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9541.
by api 7y ago
I can imagine two things. One is that if they're willing to ship with Linux it's an attestation to the fact that it definitely has good Linux support. Second is that you could examine the image they ship with it to solve any drive
9542.
by api 7y ago
"People won't pay for privacy" is it, and it's really a subset of the larger truth that it's hard to get people or businesses to pay for security. (Privacy is a part of security.) I worked with a serial entrepreneur
9543.
by api 7y ago
I place a lot of the blame for this stagnation followed by backward progress on the fact that a decent number of developers actually have a kind of quiet or even subconscious contempt for ease of use and RAD tools. "Real men" code
9544.
by api 7y ago
There are still no desktop rapid UI dev tools on par with VB6.
9545.
by api 7y ago
The longevity of network stuff is a stronger argument for simplicity. The cost of being wrong in the direction of excess complexity is higher than the cost of being wrong the other way. Layers are added, never removed. A deficiency can be f
9546.
by api 7y ago
Our only remaining predators are microscopic...
9547.
by api 7y ago
IPv6 is a complicated mess because it was designed by enterprise networking people. Everything in networking is always more complex than it needs to be. Always. Network engineers love to overthink everything and they've never heard o
9548.
by api 7y ago
There are cases where NAT can be used beneficially but those are probably less than 10% of NAT usage. Most NAT usage is to get around IPv4 address shortages. Symmetric NAT is just pointless. I also still think you're not fully enlighte
9549.
by api 7y ago
I get what you're saying, but I still disagree. NAT doesn't help privacy either. There are a million plus one ways to fingerprint or track a web browser without knowing anything about the end user's IP. A modern browser prese
9550.
by api 7y ago
IPFS is a victim of the great plague of modern software development: over-engineering. They've spent far too much time coding and far too little time thinking of ways to avoid coding by simplifying their algorithms and protocols and mo
9551.
by api 7y ago
The main barrier to P2P isn't cost or bandwidth or algorithms. The main barrier is NAT. As long as IPv4 with P2P-unfriendly symmetric NAT is the dominant way of accessing the network, P2P will remain hard and niche. One ugly hack to ge
9552.
by api 7y ago
Same with transparent compression in most cases.
9553.
by api 7y ago
Money printing was a hack to deal with the economic money supply problems caused by the crazy population growth of the 19th and 20th centuries.
9554.
by api 7y ago
High skill blue collar work is massively underrated. It also often allows you to live in places that are not ruinously expensive.
9555.
by api 7y ago
Look at the social and political havoc caused by the European refugee crisis in recent years for a concrete example.
9556.
by api 7y ago
Hey that sounds like a solid piece of legislation to me. I for one am tired of my elected representatives buggering goats.
9557.
by api 7y ago
The phrase "financial pollution" recently came to mind in the context of foreign investors buying and sitting on real estate and driving up costs for local residents. I think the phrase may apply to a lot of things. Keynes seems t
9558.
by api 7y ago
You also invite degeneration into an imageboard which ends up being a wall of memes and stupid jokes.
9559.
by api 7y ago
I really wonder if we'd be likely to find fossils underground there. Of course landing long enough without melting to find them would be hard.
9560.
by api 7y ago
I'll add more: "Console cowboys" who constantly pop stimulants like Modafinil and Adderall to maintain their edge and shoot for a big payday (via startups, cryptocurrency, cybercrime, etc.), weird subcultures of nihilistic cy
9561.
by api 7y ago
If so that means the creator of the first true cryptocurrency is currently frozen in liquid nitrogen awaiting potential revival in the future, which is even more evidence that we are in fact living in a cyberpunk novel. All we need now is a
9562.
by api 7y ago
I think people are reading more into this than is there. They're just not going to ship their own (outdated) versions of these anymore because they're not needed in the core OS. You can just "brew install" them, which mo
9563.
by api 7y ago
YouTube is a privately owned and operated proprietary delivery platform. This is no different from a TV station deciding what to air. If you don't like it, switch platforms or just host stuff yourself somewhere. Yes I am concerned that
9564.
by api 7y ago
Cost? Single point of failure? Data residency laws? Lock in? Just saying there's definitely a market for a database I can run.
9565.
by api 7y ago
> If you want to compete with Amazon, do something Amazon cannot do. ... run it somewhere other than Amazon?
9566.
by api 7y ago
So the open source community is about giving free labor to Amazon? I've been an OSS user and contributor since the middle 1990s and I very much welcome these moves. SaaS has been getting a free (in the unfair sense) ride without contri
9567.
by api 7y ago
I'd love a summary "hackers' explanation" if you have time, or a link to some good sample code.
9568.
by api 7y ago
Both radar and IR? From different vantage points? Seems just as far fetched as aliens or someone else's (China, Russia?) black budget tech saying "hi." Or hell maybe it's some of our own secret tech being tested against
9569.
by api 7y ago
This is exactly the problem: the fallacy of self exclusion on the part of those who would rule or otherwise think for us. If humans are all vulnerable to all these manipulative tactics, where are we supposed to get humans who are not? There
9570.
by api 7y ago
Wasn't there optical and IR footage? Seems unlikely that many discrete systems would all have ghosting artifacts at the same time and location. Or maybe I am mixing reports. I've read about several recently.

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