Hokusai

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by Hokusai 6y ago
Twitter makes no sense as platform for long reads. The format is atrocious and difficult to follow. (When all that you have is a hammer all problems seem a nail)
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> There's more to life than money. I completely agree, that's why I emigrated to Sweden (not so different that the Netherlands) instead of the USA. But many people gives high value to money and high status. > China lacks the
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> In any other country you would find speech regulations and exceptions to constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech rights. Copyright is draconian in the USA and has imposed its model worldwide. It has been used to silence even crit
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You are right. Metropolitan area makes more sense. There are administrative reasons for a metropolitan area to be subdivided in cities or towns but effectively it acts as just one city. I was thinking about Paris (city 2 million, metro 12.5
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> Are they of Chinese descent? Extremely weird question. We live in a competitive global market, people can and will move countries for better opportunities. USA used to just receive talent as it was way richer that any other country. Th
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> With cheap energy we are not constrained to ever denser mega cities with their social, political, and safety problems. Mega cities may show to be a huge engine for innovation. People accumulate on cities for a reason. Productivity grow
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If it works, why change it? It is old is not a reason to change a technology, it does not look good in my curriculum should not be a reason to change a technology. COBOL is better designed and less error prone to work with money that many n
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If the USA wants to support local racist terrorist groups, that is your problem. But exporting that terrorist thread to the European Union should ban Facebook in Europe. USA here, USA there. There are more countries in the world, Facebook s
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> AWS Database Migration Services allows them to easily and securely pull data out of a variety of source databases and data warehouses and land into S3 before loading it to Amazon Redshift. I would be really interested in everything tha
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So many people missing the point, and not reading the article. TLDR; Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla constructs a deceptive apology for colonialism. Colonialism = Good. And that is a irresponsible message.
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> it's a service that should be allowed to make money even on people who don't want to make money. Many countries have regulations against non paid work. If google wants to limit monetization for creators but monetize themselve
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> researchers discovered that several political advertisers were breaking Facebook's disclosure rules with impunity Facebook disclosure rules need to be replaced by regulations enforced by inspectors. Self regulation has catastrophi
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e2e testing is the way to go. But our current tech stack is really bad for testing. Testing in browsers seems an afterthought, browsers first were designed for features, later on debugging was added, quite good nowadays, but testing is out
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> This isn't theoretical or hand wavy. I have direct experience with this. Yes. I never questioned that part. > corporations are incentivized against the use of copyleft software And what is that incentive? Permissive licenses. R
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> While I oppose all forms of intellectual property, this opposition is rarely practiced. I regularly publish software that is copyrighted by me. Trying to read the article in the most positive way, I agree with it. Copyleft would not be
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> When societies start to contract people start trying to get control of as much of the shrinking pie as possible and the people least able or with the least power struggle the least. As right as you are, contraction is inevitable. Even
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> Although 44 vaccines have made it to clinical trials, it might not be clear which works best -- or if any work at all -- until they have been authorized and distributed to many people, a team of experts said Tuesday. This is so differe
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by Hokusai 6y ago
So, increased numbers of educated people relate to a rise of expectations on equality, wealth distribution, etc. Status quo fights back and instability grows. A good example is the fight on climate change. The status quo wants to avoid resp
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by Hokusai 6y ago
Reading all the comments about "I want to learn something deeper instead of just shinny things" (I completely agree on that) makes me think that one thing does not exclude the other. We that are over 40 may want to stop chasing tr
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> We're cancelling people over criticism. I will cancel any service that protects or promotes xenophobic views. If history has teach anything is that "tearing ourselves apart" damages everybody in society. If your company
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> no longer responds to the legitimate grievances of people on the bottom of the social and economic order. Not only the political system. Amazon itself is doing this. Once customers reach a human being they are extremely frustrated. Th
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I work for a company with an office in Manila. Talking with colleagues we compared what a different experience is to fly to Japan for them and me. I just show up in Japan, show them my passport and job is done. For the Philippines, they hav
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All your argument is based in the idea of making live more difficult for consumers and easier to business. That seems the wrong way to tip the balance. Are not going to be business better equipped to deal with unruly customers than mothers&
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That is a great point. We are creating an Internet-nightmare in a Red Queen's race. Advertise companies compete in price to get the best target audience increasing prices and lowering value. Users are bombarded with creepy ads that fol
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> Having to deal regularly with the type of person that the average HN reader would never come across in their lifetime, I can understand why organisations like Amazon would set up these bureaucratic support "walls" and/or
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> why did consciousness arise? What was the need? It may be just a property of matter. If you set up matter in certain way, it gains consciousness. And that certain way is needed for intelligence. Maybe another good question is can intel
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> having a few extra hoops to jump through seems like a good idea. I think that there is more to that. You need to consciously type the name of the repo that you want to remove. Windows used to add a lot of jumps to get something done, a
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> yearly the root certificates need to be changed for reasons that escape my understanding It is not needed yearly. The validity is 4 years for "personal" certificates: https://www.sede.fnmt.gob.es/preguntas-fre
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> Use of x.509 user certificates to access many government services online You are right. That's the part about "easy tax collection system, and many other public technologies". But, even in big cities, the people with mon
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Spain has a history of struggling with technology. Even with a very strong tech professional community the country has problems figuring out what to do with that incredible resource. The reasons are economic. To build vacation apartments

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