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by BjoernKW 3y ago
Those are physical properties rather than economic ones. Gold not oxidising (and metal elements in general being durable) makes it a natural medium for exchanging value. However, that value still is imaginary. Without being backed by a coun
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
I will never understand the idea of gold as a supposedly crisis-proof currency. How is hoarding pieces of a shiny but for the most part inherently worthless metal going to help you during a global war? If you're alluding to an all-out
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
I fondly remember Swatch Internet Time and .beats. Back then (around 1998), I used to have a watch that displayed Internet Time and I genuinely believed that this was going to the future way of how we keep track of time and synchronise with
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
Back in 1997, with my first business, which was about hosting and - occasionally designing - websites for companies.
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Hedonism is a philosophy.
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
"Top Boy" qualifies as well in that respect (a new, and quite likely final, season has just been released). While not exactly as well-known as "Breaking Bad", it not only offers an insightful perspective on the drug trad
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
Ah, the true mother of all leaky abstractions: The actual underlying transmission protocol of the relativistic universe shining through when trying to send an email.
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
The "The Ecology of Dune" (fictionally by Pardot Kynes, the first planetary ecologist on Arrakis) appendix in the first Dune novel is about this subject: Life is its own tool to ever more efficiently extract energy from a system.
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
Even though most people here probably understand what you are referring to by "ClosedAI" I think that trying to coin neologisms or new designations for existing entities with the intent of conveying a specific opinion or agenda ul
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
What I find increasingly annoying is third parties (i.e. those whose primary service isn't to provide authentication or MFA, specifically) trying to route me through their mobile apps for a second factor. For example, GitHub and Google
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Humane unveils AI Pin – a contextual computer with a mini projector(hu.ma.ne)
19 points by BjoernKW 3y ago|33 comments
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
1Password, in terms of both UX and security expertise and track record. They provide mobile apps with a decent UX that makes use of device capabilities (e.g., biometric authentication) where appropriate, too.
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
Basically, people from all walks of life, which is one of Freemasonry's benefits: It allows you to meet people you wouldn't otherwise have met and get to know their perspectives and points of view. That said, since its self-procla
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
Just google the lodge meeting there, go to their website and send them an email. Contrary to common perception, Freemasonry isn't a secret - or secretive - society. Usually, they'll be happy to oblige.
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
At 80/100, my WordPress-powered website does pretty well: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-bjoernkw-com/dbmpsi... Locally, using Lighthouse, I even get 98/100.
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
Thermodynamically, nothing will work indefinitely. For all practical intents and purposes, the finite resources available on this planet and in the universe are more than sufficient, though.
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
Don't overthink it. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap for consistent look-and-feel and theming. If it's not an app itself, you probably don't need a framework such as React for a website and you don't need to precompi
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
> British people will also tell you they have good food If you've ever eaten Indian curry (of the tikka masala variety in particular), chances are, its recipe was British in origin. While traditional British food might not appear pa
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
Thank you for most entitled comment in this thread so far. People in developing or newly industrialized countries typically don't drive SUVs or live in individual houses with HVAC. This idea that we could solve the climate change probl
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
More people require more food and more energy, both of which need to be produced, This can only happen through economic growth and efficiency gains.
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
These are a few of my previous comments on the matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35357326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35362526
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
> The United States does not do anything other than what serves it's own interests. No country does. Countries don't have morals, countries have interests. Actions by countries are of course almost always justified based on the
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
I suppose, the parent comment was referring the Three Virtues of a great programmer: https://thethreevirtues.com/ Bad communication isn't one of those (although, given the prevalence of bad communication in the industr
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by BjoernKW 3y ago
> And I thought javascript was inefficient compared to C. JavaScript (and web-age scripting languages in general) made programming more accessible in a fashion perhaps not entirely dissimilar to what we'll see with generative AI.
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
When did people stop working during Covid (unless you equate "work" with "commuting to an office to sit in front of a screen all day while you could have done just the same from home or your own office")?
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
It's a well-known problem, for which unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a reliable, one-size-fits-all solution, though, see (including lots of suggestions for potential fixes): https://talk.macpowerusers.com/
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
Liquid Democracy is an interesting idea in that regard: https://liqd.net/en/software/ , https://github.com/liqd Unfortunately, it doesn't have a lot of traction (used to have a bit more during
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
> If you have a reason, and tell your users, there’s nothing wrong with it. That's still for the courts to decide. Specifically, the German federal court for example didn't define what constitutes a legitimate reason for storin
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
> While it's important to protect individual right to privacy, it's also very important for the EU to make entrepreneurship as approachable as possible to truly boost economic growth. I'm sorry to break it to you, but the
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
> The GDPR basically boils down to “guard your user’s data, keep only what you need, and tell them what you do with it”. That's how GDPR is commonly advertised, but for those who actually have to implement it, i.e. small to medium-s

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