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10801.
by api 9y ago
Why do you even need a CDN? GitHub will host static sites for free and updating is a git push. S3 will as well for pennies a month unless your site is huge.
10802.
by api 9y ago
It's a bit scary but if you look at house prices vs median income in most cities you'd need at least 2X-3X inflation to fix the discrepancy. We may well see early 80s inflation soon. Houses and rent will be reasonable again. A loa
10803.
by api 9y ago
He sounds like anyone else whose culture and livelihood is threatened. If/when the current tech culture is severely undermined by change most people on this board will sound like that.
10804.
by api 9y ago
Rising prices would be good if (and only if) they caused increased wages or employment. We need a lot of wage inflation to reprice the economy so that real estate, college, etc. are reasonable again. Either that or those things need to fall
10805.
by api 9y ago
Depends on where you live. In developed nations there are now more people living in poverty. There's more unemployment, more people with no savings, more people in too much debt, and in the USA at least declining life spans among worki
10806.
by api 9y ago
The majority of humanity can work for subsistence level wages. The primary economic activity of the rich can be gambling, which typically takes the form of repeated inflation of asset and financial instrument bubbles. The rich can also make
10807.
by api 9y ago
Even if this were true it would look and feel horrible like old Windows Mobile with its tiny start menu and desktop apps you had to peck at with a stylus.
10808.
by api 9y ago
I've heard them called "court intellectuals." The problem with Pinker's optimism isn't that it's wrong. If you look at aggregate statistics everything is getting better. The problem is that the distribution o
10809.
by api 9y ago
That's QML, which isn't that different from a browser rendering engine. I'm talking about an actual native UI implemented in native code, not a weird quasi-browser. Of course Qt itself also has quasi-browser features like its
10810.
by api 9y ago
We've been making the rounds over all the options over and over again for planning a new app, and we always reluctantly come back to Electron. Qt? No mobile, slower development. Java? No mobile, deployment nightmare, Oracle cooties, an
10811.
by api 9y ago
Isn't this kind of a banal statement? Doesn't everything that learns in any way whatsoever "tweak values of particular parameters"?
10812.
by api 9y ago
That would be nice, but the problem with these systems historically is that they're ridiculously expensive compared to x64 servers for the end user. As a result end users and SMBs never get their hands on them and nobody develops anyth
10813.
by api 9y ago
I would agree that Facebook is more dangerous as its interaction with the user is more engrossing and totalizing, but I definitely disagree that Google is not dangerous. Google can do the same things as Facebook but with different vectors
10814.
by api 9y ago
American politics has a certain "wicker man" aspect to it. We elect a representative of that which is to be destroyed. We do the same with celebrities, raising them up only to symbolically sacrifice them with scandal. Note the exp
10815.
by api 9y ago
What the Trump campaign did was more aggressive and dishonest. They took it too far, finally inspiring a backlash. It happens with lots of things: crime, financial bubbles, etc. Eventually you hit a critical mass and a reaction starts. Once
10816.
by api 9y ago
Yahoo died because it forgot it was a technology company and stopped innovating. I've also heard that it developed an internal culture dominated by non-technical sales types who didn't understand how to manage their acquisitions o
10817.
by api 9y ago
Isn't perjury in a serious criminal trial a felony?
10818.
by api 9y ago
We need a constitutional amendment banning anyone with a TV show from being president.
10819.
by api 9y ago
"People don't care" about things like this until there are consequences. Nobody cares about pollution until it impacts their health or destroys their property. Nobody cares about financial crime until it crashes the economy a
10820.
by api 9y ago
In the long term we need HIPAA style regulation for all kinds of personal data: friend graphs, behavioral histories, private messages, and especially things like location data or voice assistant audio samples. Leak such data without explici
10821.
by api 9y ago
Are we really that ahead of the curve here? Did the general public not realize that a free service that collects tons of information from you might be gasp using that information to make money? I know some people who work in SEO and marke
10822.
by api 9y ago
There's a problem. Search for the "law of rent." Sprawl offered some respite from this, allowing the growth of a larger middle class.
10823.
by api 9y ago
This would eventually result in violent revolution. Suppressing that revolution will require a complete forfeit of civil liberties. There's another reason it's bad too, and it's economic: in this world you will not be able to
10824.
by api 9y ago
I think we're in the early stages of the development of what I've termed the propaganda doomsday machine. Think of it as the PR equivalent of the hydrogen bomb. What I'm concerned about is the combination of AI and big data t
10825.
by api 9y ago
We've already come to terms with human imperfection in politics. Clinton was known as "slick willie" for his philandering. Obama wasn't known for much personal impropriety but his last name was Hussein Obama which is p
10826.
by api 9y ago
... which is a terrible, terrible thing and a recipe for the rise of disastrous politics or even the descent of the majority of humanity into a new dark age. The phenomenon you describe is a problem . It's one of the greatest problems
10827.
by api 9y ago
Both could be true. Trump himself may not have known much, but CA could have pushed for his election as part of a more global push for nationalism and identity politics.
10828.
by api 9y ago
Modern elections tend to be close. It doesn't have to be more than 5-10% effective to be devastating.
10829.
by api 9y ago
We are entering a new era of propaganda where the human mind is going to be hacked with the same sophistication and black hat mentality as any other system. Refresh your lists of logical fallacies a.k.a. vulnerability lists and make every e
10830.
by api 9y ago
There's an easy solution to this: create a two-tier society in which the wealthy, highly educated, and highly productive / inventive are permitted to exist under relative freedom in "economic development zones" or simila

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