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9151.
by api 7y ago
These are positions on US issues.
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by api 7y ago
The UI for it may be the toughest unsolved problem. Something must be done to simplify and group concepts. You can't just give the user a barrage of micro-permission dialogs.
9153.
by api 7y ago
> trivializes the problem of corporations with more power than nation-states. But they don't have more power than nation states. Last I checked nation states had guns , and guns are still very much the real source of all power in t
9154.
by api 7y ago
Personally I think the real problem is that the OS is fundamentally broken. All current OSes are fundamentally broken from a security point of view because they all pre-date the era when security was such a concern and are designed to run
9155.
by api 7y ago
I spoke with a former Apple dev on this topic once. He says that you can opt out of code signing and the App Store on Mac because that's a professional OS, but for iOS the security rationale for not allowing that is that it's gear
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by api 7y ago
Imagine instead that this reads "After Trump tweet, Apple removes app used by border protestors." That's exactly what this is. In a way the China thing is even worse because Apple is not a Chinese company. There is realistica
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by api 7y ago
I think there does seem to be a drive toward "progress" in various ways over a long time span, but as they say in investing: nothing goes straight up and nothing goes straight down.
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by api 7y ago
I understand, but when you lead with reduce people hear "rich elitists want me to be poor." They hear that because they have in fact been told that by clueless ideologues for decades. That's true along the white/blue col
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by api 7y ago
I call these kinds of suggestions abstinence based environmental policy and it will work about as well as shaming teens into not having sex. Abstinence based sex ed results in more STDs, teen pregnancy, and abortion. We've been preachi
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by api 7y ago
It's just change = bad without looking at what is being changed and why.
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by api 7y ago
This sounds like ancient zeroeth-generation PCs that used things like the S-100 bus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-100_bus This was also a single bus that almost everything plugged into.
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by api 7y ago
A modern version of this should be written in this exact style: "On the generation of diverse animals and plants through descent with modification..." "Of the refinement of the silicate ores and the arrangement of circuits th
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by api 7y ago
I think the key is that Windows 10 sends all new binaries to Microsoft by default. This is a total security and privacy (they're the same thing) nightmare.
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by api 7y ago
If that's true then I'm wrong, but I'll need a reference on that. My understanding has been that the TPP was about opening China to further outsourcing of white collar work by regularizing IP law on paper (which the Chinese w
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by api 7y ago
Pushing back on China trade is the one and probably only thing I agree with Trump on, and I've wondered if getting rid of Clinton and the TPP wasn't actually worth tolerating Trump being an ass for four years. All I know is that I
9166.
by api 7y ago
It's been quite a long time since capital actually invested in things whose goal was to deliver something and make money by selling it. These days most capital chases hype with the goal of cashing out before the hype collapses. This wo
9167.
by api 7y ago
So basically Jack Welch hollowed out the company. Of course this was the trend across most of American industry at the time, so it wasn't unique.
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by api 7y ago
These entities are very much like hostile AIs, or at least the closest we have to them in our world. Since solid state AI is not yet good enough, they use tactics like the ones you describe to assimilate meat brains and use them as componen
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by api 7y ago
Elon would say that nuclear power has a "high PITA factor." PITA factor is "Pain in the Ass" factor and refers to technologies that look great on paper but explode into a fractal of non-obvious design and operational dif
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by api 7y ago
A Starlink dish is a transmitter, which is a beacon that says "come arrest me!" or "drop bomb here." Seriously though: as bad as Trump is, I still think Bush II was by far the worst president of the past 100 years. Trump
9171.
by api 7y ago
I see that $1T Iraq war spread freedom and democracy across the Middle East. Great bargain.
9172.
by api 7y ago
Those views are pretty far outside the Overton Window even for the free love movement.
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by api 7y ago
I'd still ask a lawyer or accountant.
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by api 7y ago
I don't see why not, but be sure you are actually getting $50k worth of engineering services. That seems super-risky. There's a whole population of weird bottom feeders that try to snag equity in early companies by promising the m
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by api 7y ago
TikTok seems controlled by a company controlled by the Chinese government (Bytedance), so China's intelligence agencies can now vacuum up infinite cringey videos of people doing silly things. Quick someone tell the DOD there's a d
9176.
by api 7y ago
Would mean GitHub is a Gen Z social network, so don't feel too old.
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by api 7y ago
It's much faster and uses less CPU and usually less RAM.
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by api 7y ago
> you must go to Harvard (or another Ivy League school) to succeed in life. For certain career paths it helps a lot. It also depends on where you live. In the Northeast there is a very tangible class system based on where you went to sch
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by api 7y ago
Per capita emissions is not the right metric. It seems like it should be, but if you compare by that metric you're really measuring poverty below a certain threshold. A poor nation might have low CO2 per capita just because it's p
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by api 7y ago
I called it years ago: Medium is a magazine with unpaid writers and editors. It was a roach motel to bait everyone into putting their content there with a pretty UI and then paywall it.

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