It only really makes sense with browser-level cpu scheduling. Otherwise there's no real way to throttle the amount of cpu these bitcoin miners take from you.
Without that, I think people are unlikely to be sympathetic and they'll be snagged by ad blockers rapidly: consent is the cornerstone of products people like.
Right. It's on the author to provide any means of communication that doesn't go through disqus—say, twitter, email, slack, github, keybase, etc etc. I can't think this would be onerous for anyone.
You lose virtually nothing if you just block Disqus wholesale with an ad blocker. I'll admit it's quite nice for replying to comments on blogs, but there's no reason that a) needs to happen in a public comment and b) that you cannot provide an email for people to reach you at. In any case, almost all the good conversation is in a secondary place—reddit, hacker news, social media.
I'm far more likely to send you an email than I am to sign into an unaffiliated third party and trust their cookies.
Arguably Obamacare has been great for adding jobs to the healthcare industry.
That said, I'm not entirely sure what the executive branch can be expected to do here aside from tweaking interest rates and actively hiring people directly.
> consumers (especially kids) didn't want "department store brand" clothing from Sears/JCPenney because they were "uncool"
FWIW all my clothes were from Sears and JCPenney, my taste be damned. I know a lot of other kids my age (grew up in the 90s and 00s) were the same way, at least until quality tanked in the mid 00s.