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Crowdfunding does that. The product costs 0 once the funding threshold is met and the money is secured, but before that it costs >0 if you actually want the product to be developed. This aligns incentives quite well, if the model is us
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Should be marked (2000), and the bulk of the text is probably earlier than that.
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Talking about "colonization" in a broad sense as if it was a single uniform thing is totally useless. How much commonality is there between, e.g. the British colonialism in Hong Kong or the Portuguese in Macau, and the Belgian col
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It's hard to believe in the collective good when you haven't achieved basic economic security for yoursef. You see this everywhere - charity begins at home. And even "putting value in individual freedom", in a broadly
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"Collectively organize and resist"? That's really not what Chinese politics looks like, either today or in the foreseeable future. It's not just that the vast majority of Chinese are quite apathetic about politics (thou
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They are, but the successful part of the Semantic Web is almost entirely limited to open-source datasets (grouped under the "Linked Data", or "Linked Open Data" initiative). That's pretty much the only part of the
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> "genuinely mystified." ... "artwork." It's all about plausible deniability. Funnily enough, that's exactly why censorship doesn't actually work - these things are precisely what people would say i
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It's not even "China" that's directly responsible for most of these decisions, really. It's each private company individually trying to figure out how to keep the Chinese government happy and on their side. That&#x
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> The playbook of all dictatorships is the same: squeeze tighter and tighter until you can no longer hold on, then collapse. While a common-enough failure mode, this is by no means universal. Many successful monarchies began as the equi
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Even if they did, there would be very little certainty that people would trust them, or, more importantly, their successors in the same positions of authority. The only effective "apology" and "commitment" from them w
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> at an informal employee gathering at a bar ... Why don't companies just get rid of these "informal" but sanctioned employee gatherings, particularly in a bar environment where intoxicating substances are likely being a
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by 0815test 8y ago
Thunderbird runs on XULRunner - strictly speaking it's not Electron, but the overall architecture is very similar, with highly comparable drawbacks.
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tl;dr: turns out this is a "Octa-Core 64-bit AiO Android System", running on Linux 3.4.39 (Android 5.1). It's junk unless someone can get a mainline kernel running on it. Maybe the PostmarketOS folks will be able to help.
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by 0815test 8y ago
> The last thing I owned like it that felt kinda similar to it was my netbook, an Asus Eee 1005HA-P. For those who still have a netbook-class device laying around, Debian GNU/Linux still works quite well on those, better than Lubunt
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> From pretty much every single aspect of approximation theory, neural nets are one of the worst methods to approximate a continuous function. What about scalability? I don't know of many approximation methods that can routinely wor
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> You're literally last on the list to get paid and first on the list to get shafted Isn't that a given with equity? You're literally saying that you're a residual claimant in the enterprise. Yes, with stock options
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> Look at the products that got copied from Kickstarter by China before they launched, those people really got their dream crushed. Ideas are cheap. These Chinese companies are supposedly taking pre-validated (via crowd funding) ideas fr
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Lol, these auto-generated comments are getting out of hand...
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Web and ECMAscript standards are to blame not Chromium. Chromium and Node are "just" implementation work, it's not like Firefox is that much better either!
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Rust used to have green threading as a language feature - it was only dropped because the language-based support was considered clunky, unduly restrictive and ultimately not necessary. This is reimplementing the same use cases in library
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"Most frequently and destructively violent" seems like European exceptionalism to me. Yes there's been lots of wars in Europe, but it's not like other parts of the world have been free of conflict, it's just that us
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> What is important is maintaining the institutions that have been wildly successful in mediating conflict between diverse groups This is indeed very important, but "empathy", while not such an institution, is a baseline cultur
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A lot of our modern focus on race also dates back to such well-meaning attempts, ironically enough. There was a very real focus in the Progressive era to try and get people to see themselves as "white", in preference to their mor
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The thing is that the taxes you pay in Germany don't pay for national defense - that's something that Germany gets for free by free-riding on US taxpayers. And the healthcare you get in socialized healthcare systems like the NHS o
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> Reformers who seek to abolish tribalism usually find that they've simply redrawn the boundary lines and replaced one set of tribes with another. Yup: Also known as, "I can tolerate anyone except my outgroup" - https:&#x
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> Some Amiga diehards await the day when we all realize that virtual memory and process isolation are passing fads, and go back to setting interrupt vectors and walking kernel data structures directly in RAM like real programmers did on
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AOSP is way too fragmented. An "app" dating back to, e.g. Android 2.3 (not that long ago), or even as late as Android 4.0 will not even build in a form suitable for a present-day version of AOSP - you have to go and rewrite the c
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> Also, perhaps even more importantly, you'd be starting from scratch in terms of app ecosystem The "app ecosystem" on a free mobile OS would be shared with the "ecosystem" of free PC apps. Chromium does target,
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I don't think this is right, the point of microkernels is that kernel space vs. executables is a desirable protection boundary. It's not obvious that we are consistently making the right choices as to what to run in kernel vs. us
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You can use libhybris to provide support for AOSP/Android kernels and vendor components within a mainline userspace. With Project Treble, you could even have a generic userspace image be compatible with a sizeable fraction of "Tr

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