS to try to turn off uppercase (seriously stop using it) and it turns out all the text is an image

:|

In my anecdotal experience using bootstrap correctly with enduser efficiency in mind is the exception, not the rule.

>Reflects poorly on those people then, not Bootstrap.

Yes.

>Of course, who wouldn't plan their project ahead of time?

Again, in my experience: MANY people using bootstrap

> The ones that don't need breadcrumbs? > // @import "bootstrap/breadcrumbs"; > ...aaand we're done.

My comment was pointing out an inherent flaw to the popularity of bootstrap (which is no fault of their own): it's often used improperly and has lead to MASSIVE amounts of resources being wasted globally.

My comment was made with the hope that someone who hadn't previously thought about WHY they are using bootstrap to think about it a little more at the start of their next project.

You decided to respond by essentially fulfilling the stereotype of "condescending IT guy."

I'm happy that you know how to use bootstrap as intended, and I apologize if my comment upset you... but I don't see the need to be a dick about it.

You're sacrificing personal efficiency for bandwidth efficiency. You get to decide which is the best option for you and your users.

I generally share the opinion that most people using bootstrap probably don't need to. I'd recommend questioning it at the start of every project instead of assuming it's what a project starts with.

The future of food needs to be meatless.

I think it's a little different when the person "looking over your shoulder" is omnipotent.

The OS these services run on isn't secure, so wouldn't these services by definition not be secure?

The plan is to test larger spheres in the ocean

It also seems crazy to me that we'd be successful at sabotage 88% of the time

It sounds like based on the other comments that there's no way to track down one sole source because there are so many varying from public records to machine learning...

That being said, is there a simple way to better obscure yourself? Like using a business name and a PO box instead of your personal name when it comes to bills/addresses?

so you take a false assumption and turn it into additional assumptions?

livable wages for drivers

I literally stay at my job because I'm the sole earner for my family and the health insurance is very good (PPO) - if it wasn't for health insurance I'd probably freelance and spend more time at home

The cost is artificially low due to loss-backed driver subsidies.