I'm not sure why you're comfortable with the web disappearing. All of its potential replacements (to date) are worse for the world.
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Replying to @slightlylate
You’re inventing a position I did not state. But equating the suffering of 7+bn people with any technology is ludicrous. I don’t know why I should state this, but I’m extremely not okay with the web going away.
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Replying to @janl
Fair. If you have a better analogy, happy to adopt it. Scale of the challenge is similar and pollution dynamics have similar externality roots.
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Replying to @slightlylate
I don’t argue that the mechanics of the analogy don’t fit, either. And please don’t do the lazy thing of asking the person who calls you out fix your questionable analogy. You are smarter than that. (I’m on your side here, with what you are trying to achieve)
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Replying to @janl
Sure, we just disagree. Callenge is to accept that access to information is key in modern society, and the web is our substrate in the digital world. Billions of lives will be materially worsened without it. Let's not do the lazy thing of presuming that analogy is equation.
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Replying to @slightlylate @janl
This thread is a bit ridiculous. Information is nice, and I have been working for years to improve open standards, but life on earth beats computers in priority. Let's keep our work in perspective.
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Replying to @littledan @janl
Analogy is not equation;
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Replying to @littledan @janl
That we should retain perspective? Yes. That it's inappropriate to use an effective analogy (although I'm happy to substitute if a better one appears, per above)? No.
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Replying to @slightlylate @littledan
So it would be fine if someone found a hypothetical “final solution” to JS-bloat on the web? Words matter.
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