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by wraptile 1864 days ago
Couldn't disagree with you second point more: you shouldn't let dangerous tech "play-out". It's much easier to kill snakes just as they've hatched. Basically every bad thing about web and software in general was born as "play it out" and then it grew to big to be killed.
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stephc_int13 1864 days ago
Yes, we should know better, we've seen this story being played out a few times.

Delegating power/freedom is always dangerous, especially if you're doing it for free.

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Igelau 1864 days ago
Hold it. I agree with you, but I'm having a language nerd moment. This feels like one of those "catch more flies with honey than vinegar" things, where although the point is made clearly, the metaphor is literally false (vinegar is incredibly good bait for catching flies).

> It's much easier to kill snakes just as they've hatched.

Aren't a ton of itty bitty snakes going to be harder to kill than one big snake? I've never tried to kill snakes of any age myself, so I could be way off.

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