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by SolarNet 9y ago
Sure, but they compete with native apps is the point the parent was making. They download, install, update, configure, and use features like a native app.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Do you think this is a place for hackers or something?
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by SolarNet 9y ago
And indeed one of them may be local to the computer serving local drives, and another could be the network resources. Heck it could even allow file servers with different security settings (e.g. the USB drives might be mounted in a hostile
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I'll just quote myself, since you seemed to ignore these counter points to your post the first time around, and failed to answer them > are only those wealthy enough to travel and live near one be able to experience it? [...] where
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by SolarNet 9y ago
This is a cool project. But their opinion on the open source status of their systems seems pretty entitled, arrogant even. There are a lot of questions left unanswered, and the implications of their text is disingenuous at best. Claiming th
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Client software can be chosen by the user. Net neutrality is about protecting the user's choice to use the network how they wish. Choosing which piece of software to use is a part of that. In addition - unlike ISPs - browser vendors ar
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by SolarNet 9y ago
All current fluid simulations are iterative and assume the fluid is a continuous indivisible mass (e.g. that it is not composed of atoms or molecules) that we then turn into discrete regions to compute the simulations. Even without common s
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Protein folding and fluid simulations theoretically rely on these sorts of quantum calculations. I don't think any directly relevant algorithms have been developed because the hardware deosn't exist for it in the first place.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Read the linked website. They include validators, a decentralized set of organizations, that can check government IDs to provide that sort of trust. (This is like the only response I seem to be contributing, no one seems to have read the fu
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by SolarNet 9y ago
It would still fail when you got to the broad network. The idea of the validators presented in the paper is to prevent things like this. As you want to exchange money internationally, you would need an internationally accepted validator.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
The system has more authoritative nodes. Validators require external information like government IDs. You obviously didn't even read it.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Oh absolutely, you have to treat them the same regardless, I just meant the parent should expect results until they are like 5.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Children don't develop meaningful self control and decision making until age 3-5. He's still developing the capacity to make decisions about not doing something he wants to. I would argue that the moral/explaining/unders
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I think part of the problem is the mindset of devs that try to tackle this. Excel is the dynamically typed python to the statically typed and compiled C++ of most web apps. The power of excel is that people can build their own little apps i
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by SolarNet 9y ago
It's not clear what all the rules are and how this prevents the grandfather paradox. What ever mechanism that prevents the paradoxical violations also makes this not very exciting (as far as time travel goes): you have to spend the &qu
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Trusted third parties. That's what is missing from the internet, generally speaking. Services like public notaries. That's kindof what CAs provide. But there are a lot of similar services that could exist for things like this.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Their entire business model is around selling access to protected IP. (Skip to the last sentence to skip the angry rant). They lobby for DRM and the weakening of security systems to protect their profit, and in doing so are asking others to
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by SolarNet 9y ago
OP should totally throw Netflix to the wolves, he should send a cease and desist letter to every store stocking these, and the service providers of every website advertising these. Netflix enforces it's copyrights through the legal sys
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by SolarNet 9y ago
It's a trade off, my understanding is that Glowstone's trade off is providing customization through APIs and mechanisms that will last. E.g. simplicity and power at the cost of performance. As an aside they make a claim that will
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I think local social networks are the path forward here. Things similar to mastodon - albeit with some specific additions - because they are already local oriented, just prevent children from having any "federated" interactions (e
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Why?
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I somewhat agree but I think they will be optionally typed (and for that matter, optionally borrow checked), more along the lines of Julia. Where type stable code gets the performance benefits of static typing, even if it doesn't use a
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I disagree. A great recent example is that DirectX 12 is more similar to Vulkan, than it is DirectX 11 or OpenGL 4. I would actually say it's quite common. I've seen numerous times where a new version of a project is more similar
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by SolarNet 9y ago
They rolled with it, they made their own source control system, as evidenced by the page that was linked.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Because in the U.S. it's only used in private solutions. No public facing systems in the U.S. are even secure enough for this vulnerability to affect it.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
It's not about anyone oppressing anyone here. My reference to oppression was as a society and in general, not to this comment chain. It's about you claiming that being angry about oppression - specifically the dismissal of that op
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Julia does exactly this.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Julia does gradual typing very well. I think it delivers what the user wants. It has a REPL, you can write code using no types, as types are added to existing code it improves in performance and safety.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Yea I was eliding some points to try and explain it better.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
It's keywords as sentences. It basically allows a function signature to be spelled out as a sentence with infix operators. These days you can see the lineage of smalltalk in keyword arguments. For example, python vs. smalltalk: o

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