willand31's comments

willand31 | 6 years ago | on: Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)

False. What's not affordable is having human beings not able to have access to shelter.

willand31 | 6 years ago | on: Building Inclusive AI at Facebook

Facebook building an AI is terrifying.

willand31 | 6 years ago | on: Facebook is redesigning its core app

Facebook's design isn't the problem. The unethical use of our data is the problem.

willand31 | 7 years ago | on: Google Is Eating Our Mail

If Google really cared about the health of the global email ecosystem maybe you guys should consider putting a GPL on Gmail. Maybe if we could study the code and come up with a solution that benefits everyone maybe we could make email better. Instead you guys at Google just want to maintain your near monopoly on a vital part of our online existence.

willand31 | 7 years ago | on: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms

I'm glad to see a representative actually know things like this. Too many of our representatives are technologically illiterate.

willand31 | 7 years ago | on: My PHP Development Setup

I upgraded my PHP dev setup a few years ago. The most effective thing I did was to stop developing in PHP.

willand31 | 8 years ago | on: Dear Apple, please fix notifications

The proposed solution sucks, but it is a valid problem that needs fixing.

willand31 | 8 years ago | on: California ballot measure to decriminalize adult use of hallucinogenic mushrooms

So would you rather have substances like this unregulated? Allow black market dealers to sell to minors and people who don't know what they're getting into? I'd rather have substances like this regulated, taxed, and give people who want to use substances like this a chance to be educated on how it will affect them. People are going to use this stuff regardless, how about we make it safer for those who want to partake and society around them. That's why decriminalization is a good idea.

willand31 | 8 years ago | on: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

This is because people who use spaces have to use Stack Overflow more often, so there were more developers who use spaces when SO did their 2017 survey.