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damnstraight | 8 years ago | on: Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking

I mean this is fine, so long as you realize a lot of people prefer any other method of communication and you're likely missing out on feedback.

damnstraight | 8 years ago | on: AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging

Did you try using a local number? Many country codes only allow sending to local numbers. Example: Romania.

damnstraight | 8 years ago | on: CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers

It only really makes sense with browser-level cpu scheduling. Otherwise there's no real way to throttle the amount of cpu these bitcoin miners take from you.

Without that, I think people are unlikely to be sympathetic and they'll be snagged by ad blockers rapidly: consent is the cornerstone of products people like.

damnstraight | 8 years ago | on: Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking

Right. It's on the author to provide any means of communication that doesn't go through disqus—say, twitter, email, slack, github, keybase, etc etc. I can't think this would be onerous for anyone.

damnstraight | 8 years ago | on: Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking

You lose virtually nothing if you just block Disqus wholesale with an ad blocker. I'll admit it's quite nice for replying to comments on blogs, but there's no reason that a) needs to happen in a public comment and b) that you cannot provide an email for people to reach you at. In any case, almost all the good conversation is in a secondary place—reddit, hacker news, social media.

I'm far more likely to send you an email than I am to sign into an unaffiliated third party and trust their cookies.

damnstraight | 8 years ago | on: We're learning more about the craving that fuels self-defeating habits

Addiction is just one view into impulse control; I don't see any reason to think the average human doesn't commonly have impulse control issues.

damnstraight | 8 years ago | on: The large parts of America left behind by today's economy

Arguably Obamacare has been great for adding jobs to the healthcare industry.

That said, I'm not entirely sure what the executive branch can be expected to do here aside from tweaking interest rates and actively hiring people directly.

damnstraight | 8 years ago | on: The large parts of America left behind by today's economy

Southern, lower-middle to lower class, white southerners have voted against their own interests since the moment the Civil War ended.

damnstraight | 8 years ago | on: The rise of robots in the German labour market

Maybe we should value humans beyond the labor they can fulfill.

damnstraight | 8 years ago | on: Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing

Actually (I got clothes there too) I wouldn't say the quality was much worse. The shirts, underwear, socks, etc were all fine for a kid.

Nonetheless, I had those quality jeans—you're absolutely right.

damnstraight | 8 years ago | on: Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing

> consumers (especially kids) didn't want "department store brand" clothing from Sears/JCPenney because they were "uncool"

FWIW all my clothes were from Sears and JCPenney, my taste be damned. I know a lot of other kids my age (grew up in the 90s and 00s) were the same way, at least until quality tanked in the mid 00s.

damnstraight | 8 years ago | on: Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++

Conveniently there are already C++ compilers bootstrappable with C.

damnstraight | 8 years ago | on: Oakland and SF sue five oil companies for damages from rising seas

> Yeah, babies exhaling (and all people too) are producing CO2 which is a greenhouse gas.

Compare this to the methane emissions of a single cow. You're being reductive to the point of being offensive.

damnstraight | 8 years ago | on: Welcome to the World of Software Defined Radio (2016)

> Why wouldn't they leak RF?

Customers might value using bluetooth and wifi. Not all pressures are regulatory!