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by acd 9y ago
The current economy including GDP does not account for garbage and co2 emisssions. If we only optimize in one dimension for maximum GDP output then we will have huge economic output and also destroy the planet we are living on. We should op
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by acd 9y ago
It would be good if we reflect on why people take drugs. Maybe US need more holidays so people will feel happier. If people are happy they will probably consume less drugs. In my view drugs are a way to escape pain. Maybe smart phones are m
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by acd 9y ago
Non tech book “On tyranny by Timothy Snyder”. The book points out that it is easy too loose democracy if you do not protect it. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33917107-on-tyranny
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by acd 9y ago
I think a simpler solution is that people and restaurants throw their trash in closed trash bins. Rats eat food which are thrown on the ground or otherwise easily accessible. I believe that some people in big cities has lost a sense of comm
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by acd 9y ago
Extending copyright terms into the future is the copyright extension law. Alsa known as Mickey Mouse Protection act brought to you by Disney. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
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by acd 9y ago
Economics is a science where the researchers often assume how the world works as opposed to measure how things works in reality. Economics is sometimes dressed up with mathematics but it is still a soft science. In other sciences such as ma
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by acd 9y ago
I think that the researchers are on to something broader. The research shows that smart device use lessens sex. Japan for example has early high technology usage and high suicide rates but low birth rates. Does devices with entertainment s
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by acd 9y ago
Tried on the Amazon echo dot best seller which had 4.5 stars but adjusted review score are trustworthy score 3. Thirty percent low quality reviews according to Fakespot.
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by acd 9y ago
The government want to be able to control the currency minting new money in cooperation with private banks. With bitcoin governments does not have that control. What says government central banks with zero interest rate creating new credit
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by acd 9y ago
A message to Apple, you have made products which users cannot exchange the battery themselves in. Further you degrade the performance of iPhones by cpu throtteling as the device ages and charge a fee for exchanging the battery. Thus you hur
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by acd 9y ago
Note that FreeBSD in the benchmark is running with LZ4 ZFS compression on which works like a speed miracle for read only database tests. ZFS with compression doubles the read bandwidth of the disks will close to double the database benchmar
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by acd 9y ago
I would recommend Thinkpad T470s. I have used both Lenovo T460s, T470 laptops and Dell XPS developer edition with Linux. I personally prefer the Lenovo. Here is a detailed review of T470s https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo
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by acd 9y ago
So it will be profitable for a third party company to develop a GeForce driver. This will also not be enforceable in all countries. It is probably not enforceable at sea where maritime law rules.
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by acd 9y ago
In the future there will be legal file sharing paid by crypto currencies. There will be a distributed movie Netflix like app running on p2p tech like ipfs where streams are paid on the block chain. If Hollywood resists then Chinese will deb
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by acd 9y ago
The thing with EULAs is that you do not own the product. You are licensed to use the product under the company’s draconian terms. Agree that there needs to be new consumer laws protecting consumers. A contract used in the old times 1800s to
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by acd 9y ago
Central banks flooding banks with cheap credit. It is bound to end up somewhere where there is profit from higher interests and then go bust. Why do we keep saving the banks bad loans? Is there also subprime credit card debt?
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by acd 9y ago
Maybe there will be artificial intelligence painters for cgi movies? What I mean is AI that learns from real photos of similar objects and paints the computer generated images in a similar style. Deep learning AI can already colorize black
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by acd 9y ago
One should be able to repair and swap batteries in electronics including the batteries. It is not sustainable for the environment to buy and throw cell phones every few years apart. One should alas be able to reuse components such as displa
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by acd 9y ago
One should compare Openstreet map vs Google Maps.
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by acd 9y ago
I think open shared office spaces are an effect of high rents in Sillicon valley and major capital cities. Startups having limited capital rarther spending it on employees salaries getting more head count. Shared space is not effective for
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by acd 9y ago
I can recommend Timothy Snyder’s book “On tyrany”. It is easy too loose your democracy too populist once they start attacking democratic institutions like news and the courts. Please also read 14 characteristics of facism. Warning point con
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by acd 9y ago
Why are banks allowed to create cheap credit out of nothing and when the bubble eventually bursts the banks are always saved by the tax payers? What i an trying to say is private investors in the banks and its debt profits during the good b
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by acd 9y ago
IPSec on Linux has better performance than OpenVPN due to multi core support. That said setting up VPN tends to be time consuming and error prone. But what if the ssh connection drops, what restarts the tunnel then? IPSec has restart mechan
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by acd 9y ago
Fractional reserve banking creating new debt of almost nothing. Hoping for a block chain future.
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by acd 9y ago
It could also be that university professors sometime have Aspbergers syndrome which is a form of autism.
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by acd 9y ago
I express strong dislike of industries lobbying for laws which are non democratic. Does the people of EU want this law?
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by acd 9y ago
The ”smartphone” is not always smart as it distracts you from family, friends and talking to strangers. So one could say the smartphone in some senses are a dumb phone.
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by acd 9y ago
Please read x86 considered harmful by the security researcher Joanna rutkowska. It highlights the x86 flaws. https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf
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by acd 9y ago
What would happen if Wikimedia switched to the content to primarly use IPFS to distribute the content to reduce bandwidth costs?
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by acd 9y ago
I would like distributed web methods like IPFS to be a w3c World Wide Web consortium standard. Combine IPFS and crypto currencies for payments and we have a new distribution standard. Then one could have distributed movie sites like Netflix

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