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Comment Hope it's better than their Exploding Kittens game (Score 1) 12

As you may know, Netflix released an Exploding Kittens game, as they have a contract with the guy to make an Exploding Kittens show. The game was flaky as hell, and I figured out an easy way to steal another player's Defuse card. Between those factors and the cheap graphics, I deleted it and went back to the o.g. Exploding Kittens game, which is stuff fun.

Comment Re: when will slashdot follow (Score 1) 334

Sure. Except, if you want to be a publisher and decide what content is or is not suitable for your private network, then you take responsibility for the content on your site.

Social media companies have been claiming common carrier status, ie they are not liable for the content on their sites. You can't do this and also take an editorial stance.

Comment Re: Microsoft Visual J++ 2020 (Score 1) 171

It's not close to the same. Typescript works fine on all OSs, it's just a language and the fact it was created by Microsoft matters nota jot. J++ was a deliberate attempt to destroy the write once-run anywhere ethos of java (not that that every worked). Typescript is the best thing to happen to javascript in the last 10 years. I used scala.js for quite a while but its too hard to find developers, and typescript gives 80% of the benefit for 20% of the pain.

Comment Re:Blatant stupidity (Score 2) 247

You point is well made. I would mention that at the moment Ohio hasn't re-opened day cares across the board and schools are closed. That means that many people can't go to work because there is no one they can get to watch their children. IIRC those people are allowed to remain on unemployment until the day cares are re-opened. I think that's reasonable.

My opinion on the matter is that I do believe we should get free happiness money and if this is the mechanism by which we'll temporarily get it, I'm fine with people using bad-faith arguments in order to get it. EVERYONE uses bad-faith arguments these days, and I don't see why people shouldn't be gettin' while the gettin's good.

Dislaimer: My wife and I work from home and have not drawn unemployment during the crisis. In fact, I don't think either of us have *ever* drawn unemployment. The only time I was ever laid off, I already had a job lined up the following Monday.

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