When I worked in agencies you could pick the suits that had lost touch with reality by how much they seemed to believe that targeted ads are useful enough to be some kind of public service. Now google use the same rhetoric to justify user tracking
So-called DNA fingerprinting of milk bacteria pioneered in Switzerland, which isn’t in the EU, is now being tested inside the bloc as a method for identifying cheese.
Lol, food DRM.
I love enterprise blockchain’s continual struggle with the fact that nothing useful is born on a blockchain
You properly explain how laws can be actually horrendous. Unfortunately the person in the HN post didn’t because they want to justify their breaking of copyright law to level the playing field of breaking copyright law.
Anyway this tweet was relevant. (Sorry, direct link because nitter seems to be dead and archive.org failed to archive it)
Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn’t. And when it isn’t, do you really want to be the kind of person that believes it should be obeyed no matter the tradeoffs?
I'm not about obeying blindly but when it doesn't feel like "justice" it doesn't mean it isn't. These people want to sound smart, seem smart, and believe they are smart, but they are allergic to learning to understand.
It’s good to obey the law. I certainly try. But treating it as some kind of holy grail of ethics is fraught with peril. You’re outsourcing your thinking to the lowest common denominator: it’s what people in positions of power feel is justice. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn’t. And when it isn’t, do you really want to be the kind of person that believes it should be obeyed no matter the tradeoffs?
Kinda sad to hear a person say something like this.
I grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney and this reminds me of the typical bogan attitude that drink driving is only bad if you get caught. This is no different.
it was more fun when padding on a div was included in the absolute width on one browser and added to the absolute width on another.