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   by api 9y ago

   A casino is usually more profitable than a hospital too. It's probably the central problem of capitalism. Monetary systems draw no distinction between wealth creation and wealth extraction, and the second law of thermodynamics guarante
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   Excellent Twitter rant on the state of modern UIs(twitter.com)

   7 points by api 9y ago|1 comments
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   by api 9y ago

   YouTube is definitely not okay to leave unattended with a child. I've seen auto-play cue up some disturbing and bizarre stuff, not to mention all the trolls who seem to delight in hiding things like slasher movie snippets in the middle
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   by api 9y ago

   I don't doubt NASA's will or the connection between this and SpaceX. What I do doubt is that any of the conventional big aerospace contractors would ever have attempted anything like landing F9 first stages. They'd do a paper
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   by api 9y ago

   Blame TED. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO0TUI9r-So
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   by api 9y ago

   I'm willing to bet that EVs would have arrived without Tesla due to better batteries, but I would not wager on reusable rockets without SpaceX. The culture of the conventional aerospace industry is hyper-conservative and would never ha
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   by api 9y ago

   I swear over-engineering is the cancer of all modern software and systems. It's become my #1 complaint about almost all modern software and systems.
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   by api 9y ago

   "Code is law" demands much better code. A language like Haskell is needed.
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   by api 9y ago

   I've designed several p2p protocols. WebRTC is at least two orders of magnitude more complex than necessary. The same is true of all its component protocols. It's typical of modern network protocols. They must be designed by commi
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    by api 9y ago

    It's rare because when someone has one they tend to coast on it rather than investing in the others.
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    by api 9y ago

    Few things on the web are still a thing a year later. That's why I favor a thinner less complex stack.
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    by api 9y ago

    Our data model generally doesn't require this. We're actually okay with less guarantees than RethinkDB provides. AFIAK NoSQL stores in general are a bad choice if you need this. You should use a SQL database.
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    by api 9y ago

    We use it here (ZeroTier). Pros: - Very easy and robust clustering (Raft-based, automatic fail-over). This is huge for us. - Streaming change feeds. This one is also huge. Makes any kind of real-time, reactive, or event driven programming v
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    by api 9y ago

    Money laundering is highly likely, as is flight capital. There's billions upon billions of dollars looking to exit from countries like China and Russia. This is kind of a type of money laundering since the goal is to evade capital cont
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    by api 9y ago

    I thought I was the only one. A few years ago Devops conferences sounded like: "Docker docker Docker? Docker. Docker docker docker docker Docker docker docker. Docker, Docker docker Docker docker Docker." Now the hype seems to be
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    by api 9y ago

    Hahahah... that video. That kind of hucksterism is all by itself a very strong contrarian indicator.
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    React Native Qt (Desktop for Linux)(github.com)

    1 points by api 9y ago|0 comments
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    by api 9y ago

    It's almost like Mercedes has been doing this for a long time.
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    by api 9y ago

    News is free. News costs money to produce. Do the math.
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    by api 9y ago

    Putin is a neo-fascist and an admirer of Julius Evola.
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    by api 9y ago

    My personal theory for a while has been that the world actually did end in 2000. We are living in a parody alternate dimension where the previous gods have been replaced by low-rent hacks. This timeline is like a show that's been renew
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    by api 9y ago

    Libertarianism is a big tent. There are right-libertarians (like the ones you describe), left-libertarians, anarchist-leaning libertarians, Randian Objectivists, etc. These camps differ in numerous ways but there's a general undercurre
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    by api 9y ago

    Musk rebuked the God Emperor by leaving Trump's tech council after Trump appointed a bunch of climate change deniers.
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    by api 9y ago

    It's doubly awful since universities are taking in record tuition and there may well be a tuition bubble. What's it all going to? Non-academic staff and buildings. Students are going into record debt to afford record tuition and a
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    by api 9y ago

    Libertarians aren't conservatives. Libertarianism is a different branch of the same tree as other forms of liberalism. The goal is maximization of individual human well being and potential. The disagreement is over how best to achieve
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    by api 9y ago

    Yeah I've seen some of that. I guess that's part of what I don't understand. There seems to have been this massive outpouring of utterly unhinged rage and hatred from a lot of otherwise very intelligent people in the past cou
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    by api 9y ago

    If this is legit it seems hard to explain in any other way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0SOxb_Lfps
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    by api 9y ago

    I still don't understand why Gamergate was ever a thing and why anyone cared so much about it. I watched people go stark raving mad and embrace full-on neo-Naziism over... actually I'm still not even sure what it was over. The c
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    by api 9y ago

    This seems like something that could be settled via some kind of study, like playing audio to the phone and recording what ads get shown and doing it to a population of phones and social media accounts.
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    by api 9y ago

    Wouldn't it be possible to detect this? If this is happening then it must require some amount of CPU and memory use on the device, which even if hidden from the OS can be detected via power use and heat dissipation. It should be possib