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by apatters 9y ago
This is classic antisocial engineer thinking. The principal benefits of synchronicity are all social: it enables human contact, live conversations and shared context. No one cares that a million toilets have to flush at the same time. We in
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by apatters 9y ago
People can mount whatever defense they like of Electron, but the bottom line is, I think twice before I adopt any new Electron app. My daily drivers are a desktop replacement with 8gb of ram and an ultra-portable machine with 4gb. On 4gb it
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by apatters 9y ago
I too would love to hear your thoughts on this topic. I agree, it feels like a storm is brewing.
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by apatters 9y ago
"Number of people who tipped the author for this content" could be a very interesting search signal. It costs you nothing to link to someone. It costs you money to tip them.
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by apatters 9y ago
That sentence stood out to me as well, and my reaction was: why would we ever stop teaching children why those things are bad? If we stop having that debate then people will forget the lessons of history and why we fought those things. An
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by apatters 9y ago
Fascinating stuff there!!
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by apatters 9y ago
Are there some example applications created at Dynamicland that we can look at? i.e. what has actually been done with this platform to date? (Not sure applications and platform are the correct terms to use, but this concept is totally new t
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by apatters 9y ago
I didn't suggest they should be ignored, but I'll ask you the reverse question, do you think people should be fired any time some nasty rumors about them gain traction? That's not a society I want to live in.
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by apatters 9y ago
I was on my phone when I read and replied to rayiner's comment and I misinterpreted it as advocating for lowering the evidentiary standards in criminal cases. The comment still doesn't make a lot of sense to me in the context of w
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by apatters 9y ago
This strategy contradicts the "innocent until proven guilty" feature of our justice system, which exists for a very good reason: it is worse to send an innocent person to prison than it is to sometimes allow crimes to go unpunishe
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by apatters 9y ago
Anil makes the classic mistake of this cloistered coastal elite which is to paint everyone on the other side as murderers, rapists, Nazis and misogynists -- his own take on Hillary's "basket of deplorables." If the world was
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by apatters 9y ago
Sure. It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. - Some as you say want to be ambitious and giving them UBI for subsistence may unlock that creative energy. Perhaps they'll do great things with their time. On the other hand,
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by apatters 9y ago
Seriously. Everything Sam says on this topic makes me question whether he actually knows any of the people that UBI supposedly would do the most good for -- the poor, the working class, people whose jobs have been automated away, etc. Doe
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by apatters 9y ago
Gobo's a very interesting experiment in social media and news aggregation. I think the premise for the service is very insightful -- we're inundated with information and we want to filter it. FB, Twitter etc. give us very few tool
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by apatters 9y ago
Why not? "Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express
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by apatters 9y ago
Use an RSS client and curate your own feed. Most of the problem lies in when we let someone else curate our feeds for us. Invariably they turn us into pigs slopping at a trough in the name of "engagement." I uninstalled Facebook a
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by apatters 9y ago
Being able to run programs from OSes other than ChromeOS and Android certainly would be exciting but the author hasn't presented much more than speculation in support of it.
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by apatters 9y ago
I'd call that a lesson on the impermanence of beauty.
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by apatters 9y ago
Why not just: - A subscription requires explicit opt-in (not "oh, yeah, I met that dude once in college," or, "oh, yeah, I eat Cheerios and 'Like' them") - A subscription is easy to cancel - The filtering/
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by apatters 9y ago
If the software has a free license, then someone can fork it, and provide an alternative that's less abusive. Of course, unless you're making the modifications personally, you'll need to trust the developers behind the new pr
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by apatters 9y ago
Well, it's not the smartphone that's the problem. The smartphone is just the delivery system. It's remarkable how well some of Richard Stallman's quotes have aged. "With software, either the users control the progra
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by apatters 9y ago
> Imagine that you and some friends want to launch a small local business and need to host a website. Instead of paying to host it "up in the cloud", why not plug a few raspberry pi's into the walls at each of your houses?
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by apatters 9y ago
My beef with this article is that it's unreasonably reductionist to conclude that DDG provides an "illusion" of privacy based on the fact that they're as vulnerable to being targeted by the NSA as anyone else. The issue
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by apatters 9y ago
Much ink is being spilled currently over the evils being perpetrated by the tech giants. What's so exciting about DuckDuckGo is 1. DDG competes directly with Google in Google's core market 2. Not being evil is DDG's different
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by apatters 9y ago
I think it's time to start contemplating alternatives to the Web. The interests of users are no longer front and center. The past several years of the Web platform's evolution have been characterized by privacy invasions, out of c
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by apatters 9y ago
I didn't get the impression that the article was demonizing people who use meds at all. Did you?
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by apatters 9y ago
This title is not in line with HN guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." I would like to ask the OP to refrain from posting provocative titles which don't comply with the guidelines.
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by apatters 9y ago
Not sure how the industry may define passion, but for me it's a constant drive to develop one's skills, improve one's output, and an interest in all these things outside of the hours you get paid to be interested in them. I&#
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by apatters 9y ago
It seems to me that the right to exclude certain types of speech from your privately owned platform is in itself a form of expression, and important to preserve. Where we get into trouble is when one entity obtains monopoly or near-monopoly
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by apatters 9y ago
The assumption which seems to underly this statement (that failing to keep up signifies some kind of personal inferiority) is fallacious. The fact of the matter is that around 40% of Americans end up in the same income quintile as their par

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