smokeyj

Come on, you knew facebook was evil. Most people know facebook is evil. We choose to ignore it because otherwise we would feel obligated to change. Change would come at the expense of "likes" and other modes of social validation.

People are realizing that social validation is becoming less validated by social media. (Lets remove the likes on IG!!). The people coming around now are sheep looking for the next wave of validation.

> and siphon only the data they want

All of it.

If they can't decrypt it now they'll save it until they can.

> or take out the 'threat to national interests'?

Isn't that what we did in Iraq, blindly listen to the IC? Ha, that was an A++ operation. All those lives lost - for absolutely nothing. I mean sure there was "Iraqi democracy" but where did the WMD's go? The solution being proposed is to literally kill the messenger. It's a two-party induced cognitive dissonance where you would rather be lied to than have your political affiliation be embarrassed.

I'm guessing this is more because of google analytics being absolutely everywhere. If G knows your social graph and that your peers looked up movie X on website Y - that's enough to tweak your feed. Pure speculation.

> I don't think anyone is vouching for "big brother" type government control here, but governments always have a principal role in civil rights, inclusion and the moral development of a nation.

Lol, what does this even mean? You want a Theocracy with Zuck writing the scripture? Are your views tainted in any way by Facebook Incorporated?

The government and their role in defining "harmful" has been defined already. It's called the First Amendment. Might want to check it out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_...

> In the case of USDC, Coinbase is handling it.

It's handled by CENTRE who's founding members are Circle and Coinbase.. but the network will grow to include any compliant banking institution.

> because it can in some ways allow them to skirt their reserve requirements

It can do what now??

> and other banks - have a huge incentive to run their own "stablecoin"

Every bank can release their own version of Paypal too. Why would the network effect of JPMC overtake USDC when any regulated bank can become a USDC issuer? USDC is sitting at a 255MM market cap.

I'm confused what this offers over USDC. Banks can already issue USD backed tokens with this model. USDC is already being traded on several exchanges. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.

Then pack your selfie stick and have yourself a time! I'm not saying there's a right way to travel. The tweet suggested there's more economical ways of "expanding your horizons" than being a chronic tourist. Given the cultural diversity in my own backyard I think the statement is more empowering than gatekeeping.

I don't take it that way. In terms of "broadening your horizons" it's easy to travel and not connect with the local culture. You're just a tourist, window shopping into the lives of the local people. Strolling through with your selfie stick to earn social credibility on the Gram.

That said, I think people who enjoy Rick Steves would also be the type to make an effort to get the authentic experience. Could be my own projection.

Sorry I did get annoyed. I've had similar ideas for this model and ultimately feel like it would be dismissed out of a sense of moral justice. Would I be okay with a 100K payback? In theory sure, thats the model for elite universities and no one seems to be concerned for their wellbeing. The determining metric would be ROI. The proposed model limits risk and incentivizes instructors to produce the most valuable curriculum. As more companies compete in the space, unskilled workers win because they now have a bridge to become skilled. Not only that, they're receiving cash while doing so!

I want to see this model taken to the extreme. Offer luxury living to students while they learn, and offer work from home positions upon graduation. Have developers compete to create modern campuses that compete for unskilled labor. They would only do this knowing there's profits to be shared by developing the unskilled to the skilled.

> Sure, this is less total money

Oh, MONEY - who cares about that stuff. Not the poor, they got tons of it.

I get the feeling you and your parents are well off. And I say that only because I've only met rich white people who are versed in Marxism.

> So, you're basically only mitigating risk if you can't find a job.

Which is.. everyone starting a bootcamp!! Lol.

Who are you looking out for? You seem really concerned about the biblical application of usury laws. Do you know anyone who has zero technical skill and would LOVE to make 40k? I have a feeling you live in a very, very small bubble.

> I just can't get passed the 300%

At least you understand your mental limitations. But this is also a form of false charity, where you make decisions on behalf of others in order to signal virtue. This is a business model that should be supported - because those of us with basic economic literacy know that competition will reduce corporate profits to market rate.

College is a misplaced job training program that is a self perpetuating status symbol. The poor NEED this model to be disrupted.

> If they are JS devs, experienced in next, sure, go right ahead, but I don't think that's the case here.

The author is clearly experienced in UI development. The app was already written in React/Redux. So honestly, yeah, just install next.js and fix your routes.

This solution would be a complete non starter for any professional project in terms of accessibility - there's a few issues screen readers would run into with this. Not only that, but good luck getting other developers to sift through your spaghetti code.

But the main thing is, the authors goals are somewhat pointless. If you don't want a SPA then just use jQuery. The author ended up using plugins anyways so the whole story was aimed at people who don't know front-end but latch onto this idea of javascript is baaad. Don't be that guy.

So to recap. If you don't know javascript, and you don't want to learn the standard tooling - please don't roll your own framework and blog about it.

Edit: looks like someone already commented this on his blog. This is all you need to know: https://dev.to/isfotis/comment/9c7k

It's funny how clearly people are addicted to outrage, yet also in complete denial about it. They don't see it as outrage, instead it's measured, proportional, and reactionary response to the opposition. It's the opposition that's addicted to outrage, not my team.

Unfortunately I think we've forged a new road to politics, we can call it "outrage marketing". The more the opposition is outraged, the more publicity you get - the more extreme candidates from both sides bubble up in popularity.

"I smoke when I drink" - you never heard that? Social smoking is absolutely a thing.

Facebook is a cancer and executives will jump ship while they can to claim ignorance.

Comparing Magic The Gathering Online Exchange to an FDIC regulated bank.. He was running the equivalent of a fraudulent trading card ring that happened to become very valuable.

Mark has some of my coins and I think he's done enough time. Prison in general is cruel and unusual for anything besides violent offenders.

Imagine you have a team of rails developers and you're asked to create a simple portal. Rails as a tool may be "overkill" but what does it matter?

If you already know Rails I'd say use that. If you only knew ruby then reaching for rails would be overkill. But if your business requirements need the features of Rails, learn rails instead of rolling your own framework..

> Are you saying that rhetorically?

No.

> And besides, the point here was largely about bundle size and fast time-to-interactive.

As long as the point wasn't to be productive I'll just mind my own business.

The whole thing is a solved problem. You can easily render React apps on the server and send HTML down the wire, then lazy load the rest of the JS. Author could have installed next.js and called it a day.

If you put your app logic in something like Redux it'll work on server-side rendering, client-side rendering, and can be included in react-native down the line.

In the time the author re-wrote his app, I could have gotten the same benefits with SSR and ported it to react native. But yeah, javascript bad REEEE

But why write this comment? You’re a critic, but are you a creator?

Post so your creations. I’d like to offer my valuable input.

So, the ends justify the means. Was the war in Iraq worth it? Should I be proud of the torture and extrajudicial renditions that occurred to "keep me safe"? Sounds like the mentality of a coward. But we'll just have to agree to disagree.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

What changed is FB had to make money - and they discovered "outrage" sells. That's the full answer. It has nothing to do with the lower-class crowding up your social network lol.

> They did their duty, as the people of the nation asked them to.

As you may infer from current headlines - "The president told me to do it" is not exactly legal justification. We're a nation of checks and balances. If domestic spying is what the people wants then congress needs to act on that. For people intelligent enough to "own the globe" I don't see what's so confusing about this.

Bypassing the cornerstone of our democracy is not a heroic act. Spying on Americans by routing traffic through five-eyes is not clever or heroic. It's incredibly dangerous and represents an existential threat to our democracy. You can't even begin to imagine how blackmail will be used to silently and invisibly form the political landscape for the next 50 years.

Maybe Snowden isn't a patriot - but the NSA is a traitor to the American public.

What's the healthy amount of unwarranted wiretapping?

Let's not pretend the NSA is fighting a war on terror. It's an economic espionage machine, and an assault on the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. The same constitution many men died to protect and uphold.

If honor, country, and integrity mean anything to employees of the NSA, they should perform their civic duty and do as the patriot Edward Snowden has done.

Alternative take. Want to secure national infrastructure? Release the tools to do it for free.

Viva la open-source revolution

> But again, my point is: IDA costs a lot less than its place in the market suggests it should.

Sounds like every developer working on an open source stack.

Law enforcement and prison unions have a financial interest to support mass incarceration. They lobby against drug legalization and have a history of systematic violence. I wonder which way union members vote.

But the comment agrees with me. I'm okay with the nitpick. Chipotle still pays minimum wage and taxes. Am I supposed to be outraged by Chipotle? Or am I supposed to look down at people employed by Chipotle? It's like paradoxical wokeness where you become classist yourself and look down at people with real jobs. I'm sure many students would be happy to work for Chipotle and then work for Amazon after graduation.

The local community could have spent the increase in tax revenue on providing social services. I understand you oppose the deal not out of some economic principal but from a moral principle. But even the moral principle is wrong. Taxation has been used to incentivize behavior since the inception of taxation.

Turning away funds that could benefit the needy, out of a principle to help the needy? That's a head scratcher.