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This is excessively sensitive and represents an opinion-driven interpretation of the law. It seems like a lame attempt to make an "edgy" political statement.

It is really cool that much of this is still relevant over 50 years later.

I am not totally against targeted advertising when I am being targeted based on my activity on that site, but I find it really creepy when ads are targeted based on things I've done outside of the internet, or conversations I've had. I don't like the idea that my activity unrelated to a specific site is being stored somewhere and sold to companies that could theoretically use it for whatever they want.

I don't mind supporting companies by not blocking ads on a page, but I do mind being "followed" by them around the internet and IRL.

My professor always called it "3 O long term support" - looong term support

Have you tried viewing it on mobile? It looks awful.

Frankly, even a single mattress theft is absurd. What are the logistics of that?

Switches have MAC addresses.

Sure, a simple marketing site for a local restaurant can work with only HTML and CSS, but practically all of the top 20 most popular sites would cease to function without JS.

Does such a setting actually exist? I think you’re misunderstanding.

Are people really pleasured by optical illusions, or are they interested by them? I think that most people understand that their brains are struggling to comprehend them, and that is why they are interesting.

Regardless, I don't think there's much evidence (if any) for the idea that the enjoyment of music is the result of a defect in our auditory system.

This is a straw man argument. Who is making that point?

In general, I find the opinions on these things to be pretty consistent: the “free market” types tend to support Apple/MS - usually with some form of “its their platform” as an argument - and the FOSS types holding the opposite position.

I don’t think readability is the goal here. This is more of an experiment - a mental exercise, even - than anything.

I strongly doubt that Google harbors any negative feelings for you specifically. Do you have any concrete evidence for your claim?

I think your core point is somewhat valuable, but does it really matter if any modern software could run on such outdated software? Why would I care if my software couldn’t run on a 20 year old machine? The new Raspberry Pi 4s have better hardware specs than the machine you gave as an example.

Also, sometimes “fast enough” is just that - fast enough. It is not necessarily true in every case, but sometimes it is.

I'd never really considered the implications of that term before.

There is a shockingly large segment of American society that feels pride in its own ignorance. I've had numerous discussions with family members, particularly those from rural areas, who flat-out deny statistical fact because "they know what's right in their heart"

That being said, I think there is an analogue to these ideas in Asian cultures. I think Asian cultures can be similarly resistant to new ideas - particularly in social contexts (LGBTQ rights, as an example.)

Japan is fantastic, but I think there are some absurdly rigid social standards that would keep me from spending long periods of time there. I think it's easy to downplay these standards if you're someone who is generally "average," but the socially conservative attitudes are somewhat offputting to a westerner like me. The attitudes towards things like LGBTQ rights and tattoos are a good example.

Collectivism can produce incredible things, but a dose of individualism wouldn't hurt either.

It is not impossible to advertise without tracking users.

I think the dangerous thing is that people who have never smoked are using vapes more and more. I'm 26 and the vast majority of my friends have never been smokers, but are consistent vapers. I agree that they can help smokers, but I think the primary audience for these products never smoked.

I took a pretty boring poetry class a few years ago. Most of the poems other students (including myself) were boring and mostly just written for the sake of getting the assignment done.

There was this one girl in the class who wrote a poem titled, "Millions," or something along those lines. Anyway, at the end of each stanza, she wrote "and millions of people flooded inland."

It was super powerful to me and was the first time I really considered what a massive problem that's going to be. I don't even know how we could prepare for it.

A lot of the tooling is Ruby-like. Phoenix and Rails are very similar as well.

They do have some major fundamental differences though and I think the similarity is often overstated.

I'm 26 now, and I first got into Facebook 12 years ago as a Freshman in high school.

It was cool at first because I actually spent time with my "friends" on there, or at least saw them on a daily basis at my small high school. It's changed in a couple key ways over time:

1. Family joining Facebook. It used to be a funny place I could goof around with my friends, posting whatever I wanted. Now I have to filter everything I say because my grandparents can see it. I concede that that's probably not a concern for many people, but I noticed the "vibe" changed significantly when Facebook's popularity grew beyond high school/college age people.

2. Sharing. Virtually everything on my timeline came from pages that post short "viral" videos for people to share. No one was posting anything unique or interesting. It was like a heavily bastardized version of Reddit without any interesting content. Anecdotally, this content seems to appeal to older people, who don't know of ways to see more interesting content.

Privacy concerns aside, those are the main reasons that I no longer care about Facebook. I deleted mine 6 months ago and I don't miss it at all.

I'm with you. My SCSS is really just CSS with nesting. My CSS is cleaner without any downside. I've never experienced issues with maintainability, even in large CSS files.

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