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10411.
by api 8y ago
My gripe with it is that it's not sufficiently customizable. If it were heavily customizable it could be pretty useful.
10412.
by api 8y ago
Pet peeve: shunned from Internet , not web.
10413.
by api 8y ago
It's not just technology per se. We are dumb when it comes to understanding the behavior of any complex system with lots of emergent properties and feedback loops. I doubt the Roman Empire was understandable by its leaders either. We a
10414.
by api 8y ago
In their defense aerospace is a sector where governments and state-linked mega-corps are probably the largest customer base, especially for high-end gear.
10415.
by api 8y ago
Looks like they incrementally improved the three biggest gripes about the last generation. You can now have up to 32GB RAM, the keyboard is better, and battery life is slightly better. Apple seems to have a "tick-tock" release cad
10416.
by api 8y ago
Welcome to the world of government contracting where success depends much more on your ability to work the system then your ability to deliver anything.
10417.
by api 8y ago
My point about the USSR was about how people will often be in denial when the dominant socioeconomic system is displaying severe problems and may be on the brink of failure.
10418.
by api 8y ago
I'm watching this unfold with "serverless," which trades system administration for lock-in and other problems.
10419.
by api 8y ago
There's a story behind the story re: Tesla's scaling difficulties. America has lost its manufacturing base and with it the skill set to build large scale manufacturing easily. Tesla is going to China because that's where the
10420.
by api 8y ago
We can also unquestionably say that communism is not the only alternative. For the record I am not an authoritarian communist and I don't think it's a good alternative. I was very specific. I said "state corporatist capitalis
10421.
by api 8y ago
I have a new hypothesis I'm terming "sublimation of criticism." This is likely not original since this isn't my field, but here goes. The campaign to exterminate any alternative political discourse in the West has been s
10422.
by api 8y ago
One thing that becomes depressingly obvious when I read this piece is that the right organizes and gets shit done . As much as I deeply disagree with his ideas, I couldn't help but admire Leonard for his dedication. The left thinks
10423.
by api 8y ago
The difference is between a specific invention vs. a law of mathematics or nature. The latter absolutely should not be patentable. The negative opinion of patents around here comes from the fact that most people here are programmers and t
10424.
by api 8y ago
We're probably entering an era when enforcement of these kinds of laws will be either impossible or will require draconian surveillance and extreme penalties. Anything short of "iron fist" enforcement will be skirted easily u
10425.
by api 8y ago
So do loads of other more affordable places.
10426.
by api 8y ago
The main use case for block chains is quite obviously to skirt government regulation: black markets, unregulated securities and quasi-securities, etc. A secondary and related use case is to avoid the hassle and complexity of old fashioned e
10427.
by api 8y ago
Brave browser, Sia storage network, ... and uhh... Cryptokitties? The vast vast majority are vaporware.
10428.
by api 8y ago
I disagree about the direction of cause and effect here. The distrust comes first, then people go for nutty "alternative fact" stuff. We have many reasons to distrust our institutions. Trust is hard to earn and easy to lose. For
10429.
by api 8y ago
I have a sense that what happened to Detroit is about to happen to Silicon Valley. Detroit once had some of the highest median salaries (and home values) in the nation. Then Japan came and decimated what had become a fat and lazy domestic a
10430.
by api 8y ago
During the last dark age there was a war on religion, and precisely because control of religion was a major cornerstone of power. Being into Pagan, occult, non-mainstream Christian (e.g. Catharism, early Protestantism), or Judaism could get
10431.
by api 8y ago
I've wondered for a while if what you describe might be the next dark age. The last one was built on the use of religion in tandem with feudal power. The new dark age replaces religion with surveillance and scientific propaganda and fe
10432.
by api 8y ago
It's pretty common for an "inferior" technology (at least in a certain niche) to win out when there's a monstrous industrial economy of scale behind it and the "superior" alternative isn't produced in much
10433.
by api 8y ago
I had a related thought a while back: that maybe our extreme political cynicism is actually fueling a culture of corruption. If you're guilty until proven innocent why bother?
10434.
by api 8y ago
As usual the touch pad is a major weakness of not only this but almost all non-Apple laptops. Apple seems to have some kind of soft monopoly on really great touch pads.
10435.
by api 8y ago
I doubt it was deliberately engineered as such but it does seem to be having that effect. It's also disrupting international wire transfers and venture capital, two antiquated industries ripe for it.
10436.
by api 8y ago
I'm fond these days of pointing out that Texas is far more liberal than California because in Texas a working class family can afford a place to live. California's housing policies are the shame of the state (and the nation) and a
10437.
by api 8y ago
One hope I have for the Bitcoin mining bubble is that it will indirectly subsidize improved information systems infrastructure in many remote places as well as improved on-demand chip fabrication services. Once the bubble is gone those thin
10438.
by api 8y ago
I'm going to be immortal.
10439.
by api 8y ago
That just bumps the question back to evolutionary dynamics, largely a subfield of game theory. Why are we "wired" to produce these cooperative "nice" social systems?
10440.
by api 8y ago
This was just a centralized database so it has little in common with Bitcoin.

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