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541.
by 0815test 7y ago
"Tearing the reputation market down" is not generally a good solution, people want to acquire reputation for sensible reasons and tearing one market down just leads to it being replaced by other, generally suboptimal markets. What
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by 0815test 7y ago
There were lots of "alternative" mobile OS's before AOSP, and even before iOS - AOSP simply got critical mass behind it in a way that other OS's didn't. But Huawei isn't going to push for an open alternative e
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by 0815test 7y ago
Debian does have an unofficial m68k port, although I'm not sure how well it runs on this specific hardware. SSH from vintage hardware is a pain btw, there is YT video somewhere of someone SSH'ing out from a 486-compatible "58
544.
by 0815test 7y ago
It doesn't just defy plausibility, it defies the actual evidence. We're lucky enough to have an example in the historical record where technologies like the wheel and domestication of the horse were introduced (mostly) peacefully
545.
by 0815test 7y ago
Low unemployment is a huge deal. We should keep in mind that the real wage of an unemployed worker is, well, zero. And a robust labor market means that employees are better positioned to move up the pay scale, to jobs with better producti
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by 0815test 7y ago
> Agreed, yet their goal is to build their own crappy version so that people think Linux sucks, when in reality it is still MS. Can't do it, Google owns that business model. I mean, they managed to do that twice ? Must have taken t
547.
by 0815test 7y ago
> There is no evidence for that blanket claim, genetic or otherwise. Strictly speaking, that's of course true; but the molecular-level evidence is pretty damning, and as close to "slaughtered all the men" as we'd ever
548.
by 0815test 7y ago
Alternately, those farms and forges might just make you a very juicy target for more mobile, perhaps shepherding outsiders. This seems to be a rather common pattern in history, one that can even be traced to pre-PIE times - it seems that t
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by 0815test 7y ago
Yeah, they're not going to do it. Or do you think they could ever stand to be seen as running the exact same OS as their northern, uh, neighbors? I mean, let's get real.
550.
by 0815test 7y ago
> The reason Europe speaks Indo-European languages isn't that the ancient inhabitants thought that Proto-Indo-European was neat and adopted it --- it's that the PIE-speaking Yamnaya swept in from the caucuses and slaughtered mo
551.
by 0815test 7y ago
But it's clearly not a "paltry amount" if it's enough to fund the work and ensure that it gets made. Isn't that ultimately what matters?
552.
by 0815test 7y ago
> But at the end of the day, there's a free-loader problem where I can benefit from your donation, so this system hasn't really taken off. Many crowdfunding systems are in fact specifically designed to be resilient against th
553.
by 0815test 7y ago
Black bar?
554.
by 0815test 7y ago
Sounds more like the Curse of /r/iamverysmart...
555.
by 0815test 7y ago
"Those who don't know Lisp Machines are doomed to reinvent them, poorly."
556.
by 0815test 7y ago
You could use a super-optimizer to find code sequences that run as slow as possible on AMD CPU's, I think.
557.
by 0815test 7y ago
If there's one single reason why Java killed C++ in the enterprise space, it's memory safety. (Concurrency-readiness and WORA were also important features of course.) GC was not important, other than as a means to an end of cour
558.
by 0815test 7y ago
>that they’re “re-inventing” statistics just with different terminology. To be very clear about it, this is referencing a very common problem with subfields of applied statistics in general; it's not limited to AI/ML! Econometr
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by 0815test 7y ago
> Sociopaths have no real theory of mind, I agree, just a lot of stimulus-response mimicked behavior I mean, it might be that they do have a core TOM in addition to the stimulus-response stuff - but one that fails, because by default t
560.
by 0815test 7y ago
> I feel like this quote in particular is intended as a personal attack In context, it's clearly meant to hint at a purported pattern of problematic behavior, the specific instances of which the author is unwilling to get into, for
561.
by 0815test 7y ago
The blogpost series you link is actually quite good overall, however the whole "social justice in tech" framing the authors are taking is unhelpful in the extreme wrt. this issue, to the point of being reckless and perhaps activ
562.
by 0815test 7y ago
> That's not quite right. He knew about a feature being added to a separate dependent library. Further work would be needed to leverage it. Ah, but was this made clear in the crowdfunding proposal?
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by 0815test 7y ago
> It doesn't appear, though, that the author was part of that team Apparently, there was some sort of agreement that OP would not be disclosing his own related work independently of Kenneth. This makes him very much "part of
564.
by 0815test 7y ago
> I was always a little suspicious of the set of libraries he maintains - the documentation pages are so slick that I begin to wonder if this is a software package or a lifestyle upgrade. Does that mean bad documentation is a good thin
565.
by 0815test 7y ago
What's wrong with pointing out that someone is wealthy and beautiful, and that this might make them more likely to succeed? Halo-effect is a thing.
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by 0815test 7y ago
I mean, the repetitiveness itself should be kind of a tell-tale sign, shouldn't it? And for that matter, I'm not even convinced that sociopaths have that highly-developed of a TOM (Theory Of Mind) either. Their manipulations se
567.
by 0815test 7y ago
> Interactions in social media are not like that. You're interactive with people playing parts, and that interaction is no longer genuine human contact. It just has the window-dressing of that. > Loneliness and isolation is the l
568.
by 0815test 7y ago
Different roles. Computational contracts are not about e.g. the "traders" on a security exchange, they're about the exchange institution itself , and the precise definition of how it should work and interact with agents. Be
569.
by 0815test 7y ago
In other news, the cargo cult has now spawned the infrastructure cult. Build models of construction machines, and maybe someone will start developing real actual infrastructure within the country...
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by 0815test 7y ago
> ...It requires being good in politics... Well, Bernard Crick's definition of good politics is " ethics done in public ". One can obviously quibble with that (ethical negotiation is generally informal and goal-directed i

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