2,097 karma · joined August 18, 2013
Seriously consider working in the states for a few years if you can get an E3 visa, and if you don’t like it head home in 4-6 years with a million bucks.
It's mostly to enable gestures and padding / swiping in macOS, but its also pretty nice getting to pan with one hand and use the pointer with the other.
Was everyone this skeptical / glib when the (insert technology) was useless when it was invented? Anyone seen the efficiency of a solar panel in 1970?
Factory farming is a real problem to solve.
Conversely, venomous creatures have killed approximately zero people in a hundred years.
Someone’s freedom to protest is not more important than someone else’s freedom to use that same space to get to work, live their life, etc. Protests have always needed to be booked in advance and are essentially always approved (with police protection included for neo nazis etc).
You seem to be describing the freedom of America (a right to a gun, but not a right to be free from the fear of getting shot) but it’s not like that everywhere, see even more extreme examples like the “guilty until proven innocent” case of libel in Australia.
I’m not saying either way is better or worse, just that this is the status quo really for Australia.
You should look up (or speak to ex twitter employees) about how pro censorship and pro-algorithmic manipulation he has been. The difference is when the topic is related to him or his companies.
I know of at least one bank where this was exploited, because people see the base url, assume safe, and can't read the embedded escape / javascript in the longer part. Especially when the link is zipped into a little clickable thing and you can't see the URL at all.
Now that they have loans to pay and far less revenue? A much worse situation.
It’s even with 2 years, it’s up 4x on 5 years ago.
> I basically pirate everything that requires a subscription now or us a FOSS alternative… and now when I can afford to pay for subscriptions but the situation with lack of control over SaaS is so fucking untenable that I just can't.
Imagine stealing peoples work you admit you can afford, and claiming their business model is immoral!
For anyone impressionable reading, I just want to point out:
> We're witnessing a large increase in non-covid excess deaths of young-to-middle-aged persons in countries with high covid shot uptake
This is false, the CDC is not lying, the vaccines are safe and effective. I recommend reading: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/sa... and the number of studies linked inside if you would like to read further.