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matchbok··on Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cloud providers
Only if you choose to think it's based on ideology. Fact is, 90% of the top links on FB are right-wing nonsense and conspiracy theories. Doesn't sound like curation to me.
matchbok··on Ask HN: Can you recommend between Flutter, Next.js and React Native?
No cross-platform tool like Flutter or RN is going to be "one codebase". That has never been true for anything but the simplest of apps.

Overall, they are a waste of time. Once you wanna do anything complicated (3rd party auth, UI, hardware, etc) you have to learn the native stuff. Stay far away.

Also, Flutter will most likely be discontinued in 2 years.

matchbok··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
This sort of apologist behavior of terrorists (look up the definition, please) is quite sad.
matchbok··on Parler CEO John Matze, family forced into hiding over death threats
Peanuts compared to the violence threatened on the right. And he encourages death threats on his platform, so he shouldn't be surprised.
matchbok··on Telegram surpassed 500M active users. 25 mil new users in the last 3days
The don't censor conservatives, they censor hate speech.

Just turns our the right does a lot more of that. Reality is hard, sometimes.

matchbok··on Facebook's role in Capitol protest larger than previously thought
Those people over the summer were't protesting for Kamala Harris or Biden, dude. Try again. Like, they aren't even comparable. Trump told these people to gather, on a lie, and fed them nonsense.

Bringing up BLM as a counterpoint to these terrorists is the weakest argument I've heard in a long time. Whataboutism to the max. Pathetic. There is exactly 0 connection to the two events, yet you people seem to keep bringing it up to distract from the right-wing terrorism you seem to support.

Also, the looters during BLM were not connected to the message - they were thugs looking to take advantage. Not the same of last week. But, you must have known that, right? Since it's pretty basic knowledge. Ignorance is bliss, I guess, right?

matchbok··on Facebook's role in Capitol protest larger than previously thought
What is wrong with you? Literally nobody is saying that.

Holding police accountable is something we should all get behind. Whatever it is you think the "other side" supports sounds like something you picked up from Breitbart. Get real man.

matchbok··on Know Your Alcohol
What a, to put it simply, frustrating website to use. It's actively painful to try to consume the content on that page. Simply horrible.
matchbok··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
Well, because antifa is not a thing. That's why. Who is the leader of antifa? Where do they organize?

That's what I thought.

matchbok··on Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
Please, get a grip. The other side goes up in arms when somebody KNEELS. The outrage at the protests earlier this year were obvious, perhaps you weren't reading the news.
matchbok··on [dead]
It's not, because nothing in the article is true. Get a grip kid.
matchbok··on [dead]
Please remove this conspiracy nonsense. TheBlaze is not news, it's right-wing propaganda. mrfusion, this is pathetic.
matchbok··on Stripe co-founder on how his billion-dollar company continues to evolve
What a myopic and inaccurate thing to say.
matchbok··on Fauci acknowledges moving goalposts on herd immunity from Covid-19
Yup, this is how science works. You post a lot of covid conspiracy nonsense. Odd.
matchbok··on Google Phases Out Android Things
As always, the Android platform is a hot mess. This is what happens when you give away an OS for free to drive ad clicks.
matchbok··on Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and Apple Fitness+
What you say, man, to make yourself feel better about yourself. Is your arm sore from patting yourself on the back?
matchbok··on The Case of the Extra 40ms
Man, Android is just not a well-designed OS. This is silly.
matchbok··on The Airbnbs
Airbnb: the biggest transfer of wealth from the renters and low-income folk to homeowners and wealthy in a generation.

Just like Facebook, etc, people who support/work for it are not without blame. Bankrolling huge political efforts to overturn regulations. Nonsense rules that allow corporate owners to buy up low-income housing turn it into vacation homes. Simply terrible company.

matchbok··on Whither the Humanities: The Ten-Year Trend in College Majors (2019)
If liberal arts colleges priced their programs sanely, we'd see more people going to college for the humanities. It's sad that they have to continually hire more administration (where all the money is going) and inflate costs.
matchbok··on Xcode: Fixing the “unrecognized selector sent to instance” exception
Really shouldn't be using storyboards, because of errors like this.
matchbok··on FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
And that's never going to happen.
matchbok··on FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
VR isn't a thing, and won't be. Just like 3d TVs. Nobody outside of tech cares about it.
matchbok··on Airbnb.org
This, kinda like the donations that big Telcos make ("free for first responders") is more proof that the company is too large and vacuums up too much money. Airbnb is trash.
matchbok··on iPhones are inferior to Android phones: the value
Every Android phone is slow and unsupported after 2 years. Not really a comparison.
matchbok··on Microsoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10
Man, good luck with that. The Android SDK is so poorly designed.
matchbok··on CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
Google no longer uses captcha to hone their AI.
matchbok··on Show HN: NotePlan 3 – Native (Mac/iOS) note-taking based on local Markdown files
Nice lookin app! Using Catalyst?
matchbok··on To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided
Incorrect. If a company buys my services, they are free to do with that service what they please. We don't shut down hammer companies because some dude whacked another with one.

You think you are on the moral high ground here, which is why you are taking such a strong stand.

Also, I think you were looking for "complicit", not complacent. You are also wrong there as well. We are voters, that is how we approve or disapprove of government actions. Not everyone has a high paying job and can afford the luxury of ignoring new clients or stopping business because of some holier-than-thou nonsense. People have bills to pay.

matchbok··on Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy
Remember, if you work for FB, you are part of the problem.
matchbok··on The Last Children of Down Syndrome
That’s not what anybody is saying. Are you offering to pay for the extra millions in lifetime care and need for those children?
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