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DC1350··on JavaScript from 2001 on India's largest private bank site
Do you test for compatibility with the Wii and Nintendo DS browsers?
DC1350··on JavaScript from 2001 on India's largest private bank site
Because the standards you’re building against are arbitrary and just made up by other people. I can make a browser that crashes when it encounters a <div> tag. It’s a shitty browser. Will you feel bad when your stuff won’t work on it?
DC1350··on UK parliament to debate requiring verified ID to open a social media account
This is one of the worst ideas I’ve ever seen.

> To make the law work needs the removal of anonymity to ensure that users cannot cause harm by using online platforms to abuse others. Where an offence has taken place they ought to be easily identified and reported to the police and punished.

Being mean isn’t a crime and it doesn’t stop just because a person is identifiable. Have you ever seen a Facebook comment section?

DC1350··on Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers?
They’re just guidelines until somebody decides to enforce them. My title has engineer in it and I’m not an engineer.
DC1350··on The Waste of Daylight
The sun doesn’t rise until almost 8:30 near the end of the year so there’s no natural light to interrupt my sleep.
DC1350··on Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers?
In theory. Nobody actually listens to or cares about these guidelines.
DC1350··on The Waste of Daylight
Where do you live? I would be awake for only 8 hours a day if I followed this in the middle of winter.
DC1350··on SpaceX delivers 3rd batch of Starlink satellites in two weeks
I can’t think of any but it’s a cool marketing point to have literal cloud computing
DC1350··on Is Being Salaried a Scam?
The luck part is that you could have made the same prediction about lots of different companies that didn’t increase as much as Tesla. I think it’s reasonable to take credit for predicting the direction of the stock, but 10xing your money in a single year is lucky.
DC1350··on Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
Yes. A lot of the games only run at 720p and all of the ports are either really old games or significantly downgraded compared to any other platform.
DC1350··on Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
This is great to see. It would be nice to play switch games on something at least as powerful as a modern phone
DC1350··on Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for people-centred vision
It's a million times easier to just move away than it is to change anything about a global problem in a city with millions of people. Making a difference doesn't solve personal problems.
DC1350··on Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for people-centred vision
Google doesn't have an office in Toronto but Amazon employees don't make enough to buy houses. It doesn't matter though because most people in Toronto now make more money on real estate appreciation than they make from their jobs. Real estate gains are tax free so a modest 10% home price increase (it was 30% last year) is like earning at least an extra 150k pre tax
DC1350··on Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for people-centred vision
Econ 101?
DC1350··on Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for people-centred vision
The entire concept of "affordable" housing makes no sense when even people with average incomes struggle to afford a decent quality of life. The government acts like people who only make 50-60k or less are middle class, but they don't even make enough to rent without roommates right now. Charity prices for minimum wage workers should be the last thing on their mind.

The Canadian government is working as hard as they can to divide the country into owners who have homes that make more money than they do, and a permanent underclass of renters that can't possibly catch up with the price increases no matter how much of their money they save. Canada (or at least Southern Ontario and BC) is at a point where being born 5-10 years earlier is a bigger quality of life difference than the difference choosing to be a customer service worker or a lawyer.

Toronto homes were up 30% through 2020. They doubled in the 5 years before that. Being born 5 years earlier is the difference between renting with roommates forever, and being a home owning real estate millionaire. It's going to start creating really weird social dynamics soon.

DC1350··on Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for people-centred vision
Anything over a million requires a 20% down payment. Also, prices doubled over the last 5 years so if trends continue then a million dollar home today will take a 400k down payment if it takes 5 years to save
DC1350··on You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
Sorry but there is a problem with the idea that I could like pussy if I just put my mind to it
DC1350··on You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
ok

btw the term “sexual preference” is cause for cancellation now (see ACB incident) so you’re still not woke enough to please the mob. Do better.

DC1350··on You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
Like the idea that a homosexual can be attracted to an opposite sexed person, the term “genital preference”, that a gender non-conforming boy might actually be a girl, etc.

Essentially, the idea that a person could be attracted to the body of the sex they aren’t attracted to is the same idea behind conversion therapy. Anecdotally, I’ve spent way too much time trying to change my “genital preference” for me to think it’s true.

DC1350··on You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
I’m gay so things like this matter to me. A lot of trans rhetoric is deeply homophobic.
DC1350··on On the death of my family's dairy farm (2019)
I don’t know. It just seems inefficient to me. Farming is not enjoyable work for most people who do it so the whole plan just reminds me of Marie Antoinette’s peasant role play hobby.
DC1350··on On the death of my family's dairy farm (2019)
Supply control increases prices without increasing quality. High quality dairy gets even more expensive.
DC1350··on On the death of my family's dairy farm (2019)
I don’t buy dairy at all because of how expensive it is here. A cheap block of store brand cheddar cheese costs $5. A 2L carton of milk is around $3, or I can get a 4L jug for $5. A small container of sour cream is $3. A single 100g Greek yoghurt cup is $1. Huge waste of money.

Big dairy in Canada is really powerful to the point where it’s impossible to get elected as Conservative party leader without supporting the dairy cartel.

DC1350··on On the death of my family's dairy farm (2019)
Couldn’t you feed a family high quality food for a few decades with $500k? This seems like a lot of effort if you aren’t planning on making a profit.
DC1350··on Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cats (2016)
Bill Gates’ book just says make clean energy, electrify everything possible, and do carbon capture for everything else. The whole Bill Gates strategy is based on the idea that climate austerity is never going to happen.

Although he did also say “geoengineering is the only known way that we could hope to lower the earth’s temperature within years or even decades without crippling the economy.”, which is a bit concerning

DC1350··on Interview with Vitalik Buterin on ETH2, Scaling Plans, NFTs, etc.
I still don’t get it. Why can’t the owner of the NFT and real shoe just keep the real shoe and transfer a counterfeit shoe along with the token?
DC1350··on Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)
Men are the disadvantaged group when you look at things they do worse than women though. There’s no such thing as being disadvantaged overall.
DC1350··on Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)
Young women now earn more than young men on average. Most high paying jobs go to people near the end of their career who are part of a different generation. I think it’s too early to know if young women are still discriminated against in the workplace.
DC1350··on Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry
He’s not missing anything. He’s just not including it because it’s not relevant.
DC1350··on Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
> it's a fine way to make a living!

The problem is that they don’t make a living. People who work in grocery stores aren’t working there because they want to, but usually just because it’s their only option. If they quit their jobs they would be homeless by the end of the month. Do you understand what their living conditions are like? It’s really sad and it makes me uncomfortable to talk to them. Minimum wage workers in high cost of living cities are just slavery as a service.

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