RNCTX

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by RNCTX 5y ago
Blackrock and Bloomberg would be squatting on the entire web, and we'd be back to using BBS / newsgroups to get away from them.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Correct. Use a real broker.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
You got me! I've read McLuhan and while I think he can be a bit overdramatic in his proclamations, his way of looking at media as whole user experience rather than just content in isolation makes a lot of sense. It's relevant in
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by RNCTX 5y ago
For the same reason that they are billionaires in the first place. They want the profit, but don't want to pay the production cost. In this case they want the government to pay, which is ironic considering their core business's m
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by RNCTX 5y ago
That sums up the entirety of the "metaverse." Zuckerberg's business model isn't making products that people want, it's selling marketing and finance people the lies they want to hear. No one is going to a zoom meeti
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by RNCTX 5y ago
https://www.netflix-growcreative.com/unesco/ 9.2: ... By making available your Proposal via the Platform, if you are a Shortlisted Entrant you automatically grant Netflix and UNESCO a free license to use the Proposal
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> Edit: it’s also nice to not have ethical concerns with your choice of employer. Did you not happen across the predatory soliciting of new content? In that by attending a Netflix "screening event" you give Netflix a right to
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> The US needs to stop using public facilities (schools, the military, etc) as white-collar welfare and hire more people that actually care. Ignorance is forgivable but when combined with a steadfast opposition to personal growth it beco
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by RNCTX 5y ago
I listen to podcasts that joke about the military / law enforcement / intelligence agency biases of places like the BBC, The Economist, and the Wall Street Journal. That's what's great about the medium, something for eve
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Video is horrible for learning, because the combination of two sensory cues into a single passive medium puts said cues into a constant state of distraction with each other. The visual tends to distract the viewer from the aural, and the p
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by RNCTX 5y ago
That's the one. So practically it's pretty cheap to get yourself to the top of the list for permanent residency. All you have to do is buy a couple of $500k houses, rent them for whatever rent you can get for them, claim you crea
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by RNCTX 5y ago
What about artwork? UI design is for an artist, not a developer. I can build whatever someone wants with the same stack that the OP is using (Django, Postgres, Lucene-ish search db, etc), but I will freely admit to people that I suck at web
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> Because the real estate sector is like 30-40 trillion. 2007 was the result of a massive infusion of debt by unsophisticated retail "investors" who bid prices up far higher than even their rental value. Lending standards dont
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> We need a different word. ‘Technical debt’ implies some kind of objectively quantitative zero sum game, when it is anything but. Not only that, but it's been around long enough that bad management types throw the term around. Tha
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Exactly. That's just one of their poorly thought out marketing lines. Of which there are many...
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> The argument that digital gold has no value outside of speculation usually comes from people in rich developed countries with a strong financial system. They can't imagine anyone lives in a country where it's illegal to hold
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by RNCTX 5y ago
There's more than one way to skin a cat. Personally, I have moved to downloading large things (Python, Postgres by your example) as standalone apps, and only use Homebrew for small libraries and CLI tools. I think that makes more sens
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Absent native phone apps, the only way to reliably send notifications to people is SMS and email. This is the world that was wrought when we let ourselves be duped into handing over the whole internet to two cell phone dealers (Google and
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by RNCTX 5y ago
The (seemingly) hard scarcity limit on users is where Ghost loses me. By capping your tiers at number of users you are losing a lot of people who might otherwise use your platform, imo. Here's my reasoning: You need to get lots of user
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> What does a 14 hour day accomplish over 8? You're not pumping out widgets, right? 6 hours of teaching the courses your advisor doesn't teach, + conditioning to work for free for a predatory academic publisher.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Yes, but my point is they've not been duped as much by the "free VPN" provider as much as they've been duped by the people who created the market for the "free VPN" provider. I found out while sorting through b
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by RNCTX 5y ago
They've not been tricked, really. The majority of them want to do something completely benign like see a BBC show in the US, or watch an American football show in the UK, and the one defining feature of capitalism is its many contradic
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> it's not even specialized anonymity tools that can cause shadow banning, just unusual user-agents. "Unusual" = not Chrome and doesn't allow tracking scripts. Switch to Safari with an ad blocker for a week, see how m
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by RNCTX 5y ago
That is a byproduct of the money.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
again? we are all rats trapped in Hegel's maze until the apocalypse ;).
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by RNCTX 5y ago
I have used bash to write an OCR processor that called a python wrapper around tesseract, and then turned the pdf output into json to go into a solr search database by parsing the output with sed. No, it wasn't smart to do so. Yes, it
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Which is to say, academia needs to purge the influence of money from its ranks and offer research jobs funded by the state that just pay salaries to people who teach or do research. No "metrics", no grants from private funding so
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by RNCTX 5y ago
I fail to see how this represents a theft, if the rubes in question sent their bits to the scammer as requested.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
There are two stories that come to mind, and I agree with your assessment. 1. In 2007 during the height of the financial market crash CNBC had a helicopter hovering over the northern VA house of a finance guy from one of the banks / in
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by RNCTX 5y ago
I don't think he'd be surprised at America either. He wrote about America at some length, and accurately pointed out that America's ties to Europe would only last as long as there was free land west of the original colonies t

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