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Would you recommend any resources to learn how to effectively build a scalable modern web app? I haven't worked with Angular for about a year now, but I didn't use NGRX or similar alternative and I distinctly remember that managing state for the app got progressively harder as the app got more complex.

As a millennial, I agree with pretty much everything you've said. Given the current state: I would rather less taxes for less benefits specifically _because_ my perception is that government is inefficient. I don't mind paying taxes if there were more obvious signs of where the money is going and the results were more tangible and obvious.

I don't understand. There are plenty of trivially easy and user-friendly ways to purchase Bitcoin (Coinbase for example). What is the issue with only accepting Bitcoin?

I would second this route. Amazing and well researched podcast. Well worth it if you have the time

This was quite literally a story made up on the spot to broadcast the OP's view. There are generally no useful lessons learned from fake anecdotes

Thanks for the detailed reply! I admittedly am not a GoodReads user (I have an account but never use it) so I wasn't aware of all these pain-points

Anyone can make up a story. But what was the point of this one?

I want to second this question - this is a relatively easy-to-fix issue on GR's side to have more moderation tools and powers. But otherwise, are there any other substantial complaints?

I'm curious which games you've played wit this feature and how did it generally work?

This was abused by players in Rainbow 6 Siege imo, though I don't think it would be useful if it were implemented the same way in BF5. Siege plays similar to a search-and-destroy gamemode where you only get one life, and once you die, you spectate your team (and can watch cameras for them and call out). Iirc, only teammates can kick a player, so you would often get the least skilled person kicked as opposed to a cheater (unless the cheater was the last person alive and obviously cheating). This system wouldn't be useful in BF/COD style games because of the respawning ability. But the opposite way where the enemy team can vote to kick someone out of your team also is ripe for abuse. Imo, there is no easy and fair solution that bypasses existing centralized anticheat mechanisms because you generally can't tell if your teammates are cheating as you're not often spectating them, and letting the enemy team have the sole voice to kick someone isn't going to work.

I personally use an app called Everything[1] since I moved to win10. Win10's search indexing seems to be trash and its tendency to prioritize web results over desktop results is infuriating. Everything is good for finding something tucked away on your hard drive(s), is dead simple to use (give it a few minutes the first time around to index everything, then just search). I wish I could replace the existing Cortana with it or something else rather than opening a different app, but alas When in Windows, do as Microsoft demands.

[1] https://www.voidtools.com/

I'm no economist, but injecting that much money that fast into an economy opens a whole new can of worms with inflation and currency devaluation right?

/r/FloridaMan is a pretty accurate depiction of how we view Florida. That and Disney World.

No need for overly simplistic and naive rhetoric - people won't spend that kind of money on a car that won't prioritize the occupants. In the end, car companies are in the business of making money. It would be a disservice to all to forget that

This is quite a useless article IMO. No-one drives selflessly and suicidaly altruistic anyway. The article's author is shaming and criticizing Mercedes for making this design decision, while ignoring all the practical aspects of the technology. These sorts of decisions will have to be made by self-driving cars at some point, and its not like self-driving cars will be murderous and seeking out people to splat. I'm sure that if a life has to be taken and a machine is going to be judge, jury, and executioner - most people would generally prefer that the machine spare them. Considering that this tech is on its way in the near future regardless if ethical philosophers are ready or not, and barring some legislation forcing a set of priorities for the machine to take into account, I would prefer that the car I spent tens of thousands of dollars on prioritize my life over someone else's. It would be a sales and PR embarrassment/nightmare to market that the car might sacrifice its occupants if the car deems that it's for 'the greater good'.

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Noone is bashing Angular, whew!

Oh wow... table-ception is real

I don't think that Google's monopoly on the android setup is unwarranted. They both developed the OS software and host an app store where they decide what gets sold in this store - the same way that Apple does or Microsoft does on windows with its windows store.

> I should be able to install whatever app I want, without having to jailbreak my phone and deal with warranty nonsense from the manufacturer. Just like my computer, which I can also install whatever software I want on it.

I don't know too much about how the Apple/iPhone ecosystem works, but in both Android and in Windows you can generally download apps from locations other than the ones specifically sanctioned by Google/Microsoft without repercussions (android does have the setting you manually have to enable first before downloading external APK's). Google definitely does control an overwhelming share of the app download market, but that's because it has marketed itself well, it works well enough that users don't go looking for other stores, and there haven't been too many alternative stores that have sufficiently marketed themselves to general Android users (F-Droid is a cool concept, but the general Android user is more concerned with "getting an app that does x" than "getting an app that does x and the source code is available")

I've transitioned to using Adobe Scan a few months ago, and no complaints there

I'm not sure what the laws are in NZ, but can a non-citizen vote in a NZ election? If noone checks for any sort if ID, how do they ensure that there isn't any fraud? In a democracy, I'm honestly not convinced that 'its not that big of a problem yet' is a sufficient answer

I disagree. For reference, I work in a big bank and all the high level people are always on call when fecal matter hits the rotating turbines. Often times, theres an issue with this or that feature in production or we are having an issue with a release and we need an emergency signoff. The process stipulates that a high level person is required to give this emergency signoff, and they often want to know what happened, what are our options, which one we chose so there's usually a lot of time spent chasing down answers or people who can answer those questions.