vim_wannabe (u/vim_wannabe)

vim_wannabe commented on U.S. And U.K. Warn of Cybersecurity Threat from Russia nytimes.com/2018/04/16/wo... · Posted by u/rbanffy

toomanybeersies · 7 years ago

А у вас негров линчуют (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes)

The bad actions of the US and their allies does not excuse the same actions of Russia (or China, or any other country).

vim_wannabe · 7 years ago

Probably less about whataboutism and more about retaliation. Not saying one actor would stop if another did, but still.

vim_wannabe commented on Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study cbc.ca/news/technology/bo... · Posted by u/nothrows

jwilk · 7 years ago

Out of interest, why?

vim_wannabe · 7 years ago

Probably the same reason why people may want to avoid lead, mercury in tuna or microplastics: Science is always trying to figure out the safe levels of consumption. Especially for something consumed your entire life starting as a fetus.

vim_wannabe commented on Google Cloud Armor cloud.google.com/armor/... · Posted by u/mindprince

andrem · 7 years ago

Just to clarify - Cloudflare have POPs behind the great firewall of china in cooperation with Baidu. That is not to say Cloudflare routed sites are all accessible through CF, but it's certainly not a blanket statement either way.

Not sure if this would work better.

vim_wannabe · 7 years ago

Ah, thank you.

vim_wannabe commented on Google Cloud Armor cloud.google.com/armor/... · Posted by u/mindprince

vim_wannabe · 7 years ago

Is it true that sites routed via Cloudflare are blocked in certain countries like China? Would this work better?

vim_wannabe commented on YouTube and Reddit roll out new restrictions including channel and sub bans · Posted by u/IronWolve

vim_wannabe · 7 years ago

You can probably make this argument for car/bike racing and tuning, fast food or a number of hobbies and "correlated" deaths. Luckily this restriction seems to be about weird stuff like bump stocks.

And as for the "Blumph!" comment, we still have yet to see Syria driven to the state of Libya so that's at least quite a few kids saved from getting shot right there.

vim_wannabe commented on EU wants to require platforms to filter uploaded content, including code blog.github.com/2018-03-1... · Posted by u/calcifer

IAmEveryone · 7 years ago

It must be increasingly frustrating for anyone in Brussels if every opponent of any legislation always starts with threatening the whole idea of European cooperation. “Do anything I disagree with and I’ll vote for the fascists in the next election” really isn’t constructive. The accusation of being on the side of big business is also insincere, as exemplified by your two examples of recent legislation that quite clearly side with consumers over large businesses.

Even this legislation, while misguided, is actually aimed at large businesses (mostly YouTube) while the beneficiaries (publishers and artists) are rather small, comparatively.

vim_wannabe · 7 years ago

Putting the "fascist!" comment aside, what alternatives are there than the threat of breaking from the EU if every legislation seems to* head toward a US style federation?

Think of it like the SOPA/PIPA/whatever fight: You manage to barely resist some bill from being enacted into law but then just a few months/years later another version of the same law is proposed.

*: from the perspective of someone

vim_wannabe commented on Ferro – Simplifying web development, no more HTML easydatawarehousing.githu... · Posted by u/MrBra

jamestomasino · 8 years ago

It literally doesn't load anything without javascript enabled

vim_wannabe · 8 years ago

Every day we stray further from hyperlinked documents.

vim_wannabe commented on Elm, Elixir, and Phoenix: Reflecting on a Functional Full-Stack Project teamgaslight.com/blog/elm... · Posted by u/deathtrader666

s_kilk · 8 years ago

I'm a big fan of Elixir, but the community gravitation toward Elm has always struck me as a bit weird.

The two languages have nothing in common beyond both being functional, and it kinda feels like someone posted a "Elixir and Elm" blog post in the early days and it all just snowballed arbitrarily from there.

vim_wannabe · 8 years ago

What are some relatively popular alternatives (that are not on the JVM)? Maybe the options are somewhat limited here if you want both to be functional.